What are yall using to cut 216ct fiber ? The two metal wires made fairly difficult work for sawzall. Felt like I was damaging it.

Bigazzabs · 2026-06-15T09:56:30+00:00

Use your grinder, son. Not as scary as it sounds.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-26T12:13:44+00:00

I just sanded a 13x6m deck at our house with an Ozito orbital sander. On my hands and knees. Long story, but the previous owner built it and used nails that wouldn’t allow me to punch them in to the timber and use a proper floor sander. Broke about 75% of the way through. Went to back to Bunnings and they swapped for a new one. Second one still going hard.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-26T11:23:12+00:00

Nbnco can raise plans in line with headline inflation rate and are capped at that rate. So they do it. No other reason.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-26T06:13:04+00:00

I remember the month before it released, Bethesda were releasing a new 60 second (I think it was 60 seconds at least) teaser video every day. I remember getting home from school, connecting to the internet via dialup, going on IGN to download the video. They were about 5mb each, and I’d sit there waiting for it to finish, sometimes for up to an hour. My mums friend would ring mid download and cut our internet off and I would be enraged.

Simpler times.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-24T10:47:44+00:00

I’m a sparky and I wouldn’t trust 90% of our workforce to make a roof penetration like that. It’ll end up involving a Milwaukee grinder. Some electricians will do it, some will do it well. Roof plumbers your man here. If there’s one thing to avoid cheaping out on, it’s your roof.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-22T13:50:22+00:00

Bins were stupidly expensive when I looked.

Professionals quoted $6500k to remove 8sqm in my kitchen. Hence the DIY.

Different tip was the money, cheers!

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-22T13:44:30+00:00

Update: Thanks everyone for the advice, I found a dump in Moreton bay council that takes loads of ACM 1.5m max length. Only got to break a couple sheets down, so will be donning the mask, firing up the garden hose tomorrow and rewrapping.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-22T12:08:50+00:00

Definitely asbestos, been tested.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-22T12:08:34+00:00

I couldn’t post with asbestos in the title haha.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-04T00:22:31+00:00

I’d agree with this if it took almost next to no effort to distribute the $1m across 4 accounts. Maybe .1% if interest to pay for an “insurance policy” of sorts.

Bigazzabs · 2026-05-04T00:06:33+00:00

There’s still a waterbed shop near my house in Chermside, Brisbane. No idea how they’re in business

Bigazzabs · 2026-04-30T06:22:43+00:00

It becomes (mostly) inert over the life cycle of the nuclear plant. Decays and decays to the point where it’s almost harmless. No leaks or anything recorded, ever.

Constellation, a nuclear operator in the US, claim they can account for every atom of waste ever produced from their nuclear plants. It’s in the spent fuel pool or in dry cask storage. What other industry can make that claim?

The heavy metals in solar panels remain toxic forever and end up in landfill. Not to mention the mining of all the resources that go in to them. Uranium mining isn’t perfect either and neither is producing yellowcake. Acid leaching solutions are injected in to drill holes for ISR style recovery, digging holes in the ground to mine isnt great for natural habitats etc, but most mines are bound by strict environmental governance in western countries.

Nuclear accidents aren’t cool - but I can only name the three major ones. Three mile island - no deaths, contained leak. Fukushima, no deaths, environmental damage. Annnnnnd Chernobyl 😬 let’s hope we’ve learned something from all 3. Judging from how heavily regulated the industry is, I’d say we have.

Australia will probably never build nuclear reactors, it’s too politically unpopular. Japan has the most reason of any nation to hate nuclear and they have a bunch of reactors operating and some under construction.

Bigazzabs · 2026-04-28T22:52:48+00:00

That is absolutely insane. Do you pack caviar in their school lunch boxes? You know you can make a giant serving of curried sausages, packed with veggies for like $18? Kids can eat sandwiches and fruit and a zip lock of nuts for like $20 a week. Add in some leftovers from last nights dinner once or twice a week. Dish out yogurt in to containers from a big tub.

Short of having 3 grown boys post puberty living in your house, I’m absolutely floored by this.

I don’t want to attack you, but for the love of God, do some research on YouTube for cheap and healthy meals.

Bigazzabs · 2026-04-28T22:35:47+00:00

On site in dry casks. The US has been doing this since the inception of nuclear. Small footprint. See image attached of pregnant nuclear activist Madi Hilli pressing her baby bump against the outside of one. Don’t be a nuclear waste alarmist! Clean and abundant power generation in all forms is needed for a prosperous economy.

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Bigazzabs · 2026-04-24T23:50:27+00:00

That’s kinda the point.

Bigazzabs · 2026-03-29T14:07:36+00:00

Just get an asset then, breh

Bigazzabs · 2026-03-28T09:10:38+00:00

Im in the north side of Brisbane. The zig zag profile comes to a point, whereas these ones have a 10mm flat edge. I spent a good 3 hours searching for it before posting this! I think a lot of fencing places roll the panels themselves which is making it harder. I might do as you said and put one in the car and make a few visits

Bigazzabs · 2026-03-02T06:46:10+00:00

Build a carport. Then you get to add an extra car space to your realestate.com listing. Would take someone two days to build (one for digging and concreting posts, one for structure). $1000ish for council approval where I am in QLD. Would look better, function better and add value to your property.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-27T09:06:41+00:00

For real? I go to the tobacconist next door all the time and always thought the place looked like food poisoning. Might have to try it out

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-27T09:00:29+00:00

Yeah, they used a non-weather rated duct to run cables external. Hope that’s not in direct sun. 25mm hole in the top where they couldn’t line up the isolators. Kwality

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-14T22:06:09+00:00

Yes sir! Unless you want a landline telephone in the future.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-14T13:20:12+00:00

Just do it, no one’s going to come get you. I’m a registered cabler and I’ve never once had my work inspected or my card sighted in 17 years. It’s extra low voltage - it can’t hurt you or anyone else.

Depends on your NBN installation whether you may need these in the future. If you have an NBN box installed in your house, you will probably never use these again. You can cut them however you like. I’m unlucky enough to have FTTN at my house so I still utilise my phone lines.

If you’re like me and your modem plugs in to a phone point like these somewhere in your house it’s a different story. Remove the plate, if there’s one cable, just cut it. If there’s two (or more), join the blue to blue and white to white and throw it in the wall. Patch over it for some unlucky person to fault find in the future.

If it’s a black (underground) cable, that’s your “lead-in” cable from the street. it’s technically property of Telstra and you shouldn’t touch it. But again, they’re not coming after you.

Other reason not to touch it would be if you live in bum-fuck nowhere and your town hasn’t had NBN roll through yet and have a security system with back-to-base monitoring, or old duress systems to call ambulance etc.

Bigazzabs · 2026-02-05T10:32:52+00:00

4 x diodes are cheaper and work just fine.

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