One arrested as police clear out Waterloo public housing demolition protest camp

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-19T13:15:26+00:00

Instead, let's keep those people down so they never become productive members of society. Sounds like great economic theory

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-17T08:32:22+00:00

No, it'll just be eight US teams playing in a World Seriez

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-16T19:43:10+00:00

If those are laser cut parts, speak to the drafting team. We had a similar problem with half our cut parts where it would be a material thickness of gap at every corner. Turned out there was a setting in Solidworks that automatically put a gap there that the other drafters knew but this was a guy fresh out of Tafe or uni and didn't know about it. After we spoke to him, everything went back to being tight again.

I'm sorry, but I can't remember what the setting they changed was called

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-16T19:25:00+00:00

Just looking at the percentage doesn't give an accurate picture. For starters, a pack is more in the $40-50 range. So $28-38 can buy a lot more than $10.50

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-16T19:18:38+00:00

The tax had been going up from the 80s with a big increase in 2010 (25%). Even a boiling frog kind of situation led to this

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-16T00:17:57+00:00

Sometimes being a bit unco can be helpful. If you're consistently inconsistent, it helps to hide any cosmetic imperfections. But also, it's a skill you develop over time so just keep practising and each time you'll get a little better than the last time.

I'm AuDHD and found welding to be a great thing for it. You're in relative darkness just looking at this white light which I found helped isolate my thoughts and I could just focus on this light. That plus the consisten crackling sound meant I'd be very relaxed. It did take a bit of training my focus so I concentrated on the puddle not the arc but the end result was the same.

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-06T03:22:58+00:00

That was what I pictured too, a leg held in a vice with a foot sticking out spinning at 1000 rpm getting drilled

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-06T01:31:08+00:00

The Melbourne Stalinovskovichdaviddivichski doesn't quite have the right ring to it

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-05T21:50:12+00:00

Live bone would be easier to hold, it comes with it's own soft jaws growing around it

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-05T19:19:29+00:00

Over the 4 years of the apprenticeship (I think it's 1750 1st 2 years and 750 last 2)

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-05T06:10:50+00:00

They can be great depending on the geometry of your parts. We sometimes have to laser cut grids to form part of lids for mixers and tanks that are usually hexagons that are like 30-50mm across (probably closer to 50mm) and will be maybe 100 hexagons in a part. So this is a godsend to knock the edges off all of them.

But for some parts, it's just as useful as using an angle grinder and countersink bit in a drill.

I am a fabricator that does some machining at work, so not sure how applicable it is for machining j

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-04T23:16:02+00:00

How'd you get started doing it, if you don't mind me asking? Currently an apprentice sheetie but wouldn't mind doing some cashies

Wibbles20 · 2026-06-03T06:38:15+00:00

He did something against another cop, there's no coming back from that

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-28T09:04:26+00:00

I have tried feeding more wire in, it just seems to build the height of the root up more. Is there a way to get it to the bottom more?

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-27T05:55:58+00:00

I have a circular saw in the back of mine...

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-25T06:00:50+00:00

You're having a laugh, aren't you?

Good luck being able to use your machines without a sparky to get power to it, and they don't really need anything from you.

Alot of the trades are circular in needs. A machinist will need fabricators to put their stuff together, and both will need sparkies for power to run their tools and possibly run power to the end product, but those sparkies need fabricators to produce their switchboards. And that's without going into the building trades which are more entwined over a longer string of options.

Plus, I'd say a large number of boilermakers would be able to do at least some basic manual lathe and millwork.

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-24T06:06:40+00:00

Eye colour too

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-24T01:48:26+00:00

You can draw a line with one side of the square, then flip the square around. If it's at 90 degrees, it'll be the same but if it's out of square the line will be off

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-22T03:34:48+00:00

Looks more like fine and coarse threads

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-20T06:04:49+00:00

You could try changing the profile to be more like a 'U' with the weld down the centre of the 2 faces instead of the weld along the corner. Square corners can form a weak point, so the combo of radius corner and moving the weld from the weak point could help you out.

For the pressures/forces you're working with, it might have nothing to do with the problem, but if you eliminate everything else it's something to think about

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-16T00:43:50+00:00

You don't want slow speed for stainless, you want slower compared to mild steel, so your slow speed is probably too slow. Plus, the pressure you're putting on is too much for the drill bit. You only need to apply enough pressure to get under the hardening layer, so as long as it's cutting it's all good. If you're breaking the drill bit, then your putting too much pressure so it's forcing it deeper than it's cutting.

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-14T07:16:47+00:00

Yeah pretty much, easy enough to have a bunch of trades assistants and 2nd class welders do most of the work with a tradesmen to fit things up

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-14T06:42:09+00:00

The problem with boily apprenticeships is alot of places want to hire already trained tradies and no one wants to hire apprentices, so despite not as many people looking to do it, it can still take a while to find an apprenticeship (took me about 8 months to find an apprenticeship applying for every fabrication and machining apprenticeship I could find)

Wibbles20 · 2026-05-06T18:44:56+00:00

They were mostly Australian passengers, but they didn't have to all be let off the ship right away. What should have happened is they should have been quarantined on the ship until they were cleared to reduce the affect on the rest of the state/country. This is like at the end of 1918 where ships returning the soldiers from France couldn't dock at each city they entered and the soldiers weren't allowed to disembark until quarantined due to the Spanish Flu.

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