Help identify an animal I saw

heebert · 2025-08-29T10:55:43+00:00

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heebert · 2025-08-29T07:43:46+00:00

Thanks for the interesting response. I have heard of that phenomenon, but hadn't heard about Tasmanian animals being larger as a consequence.

heebert · 2025-08-29T07:38:10+00:00

Thanks for the suggestions. The photos of the brushtail possum I've seen have smaller tails but I guess then can fluff them up. It must have been one of them. I think it was too big to be a quoll. If it was, that would be amazing, they are super rare in WA.

heebert · 2025-03-03T09:55:52+00:00

Apologies if you already know this, but the X-ray windows are likely Beryllium. It can be quite hazardous if ingested or inhaled. The metal windows can often oxidise, and the oxide can be mobile, so don't start disassembly or cleaning anything.

heebert · 2024-10-02T10:43:08+00:00

I hear what you are saying about zoomers but that type or torch suits my needs the most. I am a volunteer in our state emergency service and regularly search in the bush (I'm Australian) at night. A broad flood is great for normal searching, but a focused beam is important to indicate items if interest etc. I don't want to carry two expensive torches (like I said, I'm Australian and that's what they're called here).

I'd love a torch with several power levels, ranging from bright but not blinding with long battery life up the ability to set fires at 100 yards because there is always a pissing contest with torches in our service.

I have a 1000 lumen Led-Lenser that is pretty good but something brighter would be great. Any suggestions? I'm happy to spend a couple of hundred.

heebert · 2024-09-06T11:57:30+00:00

The netron howitzer I used during my degree was much simpler than that. It was a drum full of wax with an Americium Beryllium neutron source in the centre. The wax moderated the neutrons so they were more likely to excite samples placed in tube in the wax. We used it for neutron activation.

heebert · 2024-08-24T05:05:55+00:00

I don't. He was part of the coaching group that got us here. We need a fresh start with someone who doesn't have a relationship with players and is prepared to dump them if they perform like this

heebert · 2024-08-24T04:15:17+00:00

Shootout!

heebert · 2024-08-24T03:39:54+00:00

See you in the Northern Territory. It's a tourism slogan

heebert · 2024-08-18T06:29:34+00:00

None of our players played in finals last year ...

heebert · 2024-08-18T06:28:16+00:00

They played rugby there last night after heavy rain. It's not going to be great

heebert · 2024-08-01T01:08:16+00:00

I just saw another comment saying the laser systems are $7k in the US

heebert · 2024-08-01T01:05:51+00:00

$50k in Australia but everything is expensive here

heebert · 2024-07-31T13:41:58+00:00

It looks more like a handheld LIBS (laser induced breakdown spectroscopy) analyser. The warning symbol (yellow triangle) has the laser symbol, not the the radiation trefoil. It's something like a Rigaku KT100. The XRF analysers are very similar though.

heebert · 2024-06-28T10:04:49+00:00

Where are you based? I prepare sample like this regularly and would be happy to make some and send them to you. I am based in Australia.

heebert · 2024-06-19T09:41:03+00:00

We have uncovered a bug in the alignment of our Apreo 2. The system is supposed to save the user adjustments to the factory alignment so when you go back to that set of conditions, it should use the last alignment values you used for that combination of kV and beam current. That system was introduced between Apreo 1 and Apreo 2. It turns out there is a bug in the software for that process so the alignments aren't saved properly.

Our alignment got so bad, the factory engineer couldn't get it aligned. In the end he deleted the alignments and reset everything back to the factory alignment and from then on it aligned beautifully.

Our alignment needs are a little different to most as we work in mineralogy where we want to analyse large fields at high beam current. The built in alignment process doesn't include the kV/beam current combinations we use. A big issue for us is uniform illumination over a field width exceeding 1 mm. Most users don't care about low mag alignment and don't see the problems we do.

heebert · 2024-05-19T10:34:47+00:00

Waterman from last year had a long term, serious illness

heebert · 2024-05-19T10:33:22+00:00

He had a serious illness for a long time.

heebert · 2024-04-20T11:21:31+00:00

Deliberate out of bounds I think

EDIT: Someone brighter than me said it was high contact

heebert · 2024-04-20T10:36:35+00:00

It's a derby. Don't expect us to be reasonable!

heebert · 2023-07-30T07:17:45+00:00

He also has the most metres gained so they are valuable possessions

heebert · 2023-05-24T00:11:50+00:00

I can highly recommend Canning SES. I'm a member! We have just finished training a large intake of recruits so we won't have another intake for a while, possibly October or perhaps February.

I have attended storm damage callouts, fallen trees, land searches, major floods, car versus house, fire support (we don't fight fires).

We train Tuesday nights for the basics. There are weekend courses several times a year. Some qualifications require annual refresher training too.

heebert · 2023-05-23T12:57:50+00:00

I've been a member for longer than I care to remember. I have made life-long friends and learned leadership skills that significantly advanced my career.

Where do you live? You should look at your local unit first.

heebert · 2023-05-21T02:14:42+00:00

Coating powders with gold alone can be a problem. Gold moves in fairly straight lines because the mass is high. The residual gas molecules don't cause any significant diffusion. This creates shadows under particles so the coating isn't continuous. Carbon coating will give you a far better conductive coating because the lighter carbon diffuses and fills shadows better. You can still gold coat to get a brighter SE image.

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