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Engine block is best because it bypasses the cable from negative battery to starter motor.

Sorry about that. Thread drift is my specialty. I promise I'll stick to one depressing thought at a time.....

Agent Provocateur Litespeed at your service. Clandestine operations by appointment.

Vance should be known as Kiss of Death Vance. This week, JD Vance had two jobs: get an Iran deal and keep Hungary's Viktor Orban in power. Neither happened for the US vice president. Then there was his visit with Pope Francis, who died a few days later. And he's the default President if Chump carks it?

It's all Litespeed's fault. He mentioned Abbott on page one, and that was enough to send Nev into his usual rants. DO NOT mention anything other than Ukraine reports in this thread. If you must, start a new topic.

I was taught to earth to the body of the car - e.g. via a bolt (not of lightning), mount or similar.

Yes, and I agree with you.

l better shut up after this one wrong thread don't even know how this started. But yeah, it's always been a struggle like you say l know. The numbers though in even just housing now show it all but there's much much more. Housing alone though Sydneys somem like 12x the av wage, Melb 8 or 9, the rest are almost as bad as Sydney. But to they slime in the av wage now as both working and somem like 100- 120k. Back in the day, houses were 3 and 4x the av wage and that was on only one working. That's the world standard that's what they're suppose to be, 3 -4x.

Marty, there's also a certain connection sequence for safety that ends with a connection to the vehicle earth. Normally connect dead vehicle positive to live vehicle positive, then live vehicle negative to a non battery earth on the dead vehicle. That way if there's a spark when the circuit completes, it's further away from any possible battery gas emmissions. I wish I'd remembered that about twenty years ago when I blew a battery up. It went off like a shotgun blast, split the seams from top to bottom.

Isn't that the basis of my post about the intention? I have no doubt about this. But that doen't, IMHO, change the fact that oil is the primary interest of the US, and Israel in this case is a smokescreen. I am not suggesting Chump is even driving it.. he may well be a puppet. The empire is in decline alright; the fall of Rome comes to mind. They won't go bankrupt for some time; and it is doubtful they ever will. The UK would have defaulted on its debt in 1976 but got an IMF or similar loan to keep it afloat. This was because of a sharp drop in teh £, but that was caused because of a banana republic type economy at the time. I think it is fair to say the UK never really recoverd and the EU gave it a bit of a lifeline. The US is likely to go the same way. From a credit risk perspective, a country can never go broke. It can continue to print its way out of problems, which will compound its internal economic woes; if they have debt denoted in a foreign currency they ahve to print more and accept hyperflation; if it is in their currency, their creditors get less. In credit risk, we treat each sovereign country as a going concern. We attache a CLR - Country Legal Rating; this means that we determine a ranking of how much they conform to the law. The US (even under Chump), the UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, most of western Europe and some of the central/eastern European countries all rank 1 (highest). Whilst their credit ratings will move, they are generally considered almost risk free (techncally the US is risk free, but that may change) in the sense that even if they default in their payments, you do eventually get it back with the back interest paid; it costs you to fnd the difference of the duration, though.

Yeah, but you knew what was needed for your work. The average joe goes down to Super cheepie and buys jumper cables labelled 300 amps but they lack copper in the middle. They are not suitable for carrying starting current. Chinese amps aren't as big as Australian ones.

It's always been like this. Neither myself, nor my parents nor grandparents managed to buy a home anything like the modern mansions. What we got to live in was very basic and only happened by a lot of 'going without.' And having kids has always been a struggle - emotionally, physically and financially. Maybe us oldies didn't whinge about it enough for the next generation to notice.

Make it democratic - elect your team. Best of three rounds. No killer drones allowed out of the ring. No casualties.

Central West NSW is inded glider heaven.

Pete, the ones I carry in the vehicle are nice and heavy. You could start a D9 with them no problems. I would have bought them about 30 years ago and am glad I did back then. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the current price of them, hundreds of dollars.

Sounds like glider heaven. Every cumulus has lift under it.

Yep. Those boundaries are arbitrary at best, but at least they give us a rough idea of where climate types change. Not much in nature is clear cut.

I think the verroa mite is now a honorary Australian critter. I hope we have some bright researchers working to improve pollination. If the plants don't get any sex, we all go hungry.

Just to interfere with the Ukr thread one more, a ps. At any rate, l'm not even talking about Gov buying us anything with our money, we have far far huger problems atm. Like our kids ad families being able to buy a home, or even afford a family, our cost of living. Both are among the highest in the world.

I didn't realise Kharg Island (red pin) was almost 850 km from the Strait of Hormuz.

Well he didn't impress the Hungarians neither did Just Dumb Vance. The UK & the EU have a collectively larger economy by some margin than the US & Trump has alienated the rest of Nato and pretty much everyone else. The only thing the US has is a bigger military with the biggest most sophisticated weapons and some excellent technology though no better than Europe, China or even Australia. The problem is the country is run by the billionaires with Trump as their figurehead. The US has never been invaded but they are always at war with someone as well as themselves. They haven't invented many things on their own but have exploited most of the inventions from elsewhere, mostly the UK & Europe. The UK & Europe have some very large armament companies but have been happy to play second fiddle while the US has provided most of the defence hardware. Not any more. The invasion of Ukraine and Trumps re election has changed everything, The US is an empire in decline, it is already technically bankrupt and Trump is costing the county dearly. I don't know when it will eventually implode but I am sure it will eventually. There are companies that have been deemed to big to fail like GM but there is nothing that will save a country when it all turns to custard/

Don't blame me.. You assumed I meant pollies.. I would say this guy (if he is still there, and no doubt, his successor will do just as well, if not slightly better) gets paid pretty handsomely: https://www.themandarin.com.au/281154-david-fredericks-climate-change-energy-the-environment-and-water/ Given it's his boss that cops the flack.

The current mid rate (between buy and sell) on the wholesale markets is $1.91 (rounded to nearest cent) to £1 Normally I would take the sell rate as, if I was converting, that's what I would pay. But since I am earning £ anbd paying £ and you fellas are earning (or have) $ and paying $, it seems better to use the mid rate.

Yep ,exactly. Because they have smart can do Gov's And here they aren't even their resources either anyway, they're ours, the people. We own it all not the gov, it's not theirs it's ours. They're just some moron in their doing some v shyt job for 10-20 yrs then we go pay for their luxurious pension. Yet, we get f all.

That's because some governments, like Norway, had the foresight to create a sovereign wealth fund and not just give away their resources to mining companies, the way we do