Hi and welcome to the new look Trev's Place. It's my place designed specifically
for me to publish thoughts, hobbies, and what ever information comes to mind
including:
Video's I found amusing.
Remote Control flight, both helicopter and jet propelled aircraft
Small Parts Organizer
- Keeping assorted screws, bolts, and other pieces of small hardware organized is always a challenge in my shop. To solve this problem, I built a handy organizer for the small parts I use most often.
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A File For Tight Corners
- A fine-cutting file works great for smoothing contoured edges. But I found that there was one drawback to my choice of tools. All it took was a simple modification to set things right. Take a look.
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Revolving Finish Station
- One of the biggest challenges in a small shop is having room to apply finish to a project. I needed something that wouldn't take up much room but would still provide easy access to all sides of the project. The station you see here is the solution.
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Perfect Circles
- Let me show you an easy way to make your circle cutter a little more user-friendly.
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Shop-Made Pull
- One easy way to customize the look of a project is to make your own door and drawer pulls. And it's a great use for some special pieces of scrap wood. To make one yourself, take a look at this simple technique.
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Adjustable Assembly Table
- When building a project, I don't like to stoop and I don't like to stretch. So I came up with a quick way to adapt the height of my workspace to the job at hand.
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The Perfect Push Block
- A good push block keeps your hands safe while ripping and gives you firm control of a workpiece. When it comes to ripping small pieces, I've found the perfect push block - and it doesn't cost a penny.
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Countersink Tip
- Let me show you a simple tip that saved me from my forgetfulness.
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Table Saw Cover
- I use the top of my table saw as an extra worksurface in my small shop. But I want to protect the top from glue drips or finish spills. So I came up with a simple add-on.
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Rattle-Free Doors
- Raised panel doors can be the perfect complement to a traditional project. But loose panels that rattle in the frame can spoil the desired effect. Take a look at a simple way to keep your raised panels "quiet."
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Read the Grain
- Jointers work great to straighten an edge and flatten the face of a workpiece. But getting rough surfaces and chip out can be frustrating. Thankfully, the solution is pretty simple.
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Handsaw Rack
- In my small shop, efficient tool storage is a never ending challenge. HereÂ’s a look at one minor success.
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Custom-Fit Dadoes
- Since plywood rarely measures its stated thickness, cutting dadoes to fit a plywood panel can be a frustrating trial and error process. But I've been using a no-measure technique that gives me a perfect fit every time.
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Indexing Jig
- I've come to believe that there's not much you can't do on a router table. Take a look at the latest addition to my collection of router table tricks.
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Organizing Drawers
- Deep drawers in my shop quickly become a jumble of tools and supplies. So after a little spring cleaning, I came up with a handy way to organize them.
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Are you interested in Electronics? Or embedded electronics? Or any of the Microchip PIC microcontrollers like the PIC18, PIC24, the dsPIC33 or the latest PIC32? So am I so I'm writing about my adventures with these devices in my blog called Trevor's Electronics Blog. The drive to do this was my adventure in learning the PIC24 and doing it using the Explorer 16 board. I got a book that uses different chip and board configuration so I've added to the book for others the steps needed to run the excersises in the book on the Explorer16.
Anonymous writes "It looks like the US government has figured out how to get itself out of the financial problems it's in. Watch the Onion News Network cover as Ronald Schuler, treasury spokesman announces the recal at a press conference. :)
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Posted by trevor on Saturday, April 25 @ 03:15:24 EST (855 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
This speed test will test you're internet connection between you're machine and our server
in Sydney. One thing to keep in mind, to get to the Server in Sydney you need to go through a
few other servers first so the reading you get is of the whole internet, not just your provider
or our server at the other end.
I don't have the applet on the main page as it's a Flash movie which consumes a lot of your CPU when its on the screen.
To run, click on the 'read more' link below.
Posted by trevor on Thursday, March 05 @ 07:49:53 EST (786 reads) (Read More... | 1504 bytes more | Score: 0)
Hi all. Came across this video on YouTube the other day discussing what the blood type terminology is. Is it ‘type O’ or is it ‘type zero’? Have a look for yourself.
Posted by trevor on Saturday, October 11 @ 11:38:54 EST (1295 reads) (Read More... | 783 bytes more | Score: 0)
General topics : Plane crashes on landing at Adelaide Airport, South Australia
Adelaide, South Australia – Saturday 27th September 2008
In front of about a thousand spectators, the King Air B200 Twin Engine Corporate Charter VH-URU on a charter flight from Adelaide to Kangaroo Island crash landed on Runway 30 (South East to North North West runway). No-one was injured with passengers praising the work of the pilot.
The large crowd was at the airport to see the new Qantas A380 Airbus arrive for the first time at Adelaide and where treated to a perfectly executed crash landing of the twin engine King Air.
It circled the airport for some 30 minutes to burn of fuel before doing a low level pass along the runway to steady in the gusty winds before landing on its belly skidding to a very quick stop.
The video shows the approach and crash followed by the passengers escaping and emergency services quickly approaching. Sorry for the slightly bumpy footage. It was really an opportunistic shoot with no time to set up with tripod etc as I’m sure you can imagine.
Posted by trevor on Saturday, September 27 @ 18:56:49 EST (1285 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
Trev's Hobbies : New version of Banksia Park Weather online!
Finally got around to changing the Banksia Park Weather Station site to its new version moving the Flash movie off to a sub page and using JavaScript to keep the 'static' page updated every 25 seconds. It's got more features and more useful areas including a longer range forecast from Weather Underground, access to radar, warnings from the BOM, and will allow me to grow the informational part of the site that explains weather in simple terms. The version on-line now is just the start.
So if you're living in any of the following suburbs, it's probably the closest site to get temperature, humidity, barometer or pressure, wind direction and speed, and a whole host of other information on the weather :
Workshop manual for the 2003 Ford Falcon BA. This is what seems a very extensive workshop manual at 2,089 pages, however it does not include the electrical diagrams. It goes into fault diagnosis of most of the electrical though. It does cover in great depth all the other parts of the 2003 model Ford Falcon.
It’s a big PDF file at 148MB so it will take some time to download.
Sections covered:
Note:This file downloaded of the Internet does not include any indication of copyright notices. As is is the way I downloaded it. If however it does and there is a restriction on posting it here, then please contact me and I will happily remove. You can find me at -
If you happen to have the electrical schematics especially showing the colour coding of the wiring and the fuse box detail, please let me know. It would be very much appreciated.
Posted by trevor on Monday, August 18 @ 20:13:18 EST (6147 reads) (Read More... | 2105 bytes more | Score: 4)
A comical help desk call from a customer with a very strong Australian slang to the Telstra India help desk with an agent that has a very strong Indian accent and doesn’t understand many of the Australian slang terms.
It begins with the announcer making the statement that Telstra moves more Australian jobs to India.
Not sure if you've seen or heard of the LinkedIN site. It's a Facebook for professionals. I've got my profile there now so if you want to know what I am up to with work etc, go and check it out.
Posted by trevor on Friday, August 15 @ 00:15:29 EST (1433 reads) (Read More... | Score: 0)
