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Posted by: @scott-h

Great idea on the shower bottle, and they are available at any convenience store. 😎  

AND....if you buy the bottled water that is "sparkling water"...your shower will be effervescent Grinning  

 

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Posted : February 7, 2025 1:02 pm
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How to make a spiral handrail to fit a spiral staircase. 

Using hand tools and a piece of rope.

Very slowly. 

The trip here is to spend time with my daughte, her husband and their 3 boys.

4, 8 and 10.

What to do after they head to school.

Hence hand forming steel pipe.

 

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But for creativity this guy took the cake 30 years ago. 

I remember seeing this on the roads near where is lived in the mid 90's up till somewhere in the early 2000's

Spoke to him once.

Said it was registered as an experimental vehicle. 

I wonder if he still has it

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Posted : February 8, 2025 4:38 am
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How to make a spiral handrail to fit a spiral staircase. 

Using hand tools and a piece of rope.

Very slowly. 

The trip here is to spend time with my daughter, her husband and their 3 boys.

4, 8 and 10.

What to do after they head to school.

Hence hand forming steel pipe.

 

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But for creativity this guy took the cake 30 years ago. 

I remember seeing this on the roads near where is lived in the mid 90's up till somewhere in the early 2000's

Spoke to him once.

Said it was registered as an experimental vehicle. 

I wonder if he still has it

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Bruce, two things.....the HANDRAIL project looks like you built a FOOTRAIL, as a person would have to be 3" tall to use that newly formed spiral rail as a Hand rail.

Shouldn't a Hand Rail be up higher, so they can hold onto it with their hands, and not their toes?

On the www.tilters.org mobile, I have to wonder....is that guy somehow related to the guys that WERE in Snohomish, Washington, and had the business of Tiltin Motors, and they eventually sold the business to a larger company down in the Eugene, Oregon area, that manufactured 3 wheel rigs, so they incorporated their Tiltin front end designs into this other company's 3 wheeler vehicles.

The design of that tilting front end on the 3 wheeler you showed pictures of is identical to what Tiltin Motors was producing for several years.

 

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Posted : February 8, 2025 11:00 am
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Nice work on the hand rail.  👍 

Just a bit more on the Tracer Mk III.  https://www.reddit.com/r/WeirdWheels/comments/ae6rb4/australian_made_tracer_mk3_trike_made_from_a/

Hold my keyboard and watch this! 🙃

 
Posted : February 8, 2025 11:01 am
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Thought you would relate to the monkey hand rails Miles.

As far as I know the west Australian tilt arraignment was independent .

I remember seeing it on the road when I was working and doing deliveries in an island cab truck for Darco metal industries at 98 MCoy St Myaree.

They moved from that site in 95. 

So he had been obviously working on the design well before that.

He was an architect and must have been CAD drafting from its inception.

A bit of speculation here but I think I'm close.

So who was 1st and what similarities in design are there?

Couldn't be sure personally. 

There would be a registration date on the vehicle though somewhere.

More to come on the hand rails.

Yesterday the power was out for most of the day as it was last Sunday. 

Then we were out for the boys multi school show and tell.

I had a good time talking with the senior kids architect class.

Interesting designs 3d printed.

Taking a 3 wheel Tuk to an old friends church this morning. 

Be lots of heavy/slow traffic.

Might get home in time for a little welding? 

 
Posted : February 8, 2025 7:54 pm
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A down day here today. 

All the running around eating local foods/water and a bit of maybe dust from the roads to add some respiratory inconvenience. To add insult there was a funeral service a couple of streets away..

They play ridiculously loud musac.

With those loud speaker horns. 

Starting at 5 am.

Not good after a late night before.  (More loud stuff and sweats and a bit of fever )

Sort of balances things out a bit.

Yesterday we caught up with some amazing people. 

So seems your don't get everything you want will see if I can load a picture or two.

 
Posted : February 10, 2025 2:17 am
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The lass in control I met as a 4yr old.  Was a tiniest cute bunch of giggles you could ever hope to meet.

We walked as a group around the village with her perched on 1 shoulder singing her heart out. 

Now I was very pleased to see at 24 she speaks Chinese, English and of course Kmere.  Has a good job with an import business. 

What more could you hope to see.

 
Posted : February 10, 2025 2:32 am
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Our ride into the city.

Inspire confidence?

Actually a young driver ran out of fuel in one like this the other day.

We sat and waited while he went and grabbed a bottle (coke) of fuel.

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Posted : February 10, 2025 2:43 am
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So lots of detours and distractions as usual.

There's to be a wedding Friday so we get a flashback to 5 years ago when these guys had a house warming party. 

Put up a 400 to 500 seat tent in the street.

Pity last time they had a stage literally at our front door with dancing girls Kmere style.

This time are just going to block pretty much all entry. 

Certainly the gate for the car and moto.

The tent is almost under where I'm trying to get some welding done.

Tempting.  

Broke my fancy auto welding shield so tracked down a cheap one locally. 

US $4.

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1st one is a flashback 12 yrs. The 2nd old island cab I drove.

 

 
Posted : February 12, 2025 8:23 am
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Why did a just picture Wile E. Coyote standing on a spiral staircase with a welding shield, and stinger hand.  Smoke rising off burnt fur, and a tent frame surrounded by ashes?

Sounds like the wedding should be pretty epic though.  That is a whole lot of people, and I'm guessing some pretty awesome home made food.  😎 

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Posted : February 12, 2025 11:45 am
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Yep a visitor to this country I would get burnt all right.

Tomorrow. 

Actually later today. We are heading to the Central markets for the wife's shopping urges. Then go to immigration to pick-up our visa extensions. 

A bit of a mistake really, thought it  would be simple and something that could be done online. 

Nope 1 visit to immigration and fill out all the original questions plus supply photos again etc. 

Then they kept our passports for a week to "process" the applications and they said we can pick them up at 2-30 pm tomorrow. 

Easy right?

30 days is a standard tourist visa.  

With one 30 day extension only.

Or could get for a one year for $300 or so.

That business or retirement/pensioner type. 

Not sure we are ready for that so may stick with 30 days or make it 60 days to justify the hoop jumping.

A week's process for a 30 day visa for an extra 2 weeks is hardly worth it.

It's a good thing spending time with the daughter and family is so worth it. 

Damon my 90 yr old American friend has been here for more than 20 yrs and married to a local woman for 20.

Still renews annually. 

Could probably get citizenship but can't see the value now.

Will see what the future holds.

 
Posted : February 12, 2025 3:09 pm
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Posted by: @brstr

Will see what the future holds.

as for  "what the  future holds"............Only  The  Shadow  Knows  Evil  

 

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Posted : February 12, 2025 4:43 pm
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Ah maybe but I know who holds the future. 

Hoping for a little light to show the way.

Usually only happens just before.

Or just after the fact sometimes.....

Visa extended.

Only a 10 minute pick-up. 

Great.

Worked out how to continue without the Wylie Coyote scenario. 

But will be working right next to the wedding tomorrow. 

They will hardily notice....

 
Posted : February 13, 2025 1:46 pm
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Thinking about stuff going on here.

Power outages. 

3 days so far.

Hard to weld without. 

 Crook 2 days. 

Wedding next door.

2 days

The sound drove me to a hotel nearby.

Wasn't a happy chappie.

Been a few places and caught up with people etc so all good.

Got a week left so at current rates of progress not happening. 

Pity..

But solved some puzzles and can see more details worked out.

 
Posted : February 16, 2025 10:17 am
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Running out of time this trip.

But while the last steps aren't made I should be be able to secure the steps so far. That spiral hand rail was a bit ambitious by hand. 27mm od pipe.

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Posted : February 21, 2025 10:34 pm
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