Photo - Brothers plus mum

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kids 2003

 

 

 

Dan

Megan Nicole

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Marcus

Dan 

Chris

 

 

 

Marcus in Trailer

From the days when we could ... and didn't get caught.

We were camping and went for a ride to a nearby lake.

Dodgy Jarcar DI box

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The Blanks

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Musing About Church

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These are all I think...

What can we do to grow our chuch.  To make it somewhere that people want to go, find value, support and so on.

Community
I think community is more than jut somewhere where everyone gets on well together.

Support
Some people will come needing support.  I suspect that we as a church are well placed to provide emotional support.  Friendship.  Someone to talk to.  Someone to lend a hand.  We are probably not so well placed to provide financial support.  The Govt seems to have very deep pockets and there is money available for all sorts of support and so I suspect that financial support is best left to the Govt.  We could work in conjunction with the neighbouhood centre.  Also on my part, I have an inherant distrust, a feeling of being used, when some person comes begging for trainfare to get home.

Worship

I think worship is the 'Core Business' of the church. 
Faith -> Worship  -> Good Works
Worship is the gathering point for our church.  We come together to worship.  But in recent times I have to be honest and say that I have not found it inspirational.  Actually I would use words like dull and even boring.  Frustrating at times.

BA Falcon window winder issue draft

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The drivers window winder has broken ..... again!  @#$%$^

HISTORY
It died some years ago.  At that time, Megan's dad perormed surgery on it and that kept it going for about another year.  Then it died again and I purchased a non genuine one over the net.  That died about 13 months later (4-Mar-2012) and the suppliers kindly replaced it.  Now that replacement has died.

OPTIONS
a) Wreckers - but the one I get may be at deaths door.
b) Complain to the original seller
c) Buy another non genuine one.
d) Sell the ute.
e) Dismantle & rebuild the current broken unit.

WHY
The question of course is WHY?
Why do these things keep breaking?
Too much friction between the glass and the track? - I lube it with a teflon spray.
Design flaw that results in too much power being required from the motor?
(Mind you in the orignal unit the gearbox connected between the window motor and the cable drive failed.  In the non genuine one, a plastic pully failed.)

BTW
they seem to call these assemblies "Regulators".
and you have to ensure you are buying a drivers door one.
My google search is "BA Falcon window regulator drivers door"

PURCHASE OPTIONS
Ebay $60
getautoparts    $72.20  ?freight   Wrong type
carsrus.com.au    $46.90 +Freight  Wrong type
express car parts  $76.00 +$12.90 eparcel standard freight. =$88.90  seems ok
nationwideautoparts   $110 Free delivery

"Wrong Type" means does not have pullies at both end of the track.
(See example pictures here) The problem is that all the photos I can find on the suppliers web sites are taken from the wrong side.So I am not sure.  The picture from "Express Car Parts" looks like their unit has pullies.

Ordered one
We wait and see.

Blast.  Same design as the failed one.

New one on left.

Here it is photographed from the other side

Here is the photo I looked at before I purchased.

The comparison is at the right hand side.

Oh well should have asked but there is just so many hours in a day.