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I went scavenging through a local machine shops bin and found a perfectly good airline. Except for the split in it.

My 60 tooth 530 reverse sprocket showing off some of its internals. Will fit straight onto a Barracuda, Sidewinder or any other motorcycle powered buggy in place of the rear main drive sprocket. 0.6 gear reduction ratio. Centre hub has enough room to fit a Quaif diff. Orders can be taken soon after some extensive testing.

Reverse sprocket gear showing internals

We managed to find someone silly enough to lend us their caravan for a weekend away, the only problem is that we need an electronic brake controller in our car. After figuring out that I wanted a Redarc Tow Pro I found one on Facebook market place for $150 instead of $330 for a new one.

I was gifted a da Vinci 1.0A 3D printer that did not print and was partially dismantled

I purchased 6x 9Ah 18V non-genuine Makita batteries to power the billycart I built. After their first charge and then use one of them would not charge past 1 bar on its gauge or 17.35V instead of 20.5V.

I wanted to make a new downhill billycart for Space Pilots camp that I didn’t have to push up the hill. Unfortunately that didn’t happen this year, but I did make an awesome attempt that will need to finished before next year.

It is powered by (or will have) 2x 2kW motors, 6x 9Ah 18V Makita cordless drill batteries.

I was drug tested at work today and the swab and testing unit looked interesting.

I needed to dig a few 1/2m holes for posts and was feeling too precious to use a shovel and crowbar. So I made a drill powered post hole digger

Amy was worried about leaving me home alone, but it has been a very educational experience. I have learnt some valuable lessons this evening.
1. Don’t eat cold meat that smells funny.
2. Pick up the junk mail I dropped (and probably asked to).
3. Don’t glue broken propellers together
4. Don’t play with my toys inside- holes appear in the bathroom wall.

I got a free laptop that has a stuffed battery so I thought I would tear it down.