Michael Potter
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Hi Ian. we have this and used it a fair bit. to be honest you could do the same by including a known sized object and just scaling the picture from that then measure what ever you need.
Hope that makes sense.
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Thank you so much Kevin. That got me going again. Just pushing a friendship but is there any where I can stop it feeding through when loading. I am just trying to use what I have as I don’t really want to buy any more.
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Welcome Robyn 😀
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As far as I know the electricity south of Cairns is still out & won’t be restored for several days. It travels north from central Qld on a large voltage spine then U-turns and heads south along the coast. Apparently the southern section is down.
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Stay real safe. This is the biggest one I’ve seen in my life time. They are predicting 3 meter storm surges enough to flood Cairns CBD.
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Bugger….We just had a second flood event, it went from 6" to over 3′ in less than an hour, all with no rain here it must have really pelted down in the catchment. Gloria got trapped on the other side and I traveled down to the edge of the rapids sideways in the car fortunately it hung up on a large rock tilted at about 30 degrees. Strange feeling opening the door and having feet of water flow in.Managed to get to shore and collected the tractor & neighbor then we pulled it out. Only slight damage to the clutch large damage to the pride and excessive damage to ear drum very late on the next day. seemed to coincide with getting my good lady across on the tractor. Boy life sure isn’t dull.
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As usual we were only flooded in for a few days. Not like the poor people up north & out west. Gees Shane you sure are nosy 😀 Jason just posted on facebook, a picture of some new gear he bought ( looks big, possible second hand & expensive
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I started to read the thread and scrolled down to the first picture and thought ouch! I really don’t like that, not like Jill’s usual work 😳 I was greatly relieved when I scrolled to the second picture.
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Thanks everybody.
As you can tell I am really, really chuffed. They tried for 6 years and had just had the initial interview with the IVF people, an appointment was made for June & in the mean time try this day, this day & this day, all three days must have worked. We all live on the same property our houses are 150 meters apart so for us life is sure changing. I had forgotten how tiny babies can be.
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Which Bank.Is their advertising slogan and a few dollars of that 6 billion was mine. How come the government doesn’t try the super tax on them as well as miners.
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Hi john
I have to ask, How did you know all that?
Did you google it or do you just like bridges.
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All the best intentions and all that…. Mike and Harry have both pricked my conscience, so I’ll do it this weekend.
Get away with you Shane.
The real reason is it’s the only sign your allowed to lift 😀 -
Yes they can be but Since my poor old Mom passed away I think I would trade places with you any day. 😀
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Hi Shane
Glad everything went Ok.
We have a large septic tank lid to move & as you don’t seem to be doing anything is there any chance you could drop bye and give us a hand.
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yes Shane The creek has been borderline flooded for the last 10 days. Sounds like a fast moving freight train as it flows down the rapids, we cross just at the top of the rapids about 60cm deep and pushes the car sideways as we go across, really gets the heart rate up.
Glad to hear Jason survived ok.
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OK Phill, since Mike is to polite to ask How on earth did you find that??????
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You should ask Shane about their weather over the last few days.
That’s provided he can write whilst under water.On the other hand he could move here same temp but much less rain.😀
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I new there was a reason I didn’t like cats.
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:welcome: Enjoy your time here
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Nigel why oh why are you picking on my signage?
We won home business of the year with it, it’s not as easy as you might think to create this type of display. 😀 -
isn’t that just peachy.
Mr Gore has got to be one of the biggest hypocrites on the planet.
Oh I forgot it’s probably ok because he planted 6 extra trees.
What a load of infuriating bull sh1t.
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John thanks for that.
I had no idea it was a train service 😳 I thought they had trains and cars all going through a big tunnel.
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I know what you mean Shane.Many years ago I used to do food deliveries to a mental hospital near where you are talking about, it was a very unnerving experience to say the least. Several of the inmates would stand about 2-3 inches away and stare at you or worse still would scream obscenities at you they were so close the spittle would hit you in the face.
One day with my arms full I was sexually groped. The young lady patients were always getting pregnant. clothing was removed and found scattered all around the exercise area. I used to hate Tuesday’s. All in all it was a very scary delivery and one I still remember 35 years later -
Car accidents kill about 42000 each year in the US alone.not nice for anybody involved but makes the flu figure look small
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John Do you have to book to go through the tunnel?
Love the photos of all the snow, but I guess when you are trying to just live your normal life it would be a real pain in the rear end.
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Hi Warren
I am just being nosey. Did you find out what the problem was /is.
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Yes Shane that happened as well.but sometimes the statement was simply "your a Pommie B"
Doesn’t happen anymore must be my personality & charm have taken over. having said that I was involved in a car park dispute just before Christmas & was told to go back home to South Africa by a lady who hasn’t lived here as long as I have. Really amused me that did.
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Hi David
Interesting how things can be interpreted Here to have a job on the side or a sideline activity just means it’s not your primary income. Can mean it’s dishonest, not accounted for or on the record. But can just as easily mean it’s not my main activity, often the difference is the tone or facial expression used upon delivery.
As I am from the UK originally I was referred to as a Pommie Bast**d by all & sundry, Sometimes it was a term of great friendship but sometimes it meant we were going to have a punch-up. Same words just delivered differently.
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I must have missed something..where did David say he wasn’t going to declare his earnings or is it done differently in the UK.Here he can declare at tax time if he has made the right arrangements.
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hi we have had a sticky meter for a few years now, they work quite well. I would still take the installer with me and Measure anything that is critical.
You can always use it to confirm that the sticky meter is giving you the right result.
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As somebody who never sees snow and has never driven on it is the problem the snow or is it the ice? can you have 1 without the other?
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Not their fault… it’s all due to global warming!
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Never mind Shane I had the same problem 😳
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Wow Robert What do you people put in your Pizza’s?
happy new year
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Or you could move to Australia probably Queensland definitely not Tasmania. Air con kicks in almost straight away, problem solved.
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ok you are forgiven, I will lend you things ,,,,we may have to get married first, but with a list of cookies like that I can’t loose.
What are Snickerdoodles?
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Geez Jill. Memo to self (do not lend Jill anything) Had mixer since last Christmas then broke mixer.
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hi Phillip
We have never tried to laminate a large print or any print for that matter we have always subbed out our large prints. Ir you can afford to stuff up the print, give it a try. Have a few practice runs first as there does appear to be a knack to getting it just right.
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I’ve had a set for several years . What Rob said is pretty spot on. great for app tape and flood coating 1200 x 2400 sheets.we have used them on the job to redo a sign that needed redoing ( Not ours) and found it a bit awkward in confined yet large areas. Gloria’s son used ours to flood coat several hundred meters of glass awning, worked a treat mind you he is 6 foot 7 inches and about 100 feet across the shoulders,He used to row for Australia came third in the junior Olympics and as strong as an oxen. which all helps when doing large areas.they seem to be very popular in the states.
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sorry to appear really Dumb, but what are we talking about?
Were sign makers in the UK allowed to make car number plates?
In Australia we can only get them from government dept. The plates are aluminum with reflective backgrounds & numbers. They are made in the prison system as one of the forms of work available, Given that a lot of them are there for car theft I find this slightly amusing, it has also become a good source of extra money as you can order plates with all sorts of sayings logos or number combinations. In NSW the plain jane ones cost $37.00 but the high end ones can run in to $800 or more.
cheers to all & A very merry Christmas
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Hi Gavin
I am not really sure what your last paragraph is saying, however I don’t think age comes into it I believe it says a a lot more about the actual subject. I don’t know what happens in UK but herein Australia any reasonable debate has been choked, the government states this is what is happening so just trust us. Only one paper that I have seen has run both sides of the debate and that was only in the last few weeks after numerous surveys indicated that the majority of people were starting to ask questions. Both sides presented a good case with the pro climate change scientists tending to suggest Armageddon was the result if you don’t believe us, they also all had their hands in the public money tin. Since 1990 intergovernmental panel on climate change have spent $100 billion Dollars on research and to this day no scientific paper exists that demonstrates that the late 20th century or the past ten years of cooling for that matter, fall outside the rates and magnitudes of the past (geological) climate change. With regard to carbon dioxide the early earths atmosphere contained about 30% carbon dioxide it was once the major gas in the atmosphere, it is now only a trace gas.To me the whole debate lacks clarity & honesty. But it has become a massive cash cow to a large group of world leaders and companies all wrapped up in a feel good package, if you speak against the concept you are immediately branded as uncaring, stupid or just plain old.
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Hi Jill. Have you thought of using Brush Script?
Only kidding
looks good
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How can Britain give billions to anybody, I thought they (Britain) were like most other western nations in that they are technically Bankrupt.
Hence the obscene grab for cash masquerading as a feel good climate change package.
Our Government doesn’t want to debate its solution, Despite the fact that it seems it would render us totally incapable of competition in any commercial way, with any nation on this planet.
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Hi Matt
Omega 3 may help as they have a new feature that allows you to move the foils very slightly to the left or right.
Is your problem happening at the top and bottom or only on the sides if that makes sense? If it’s only the sides then the length of foil more than likely is the problem. which may also explain the 2 different results with red. As I understand it both foils must have the same length left on the roll.
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Well done Tiffani, You are doing well to take after Mum. Nice to see you tagging along for the ride Shane :lol1:
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Just had one in Australia. we have a new opposition leader after the old leader more or less wanted to back our governments view. He was very surprised when a few members resigned their positions over it, led to a spill then a new leader. who knows from here 😀
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love the last sentence Nigel it is so true
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ok Shane. how did you find that site? 😀
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just out of curiosity Shane what’s your wifes’ Email address.
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May be a Gerber edge thermal printer would suit prints about 300mm wide onto 381mm punched vinyl plus a lot of other products.
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I’m with you Jason.
Telstra our biggest telco tried wacking a small fee on payments only lasted a couple of months before it was canned and the big wig saying sorry got that one wrong.
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Thanks Shane Trust an Aussie to have the answer.
Nigel Do you need a license to install wiring in buildings? Somebody over here said you don’t, so just wondering
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Thanks for this thread Jeremy. Our mug press just got flooded by rain and we may be looking for a new press. We have several wraps but never thought of one of these ovens.
Thanks heaps
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Sorry Dave.
What the heck is a terrahawk?? 😳
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😮 😮 WOW you British sure use monster plugs. Anybody know why they are so large or is that just the way it has always been?
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thanks for taking the time to post Alan. 😀
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Hi John & Gorden
the 8 seconds count down starts when the mug reaches 180. May be that’s the difference. All I know is that we have had no problems at all and we have done hundreds of mugs. everybody chokes when we tell them but for us it works maybe it is the warm up factor that we don’t include but others do. when we load a cold mug the temp drops to 128 and then starts to warm up when it reaches 180 the machine starts the count down (8 seconds) and then beeps like hell at us.I have never timed exactly how long the mug is in the press for but I will try to remember to do that next time.
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All the best for a happy future together Cheryl.
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Our supplier told us to use a sacrificial mug and leave in press (Closed)when not in use. we also do the initial warm up with mug in press.
Most strange of all we only use 180 degree for 8 seconds no problems at all and some mugs have been used for 18months with dishwasher etc.
I know this is really different to any body we have spoken to but when we started that’s the info we were given and has worked.
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Hi Warren
The guides that the flanges track in have a rubber ring on them that causes the friction to keep the guides in place if those rubber rings have split that may contribute to your problem as the guides are then free to move with little to no Resistance. Mine split after about 3 years so it may be worth a look.
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Hi Neil.
Bit late I know but only just read your post. Mine does the same thing which i then ignore and just proceed as normal. It seemed to start after an upgrade to win-cut that I installed doesn’t seem to cause any problems other than 1 extra key press and occasionally words to the effect "Oh that’s B*llshi*" which the Summa completely ignores but I feel better. I know that doesn’t help you much but a misery shared is a problem halved.
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Oh good one Shane.We spend millions on tourism and you undermine it all in 2 seconds. look guys we don’t really have anything like that in Australia nor do we have Snakes or spiders now do we Shane…. Go on tell them.
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My wife and I ran a very small sign business we used several dedicated sign programs then slowly started using Corel with winplot. At the end 99.9% of our work came from corel.
But do you really need to upgrade or do you just want to?
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We have been watching the woolies ads for quite some time and not once did Apple Computers leap in to my or my families minds. Some times these companies give me the S*its it appears in their tiny minds I just can’t think for myself and would immediately get confused by the smallest detail. MacDonald’s fast food took a small local rugby team to court because they had mac something on their behinds the team were sponsored by a lawyer called MacBrite. He won because he could trace his ancestry back several hundred years in Scotland, seems Maccas’ couldn’t do the same.
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Vinyl Master Pro will also nest shapes on to whatever vinyl size you input so whilst I have never tried it I guess you could tell it the vinyl was 2400 X 1200 and see what it suggests.
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Hi Adrian
If you can contact Tony Teveris who post on here I am sure he could give you the answer. I believe he is one of the programmer’s for Omega.
If this is a bad post just delete no infringement intended.
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I’m with you Shane.
But forbidding the wife just doesn’t work. although it does lead to long periods of silence.
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not for this little black duck. feel sick just looking at the photo’s.
well done Jill just check that your brother really does love his sister.
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well done cobber.
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yep can only agree.
Sometimes I don’t know I am doing it wrong till I read it on here.
The people I have met from the boards have turned out to be really special People.
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recently a friend and I were doing some repair work on the house when we dropped a tool we are both in the mid 60’s with bad backs so we looked at it then at each other then agreed that we would leave it there till something else dropped and that would make it worth the effort to bend down. I guess the big difference is the floor is simple further away and so much harder to reach
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thanks for the kind thoughts.
No Rob Business has now moved in to the almost completely retired section, my health was going backwards and so my disability pension kicked in. we are still doing 1 or 2 small jobs a month.Yes Shane Email address is still the same and when you and your family visit we will pick you up from wherever,,, getting really good at this 4wd stuff
Hi Barbara funny thing is when it is happening to you you tend to think it is only happening to you, it took several days for me to realise that the family whilst still in Brisbane had no furniture either but the could go visiting.
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Jason we would love you to visit we are on 22 acres with 2 homes about 150 meters apart we are in one and the kids in the other, there is also an amenities block. at this stage we only have chooks but more lifestock is planned.
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Oh He’s back. what happened Shane wouldn’t they keep you… Sounds like you had a great time
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Geez Dave.
You don’t sound at all like that, when you type!
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yep they are still doing this in Australia as well.
They would be the most difficult company to spend money with. We bought 1 of our plotters from them and despite the fact they had our money they would not dispatch machine unless I signed and forwarded a written purchase order in addition to my first order plus did I say they had the blo@dy money, don’t return emails or phonecalls and charge $180.00 /hour plus $120.00 /hour travel all plus GST.
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buy an a3 ink jet printer
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sorry it took a while to post….. just had to go & be sick
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Hi Jane
We have done air brush tattoo’s at markets etc. over several years now.
We normally use normal masking vinyl from Avery or Mactac. when needed ( desperate) we have used normal mactac 9800 with good results. The 9800 can only be used once but the masking vinyl can be used several times, we have also used sandblast vinyl.
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Hi Chris
Actually we are doing them at 180 degrees for 7 sec. and yes they do come out ok. since we have never done them any other way I am not sure what difference we should expect.
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Hi Ian
we have been using this program for about 2 years, it was fairly simple to set up for Australia and makes quoting very straight forward. Shane Drew is using the latest version and has upgraded from the version we use he has had it for longer than us, I know he uses it because we talk regularly, He is coming over for the uk sign show so maybe you can get in his ear then.
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sorry Kevin
Not on mine either I had saved it as a PDF & was going to reload it for you but alas no button. -
it is a file of a helicopter with text under it loads ok in corel may be you could export as a JPEG and load again.
I don’t have a printer like yours but on my edge I would have to manually place the cut line around the parts i need to cut, but as I am new to this as well I could be totally wrong, as my wife would tell you it wouldn’t be the first time.
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Thanks everybody. this wasn’t my post But the answers will save me a lot of time. wont tell you what I used to do It worked but it took a while on big jobs.
Using Marks method will save me heaps.
Thank you
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Bit late, but the wishes are valid. well done you two what with that and the newspaper article, your PR machine is working overtime.
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Hi Heng
hopefully you are more obliging than that Shane Drew fella. I am looking for a position as a bag carrier or general brown nose, for your overseas trip, hopefully I have given you enough time to save the extra money that may be needed for me. Shane just couldn’t afford me, his wife would have injured him had he taken me.
Many thanks your new friend
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not this time Jason.
Spent more than we had at Christmas.
Hope you have a good time
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James, Can I take it from that statement you may not be coming to Australia? we do have thistles should homesickness be a problem.
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who needs a tourist promotion when you have these.
what was the ad "where the bl**dy hell are you.
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poor girl she is just lonely and misunderstood. who should get the blame. My vote goes to the politically correct brigade followed by the parents and lastly the kids
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well that’s a relief. My wife notices if I sit still for 2 minutes when I am supposed to be working.
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I guess the air conditioner was working really well.
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sorry Timmy
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Hi Timmy. Sorry but I am a bit confused, which piece of gerber equipment do you need sizes for?
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on the down side they are now putting up with looters. Absolute scum of the earth
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Hopefully not enough to make much difference.
Makes me proud to be an Aussie, there is still a lot more money to come in.
Really sad what has happened though, we travelled through most of that area early January and the ground cover just cracked and broke under foot.
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Nice post Shane.
I see we Aussies have already raised in excess of $25million to help those in need.
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Which car would be the easiest to use on British roads. Can you easily use the power/speed of the Jag, for that matter can you use a 4WD.
Lots of help aren’t I.
Mo matter which one you choose after a few months the other one will appear to be the one you should have chosen always have always will be the case
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this may be a bit late,
we have just purchased a gerber edge with omega software, with regard to the software, yes it is different but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. It has taken a few hours to get the basics and jobs that would take me 30min in corel or VMP take me a lot longer because i have to keep checking the manual. But i am having to look at the book less & less. One of the omega designers actually comes up on this web site so you will be able to get positive replies from users and designers.
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Thanks Peter & Gary
That looks like the right church. Not as big as my 9 year old brain remembers.
thanks heaps
Mike