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You know you're in Australia when;
A five dollar part has been repaired using ten dollars worth of brackets, nuts, bolts and hose clamps.

Feel free to add your favourite dodgy repair experience.

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This was my favorite mod, a Victa special with 1 correct wheel and 3 wooden wheels!

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You know you're in Australia when ...
Aussie laziness ingenuity takes over:-

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p.s. neither of these tanks are original to this machine!

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Maybe I should start doing that to these Powertorques Jack, get a bit more gravity to make the float needles drop laugh

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Maybe I should start doing that to these Powertorques Jack, get a bit more gravity to make the float needles drop
Yes Norm
one wonders whether the issue goes to quality or design.
I suspect quality control.

You know you're in Australia when ...
The land 'down under' gives us up-side-down catchers ...

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How many times have I seen this done to a Scotty with the owner not being able to work it out, with the grass deflector being assembled wrongly after going down the path of a full machine restoration, DOH !!!

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You also know when you're in Australia when one spends nearly two full days scraping and sanding deep rust off a 20 inch Model 45 reel back to pristine steel when he could've spent $20 and had it bead blasted and got it back in an hour or so.

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