the all aussie dribble thread!

[bushy79]

For what its worth, we got a small evakool and i wouldnt recomend them.its just a little one with a shoulder strap for taking to the beach and parties but it doesnt keep ice long.maybe i put too much booze n not enough ice in but thankfully where im from we drink beer warm and flat.


Matt, i was getting worried you diddnt love me anymore.
This saw stuff is fuddling my mind. Plenty shed time when i eventually get home id say. Dremmel/61 jug will be well acquainted i rekon!

 

[husq2100]

+1 for the Tropical, I have a larger divided joby. But your the cool room guru. Just read the specs on each and go for what you know is best? I had a quick look around my local camping palces and said that looks good enough. Not sure if they are the best or thickest etc.

460, im a firearm owner, but I can not support shooting/hunting in our national parks. Nothing personal to the many of shooters here. IMO its just a bad idea.

 

[gmax]

I did have Techni-ice but I sold it, the build quality is rubbish, the lid didn't even sit flush.
I now have a Evakool 47 Litre , Ice lasts a lot longer than the Techni-ice, seconds are about $100 cheaper

Evakool Store - Evakool 47 Litre Icebox-Second

 

[MCW]

I have one of the larger 90L Kookaburra eskies. It's a green Landmark branded one. I'd never get another one as the first time I took it out in hot weather the lid acted like a solar panel, ended up about 90 degrees, and warped lifting the corners up about an inch. Not an ideal characteristic for an esky...

Get a thick sided one with a clip down lid. My Kookaburra one has elastic straps which are as good as tits on a bull. The esky itself is certainly insulated well enough but that lid is the problem...

 

[460cixy]

I'm in two minds over the nat parks it could be a success or complete failure I'm going with failure and it was never going to happen anyway blind freddy could see tubby obarrel was stalling all along once he got what he wanted.. But with out the game council in nsw the state forests will be closed to shooting also. Really it's got me plucked why they just I'd not run it like Victoria and be done with it I don't know how many of you have nsw game licences I never bothered to get one I have to join a hunting club then join the game council and if I want to hunt book that as well so I just got a vic game licence I can get in the ute and drive town to vic and hunt when ever I want and it costs less

 

[Stihlman441]

I have had for years a Evakool Fibreglass 60lt Fridge*Freezer and a 60lt Fiberglass esky and think they are a very good Ozzy made product.

 

[tdi-rick]

Try this mob rick mates got one we use for shooting sides are super thick it works well

Tropical Downunder Ice Boxes

+1 for the Tropical, I have a larger divided joby. But your the cool room guru. Just read the specs on each and go for what you know is best? I had a quick look around my local camping palces and said that looks good enough. Not sure if they are the best or thickest etc.

Ta re the Tropicals, knew there was one I forgot

Serg, I was going ga ga reading specs at morning tea and lunch time, but no one was quoting anything meaningful, just "this will hold ice till the next ice age..." stuff.

Foam thickness tells something, but everyone just quotes wall thickness (sometimes) which includes the panel, then the density changes things, eg. free blown foam vs poured/injected under pressure inside a mould.
Sometimes knowing stuff sucks.....

I did have Techni-ice but I sold it, the build quality is rubbish, the lid didn't even sit flush.
I now have a Evakool 47 Litre , Ice lasts a lot longer than the Techni-ice, seconds are about $100 cheaper

Evakool Store - Evakool 47 Litre Icebox-Second

Thanks Wayne, and my first google search today came up with their seconds shop

Decisions, decisions

 

[Rudolf73]

Decisions, decisions

Says the refrigeration expert

 

[ausneil 1]

Now that's a recommendation if even you have one ! :monkey:

Just exaggerating for effect Rick, yes I do have one only because it was given to me.

 

[husq2100]

just buy a bloody engle

btw if you come across any cheap 110's let me know. Can be crappy as long as not full of rust

 

[bushy79]

Fox

Any of you wizzes know how to 'back up' stuff recorded on foxtel to a harddrive for use with a laptop? And what program will do the same to dvds easily? Had a thingo on me last laptop to do it but it was needed more by another and disappeared one day along with a skateboard,gos,2 wallets, a camera and a whole bunch of other stuff. Guess i was done with it all.


As you can probably guess, im not too computer minded! Pretty handy with cutting stuff up n putting it back together and 'tweeking' things but not things pc.
Usually have a nerd at my disposal but not at the mo sadly

 

[tdi-rick]

Just exaggerating for effect Rick, yes I do have one only because it was given to me.

I know Neil, just otstir:

 

[tdi-rick]

Any of you wizzes know how to 'back up' stuff recorded on foxtel to a harddrive for use with a laptop? And what program will do the same to dvds easily? Had a thingo on me last laptop to do it but it was needed more by another and disappeared one day along with a skateboard,gos,2 wallets, a camera and a whole bunch of other stuff. Guess i was done with it all.


As you can probably guess, im not too computer minded! Pretty handy with cutting stuff up n putting it back together and 'tweeking' things but not things pc.
Usually have a nerd at my disposal but not at the mo sadly

I use 'VLC media player', plays pretty much everything

[edit] Hang on, do you have the stuff on the HD already ? or do you want to save it to the HD ?

 

[tdi-rick]

Says the refrigeration expert

I try not to think too much about that stuff if I can help it. The phrase 'well and truly over it' springs to mind !

 

[lumberjackau]

Rick, +many on the Tropical's. I bought a 62L close to ten years ago, still going strong and they do hold their ice well it has been in logging camps, fishing camps, held beer for countless parties and used as a seat, it has copped more abuse than any other cooler I have owned and is still going strong. I have gotten a 50L now and it is just as good as the old one.

 

[bushy79]

Thats it, i wanna back up dvds and the stuff recorded on fox on to a HD

 

[tdi-rick]

Still not 100% sure which way you're trying to jump, but if you want to burn movies to a DVD, (depending on your OS) I use CDBurnerXP which does a good job.

For viewing MP4 movies on the computer I use VLC Media Player.

For watching MP4, etc. movies on your TV you'll need a media player, as in another box/device you plug a USB thumb drive or Hard Drive into that plugs into the TV to play the movie.

If your Foxtel decoder can have a hard drive plugged into it to play back movies, stop/start/pause programmes, etc. it will probably format the HD in Linux which means that your normal PC can't read it.

I just downloaded 500mB of movies from a mates HD into one of our HD's but as we went from PC to PC we have to play them through the media player, the decoder wants to re-format the HD which will wipe all the movies.


Clear as mud ?

 

[gmax]

Still not 100% sure which way you're trying to jump, but if you want to burn movies to a DVD, (depending on your OS) I use CDBurnerXP which does a good job.

For viewing MP4 movies on the computer I use VLC Media Player.

For watching MP4, etc. movies on your TV you'll need a media player, as in another box/device you plug a USB thumb drive or Hard Drive into that plugs into the TV to play the movie.

If your Foxtel decoder can have a hard drive plugged into it to play back movies, stop/start/pause programmes, etc. it will probably format the HD in Linux which means that your normal PC can't read it.

I just downloaded 500mB of movies from a mates HD into one of our HD's but as we went from PC to PC we have to play them through the media player, the decoder wants to re-format the HD which will wipe all the movies.


Clear as mud ?

I used to do all that a few years ago, rip protected movies with DVD shrink and DVDFab, but DVD's are slow and unreliable, now I just download what I want
and watch them with my networked media player.
HDD's are cheap fast and reliable...stuff DVD's . VLC is a decent media player..it seems play anything unlike that bloated windows media player.

 

[AUSSIE1]

I can't remember what the encoding was implemented in the Austar/Foxtel boxes. It was a common encoding method. it maybe Macrovision. It was suggested to me during training something was avail from Jaycar. I never got around to looking into it. If I could find my paperwork kindly filed away dizzy by the good missus I could let you know. Search something like 'Macrovision remover'. With scratchy memory on this, this is all I can come up with atm.

 

[tdi-rick]

I can't remember what the encoding was implemented in the Austar/Foxtel boxes. It was a common encoding method. it maybe Macrovision. It was suggested to me during training something was avail from Jaycar. I never got around to looking into it. If I could find my paperwork kindly filed away dizzy by the good missus I could let you know. Search something like 'Macrovision remover'. With scratchy memory on this, this is all I can come up with atm.

My mate I got the movies from was in the TV industry for years OS and then here and is still in video production/editing and he couldn't remember what the formatting was which is where he got the "maybe Linux ?" thingy from.
As he said, he's in his sixties now and did way too many drugs back in the sixties and seventies to have anything like a reliable memory these days

Like Wayne said, eff DVD's, for us Country Bumpkins without access to Office Works, et al, the local Post Office shop can order in 2TB Seagate HD's for $89.
That's where the latest one of ours came from.
I was downloading movies and he already had all the ones I wanted so he said save your bandwidth, here they are !