Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Posts: 29
Location: Perth, Western Australia
I have some intermediate electronics knowledge.
Also i have available to me most tools i need. _________________ Go and get STAWNED!
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Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:26 pm
bones
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Western Australia
My lathe just turned up. I got a drill bench and other tools.
And I'm a electronics engineer. Does that help.
Might be able to build something to go the Easterners.
And I worked in the animatronics game for a bit.
Bones
Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:28 pm
andrew
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 3110
Location: Castle Hill, Sydney. N.S.W
Whoa. Thats a pretty good start there mate. I build my machines using not too much more than a hacksaw, jigsaw, drill prerss (cheap 80 dollar one) and a angle grinder besides most hand tools that are easily available so being use to animaltronics and having a lathe is great. _________________ Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics
Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:59 pm
bones
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Western Australia
I just got a cheap lathe. It cost about $1500. It has everything I need and excellent quality. I got the cheap drill bench too. $80 at Bunnings.
All I need is a welder. Has any one in WA got a mig.
I'm thinking of getting a mill. But I'll wait till I pay the lathe off first.
Or get the attachment for the drill.
So if there are any guys in WA that want to start building give us a hoy.
We might be able to share resources and give these guy's a run.
Bones
Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:40 am
Ajax Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 298
Location: Sydney
With a drill press and a Lathe you will be able to build nearly any thing.
A Mill is handy but not essensal. unless your like me and like to complicate the design. (In other words your an Engineer like me.)
_________________ It's all about the destruction.
Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:28 am
bones
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Western Australia
Yeh. I'm working as a computer tech. But I'll have a go at anything.
Jack of all trades. Master of none
Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:03 am
Ajax Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 298
Location: Sydney
quote:Originally posted by bones:
Yeh. I'm working as a computer tech. But I'll have a go at anything.
Jack of all trades. Master of none
I'm a qualified butch
I can butch anything _________________ It's all about the destruction.
Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:37 am
kkeerroo Experienced Roboteer
Joined: 17 Jun 2004
Posts: 1459
Location: Brisbane
Hmmm, I wonder how much plane tickets to Perth cost? _________________ Get Some!!!
Secretary of the Queensland Robotics Sports Club inc.
Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:47 pm
mytqik
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 127
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, how much from Shanghai? I always wanted to go toWA, escpecially Gerladton & Broome.
Knowing my luck, if i built a robot over here & tried to get it out of the country, I would be arrested for stealling top secret army hardware.
Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:55 pm
andrew
Joined: 16 Jun 2004
Posts: 3110
Location: Castle Hill, Sydney. N.S.W
When r u finished over there and coming back here anyways. R u just working there for now or do u live over there or something. Just curious sorry. _________________ Andrew Welch, Team Unconventional Robotics
Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:36 pm
bones
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Western Australia
I think WA is the best place in Aussy. I moved from NSW to Brissy and back , then over here. Been her 4 years. Nice weather, exellent people and very cruisey life stile.
Just a bit isolated. But hey them are the breaks
Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:27 pm
robo robbo
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Posts: 29
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Wa is real great. I have been around the whole of Australia and there is nothing better.
quote:
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, how much from Shanghai? I always wanted to go toWA, escpecially Gerladton & Broome.
Geraldton and Broome are pretty boring apparently.
Also plane tickets to Perth can cost as little as $120.
Bones where do u live North or South of the river? _________________ Go and get STAWNED!
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Sat Jul 10, 2004 4:39 pm
bones
Joined: 04 Jul 2004
Posts: 11
Location: Western Australia
I'm up near Midland. What about yourself.
Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:38 pm
mytqik
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Posts: 127
Andrew,
I currently live over here. I have my own apartment which is about 100sqm. It is more like a large 5* hotel room. Only cost about $125AUD a week. Things over here are *REALLY* cheap. Everything is priced for the locals who earn very little. My personal assistant has a uni degree, an earns about $15AUD a day & that is well paid. The cleaner earns less than $1AUD an hour.
I am currently working as the head design engineer for a company that designs & manufactures very large air filters. (Like 1,000,000 m^3 an hour).
My current contract finishes at the end of July. I will be moving home (Brisbane) then. I will then contract back to them, working from home
So if you need anything from over here (batts & motors) let me know soon, so I can track some down for you.
My wife & I have always wanted to travel through WA, so hopefully we can do that this year.
I want to go to geraldton for the windsurfing. Aparently it is some of Oz best sailing.
Sat Jul 10, 2004 5:40 pm
robo robbo
Joined: 01 Jul 2004
Posts: 29
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Bones,
i live in Noranda which is about 15 minutes away from Midland. Noranda is a couple of minutes from the Galleria if you know where that is.
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