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Bush Fires
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 14, 2005 10:40 PM
Has anyone heard from Phil Creer at all? He has had bush fires go through where he lives in last week or so and about 8 people lost their lives.


Ian the worrier
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 14, 2005 11:19 PM
Great Scott, another major natural disaster. I hope Phil is O.K. We are living in troubled times.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 9:03 PM
Yes this is true, I'm not sure where Phil lives in South Australia but he can't live far from the Ayre Peninsula and they really copped it. Many houses burnt down, many mlillions of dollars worth of damage and eight people killed, burnt to deaath,

Lets hope Phil and his people are ok.

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:33 PM
Check for his last post in plans or scratch building might give you a clue
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Posted by toenailridgesl on Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:08 AM
Thanks for the thoughts, Fellas, but we are all OK. The Eyre peninsula is about 150 miles west, the local big fire at Mt Osmond was about 4 miles away but no injuries with that one. This is a lovely place to live except for about 6 weeks per year and this is it!
Again, many thanks for the consideration.
PS, I'm working on the stock car in the current GR mag. Anyone want me to upload the pix & make another scratch-build class out of it?
Phil Creer, The Toenail Ridge Shortline,  Adelaide Sth Oz http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge toparo ergo sum
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Posted by vsmith on Sunday, January 16, 2005 1:12 AM
Glad to hear your OK Phil

We cant get away from problems no matter where we are, Hurricanes, fires, tsunamis, floods, mudslides...sheeesh we need a break from all this,

   Have fun with your trains

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Posted by Tom The Brat on Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:15 AM
Tornados. That's about all we have around here.

Of course, there's always the truck driver who isn't paying attention.
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Posted by Rastun on Monday, January 17, 2005 1:34 AM
Phil,

Great to hear you're fairing well thru the fires. Of course upload the pics of the stock care and make another class out of it. As soon as I figure out wether I want to buy a table saw or a band saw I think I'm gonna try to build something.

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Posted by toenailridgesl on Monday, January 17, 2005 4:24 AM
Jack,
can I suggest for our scale that a small bandsaw is the way to go. I have an 8" table saw and a tiny hobby Ryobi bandsaw (9") & I use the bandsaw for nearly everything in 1:20.3.
For the stock car I just ripped down some 1/8" MDF into 1/16" thickness. The band saw is the ideal compromise tool, and if you can find the Ryobi copy made by a company called GMC it costs under A$100=US$75
Phil Creer, The Toenail Ridge Shortline,  Adelaide Sth Oz http://www.trainweb.org/toenailridge toparo ergo sum
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Posted by Rastun on Monday, January 17, 2005 9:44 AM
Funny enough Phil I was looking at that GMC 9" Bandsaw yesterday at a local DIY store, comes with the miter slide a rip fence and a red line generator to help let you know where it's going to cut.

Talk to you later,
Jack

one of these days I'm gonna catch the typo before I hit the submitt button.
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Posted by marlboro on Monday, January 17, 2005 4:27 PM
Glad to hear you re alright too, Phil, It s nice to see that your pals are lookin out for ya, I m a firefighter in Montreal, Quebec, and know what its like to be worried about. Always nice to come back from an incident, cause there were times, I ve even wondered if I m going home today!!!! Knew the risks involved with the job, and said to myself, Thats what I wanna do !!!
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Posted by bman36 on Monday, January 17, 2005 9:31 PM
Hey Phil,
Four miles is quite close! Glad also to hear you are OK. Wish I had time to build right now. Still chewing away at the unfinished projects. Later eh...Brian.
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, January 17, 2005 10:23 PM
Phil,

Glad to here you are OK, fire is a serious element. We can live through air, water and earth but fire consumes all!!!

4 miles!!! My prayers were with you!!

Capt Carrales

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