POTN Aussie Club #7 - Feng, where's my invoice?

**** that's bad. can you get cream for it?

Jee Mic, hope it clears up soon for ya mate.

i cant believe the weekend is over already, argh!

Crikey Mic, that doesn't look like any kind of fun at all. Hope it clears up soon.

Tax...I had to take advantage of the setting sun.

justAL wrote in post #9231539
Does your umbrella bracket have a brass spigot in one end? If you remove it you might find one end of it has a threaded male end to it.

If not, you're kind of ****ed.

Holy f**k Al. I'm an absolute tool. You know when I bought your Brazillion, I found some hot shoe mounts in there? Just plastic ends with threads on the bottom and a mount on the top. I realised the top of the umbrella mount looked strikingly similar to that... so I undid it from the metal piece of the bracket. And there you go. I can now mount my CTR-301P to the umbrella bracket and use my brollybox.

:o

The Moose wrote in post #9231876
Holy f**k Al. I'm an absolute tool. You know when I bought your Brazillion, I found some hot shoe mounts in there? Just plastic ends with threads on the bottom and a mount on the top. I realised the top of the umbrella mount looked strikingly similar to that... so I undid it from the metal piece of the bracket. And there you go. I can now mount my CTR-301P to the umbrella bracket and use my brollybox.

:o

I was dying to get rid of those.

Check your teminology and welcome to off camera lighting. Unless you can wire up those shoes they are cold shoes. A hotshoe has the means to conduct triggering power through it to the hotshoe of the flash.

Photos, photos, photos!

justAL wrote in post #9231888
I was dying to get rid of those.

Check your teminology and welcome to off camera lighting. Unless you can wire up those shoes they are cold shoes. A hotshoe has the means to conduct triggering power through it to the hotshoe of the flash.

Photos, photos, photos!

I've got them in a drawer and now I've got a spare one from mine.

I'm just glad to finally have some gear. I had triggers and flashes for so long and it was too frustrating to have nothing to use with them. I'm really happy with my gear now so it is just a matter of shooting things and keeping myself interested 1D2, 24-70, 70-200, 3 flashes and (for now) one brollybox. Next year I'll go wide or long with some more lighting gear (if I feel it's needed) and I'll be stoked.

Woohoo, finally bought something up here
TT belt, speed changer and a lc75. Awaiting delivery on Tuesday.
Also a lexar 8gb 300x CF card.

Nice self portrait Al. Love the natural hair light

The Moose wrote in post #9231909
I've got them in a drawer and now I've got a spare one from mine.

I'm just glad to finally have some gear. I had triggers and flashes for so long and it was too frustrating to have nothing to use with them. I'm really happy with my gear now so it is just a matter of shooting things and keeping myself interested 1D2, 24-70, 70-200, 3 flashes and (for now) one brollybox. Next year I'll go wide or long with some more lighting gear (if I feel it's needed) and I'll be stoked.

I am so overdue for new glass.

fungry wrote in post #9231916
I am so overdue for new glass.

I'm loving mine right now. Although the 70-200 has been neglected. It will only get more neglected from here on in, I think I definitely want wide or long next, wide is cheaper and would be good but longer will be great to shoot some proper sports without cropping heavily.

Glenn.........
Was going to say that I mount my Umbrella Mount to the light-stand, and have a brass spigot with a 1/4 male thread that screws into the bottom of the 301P's.....But since you've worked it out, guess I don't need to say that now !!

OTOH ........

FIRE !!!

Well, that was an exciting afternoon !!

So there we were, all four of us, just "hanging around" the house, girl-child studying, boy-child on his 'puter and me and the wife just doin' stuff in the family room.............

When we noticed a "burning smell" ..............

Wandered into the kitchen, and noticed that the dishwasher was on the "Dry" cycle, which involves an element in the bottom getting darn hot and evaporating the remaining water in the cabinet .....

Definitely a burning smell.....So I opened the dishwasher thinking that there must of been some sort of plastic container in there that had fallen onto the heating element .........

Mrs Austen, standing next to me, opened the cupboard next to the dishwasher (under the kitchen sink), and as I was noting that there did not appear to be any errant plastic in the dishwasher, Mrs A yells out......... " FIRE !!! "

So I grabbed the Dry Powder fire extinguisher we keep in the kitchen, ripped the pin, looked at the gauge sitting neatly in the middle of the "Green Band" and squeezed the trigger.............

P f f f f t t t t t .....

And that was it !!

Raced upstairs, grabbed the 5 lb CO2 extinguisher, raced back to the kitchen, (by this time Mrs A had been to the switchboard and killed the main power switch) and let 'er rip !!!

5 lbs of CO2 later and the fire was well and truly out !!

Turns out that it appears the power-point for the dishwasher had for some unknown reason got hot..hotter..hotter still..and then a bit more hotter. The ignition point of the plastic material used to make the power-point was somewhat significantly less then the temperature it reached!!

Damage was confined to the power-point itself, and a square-foot or so of the rear wall of the cupboard and the Gyprock behind the cupboard.

There's no doubt however that had we of not been home we would of lost the house !!!

Even worse, had we of been asleep.....Shudder !!!

We do of course have smoke alarms, but as the fire started in a cupboard, it was well and truly burning and smoke had not yet been released into the room in sufficient quantities to activate the alarms !!

Even a Pffftttt..... of the dry-chemical powder, combined with the soot from the burning plastic was enough to make, well, being diplomatic, somewhat of a mess in the cupboard, and the adjoining one where we keep the casserole dishes, serving platters and those sort of things !!!

'Phoned the insurance company (AAMI, now it's 6.45pm, Sunday evening) and they were really good about it !!!

All's well that ends well !!!


Austen.

Great luck Austen. Great luck indeed.

charlieharper wrote in post #9231935
Glenn.........
Was going to say that I mount my Umbrella Mount to the light-stand, and have a brass spigot with a 1/4 male thread that screws into the bottom of the 301P's.....But since you've worked it out, guess I don't need to say that now !!

OTOH ........

FIRE !!!

All's well that ends well !!!

I would have resorted to a lot just to get it work, had I not realised the stupid error I was making!

Wow, lucky everything's all fine. Hope it doesn't happen again Sounds odd for something like that to happen.

Damn, Austen, that was a close call!

mickeyjuice wrote in post #9230162
That's a fair point

I'd pay to be not sick right now!

Me too, seeing your leg

ANGUS wrote in post #9231333
Yours now is it?

Maybe

ed. wrote in post #9231679
Tax from last night

Nice work,