Interesting tool sharpening system from Down Under

OK. That worked. Alas, no price list, etc., so my curiosity isn't fed.

Bookmarked, thanks.

I don't find the server, so how would it...?

After seeing the site via Anonymouse, I'm sure I've seen it before via FF, so either Mozilla or EE broke something. I sure long for the stability of Netscape 4. It was TITS!

I opened Firefox, Googled "eccentric engineering", clicked the link and then opened the Shop tab to reach the prices.

My Firefox doesn't have any Add-ons. .Net is disabled and it lists Plug-ins for H264, Foxit Reader, VLC, Java, MS DRM, WPF and Media Player, and Shockwave.

Google translate does the dns lookup, acts like a proxy. It wouldn't let me do English to English though. But it will do Yiddish to English ;-)

Your ISP may have blocked that web site. Your DNS server and/or cache may not be up to date. You may have set up a hosts file entry for that site long ago. You may have a Firefox Addon blocking that site. You may have an Adblock utility blocking that site. You may have a cache problem within Firefox...

Try this one to view some pricing. Be sitting down :)

Will it translate Aussie to English?

I know you're just having some fun, but here is the list it can supposedly translate from. I didn't see Aussie ;-)

Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Catalan, >Cebuano, Chichewa, Chinese, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hmong, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Myanmar (Burmese), Nepali, Norwegian, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho, Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tajik, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu

It is a nice tool for deciphering the odd web pages of interest in other languages. It usually works well for getting the gist of it and some good chuckles too.

Found this guy's setup while aimlessly wandering the net, thought some might find it of interest.

Jon

Thanks for posting this. In the current run-a-way political threads I almost missed it. I like it. I probably won't have one shipped from Oz, but I might make one. If was in the US I'd probably buy one of his.

Hi Bob,

Yeah, wheat/chaff ratio not favorable right now. About time to update filters.. He does have a US distributor, though I didn't follow that link to see who. I'm thinking of buying the kit, to save time, I do like it's well thought out design.

Regards,

Jon

Whoo! Not cheap. Who do they think they are, Starrett? I got an error below the URL (This page was not retrieved from its original location over a secure connection.Dismiss) and a 3 minute translation time, but it did finally come through via FF.

Poor Jon's $170 square costs just $45 in Portland, OR. And $10 or so to ship in the States. Shipping to and from AU is GHASTLY, usually doubling the price of anything.

Here's the best one I've ever found, ya bloody bodger:

Shipping to AU isn't cheap, and shipping within really isn't either. But I had it in 2 days out of Sydney which is pretty darn good for here. Exchange rate, plus anything really worthwhile (not import crap) really isn't cheap. But it's my livelihood, and a write off to boot.

Some Americans never get over sticker shock here. Me, if I really want or need it, I just buy it and don't think about it too much.

Jon

Yet China can ship for free:

Yeah, speaking of which, how's the UPS service and pricing there? I'll bet DHL is better represented Down Under.

It's much easier to buy expensively when you're reimbursed for it.

I don't think I ever would, being so squeakily frugal meself.

That's 12 cents worth of wire, sold for $4, and shipping is free compliments of the Chinese government subsidies. It is said that no shipping container ever leaves there with any airspace in it, and I believe it.

Who offers that wire for 12 cents?

Have bought a few things from China/Taiwan, comes same as in the States. Items from the States, USPS. Within AU, Australian Post (which is a private operation) Had to send first tax returns via FedEx, that entailed a 2.5 hour drive to Canberra and cost over $70.

Best not be thinking of moving here then... ;) Besides, the cost of applying for immigration is going, or already gone, way the f*ck up. Think it's near $7k now. Cost me IIRC, about $3k, which was right there, over a grand increase from when I first knew I was going to move.

Jon

I'm sure I've seen it for a penny (+s/h) on ebay, but it was more an observation of so much Chinese pricing than a standard for that particular wire. I paid $2.90 delivered for 2x 3M after being outbid on a dozen penny auctions.

Although the women are stunning, so are the prices. I won't be joining you, Jon. Eek!

Are they allowing Muslim refugees? Oh, well the AU-US refugee trade sucks. WTF?