Any Aussie subscribers here?

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The newsagent issues are shipped in bulk, subscription issues are individually posted.

Neil

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Danny M2Z on 19/03/2015 07:14:53:

Ok fellow Aussies, what's the verdict. Is it worth subscribing?

Where I live (Vic/NSW border area) the local newsagent is very reliable (I do spend a bit there). Have actually heard him on the dog&bone berating the distributors when a favourite magazine failed to arrive in his allocated bundles.

I did take a peek at Neil's link for the 'special down-under offer' and although it looked tempting, I was saddened that the cookie from the distributor's website targetted me for customised offers for every other magazine in the universe that I am NOT interested in. That was quite off-putting.

I'm almost a pensioner, so not flush with funds. Indeed, if I need a few bob for a lathe, tools or tyres it means poking around in the bush for a few gold nuggets and all the hassles of cleaning and selling them. It's hot dusty work and the joe blakes love my little spot. Enough info! (I do have a "miners right" btw).

What's the bottom line – Worth subscribing or not?

* Danny M *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 19/03/2015 07:15:11

Danny, yeah I think so. Seems like a good deal that Neil linked to. $6.95 an issue, delivered to the door. What is it in the newsagents these days? $10-$12 like all the others?

[Bill PudneyParticipant @billpudney37759]

Well 226 arrived yesterday, a couple of days after Hoppers. I daresay the carrier pigeon required a pitstop or two to get from far North Q'ld to South Australia!! Interestingly (well I thought it was), the local newsagent had issue 225 on the rack yesterday.

Is a subscription worthwhile? I think it probably is, but then I am sitting on the fence a bit at the moment leaning slightly towards "worthwhile"

How's the new lathe Danny??

cheers

Bill

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

I pay $10 in Wodonga. What really got my goat was the unsolicited advertising from the distributor.

New lathes still in storage (Newcastle NSW) awaiting transport deal. My friend offered me the use of her newish Cayenne turbo but no towbar – the cost of which is more than the transport quotes. I noticed that it also has a skinny spare, and for what she paid, that's a bit sad. The Lexus R380 that she traded was also a nice car. Cost $75,000 ten years ago, trade in now worth $15,000 even with only 125,000k on the clock.

It's sweet to drive.

* Danny M *

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Jesse Hancock 1 on 19/03/2015 08:22:46:

I was dragged up in South Australia where a walk in the hills around Blackwood revealed huge boulders of iron ore just sitting there on the surface some the size of a house!

Indeed tis a small world. I grew up in Blackwood SA. Went to Blackwood High School in the early 70s and served my time down bottom of the hill at the Chrysler/Mitsubishi factory.

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Issue 227 arrived today here in Cairns. Pretty good going really, when you look at the price per issue and then compare with what airmail from the UK costs.

Off to the armchair for some engineering now.

[Andrew MackinnonParticipant @andrewmackinnon22685]

I am in Australia, and subscribe to the Electronic version, and find it great. I would like a hard copy, being easier to look at diagrams on other pages to which the text refers, but for cost reasons, have the digital sub only.

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