Illawarra 4WD Show was good value

Met Wisey , Kev and Ian there , but saw no other members , although they may have been there .

One gent on a stand said that prices were lower down there than at Sydney shows , because of lower site charges . He was paying $1000 at Kembla Grange and at Rosehill he pays $9000 .

I bought a neat water purifier that has two cylinders - one precleaner to get the dirt out and the final one to remove giardia etc . He was an interesting guy who puts them together at his factory in Fivedock , Sydney . He told me that none of the purifiers take out viruses which are often in water , so that the trick was to treat the water first with Puratabs then run it through the two cylinders . This removed the Puratab taste and left you with perfect drinking water . He had lots of different types of filter inserts which he sold to you , according to the type of water you would be putting through .

I asked him " Ok , so I'm in the Pilbara and I have run out of water . There is a bore in a paddock , but no way to access the water but out of the cattle trough . Can I just put that water through these two filters and drink it " That's when he told me about the Puratab system . With that system , you could drink the water and it would be safe and taste good .

The unit comes in a backpack with spare filters . I am not going to locate it under the bonnet , but run it through my shower pump hook up , when I need to . Hopefully , that will not be too often .

Wisey and I also got talked into buying a " Magic BBQ Sheet "for $20 a throw ! . It is about double the thickness of a garbage bag and you lay it on your BBQ plate to stop muck sticking to it when you doing marinated thingies . It is non stick and can be " re-used again and again". It will be interesting to test it out . We may end up with " Chops a la Plastique ".

It took us a while to get around the show , because Wisey took a deep interest in any product being sold by a pretty girl .

Cheers ,

Willie .