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  1. Thanks for the replies guys but I'm a little confused now. A couple of weeks back some thieving scrote broke into my van and had away with a load of power tools. As a result I had to replace some straight away as I needed them.

    My local merchants know I'm leaving very soon and told me not to bother buying any Paslode stuff here as they are different in Oz and would need converting, which by the way is very expensive as the head of the framing nailing needs to be replaced.

     

    They got a framing nailer out of the repairs section to show me, some lad had just come back to the UK from NZ and the part where the gas fit in, i.e. the nozzle part was totally different. Now they are very pushy when it comes to selling tools as thats what they do and for them to say wait until you get to Oz and buy there is very strange if things are the same, and if they are the same then what the hell did that lad bring back from NZ?

  2. I'm a carpenter who is moving over from the UK in August. I've swapped all my 110v tools to 240v over the last few months.

    After my van was broken into I found out that Paslode nail guns are different in the UK to those that are sold in Oz. It's something t do with how the gas connects to the gun and that Oz gas will not fit UK nail guns. Is this the same for the 2nd fix pin guns?

    Any other things that I may of overlooked with regards to power tools?

  3. I had a caution for possession of a Class A controlled substance, I declared it and it was never mentioned again. Although we were required to fill in the dreaded Form 80 and I suspect that was because of the caution.

    As others have said, it is a very minor offence but concealing it may cause you a load of heart ache. If you are considering withholding this then I would get some legal advice first to make certain.

    I spoke to my solicitor who told me a caution was an admission of guilt but NOT a conviction. I wrote this in my explanation of what had happened.

  4. I'm from Halifax!! And I'm leaving, that says all there is to say about Halifax:laugh:

     

    Halifax is a typical northern working class town, like most towns it has areas that are deprived and run down and it has affluent areas and obviously all that comes in between. It lies about 15 miles from Leeds and 25 from Manchester with easy links to the Motorway network.

     

    It cannot under any circumstances be measured against Harrogate which is a very affluent area!

     

    P.S. I have a 2 bed apartment that overlooks the town in a very nice area for sale, I've just renovated it completely and it's on the market at £77k, I doubt you can but a garage in Harrogate for that! If anyones interested the PM me

  5. I'm a tradie and have many thousands of pounds worth of tools and power tools which obviously need to come with me. My plan to get rid of the saw dust is compressed air then a clean with jeyes fluid.

    My sister's advice (she's been there a while now) is pack everything and I mean everything, so we are following that advice!

  6. I only asked WHY dont parents dont consider other passengers on a flight anymore and use a pacifier when it is screaming??? Parents in less selfish

    times always used to use these...How many breastfeed on planes in public also?..This disgusts me..

     

    I'd love to meet you on a flight as I can assure you that you wouldn't be bothered about how many infants were screaming or how many babies were doing what is the most natural thing on earth, suckling on their mothers breast (that's what they are for, not for you to oggle at in the sun) as I would be doing what comes naturally to me and that would be knocking your teeth out.

    You sir are a pleb, one that I sincerely would like to punch!

  7. Its easy. Leave on your Aus passport and when you go through immigration entering the UK show the the British one but its best to have both in case there are problems. When you return show them your Aus one

     

    I don't think the OP has Aussie passports and that's why they want to travel on British ones. I personally think it will cause them a whole world of pain when they try to enter Australia.

  8. I'm a self employed carpenter/ joiner and I just put my experience down as self employed but got letters off companies I had subbied to. I also wrote a statutory declaration explaining it, I'm sure they have seen it hundreds of times before.

  9. I'd do what the assessor wants, £380 is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. I reckon from start to finish our visa cost circa £7k and a further £10k to move over there. Just bite the bullet and do the course!

  10. I was going to take my mower until a couple of days ago. I got it out of the shed to use it and thought I'd clean the build up of grass that was stuck to it. As I was scrapping off the grass I couldn't believe the amount of grubs that were living in the dried grass, there were bloody hundreds of them!

  11. Just google Form 80 and you'll soon find it, as others have said it's tedious and ask the same questions that you've already answered multiple times before. I've no idea if they cross check these forms but I made sure that they tallied up. The real pain in the backsideis declaring every country that you've been to in the last 10 years with dates!!

  12. I needed replace my passport as I washed (like a numpty). As previously said the immi site was vague about who to contact so I emailed everything to the team who did my visa. It took around 8 weeks if memory serves me correctly.

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