I'm now at the age where I need to consider the burden our children will have when I die, trying to get rid of all the crap I have accumulated.

In my case, it will be tools, in the case of my wife, it will probably be shoes

We have had to clean up after 2 deaths, and it's not easy, you wonder if you're throwing away some sacred memory, or just a piece of crap.

I would like to know that my kids won't need to worry so much about that because I flicked all the crap before I karked it.

But now there's a new thing I'd like to do, decorate my own coffin,

I just read this story and I think it's great.

www.mnn.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/stories/kiwi-musical-coffin-club-death-with-song?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

So now I would really like to make my own coffin, not too expensive, because i'll probably be cremated, but what do I decorate it with?

Of course there would be the pics of the family and kids, but I'd really like it to display some surfing memories.

Pics of Midget are a walk up start.

Some early Hawaiian stuff featuring all the greats like Noll, Edward's Phillips and Munoz.

That famous soul arch by Kemp Aaberg would be good to have.

But what do I do about the modern longboarding? what if I live for another 30 years? anyone I like now, is going to be forgotten by then.

I know what I would like to do, just cover the rest of the coffin with reproductions of ladies nose riding, because they look sooooo good, but then everyone will know I'm just a dirty old pervert, rather than suspect it, as they do now.

But then I'll be dead,. so why should I give a flying fanny fark

Oh it just has to be this one of you absolutely smoking Big A

See topic below 'Over thinking It "

Use a mal as a coffin lid!!!!!

One of macs black red and white ones would do the job
Plenty of them around so a second hand one will not cost much.

But then again i suppose you dont want to seem common or ordinary when your gone

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laceys lane said..
Use a mal as a coffin lid!!!!!

One of macs black red and white ones would do the job
Plenty of them around so a second hand one will not cost much.

But then again i suppose you dont want to seem common or ordinary when your gone

One of your better ideas lacey ... but why waste a good quality Mal ..? a surfers warehouse Mal would be perfect....

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bazz61 said..

laceys lane said..
Use a mal as a coffin lid!!!!!

One of macs black red and white ones would do the job
Plenty of them around so a second hand one will not cost much.

But then again i suppose you dont want to seem common or ordinary when your gone

One of your better ideas lacey ... but why waste a good quality Mal ..? a surfers warehouse Mal would be perfect....

Nar. Those warehouse mals are keepers. Not like the black red and whites ones

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bazz61 said..

laceys lane said..
Use a mal as a coffin lid!!!!!

One of macs black red and white ones would do the job
Plenty of them around so a second hand one will not cost much.

But then again i suppose you dont want to seem common or ordinary when your gone

One of your better ideas lacey ... but why waste a good quality Mal ..? a surfers warehouse Mal would be perfect....

Ps. Hes already been through 5 since ive had the swellbandit

lol Ricardo

Can relate to the sorting out the crap from the good stuff. I'd just built a new house with a 9 x 6 x 3.3m shed which was full of my old man's stuff when he passed about a year later. He had so much stuff that seemed too good to throw away. Tools lol he had like 3 or 4 of each. I ended up giving them & 99% of the stuff away to friends. All I kept in the end was 3 milk crates with boxes of slides, a slide projector & a white stand to project the pictures onto. I need to get one of those scanners that take slides to convert them to digital or find a service that will do it. My old man has pics from all around Australia dating back to the 50's

Im comping back as a tablecloth when I die.
layed and pulled off everyday.

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Cobra said..
Im comping back as a tablecloth when I die.
layed and pulled off everyday.

I can't decide between either a chick's Leather bike seat with double contrasting stitching or a pair of Lycra exercise pants

I wouldn't mind coming back as soap on a rope for Elle Mcpherson.

But for now, my most important task if I'm going to start my death clean, is, what to throw out, what to keep and what to sell, and for how much.

The 3/4 inch drive 300 ft/lb Warren & Brown dual signal torque wrench should be the first thing to go, but I'm not sure what to ask, would $90 be too little or too much?

All the big 3/4" sockets will be the hardest to unload. Probably need to just do them all in one job lot.

Can you put this pic on your coffin Obs so we can remember how handsome you where

Farken superlative bastard of a thing geez ..... no wonder Muriel Hotten-Twatty at the Bowlo goes off like a box of firecrackers

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thePup said..
Farken superlative bastard of a thing geez ..... no wonder Muriel Hotten-Twatty at the Bowlo goes off like a box of firecrackers

Good grief

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obct said..
I wouldn't mind coming back as soap on a rope for Elle Mcpherson.

But for now, my most important task if I'm going to start my death clean, is, what to throw out, what to keep and what to sell, and for how much.

The 3/4 inch drive 300 ft/lb Warren & Brown dual signal torque wrench should be the first thing to go, but I'm not sure what to ask, would $90 be too little or too much?

All the big 3/4" sockets will be the hardest to unload. Probably need to just do them all in one job lot.

300 ft/lb Warren & Brown dual signal torque wrench, waaaaaaay too cheap!!!! $200 would be a bargain.
Actually forget what I said, I'll take it for $90.

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thePup said..
Farken superlative bastard of a thing geez ..... no wonder Muriel Hotten-Twatty at the Bowlo goes off like a box of firecrackers

Good grief

This what happens when you do too many drugs bazz

I don't think they've been made for many years but when they were. I think they were around $600 new So maybe 200 would be a better price thanks for the tip

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laceys lane said..

bazz61 said..

thePup said..
Farken superlative bastard of a thing geez ..... no wonder Muriel Hotten-Twatty at the Bowlo goes off like a box of firecrackers

Good grief

This what happens when you do too many drugs bazz

Lacey Lacey Lacey remember the Mt Woodgie days I have been informed

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obct said..
I don't think they've been made for many years but when they were. I think they were around $600 new So maybe 200 would be a better price thanks for the tip

I was going to say you would struggle to find a young person today who would know what they were used for.
Or it.
But I'm struggling to think what they would be used for. Or it.
I think I used a torque wrench when me and Keith rebuilt the engine on my 1973 (Maybe) Ford Escort Panel Van in Stewart's car port in about 1987.
We followed the instructions in the can't remember car books peoples manual. " Remove pistons, carefully laying them out in correct order". or something. Because we were in a mate's car port, we put them on a bit of chipboard on his outdoor table.
Got drunk, came back 2 weeks later to complete the rebuild. "Which end of the chipboard was the front of the engine?"
Engine re assembled, the torque wrench may have featured here somewhere.
Car ran after marathon pushing through the streets of Beaumaris. to get it to crank over. Some fuel pump issue I think.
Young people, you tell them things today and they don't believe you!

I needed it when I rebuilding Carrier centrifugal chillers, from 75 to 85, the impeller was a shrink fit and it needed around 175 ft/ibs after it was installed.

After that i started using it on VW flywheels and rear axel nuts, they needed around 250 ft/lbs each.

Use one on my Harley every time.

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obct said..
I needed it when I rebuilding Carrier centrifugal chillers, from 75 to 85, the impeller was a shrink fit and it needed around 175 ft/ibs after it was installed.

After that i started using it on VW flywheels and rear axel nuts, they needed around 250 ft/lbs each.

Maybe you should bring it down to Mick's workshop. He might give you a fiver for it..... Seriously though, he might buy it for the sake of having it. He's like that with tools.

I'm driving around in my coffin. It's pretty simple really. Just sell all the stuff out of it, (tools, boards etc) put me in the bed dressed in boardies and a surf shirt and take it to a scrap yard. Have them crush it to coffin size and bury it. Or dump it at sea and make a reef out of it. All good so long as the VW emblem is still visible.....

Well our neigbour didn't get the chance to organise anything ... run over killed 400 mtrs from home yesrerday on way to gym... at BB ex copper life can throw a curve ball or two ...2

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bazz61 said..
Well our neigbour didn't get the chance to organise anything ... run over killed 400 mtrs from home yesrerday on way to gym... at BB ex copper life can throw a curve ball or two ...2

Oh dam heard about that tragic accident.

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obct said..
I needed it when I rebuilding Carrier centrifugal chillers, from 75 to 85, the impeller was a shrink fit and it needed around 175 ft/ibs after it was installed.

After that i started using it on VW flywheels and rear axel nuts, they needed around 250 ft/lbs each.

Wow, the things you learn on the forum. I'm asleep now.

Wow, sleep typing , never heard of that before, the things you learn on this forum are amazing