摘要: Brake fluid made from washing powder mixed in water? Welding a muffler with jumper leads, fencing wire and car battery? Replacement brake pads carved mulga-wood tomahawk, or an emergency clutch plate shaped out of old boomerang? Spare parts filed collective memory, scattered wrecks along dirt tracks? Strips blanket wound into windscreen-wiper blades? Such is the repair advice offered Bush Mechanics, series recently screened on ABC Television.1 Presented humour enthusiasm, as well large dose self-parody, this mechanical unlike any other. Nyurulypa ("good tricks") are what heroes – five bush mechanics Yuendumu Central Desert call them. They tricks special knowledge, hard-won experience, first learned by men who tell some their stories series. suggest particularly localised presented something that everyone should know, all love mutikars will enjoy.
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