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Done many drains in Sydney and now looking for more, any help would be mad
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Just poke around the internet or have a drive around and you should find some. Predator's approach to draining is a pretty good resource for how to find drains, you should have a read.

The drains in Sydney that are often credited as 'the best', at least in my experience, are: Swoo, Fortress, Eternity, Eye of the Needle, Herc's Pillars, Gobbledox
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Do you want to share any picture or stories of the drains you have done?
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Done most of them
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Are you the person who has been spray painting renditions of homer simpson throughout drains across Sydney?
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Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Pics or it didn't hap..bah you know the drill.
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phytrix wrote:Just poke around the internet or have a drive around and you should find some. Predator's approach to draining is a pretty good resource for how to find drains, you should have a read.

The drains in Sydney that are often credited as 'the best', at least in my experience, are: Swoo, Fortress, Eternity, Eye of the Needle, Herc's Pillars, Gobbledox
Wouldnt Call EOTN a drain lmfao Close enough to one when you get to the end though
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phytrix wrote:Just poke around the internet or have a drive around and you should find some. Predator's approach to draining is a pretty good resource for how to find drains, you should have a read.
If you haven't already done this, then do it!
I am very new to drains, but have fallen madly in love. Predator's approach to draining is a great tool to help you understand where drains could be, add in some internet research, a bit a Google earth viewing and some good ole boots to the ground action - then you should have all the drains you could ever need :D
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It serves the purpose of draining water though :3 you've been past the rubble, correct?
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phytrix wrote:It serves the purpose of draining water though :3 you've been past the rubble, correct?
Yes sure have love the ladder and all haha and the randome door in the wall lmfao
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Get your terminology right guys.
The EOTN tunnel is not a drain, never has been.
EOTN is a former tunnel that once housed cables that supplied electric power from the Ultimo Power Station to the tram network east and south of Broadway.
It is currently partially flooded (shin deep) at the far northern end, but being a flooded tunnel doesn't make it a drain (most abandoned tunnels are partially flooded).
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Dunlop factory is my favourite drain.
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blakjak wrote:Get your terminology right guys.
The EOTN tunnel is not a drain, never has been.
EOTN is a former tunnel that once housed cables that supplied electric power from the Ultimo Power Station to the tram network east and south of Broadway.
It is currently partially flooded (shin deep) at the far northern end, but being a flooded tunnel doesn't make it a drain (most abandoned tunnels are partially flooded).
When it rains, water funnels through it, no? By definition, that makes it a drain, irrelevant of its intended/initial purpose, assuming it does funnel water through when it rains (I don't know this first hand, however, just word of mouth)
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phytrix wrote:When it rains, water funnels through it, no? By definition, that makes it a drain, irrelevant of its intended/initial purpose, assuming it does funnel water through when it rains (I don't know this first hand, however, just word of mouth)
It's no more a drain than a leaky basement is.
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phytrix wrote:When it rains, water funnels through it, no? By definition, that makes it a drain, irrelevant of its intended/initial purpose, assuming it does funnel water through when it rains (I don't know this first hand, however, just word of mouth)
It's no more a drain than a leaky basement is.
I've heard that it gushes with water when it rains, is that true or not?
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phytrix wrote:
aydun wrote:
phytrix wrote:When it rains, water funnels through it, no? By definition, that makes it a drain, irrelevant of its intended/initial purpose, assuming it does funnel water through when it rains (I don't know this first hand, however, just word of mouth)
It's no more a drain than a leaky basement is.
I've heard that it gushes with water when it rains, is that true or not?
No, the water there is from years of seepage. Water never "funnels through it".
Who told ya that?

Think about it, if water "funneled through it", it would be constantly flooded to the top.
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phytrix wrote:Just poke around the internet or have a drive around and you should find some. Predator's approach to draining is a pretty good resource for how to find drains, you should have a read.
If you haven't already done this, then do it!
I am very new to drains, but have fallen madly in love. Predator's approach to draining is a great tool to help you understand where drains could be, add in some internet research, a bit a Google earth viewing and some good ole boots to the ground action - then you should have all the drains you could ever need :D
Yeh man it's probably my favourite thing to do in my spare time it's really fun and interesting what you can find that way haha!
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The more you do it, the better you will get. Like anything practice makes perfect :)
It doesn't take long to work out the general pattern/idea behind why drains are in specific locations and the rough size they could be as well.
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ImageImageImage excuse the crappy quality I took them on an iPhone 4 a while ago and had to dig em up!
blakjak wrote:
Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Pics or it didn't hap..bah you know the drill.
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MacDaddy wrote:
phytrix wrote:It serves the purpose of draining water though :3 you've been past the rubble, correct?
Yes sure have love the ladder and all haha and the randome door in the wall lmfao
fun times jks never again
half the fun is in the mess
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Homerone wrote:ImageImageImage excuse the crappy quality I took them on an iPhone 4 a while ago and had to dig em up!
blakjak wrote:
Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Pics or it didn't hap..bah you know the drill.
Here you go bro...
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Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Blakjak now I realise how annoying I would've sounded when I first joined this forum haha
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Spades wrote:
Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Blakjak now I realise how annoying I would've sounded when I first joined this forum haha
lol nah compared to some others you were quite ok actually. :)
How ya been man, been ages.
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Spades wrote:
Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Blakjak now I realise how annoying I would've sounded when I first joined this forum haha
I feel like this is a small hint that I'm annoying?
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Homerone wrote:
Spades wrote:
Homerone wrote:Done most of them
Blakjak now I realise how annoying I would've sounded when I first joined this forum haha
I feel like this is a small hint that I'm annoying?
Not annoying, they just want us to find our own information but when you ask for obvious things

Eg. Entries Exits with detail up untill the colour of the walls

It periodically does get annoying
But if you need anything ask me :P
I dontmind hahahaha
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