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I work in Runcorn, well Weston Point, and never going to be the most glamorous holiday destination. However the canal arm is inoffensive and at 5miles long its an easy 'silver propellor' location to tick off. Outside the The Brindley theatre or opposite the moorings right at the end is only 500yrd difference. I've not stopped the night at either but I cant see you have any bother. There is a public carpark too, and the new Mersey bridge has reduced the traffic.

Phil is lots of things, but not ignorant or in competent. If you watch the video its quiet clear, the ports in the upper casting are wrong for the intended use and place the filters in parallel not series. Other areas also lack the required concentricity and or squareness to function as required. Its not for a boat.

If you have a rail, as we also have, just tie the rope to the rail?

Its an interesting project, but likewise I cant see it happening anytime soon and likely not ever. For the sort of money would cost, you could do an awful of almost anything else, including improving the maintenance of the existing boat lift at Anderton, or restoration the Runcorn locks.

Here we are, one Honda EX1000 shop manual, courtesy of a guy on eBay selling manuals on CD, who if you asks really nicely will also email it for you. If you don't want to wait three days, and don't have anything with a CD drive anyway! EX1000.pdf

I was surprised how many displays, large and small, we could see from our house last night. My extended family have an annual bonfire party which was last Saturday and we are going to a display at Tranmeres ground on Sunday. We're on the ridge overlooking a reasonable amount of the Wirral so get good views. Me and my daughter had the lights off watching out of the window for about an hour. Our anxious dog passed away last week, and had lost his hearing two years earlier. But we found if we kept him away from the biggest bay window and put the radio or some music on he was ok. Probably harder in a narrowboat, but more scope to move to a more rural area. Our other dog is so unaffected by them he will happily go out in the garden while they are going off. Broadly speaking I support the current situation regarding fireworks, which are already fairly well regulated. They provide and awful lot of enjoyment to those who like them and it seems unfair to prevent that due to a minority of inconvenienced people. Be careful what you wish for because there are likely atleast as many people who like to see dog ownership banned as fireworks.

Over a decade later, but did you get anywhere with your EX1000? I've got ours "on the bench" currently as its lost its Japanese rock steady reliability somewhere. Like the OPs the green light is intermittently lit, and when out I'm not getting any power, but by adjusting the choke and setting the frequency knob to 60hz I managed get it upto 50hz, light on, and it did 2hours of putting juice into the battery and running the big 240vac florescent in the engine room for me before the charger stepped down a bit and it all wobbled off. First port of call is going to be soak the carb in acetone and blow throw the jets with some carb spray. Its gets very infrequent, and it seems to just been poor fueling making the idle very poor. Oil airfilter and plug change feels well over due too. New link to the owners manual, which also includes oil type, plug type and gap, tapet clearance, electrical semantic and the attached page on adjusting the governor. But nothing specifically about carburetor or internal governor. https://cdn.powerequipment.honda.com/pe/pdf/manuals/31ZC0040.pdf

Saw the same video as I follow Phil's activities on facebook, some what disappointing and alarming state of affairs. But certainly worth checking if you use such a thing.

Yes, and if for various reasons I've opted to leave it wet a touch later I have in the past wrapped rags and rope around the flue to bridge the gap. But its so relatively easy to isolator and drain. Typically if then doing a work-day on the boat during winter I will boil the kettle on the gas hob for hand washing etc and or place it on the Squirrel stove if lit. Back to the OPs question, yes we do drain the calorifer over winter. Ours is a horizontal unit mounted at gunnel height above the engine, and I find with out boat if isolate the supply at the pump ans open all the taps and leave it a week, the contents of the calorifer ends up in the bath. Presumably weeping back through the non return valve. This works sufficiently well its become the normal routine! We now also have a pair of drains right at the back of the boat under the aft deck (wheehouse in our case) in the swim, which can be used to drain the main fore-aft hot and cold lines. Which I tend to do the following time I visit, after the calorifier has done its weeping into the bath trick.

Most home insurance policies have similar requirements for unoccupied setback temps, presumably with the expectation some pipework will be outside of the thermal envelopes, ie in the loftspace so not freezing the rooms alone is not enough.

In my experience its often not about how cold it gets, but how warm it doesn't get. Often night at day -5 doesn't appear to typically do much damage if the days either side are reasonably warm. But as you say, if you get a week where its -5 at night but only -2 or 3 during the day the cold will penetrative deep into the boat and freeze even reasonably protected things, like fiddly pipework at the back of a cupboard, or a brass pump bolted down to scantilings. The obvious exception to the rule is the Paloma gas water heater, on a very short flue. That im told by grandfather, will freeze at almost nothing, having caught him not once but twice apparently! I drain aim to drain it good and early and leave the drain plug out and the supply isolated all winter.

Seems the perfect use for it.

Ruddy autocorrect. Fixed.

Ofcause. But the risk is low, your phone is already live on the Internet, and this thread is predominantly about backing up online records in the first place!

Better still, and easier, set you phone up to automatically back them up to the cloud in real time (or atleast next time its on wifi) and make whatever manual local copies you want from there. Its is very much the most common thing to do, Google, Microsoft, Apple and a host of others all offer the service for little or no money.