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  1. This exactly Arthur! We are both in our 50s and pretty peaceful folks.. For myself, I will always refuse to be cowed into shivering in fear behind my curtains by a psycho bully. Others however might prefer to totally avoid, and that also is a perfectly acceptable response. My reason for "naming and shaming" is to give folks the heads-up on this nutter, forewarned is forearmed and all that.. If it were a case of "this bad thing happened and I THINK it MAY have been this boater", then I also would disagree with naming them - but it wasn't. This guy is a scary nutter.
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  3. Surely your Bro in law just needs to find an internet dentist?. I suppose that wouldn't work as well though because it would be hard to speak on the phone with yer mouth wide open ................Dave
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  4. This type of person is not welcome on the Canals nor in society in general. Police should not ignore this incident. I think you'll be okay tomorrow. Once the drink or the other 'd' wear off. Wot a plonker.
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  5. *blush* cheers Jen.. One more freeeeeky thing Jon found when he went out to work this morning was quite a few fag butts outside the boat. Nobody here smokes, and they would suggest to me that he hung around outside for quite a while before banging on the roof and offering violence.. seriously creepy.. I'd like to thank all the folks here for all the support and kind words. It's only our 2nd winter as liveaboards, and while 95% of the time I really love it, just now and again one can feel a little vulnerable. Whether that's because I'm scared rigid of falling into wintery waters in the ice or because of the occasional mad bloke - it's nice to have somewhere to ask silly questions and get advice! I agree also that whiskey should NEVER be adulterated - except by more whiskey...
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  6. Having moored next to Mary Anne and her owners for a couple of months last winter, I can confirm they are not "pretty peaceful folk", they are exceptionally peaceful and pleasant! Totally chilled, and not ones for making a fuss. I'm glad for the heads up, it's lonely on the cut and people can feel vulnerable. Shame really as people are generally chatty and friendly, but there''s always the odd ones.
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  7. Some of us find a good technical discussion fun. You could always go and look at Facebook or Twitter if you want to.
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  11. Hopefully the water point was frozen when he got there.
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  12. I ahd one of those once. It gave two or three years of good service then one evening I smelled burning. A quick dash to the engine room found it pouring out smoke. I couldn't do a post mortem as I unplugged it in a screaming hurry and chucked it in the cut. Probably a slight over-reaction in hindsight.
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  13. There's thermal switches on Ebay for a couple of quid. Maybe have one to start the pump running slowly at 60°C, then another to run the pump fast at 90°C. Usually they switch back at 10 to 15°C lower. Or use the dig thermostat to start the pump running slowly at a lower temp then have a 80°C to 90°C thermal switch as a backup.
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  15. Yes, but the hose washes the contents away from the pickup pipe. If the flushing is done from a vent, any semi solid stuff tends to move towards the pickup, depending on the placement of vents.
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  16. Some of us really are over thinking this!
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  18. I can have a go at the sums, but there is no real answer. I reckon most people would get away with using no additive at all for most of the time. Its a bit like life really, all you can do is try to tip the odds a little bit in your favour. We use about 1200litre of fuel each year. I use the Stanadyne additive because that consistently gets good reports from people who actually know about these things. This costs about £72. The Stanadyne does the lubricity/detergent/stabilisation/water removal things and is also a cetane raiser, but is not a biocide. With luck the cetane raising improves our fuel consumption a bit but I have not a clue whether this makes it pay for itself or not. I also add a bit of marine 16 biocide but I am more random about this, doing it sometimes in winter and less in summer. If I see even a hint of any slime when I change a fuel filter then I do a bigger dose of marine 16. Maybe spend £30 per year on this so a total of £100. If I had a injection pump contamination issue then its about £600 to get the pump fully stripped. cleaned and rebuilt, plus lots of time and effort from me to remove it, get it to a suitable agent (few and far between) and refit it, plus cleaning fuel lines, organising a generator and petrol whilst the engine is out of action etc etc. For me the additive looks to make sense, but then again two winters ago we still had a pump contamination issue despite the additive. but I think that was a bit of a "unusual" event. ...........Dave
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  19. Our longest trip on the boat so far had been 5 weeks. We use our little Candy washing machine every 3-4 days. It means we don’t have to have loads of clothes on board and we don’t have a pile of dirty washing taking up space. As others have said, use of the machine has to be organised around days when we can top up the water are planning to be on the move for 2-3 hours. The drying’s no problem as OH made a mini version of one of the ceiling mounted drying racks (like my mum used to have in our kitchen) for the cratch and I have a couple of pull out drying lines in the bathroom. No iron though!!
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  20. And folk wonder why this bot is taking so long to finish, i spend more bloody time faffing on what to buy I debating if to up the funds for one now.
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  21. Pedant alert! 1000W = 100A (approximately) 1000Wh = 100Ah (approximately)
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  22. Here is another can of worms that Mrsmelly will comment on shortly when he spots it, just add an eco fan for good measure
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  24. Dodgy leads to/from the starter battery to the starter/engine and isolation switch can all look like a dodgy battery so make sure these are okay before replacing the battery.
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  27. The ONLY thing you ever add to Whiskey is another.
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  28. Of course, everybody should have turned a blind eye to you speeding round Bayford Pool, look the other way.... like...
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  29. Main difference is the length of the antenna. CB requires a long whip aerial that would need to be removed every time you go through a bridge. Legal PMR446 radios have a rubber aerial that is permanently fixed to the radio and cannot be removed.
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  30. If you are prepared to be canny (disconnect the heater element, run hot water in from another source / switch to cold for the rinse cycle et al) then it's possible to reduce the electrical load. However, in today's 'society' folks just want to push a button a go and do something else (and why not). In all fairness the newcomer should be aware that moving from land based facilities to those on the water is not straightforward and requires some redesign or compromises.
    1 point
  31. Permit me to offer a piece of advice... Never be tempted to ask her this question.
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  32. Talking about @Dr Bob?
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  33. Do some science... find a lock and a timer and off you go ...please report your findings,thank you.
    1 point
  34. A flexible coupling is a lot better than none but not quite what I meant. If a prop jam occurs stopping the engine dead, the energy that bends the prop is the kinetic energy present in the rotating engine flywheel, crankshaft etc, rather than the basic engine power which just pushes the boat along. Consequently, a truly massive instantaneous force gets transmitted along the prop shaft at the instant of the jam and a coupling which can slip under this extreme stress is a Very Good Thing and might well save the prop from getting bent. Think of it as is the mechanical equivalent of a fuse in an electrical circuit. A 'slip joint' in a propshaft in its simplest form would be a plain shaft clamp coupling with the woodruffe key taken out and the clamp bolt tightened sufficiently to grip during normal operation but not tightly enough to continue to rigidly grip in the event of a prop jam. Edit to add: A 'friction joint' might be a better term for what I'm suggesting.
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  35. Preferably via a thermostatic mixing valve so you do not try to wash your woollens & silks at close to 100C
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  36. Those £100 twin tubs on Amazon are great. Wash takes about 15 minutes, spin 5 mins. They don't use a lot of water.
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  37. There are two basic types of the diesel engines we use. Direct injection and indirect injection. Direct injection engines inject straight into the cylinder where indirect injection inject into a spherical pre-combustion chambers formed in the cylinder heads. This produces a much cleaner burn on idle and low speed but increases fuel consumption at high speed and makes scold starting more difficult so the vast majority, but not all, indirect injection engines use glow plugs to aid cold starting. So as far as this canal forum is concerned the old rule glow plugs = indirect injection, no glow plugs- direct injection holds good. Direct injection or very similar engines are likely to be all the so called traditional engines, all the air cooled Listser, some Barrus Shire, older Penta, and Bukh. Just to muddy the waters for some years direct injected automotive engines have been fitted with glow plugs AND the glow plugs stay on at reduced power for a while while running. This is more to do with reducing emissions when cold and noise than helping cold starting. My VW 3 pot starts without heat and quickly in very cold weather but does not half run rough for a short while.
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  38. Mr Duker obviously considers himself an expert boater and is using this forum to let us all know that, he is also handing out bad advice to Newbies, and likes a good argument. It must be Tony Dunkley ................Dave
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  39. Only on the very latest ones. Mine is 10 years old and you just turn the key and fires up instantly. The injection pump however does does have some sort of mechanical cold start device which increases the fuel and advances the injection timing slightly. This only operates at below 0 degrees C.
    1 point
  40. Pretty sure my yanmar and Lister don't have glow worms
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  42. He must have needed the water for his whiskey, no wonder he was in a bad mood.
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  44. A pair of these. Trancievers too as they double as ear trumpets. Can also be used as a road cone.
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