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  1. Probably because the said item is of the Lidl variety!
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  6. I got accused of being an unemployed canal gypsy ( and I think that was the politest bit) by a fishist who was sitting on the mooring stump at Stockton. I told him after 38 years of full time employment , in the public service I was used to people like him and entitled to enjoy my boat and house and retirement... he still didn't understand...then he threatened violence
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  7. The works on OTLEY was completed at Stockton in 2003, and included removal of knees for descaling and riveted back in. Under the engine room was re-bottomed when the engine was changed in 1997 and I am assured under the cabin is overplated. During OTLEY's renovations in 2003 ARUNDEL was built in the dock alongside, and as measurements were taken from OTLEY then ARUNDEL is almost its clone
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  8. FWIW, epoxy wood filler goes off really fast and at normal room temperature the instructions say to sand it after 15 minutes and no longer than 30 minutes or it will be too hard. This means that you have less than 5 minutes to use what you’ve mixed. Hence my query about slowing the reaction time. Result Now, would you mind not interrupting our discussion of two pack resins?
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  11. Never had a problem at Gunthorpe but Liam did nearly lose the boat at Holme when it was on self service I was up at the lock getting the gates open with my back to Liam, chatting away to some bloke walking his dog. Nice chap and we had a lovely chap. He asked while looking over my shoulder how long we had had the boat. 5 years I replied. "Does he know what he is doing with it then" was his reply. To which I looked around to see Liam playing tug of war with Naughty-Cal's bow line and the boat drifting further and further into the centre of the river without him. Somehow he managed to get it back hand over hand and jumped onto the bow of the boat before bringing her into the lock like nothing had happened. In fact come to think of it we had another wind related issue in Holme lock that same year on the way back down river. It was manned this time but as we were leaving the lock I dropped the bow line which aimed straight for the props of course. Liam stuck it into neutral but in the time it took me to gather up the rope the wind had blown the boat sideways across the lock with perhaps a ft either side of the boat. We were being blown gracefully sideways towards the exposed cill. Liam did somehow manage to turn the boat but it would only turn towards the cill. So we had to reverse out of the lock much to the amusement of the lockie and the people on the pontoon below waiting to come back in. Word made its way down river as each subsequent lockie asked which way we would be exiting their lock
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  15. I've read somewhere that there are some very long underground culverts which serve the backpumps on the Garrison and Camp Hill flights. The current pumps were installed as part of the modernisation in the 1930s and are centrifugal pumps at the bottom of deep shafts driven by motors at the surface. The motors have been replaced over the years but I believe the pumps are the 1930s originals.
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  16. Course he is massively contributing to society
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  17. Just forget all this nonsense. Your friendly fuel boat will bring the diesel to you at your preferred split and a darned site cheaper. George
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  19. Sign up for a blue card and a green card and fill up partly with one and partly with the other.
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  20. One can dream; hope springs eternal... I'm no longer party to how IR works internally on the scheme, but the amount of extra revenue that is generated by any split on the inland waterways - in the scheme of things - diddly squat. Retailers can / do get worried by C&E inspections, thus want to be seen to be 'doing right' especially at a corporate level - hence the over elaborate scheme that BWML has put in place. They are the ones that would get any hassle, not the individual boater declaring 0% and doing a lot of boating. Tut, tut!
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  21. I'm retired now, but worked freelance for many years. In the very different field of computer programming, but the same general principles apply when looking for work. First, play to your strengths. Whatever you can do that's the most highly skilled and in the most demand, try to concentrate on that work because you'll make more money. It also tends to be more satisfying than doing less skilled work, and it really helps to be doing something you enjoy. Location matters: Living near London, I mostly worked in central London, not just because there are a lot of computers there, but because the money's better, especially in the City. Transport costs are a factor, but your time spent travelling can be worth three or four times as much as the actual travel costs. You can probably charge more per hour for working on someone's boat in places other than Lancashire, especially in London, but put a realistic value on your time, estimate your costs and see if it stacks up. Beggars can't be choosers: If you're not getting as much work as you want, it's better to take what you can get so long as it's worth getting out of bed for. I once went to Gloucester at very short notice for only three days' work, and spent about 40% of the fee on travel and accommodation, on the basis that it showed some profit and was better than sitting at home. Anything you do is experience and might potentially lead to other work.
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  23. I would invest in a duck.
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  25. It is all too easy (in the early days of being self-employed) to say 'I'll do anything anywhere' as the fear factor of 'where is the next pound coming from' keeps bouncing about in your brain. You can spend hours of non-productive and non-paying time travelling to and from jobs when you could be actually doing a 'small' job near home and earning money. You are often financially better off declining jobs that would actually make a loss if you had costed them out properly - once all of your fixed costs have been covered, then start to look at jobs at a lower margin (called marginal costing) that more than cover your variable costs but may not make a contribution to fixed costs. Grasping at straws and the fear factor are what cause many self-employed to fail in the 1st year.
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  26. Too subtle maybe!
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  31. Well said sir, I totally agree that the figures for recycling are a con. Collection and actual recycling are different and there appears to be no oversight about how much that is collected is actually recycled, so the consumer thinks that what they are doing by sorting their packaging out is good...part of the trick of promoting recycling. As for incineration...in my mind a disaster...it relies on a constant waste stream to make it viable and the planet has finite resources. Plus, look at a doc called Trashed by Jeremy Irons and you will see the affect of incineration in Iceland and in france....scary stuff. which brings me aback to my original argument...prevention is better than cure...so stop the waste at source and ban all plastics. Lets face it if we need anymore plastics then we have decades worth floating in the sea, canals and rivers
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  33. Roland, will you please desist from telling us how warm it is with you. I have just seen two brass monkeys walk down the towpath talking in rather high pitched voices.
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  34. I made it! No injuries and no crashes. I did not, however, do the manoeuvring in the marina. But I moored her on the canal several times on my own. So, woop. Baby steps
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  36. The issue is not that chemical reactions go faster when hotter, it is about the effect on battery voltage. If you are saying that a battery’s rested open circuit voltage is higher when hot, this isn’t correct to any noticeable extent. Yes a chemical reaction normally goes faster when hot, but in an open-circuit battery the chemical reaction is stopped when the cell voltage matches the electrochemical potential of the reaction. (dr Bob will be along shortly to correct my chemistry terminolog!) with the latter varying mostly according to the electrolyte acid strength and barely if at all according to the temperature. Where the effects of temperature are noticeable is when the reaction is taking place. So a cold battery under heavy discharge will have a lower voltage than the same battery at the same SoC but hotter. But once the discharges stop and adequate recovery time is given (longer for the cold battery) their rested open circuit voltages will be the same.
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  37. If it is so dangerous to leave a charger plugged in when not in use, how come they can sell mains sockets with built-in always-on USB charging connectors? It's like the oft repeated comments that leaving your TV on standby overnight will cost £££ per year (insert made up number, typically 20 or 30). My TV takes 0.1 watt on standby which is less than 1 unit of electricity per year, which is not all that unusual, and yet the myth of high consumption is constantly peddled. Of course maybe the TV will catch fire but that's a different story.
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  38. You may well be correct but from my experience chemical reactions do go faster with heat. For example the setting of polyester or epoxied resins. Cold batteries requiring a higher charging voltage etc. Please substitute whatever word you think more appropriate for "faster".
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  39. Generally good idea but to unplug things very marginal risk reduction). The document appears to come from this random internet site https://itstillworks.com/leaving-chargers-plugged-increase-risk-fire-12305415.html As a rule, I tend to be very cynical about badly written warnings on the internet.
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  40. Why are you so frigging picky about me ? Havent you got anything better to discuss or complain about ? Do I upset you personally in anyway ? I have a tiny touch sensitive screen and failing eyesight. Would you like to ban me from participating because i,m not up to your exacting standards? Jeez theres some snobs on here arnt there ? Its better than living in a house with horrible heighbours, at least boaters can cast off and move along.
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  42. Also get your self on Facebook, there are often boaters looking for small jobs to be done,
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  43. and your spelling, apparently! But as the writer isn't it your job to make the reader's task as easy as possible, not yours?
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  44. Last time I went to Scotland it was closed.
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  47. https://youtu.be/CdhLD93IRoA
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