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  8. Drain pipe on it too.
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  10. If the ticking starts speeding up, cut the blue wire ... or was that the red wire!
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  11. I thought that, but there's not a lot of room for a welder to get in there and fit a second tank , - unless you remove the engine first. Blackrose fitted a second tank to his wide beam, where there is much more room. If you search back through the forum you might find the photos.
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  13. This is a good guide: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Going-Alone-Colin-Edmondson/dp/B0036TZQC4/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1534007427&sr=8-4&keywords=going+it+alone Not available on Amazon ATM but should be from other canal outlets e.g. http://www.boatshopbraunston.co.uk/home.html?V2.0.4
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  15. Any search of what is written about canal engineers is often complicated by what has become accepted as opposed as to what actually was the truth. James Brindley and Thomas Telford frequently get much credit for achievements, where others contributed and deserve a certain recognition. John Duncombe is a case in point, whose contribution to the surveys of the Ellesmere Canal was considerable. He surveyed this canal before Jessop took charge and it was part of his survey that the aqueduct crossing at Pontcysyllyte was to be 125ft. Duncombe went onto to complete many more surveys for the Ellesmere Canal as plans for the route were altered. He left when his work was done, a year before the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was opened. He then undertook work in Scotland surveying roads, but died in Inverness Goal, a sad end.
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  17. Yes, but you don't rely on the Amphour count when charging other than a rough indication. You do use the amps to tell you when the tail current is down below your 1-2 % or whatever you use ( I use 1amp per battery) to decide the batteries are full and then reset the amphour counter. Do not rely on any percentages of discharge because it has no idea of battery capacity when the batteries are more than a few cycles old, but amphours used and a percentage SOC from a smartgauge can be used to give you some idea how healthy or sick your batteries are.
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  19. I agree, Oozells St. Loop must be avoided at all costs. Total mayhem at night with nobody about except for fagging security guards.
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  20. Did you ever ask why there was a new engine waiting to be installed ? Had the old engine overheated and seized ? As more and more NBs take to the rivers to avoid the 'collapsing canal system' I fear these problems are going to become more frequent. The boat builders are building 'to a budget' (and using designs from many years ago before big engines became the norm) and are not building 'river boats' but canal boats. Due to the lack of rain there is little flow in the rivers at the moment - if we get some 'weather' in the next few weeks you will have a serious problem - the river at Billing Aquadrome is not particularly friendly and has flooded the moorings quite frequently, it does get a fair bit of flow on it. It can be 'sorted' but I think you are unlikely to get a reliable 'fix' to allow you to have your holiday in a week's time. Billing with the river in flood
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  23. It's more likely you shiny, wet rubber suit?
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  25. A bit of polish will soon whip them into shape.
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  28. That section is headed "Is a boat part of a dwelling" rather than "Examples of when a boat becomes a separate domestic hereditament' Rating is rather dull - so I try to avoid it as much as possible but, as a valuer, do get dragged in occasionally. At its most pure, and it has been meddled with by various governments to suit the policies of the day, it is an annual tax on the occupation of land, according to its value. When Poll Tax was introduced, domestic rating was abandoned (but not business rates) and when Poll Tax was dropped, it was replace with Council Tax, Essentially Council Tax and Business rates are conceptually similar - but CT is assessed on capital value "bands" and business rates of rental value in £ per annum. Insofar as these are both points on which a rate/%/flat charge levied, there isn't much difference. Both are (usually) collected by the local authority - but how the collected sums are retained or passed to other governmental bodies varies. The Valuation Office (a government agency) is required to maintain Rating Lists in which pretty much every property (land) is listed, one way or another. There are few types that are not assessed - but not many. Each herediatment item has an entry; it is an archaic word mainly reserved for rating although our north-of-the-border friends use it more widely. As a property (i.e. land) tax, there cannot be an assessment for, say, a boat or caravan if not annexed to land - even though they might be commonly used as a dwelling, either part of full time. When it comes to assessing the value of land - in order to calculate the amount of tax - then this includes what is annexed to the land. Most obviously, a house will usually increase the value of the land. But when it comes to boats and caravans, it becomes more difficult to know whether they are annexed or not. Two moorings, each of which will be assessed for (say) Council Tax, could have identical boats at any point in time - but one of which is only staying for one night and the other never moves. The one with the boat annexed to it with have a higher banding. Naturally, it becomes a bit subjective as to how-annexed-is-annexed - hence the guidance. It also seems a but odd that you can have a Council tax assessed mooring, but no boat is present. But it is not that different from a house remaining a house, even though there may be no-one living in it. The composite hereditament is something else. When, following the abandonment of the Poll Tax, there emerged a domestic and a non-domestic property list, it became necessary to put property into one or another. But, for example, a pub where the living accommodation shares a kitchen with the commercial side, it was necessary to ensure the kitchen was split. It's a bit of a bodge, but it is said to be a "composite" property and valued accordingly. Moving back to boats, a leisure marina will be be assessed for business rates. But if a few moorings become domestic (regardless of whether individual boats are annexed, or not) - they will either separately or collectively be assessed for Council Tax - and removed from Business Rates. If the mooring(s) are very largely independent of the other facilities - then no problem. But more typically they will share the leisure facilities such a car park, maybe pontoons, services etc - so the moorings become "composite" . So in a marina it might well be possible to have a mixture of composite (sharing the leisure facilities), non-composite (not sharing the leisure facilities) and business rated (leisure) moorings. Whilst on the subject, VO can sometimes be persuaded that, say, a pontoon is the hereditament as the various, residential boats shuffle around it. The banding will be higher - but the Council Tax for the highest band is only three times that of the lowest band there can be a significant saving overall. And planning permission is not essential to being assessed to these taxes. It might well be a factor in being spotted - and possibly in deciding whether you have created a new hereditament and at what value - but no PP does not automatically mean not property tax. I said it was dull.
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  29. What about a square one?
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  31. In your particular case you’d need to buy at least three and then jump in on any thread that mentions them and expound on how they’ve ruined your expensive set of Batteries
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  32. Thanks so much everybody, plenty of ideas for me to try. Must admit I hadn’t thought about magnets. I tried filling a plant pot with an old cricket stump in it with quick drying cement but it couldn’t cope with the breeze. Your display looks amazing Scholar Gypsy, thank you for sharing. ?
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