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  2. Life is too short to carry around hatred and recriminations, New Year is a time for fresh starts and forgiveness not a time for carrying around old baggage Phil
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  6. May I wish all the folk on my ignore list and all the prattling idiots that continually sidetrack and reduce posts to trivia, a thoroughly miserable New Year. May all your camels get foot rot and spit in your eyes. To all other wonderful sensible members of the forum, a joyous and prosperous New Year, may you be healthy, wealthy and wise. Sam.
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  8. The photo of JAGUAR must have been taken before we took her over in June 1974. The steerer is Peter Patch ( you can just see the patch over his eye). Photos of Banbury in 1974. JAGUAR and TADWORTH.
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  11. Not sure which category I fall into. Either way Happy New Year. Hope the operation to remove the chip from your shoulder is successful.
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  13. Happy new year to all! Those who share my opinions and those who don't!
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  14. I dont think either are relevant. It seems to me the more gongoozlers that are watching the more the boat does what the hell it likes!!
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  15. May I wish one and all a very happy and (hopefully) prosperous New Year. I actually rather enjoy reading a lot of the 'squabbles' on here, 'though it's rather sad some take themselves far too seriously, life's far too short for upsets ?
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  16. I suppose "back to the engine" is OK.....................................provided you have an outboard! George
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  21. Who could resist swopping something around while they weren’t looking?
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  22. I don't think I could ever live with anyone that organized!!
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  23. If you want thin and light, it rather brings you back to plastic Peter. Why not find a local supplier and see what they have on the racks? There's no obligation to buy if it doesn't meet your needs.
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  24. I built a box for our mooring tackle, windlasses etc. which sat at the front of the front well. It also served well as a small table for wine glasses etc!
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  25. Not in my case. I enjoy having a look and I know others do. Of course no one wants to drive 150 miles for a free look so it will depend where the boat is. What I will add is if you see a boat you realy like dont mess about. At the moment good condition sensibly priced boats sell instantly. I sold one for a friend in five days last month on apollo duck.
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  27. If you have an old 12V (or even 14.4V) nicad drill where the batteries are shot, wire it up with a lead and a 12V plug on the end. No charging up of nicads required and instant drilling when you want it.
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  28. Anyway as he drop tester needs to be matched to the battery capacity and the most readily available will be for tiddley car batteries it could easily show a larger capacity faulty battery as good. I would also not like to do a drop test on batteries that may have produced hydrogen sulphide, it might result in a big bang!
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  30. I'd put little pads of fireproof material under the washers, like bits of a fire blanket or bits of cut off fireproof tape to spread the pressure, otherwise the washer might crack the glass as the nuts are tightened, which should be tightened ''just so'' enough to just hold the glass with minimum pressure. The channel that the glass sits in in the door should be scraped out and cleaned thoroughly, and tiny hard bits left will probably crack the glass, if not when tightening the nuts but later when its heating up or cooling down.
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  31. Hi there, Can i just say that you wanted to know what to offer on 70k we looked for over a year and a half for our floating home and we did as suggested, popped in these cheeky offers. Now this can work Mrsmelly can attest to that and he had a total steal on his boat, its very nice and well kitted out but thats id say the exception not the norm. We tried to haggle alot and it is without question a sellers market due to inflated prices and people paying asking and above.... Be sensible...try the cheeky offer but be prepared to pay the asking price as you may well have to......plus survey plus insurance plus licence.... Sorry to be the doom and gloomer but that's the reality of the situation most of the time.. Ask tho, that offer may be accepted, ours wasnt and lost boats in minutes at least 7 or 8 times as people just gave asking. we gave 2k under the asking for this boat after alot of negotiation and the risk of loosing it. It will happen and the rewards are huge if its for you ?
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  32. Here's a good idea. Why don't we leave?
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  33. I thought you'd already accepted that a bath wasn't such a good idea? Is your wife still pressing for one? I'm afraid I've seen the fit out of a few good boats ruined by the wife's wish list. Baths that are never used and ripped out later, deep Butler style kitchen sinks which don't allow for gravity draining unless the skin fitting is just a couple of inches above the waterline, etc, etc... Do yourself a favour and don't let those who know nothing about boats decide how it's going to be fitted out.
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  34. They certainly did, and still do.
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  35. They were not meant for those actually on the canal, rather to provide confirmation regarding tolls charged for legal proceedings. In that case, it is more logical to have the distance on the side to where the measurement is taken, if you get my meaning. Unfortunately, when mileposts have been replaced more recently, those replacing them treated them as distance markers for boaters, where it could be seen as better to have the distance to the end of the canal you are travelling towards visible as you approach, rather than the distance to the end behind you. Confusion can also arise from the fact that there can be two sets of milestones/mileposts. The successful canals were remeasured following the 1893 Rates & Tolls legislation, and cast iron mileposts usually date from this period. The original milestones are usually those installed when the canal was built. In the case of the L&LC, the 1893 mileposts include the distance from Johnsons Hillock to the top of Wigan locks, which was actually built by the Lancaster Canal, so not included in the milestone distance markers originally fitted. A couple of these seem to have survived the 1893 remeasurement, but are not marked with distances.
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  36. Haha - I know .... I realised that after I had posted it. Hoped nobody would notice !
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  38. Hmm were has the other 75 miles gone only joking. I have often wondered about this myself . I don't know about the towpath swapping sides thing because around me the plates bolt on, so could be bolted on either side of the mile post?
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  44. Thanks for the quick input everyone! I'll have to remove bits and bobs to get a better trace on it. If it was linking/splitting the connection between the domestic and engine only and not between the inverter input and engine batt, then it would make more sense. The fuse cold just be a later addition for a power take-off. It's definitely no the Ecofan as I have the latest bluetooth version!
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  45. You dent your ceiling? Crikey! I've replaced skirtings and architraves in many of the rooms at home. It wipes clean and stays white, the wood grain finish is pleasant and there's not a mark on it, even where one's domestic goddess has been with the hoover. If it dents when used on the ceiling, your juggling balls are far too heavy!
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  48. Hi everyone. As it seems that some of you are interested in narrowboat models I thought you might like to have a look at these. They are both scratch-built from balsa. I am not an experienced modeller, nor am I a boat person, so there are probably many many technical errors.....please excuse! I have very little knowledge of boats apart from strolling along the canal and admiring them. These two were built purely for fun to while away the hours of retirement. Please also excuse the poor photography! Happy New Year to you all.
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  49. I was surprised to hear this about modern ceiling cladding, so I followed the link in the earlier post which revealed the plactic panels are: Fire rating - Class 1 (Resistant to the spread of flames)
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