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My husband is a volunteer but he wouldn't dream of telling others how to do a lock-unless they asked for/clearly needed help.Volunteers are there to help,not take over.Your boat(yes we are also boaters)is your responsibility & volunteers should listen to you.

Personally I am grateful for all the help I can get. On balance, I think volockies do a good job. The personal touch is what makes life interesting. I let them get on with it, and thank them when leaving.

Isn't it about exploring the performance envelope of a Dremmel?

Indeed, if you had been travelling the other way the volockie would have had to lock you up! ?

If using a jigsaw you only need to drill two holes to start the blade, Two diagonally opposite drilled corner holes which will cover all four straught edges.

Exactly. I have no problem with, in fact am grateful for, Volocky assistance. But not when they take control and stop you operating the lock in the usual way. So quite clearly you are a Volocky. And seemingly with a bit of a chip, unable to see that not everyone wants help let alone to be controlled. If you regularly encounter boaters who give you grief, perhaps that is a clue that your approach is wrong?

No!!! Stop it with the ideas - I've already sold 43 tickets to folk keen to watch someone cutting a 25mm square hole in 6mm thick steel with a Dremmel!

Even better use the proper thing for spraying on any poentially laeking joint - it's not expensive.... Example here. Whilst you can use a washing up liquid / water mix (nneds to be fairly strong), it is surprisingly recommended you don't, as the residue left on does cause corrision. This will find very small leaks, and can be put around cooker taps and joints, as well as thse on the supply ipework. If you go that route, in my exerience a 50/50 water mix s about as good as it gets, but recommendation is not to, and to use the proper product.

We once had a neighbour, Mrs Vestas was her name, the typical kind of housewife of years ago and always wore a big turban, pinny and traditional carpet slippers with the big bobble on top. Trouble was she reeked of paraffin, just like an old Valor oil heater that needs its wick trimming. For digestion reasons she dosed herself with liquid paraffin, in very large doses, I reckon she got through over a gallon a week, she sometimes sent me round to Shadforths the chemist for fresh supplies, so I know. Mr Vestas always wore his old WW2 gas mask in their indoors. Everywhere Mrs Vestas went her pong and a supply of liquid paraffin and a big spoon would go. In our local shops you always new if she'd been in before you, as apart from the smell the shop keepers could be seen putting the fire extinquishers back on their brackets, they always kept them handy in case Mrs Vestas popped in. She did an awful lot of walking too as she was never allowed on buses and trains because of passengers complaing of the smell and of the risk. I warned her once about humans self combusting caused by synthetic underclothes being ignited by sparks of static electricity, but she didn't believe me until I showed her an article in a newspaper about how an American vegitarian bloke had exploded while asleep in bed, but she said she couldn't give it up, it keeps my tummy settled, she said, oils me joints and gives me extra strength to do the washing and for turning that big heavy handle on the mangle out in the yard which takes it out of me like. We moved away from next door to Mrs Vestases, as a fire precaution, just in case.

Did you hear the one about the two fish in a bowl...

Based on what you said, 1Ah is believe-able. They are clearly pretty well balanced. As for automatic balancing, I have implemented that during charging, but I'm not sure how effective it is - as you say the imbalance really only becomes obvious at the end of the charge cycle. Auto balancing during discharge is dangerous. You can end up doing the battery equivalent of salami-slicing the legs off a table whilst trying to stop it wobbling. I only have manual balancing during discharge. My cells seem to be subtly different from each other One is always the first to start to rise as charging terminates, another always lags in cell voltage during charging (but not discharge), and a third sags more under heavy discharge than the others. I have no idea what that means, if anything. Interesting that you got the current down to 12A. I'm seeing the same end voltage but terminating at C/20, ie 24A. Maybe I should keep going a little and see how fast the current drops. MP.

Now if you needed a 25mm2 hole, a 6mm drill bit is close enough, giving you 28.3mm2.

For someone who at the beginning of this thread only wanted to get there boat down to a yard I think you have done really well working through things with the advice given. I hope at the end of the day it all pays dividends for you and everything works out OK

Splendid. You are in for quite an experience - in a good way Richard

A moan complaint about a vlockie. It must be spring! ?

If the majority vote is adhered to as ratified by an act of parliament then this situation will not happen after 29th of march ?

NO, just a boater who gets on with it and see's all aspects of the canal, boaters, lock keepers, Vlockies and can see that they are not all the same. I just don't run and tell the world about it on here, Why didn't you challenge him about his remarks at the lock instead of going public on here? I think your complaint is trivial and quite pathetic and laughable actually.

A lot of people on here complain about the Volockies but at least they are volunteering and trying to help the boaters using the canal. If members are so worked up by certain situations involving the Volockies I suggest they give it a go and see what they have to put up with with certain boaters, instead of sitting indoors on their computers putting the canal system to right.

BARRUS SHIRE 110A Alternator known problem. If you have the the original Barrus domestic 110a alternator and this us the one giving the problems then it is worth knowing that there were significant problems with these and Barrus stopped using them some time ago. The alternators were made in South America (Argentina I believe) and were totaly unreliable, so much so that the company went bust and no after market company chose to provide a after market copy of the design. Its a long history but effectively until I replaced mine with a generic 90a alternator I had nothing but problems with fan belts constantly breaking. As others have pointed out the 110a amp belt is shared with the water pump so your 2 problems are related, possibly, to this badly designed 110a alternator. First check is to see if you have this 110a Barrus alternator, if so then I would strongly recommend replacing it with a different generic alternator. Here's and old thread that covers some of the history of this problem

Yes, it is worth complaining about and yes of course, in any complaint I would point out the good and bad. Apart from the natural justice of it, including the good with the bad tends to lead to the recipient not considering you to be a ranting old grump bag, but rather someone putting forward a balanced viewpoint. And thus they are more likely to take it on board. Of course in itself it wasn’t a big deal (as I said) but it is important for Volockies to understand what authority they have, vs what the boat operator has. When that understanding breaks down, much worse situations can arise. Are you by any chance a Volocky yourself? Yes (if that was a question).

Yes it IS worth complaining as it goes against their training or shows they haven't been trained. The lock operation is down to the boat owners responsibility - who may or may not wish to accept help and advice.

Yes the Eber does use a pump and I think some hire fleets removed/disabled the Eber one and u8sed a separate one. For what reason I do not know. Exactly where any pump is in the circuit will show if you need a second one. Lest assume the Eber has built in pump or one close to the boiler unit. In hat case simply putting the oil drip feed stove in series with the Eber would cause circulation for either or both sources BUT with the Eber on it would result in some lost heat from the back boiler. If you fed the output of both into a L type three port valve then a pump on the outlet (to radiators & calorifier) side of the valve would circulate for either heat source. If I was doing it then this is what I would probably favour as long as I could get the Eber to control the pup as well as having a separate pump switch and thermostatic switch n the back boiler. It sounds more complicated than it probably will be.

my dad joined the RAF in 1941 and qualified as a skilled fitter (RR Merlin rebuilds in the field). One of the tests was taking a 1" thick bar and cutting a hole in it 1" square, and then making a 1" cube to fit in hole in all different positions, with minimal clearance. Hard and difficult work.

You might with this one: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LOVELY-OLD-VINTAGE-AMERICAN-MADE-DREMEL-WITH-TRANSFORMER/123673181444?hash=item1ccb7efd04:g:HLwAAOSwAn9cfBRp Richard

I'm not sure that it is totally fair to blame the EU. There has been a lot of pressure to reduce the world consumption of extracted oil and one option - at one time widely seen as a potential solution - was the development of bio fuels. This, if successful, would have allowed the world to continue with existing technologies (eg cars). An initial start was to mandate a small proportion of bio fuel. I'm sure that, in the absence of the EU, the UK would have wanted to be at the forefront of such changes. The EU is just the mechanism by which 27 countries have coordinated action like this, all the more needed as fuel supplies are global. However, it was soon discovered that some parts of the world went overboard in growing the necessary bio, destroying rain forests along the way and so there is now a much more muted approach to this solution to 'peak oil'. I'll bet that bio fuel will continue post-Brexit, at least un til some other technology comes along.

That's intriguing - if anyone knows anymore about who this might be or has any other memories that relate to this, I'd like to try to follow it up. Thanks.

Integrity of a boat gas system must be 100%, no leak is acceptable. Proper leak spray is cheap and easy to obtain from Screwfix etc. Better than detergent and does not cause the same corrosion. If you can isolate the system in part it is easier. Do not assume that there is only one leak! Integrity of a boat gas system must be 100%, no leak is acceptable. Proper leak spray is cheap and easy to obtain from Screwfix etc. Better than detergent and does not cause the same corrosion. If you can isolate the system in part it is easier. Do not assume that there is only one leak!

I agree that proper gas leak testing stuff is far better but I mentioned undiluted washing up liquid in case the OP thought that a basin of water with a squirt of washing up liquid would do the job. When I have used washing up liquid in the past (not having the proper stuff to hand) I wash it off afterwards. The main thing is to find the leak then worry about rusting ? haggis

Brain?

Thank you very much for the pics. These are just what I was looking for. Dave Moore very kindly sent me some as well, so I now have enough to be working with. Many thanks to everyone who contributed!

Yes. And if you're running with the tide (as is conventional) up to Teddington, you don't need any more power beyond that required to make good steering. If you go any faster, you shoot through central London so fast there is no time to enjoy the sights.

I know, that is why I told him the flywheel was at the back of the engine and how large it is. That is unless he has misidentified the engine but as I think Barrus cast SHIRE into the top of the heat exchanger that is very unlikely.

I seem to remember that hashtag bizzard likes a good bottle of port, this, from the late night post when he fell in 'the watter'. @bizzard

This is the truth of it. I fail to understand why anyone these days sticks with 12 volt. Problem is I suppose many people dont have extensive experience of continuous liveabord useage and have not kept up with the times. Yes twenty years ago when the new 12volt stuff was coming inand replaced the early 12 volt stuff it was a better way than mains but with the huge improvements with inverters and mains equipment recently the facts are as born out by my and others full time use 24/7 365 that 12 volt is no longer the way to go.

Except it doesn't, because the link you give applies to the processing of data within an organisation, not the passing of data from one organisation to another, hence it is completely irrelevant to this thread - it most certainly doesn't provide CRT any justification at all for passing data to a local council. My mistake thinking that you were particularly referring to the bit you highlighted, hence why I addressed why you were wrong about that. Well that and because clause 7.9 clearly doesn't apply as that only comes in for a failure to comply with CRT conditions which this isn't, hence I ignored it previously as I thought that was so obvious (given what Cheese quoted I guess I probably need to point out that 2.3 clearly only applies to CRT local restrictions, not those of any third party). Well from what I can work out I know way more than anybody else on this thread about that, and certainly enough to know that the CRT passing on personal details to a council in these circumstances would be a breach - I don't need to know what CRT's stance is (I suspect from what I've seen and comments on this thread that CRT's stance is to ignore the rules and hope nobody ever dobs them in for it), nor to get a ruling from a judge, the rules are set out quite clearly regarding the need for permission to share data and there is nothing at all in any of the T&Cs quoted which gives CRT permission to share data in those circumstances. I'm curious - has anybody on here telling me I'm wrong about this ever worked directly with data protection in recent times? No, it certainly isn't. I note that I've been referring to the terms using the numbering provided by others for convenience, but in the meantime I have read through them myself and interestingly they have changed around this particular point (I suspect due to GDPR requirements). I can't work out how to copy and paste from the T&Cs, but there is a new 7.8 (with the original 7.8 now being 7.9) which makes it explicitly clear that an "incident" is something which involves personal injury or damage to property. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/media/library/5962.pdf As I pointed out in the OP, it is extremely different to DVLA giving out details to parking companies, because in that case there is specific legislation allowing for the passing of details (along with other legislation which enables private parking companies to win cases in court). None of that exists regarding mooring of boats AFAIK - it was not being entirely sure about this which prompted this thread in the hope that somebody else might know more specific details, but certainly assuming the case is the same as with the DVLA passing on details is erroneous. The comments on this thread have done nothing to disprove my suspicions that any penalty notice issued is essentially unenforceable - I suspect council employees are making the same erroneous assumption that they can do the same as with parking, having not realised the amount of specific parking related legislation which allows them to enforce penalty notices. It doesn't seem reasonable at all to me for CRT to provide personal details to a third party which I haven't given my permission for and for which there is no legislation requiring them to pass the details in the absence of my permission. On the contrary, as I keep pointing out, passing on personal information in those circumstances is a breach of the data protection rules.