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  1. Looking at your picture it looks to me that the stop valve is a washered one and fitted the wrong way round. If this is so the washer jumper would be pulled down on to the seat when the pump is operating. Because the tank has not much head to keep the washer off of the seat as it would in a normal domestic instalation where you have plenty of pressure. As the tank level goes down the static head gets less and the tap jumper would get pulled down harder onto the seat stopping the tank emptying any further. Check that the arrow on the valve is pointing away from the tank. If you have a gate valve then ignor all this. In any case I would change the valve for a ball (full flow) one and mount it directly on the tank where it should have been in the first place.
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  3. You may have a point - do it next time. On the other hand, if you haven't already been guaranteed a second life, you may just have to fit all you can into this one...
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  4. NickNorman says it right. As these batteries are an unknown quantity a hydrometer is the quickest and easiest way to assess them. Get one, tell us the results and we might suggest what to do next. You probably wont get back to the full 1.277 but an equalisation might well get 1.26 or so which might be adequate for you needs. Trojans are good batteries so its worth spending a bit of time sorting them out. Hydrometers are fiddle messy things but are a very useful to have. ................Dave
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  6. The thing about older boaters that have been doing it for years is that they and their boat are pretty much "sorted". If you are a crumbly like me but lacking much experience then the learning curve is steep particularly if it includes an unknown boat. Getting the boat and yourself as "sorted" as the old hands just adds to the time, trouble, worry and expense. The OP is in his early 70's and fit so he says. When I was in my early 70's I too was pretty fit but now in my very late 70's I know those few years have taken their toll on my strength and endurance. Believe me I know 'cos I've been helping out a newby and everything takes twice as long as it once did. In the end it is a matter of can the OP's finances stand the hit if it all goes pear shaped?
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  7. That's not my experience. I run two Sterling (30 amp & 40 amp) pro-digital chargers combined from my generator and I see a 70amp charge when they first get going on my battery monitor. I don't think the voltages have to be exactly the same do they as long as the higher voltage is correct for the stage of charging? Once the combined charge gradually drops down below 40 amps I switch the the smaller output charger off and carry on charging. I was told by Sterling that combining two chargers to in effect create a bigger charger and reduce the charge time when running from the generator was fine. When I'm on shore power I just use the 30 amp charger.
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  8. Yes, but when I replaced mine doing it as per the photo blocked the nipple. I think the casting did not have a large enough hole to allow grease into the groove with the shaft at angle.
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  9. The widespread existence of regional weights and measures before imperial standards were prescribed by law (I believe the Weights and Measures Act 1878, effective 1st Jan 1879) is indicated in a late Victorian arithmetic book I used to have. Its preface noted that it was a new edition that omitted the exercises in conversion between the local pounds, pints etc. that had previously been present. Until the present Imperial Gallon was made the legal standard in 1824, the Wine Gallon of 231 cubic inches (as still used in the USA) was the UK legal standard. Set into the wall behind the fountains at Trafalgar Square is a brass plaque with a standard Imperial yard and its subdivisions. The lengthy article "Weights and Measures" in the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaeidia Britannica says this about local usage: " Customary Weights and Measures - In some districts of the United Kingdom, as well as in provincial districts of other countries old local and customary denominations of weights and measures are still to be found in use, although their use may have been prohibited by law. So powerful is custom with the people. [Report of the Select Committee 1892 and other later sources] " It does not provide any examples of the old UK local units, but does mention that, in 1900, it had been necessary to make a regulation prohibiting the continued presence in school books of the old local customary units.
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  10. Loosen Big Nut (which is actually a bolt) at the top first by 3 or 5 turns. Then ENTHUSIASTICALLY waggle the ram's head and tiller till they come loose on the rudder post. You may need wedges or a scissor jack under the boss to encourage it. Remove Big Nut(bolt). Lift off Ram's head. Undo four socket cap screws holding the bearing housing. Undo the grub screw(s) that clamp the bearing to the rudder post (I think I can see one at the front, in line with the grease nipple, there may be others.). Pull bearing and square housing off the rudder post. You may well have to strip the paint off and/or resort to violence to get it moving. Clean bearing and housing, with diesel or paraffin, renew bearing if needed. Remove grease nipple and check the passage is not full of rust. Refill the bearing with grease. Refit as reverse of removal. Grease all the bolts well when refitting. N
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  12. Blown cill in 5 days....so they can do it when the hire boats are involved.....
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  15. It's overkill. This will be looked upon as a great mistake that was blown out of all proportion in the future. Heaven help us if next time its an ebola scale virus rather than one nearer to the common cold. Possibly? She does watch a fair bit between her 12 hour shifts looking after terminally ill kids. I spose an old retired schoolteacher will have more idea about it than she does with two nursing degrees.
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  16. Each and every I mean every single time the news is on every time every day covid is mentioned. Every breakfast TV programme as in every time it is mentioned. Dream on.
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  20. That was the beauty of youth the time when you could try things out and have room to fail, as long as no one was hurt you ended up a bit wiser and just got up again and tried something else.
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  21. True, but readers also shoudn't get too carried away over the quiet pump thing, eh? Frequently, the first you know of a fresh water problem is hearing the pump kick in when it shouldn't.
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  26. Just do it,and if challenged,plead ignorance. If just transiting,don't stop. From Castlefield to Preston Brook it's 20 miles lock free.
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  27. Ask at Uxbridge Boat Centre, they must know someone
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  28. Not sure, and I cannot find my copy of the BS to look. Imperial sizes are mainly used by ancient machinery and American manufacturers. Some belt lengths are quoted in either 8ths or quarter inches so a 50 inch A section belt could be labelled A50, A200 or A400. If the belt is a bit over 4ft around, or nearly 2ft long when held in a tight loop I would expect it is 50 in pitch length. If your belt tension is adjusted in the normal way by moving one pulley, or an idler wheel you can usually get away with either the next standard size up, or the next down. Sometimes you can go either way. N
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  29. Oooh I don't know, was down the Nile the other day, got chafed by a crocodile, t-boned by a hire dhow and rammed a block of pyramid stone that was on the bank.
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  30. No, I believe that somebody has already invented that word...
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  31. Yes it's fitted into the bow but if you use the term "integrated" you'll just confuse everyone because they might think you have an integral tank.
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  32. And then there are the less considerate ones ...
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  36. You may find they're ok. Our shared boat has four Trojan-a-like batteries which are 10 years old. They were chronically undercharged for a lot of that time. Since fitting solar and keeping them topped up they seem to have recovered to an extent, usual daytime charge voltage about 28.6 v and they stay over 25.4 v overnight running the fridge, inverter and odds and ends. I regularly put in a L or more, of water (well, a couple of times a year).
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  38. Or just unscrewing the filler cap and doing the same thing? Try running a tap with the filler cap unscrewed in case that vent is blocked and there's a vacuum formed in the tank as it empties as someone else said. You've got an integral tank, sounds like the OP has a stainless tank. They don't need repainting.
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  42. Long shot, there is a vent on the tank to let air in as it empties?
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  43. And then only throw away the leftover bits
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  44. We had a cracker of a storm last night followed by an amazing sunset.
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  45. Turned our first numpty away here yesterday. Asked him to text his name to our data base for track and trace which is what EVERY other of the thousands of visitors have done since its incepetion. No chance comes the reply I am not taking part in any track and trace system. Bye bye we says poiltely you aint getting served here. Off he trotts in his sign written van with telefone number on the side what a peelock.
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  46. I didn't start boating years ago to have to cruise to appointments or deadlines and I refuse to do it now. Its supposed to be a placid pleasure occupation, not an organised mad dash.
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  47. It's the having to book that I object to. That's the Harecastle (was turn up and go), the Anderton lift (was free if you turned up), now the BW. Be every manned lock soon - one holdup on the way to make you late and you're stuffed. You'll be spending half the day on the net panicking about getting confirmation of the booking and the rest of the trip stressed that you won't make it in time. And that's assuming their computers work and won't try and charge you anyway so you spend the next week sorting that out. But luckily we all know that they never go wrong.
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  49. But April and May had less than half the average rainfall.
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