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  1. Spruced up a pair of old life rings to finish of the recent re-paint of HATFIELD. Looks straight forward but it's stretched my patience, first off, during the painting one of them fell down and got covered in sawdust, while the paint was still wet. Then it was a struggle to get the lettering on, trying to apply a sticker to a curved surface doesn't work, had to end up cutting into individual letters and making a curved template but worked in the end. Finally, ordered some new 8mm man made hemp rope and they sent 10mm, so had all the holes to drill, at least nowt much more could have gone wrong. All worth it though, pleased with the results.....
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  2. If you make an impression of it in a bar of soap you might be able to find an old WW2 POW from Colditz that can make you one, they were good at locks.
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  4. Ah, that's why I didn't know. I am neither black, left wing, socially liberal, Afro Caribbean or any other daft definition relating to a society that I do not understand and which doesn't give a damn about me. I shall ignore it completely from now on.
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  5. Piss poor practice if that is the case, decent yards weld top and bottom continuously.
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  6. The real wonder, I suspect, would be if a surveyor ever turned up anything useful. Most surveys are so full of weasels they could house a menagerie. I know it's slightly different, but my last house structural survey basically said the house should be avoided because he didn't like the layout and there was a council estate half a mile away. He missed every single thing actually faulty.
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  7. Fenders are for stopping the boat banging the side when moored, always removed as part of untying.
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  8. It looks like someone has hacked a small section out to install an outlet and not taken the trouble to weld the ends, if you can find a mobile, canal based welder and a place to moor with a low towpath it should be possible to get it tacked back on without a docking.
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  13. Only one - I fall over if I lift another one.
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  14. Actually, I think he's about bang on with "good morning" lasting til about 3pm. It works for boaters and ramblers alike in my experience. A watch only spoils the illusion.
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  15. 2005 waiting for one of the purpose built gravel barges to leave the lock. Voges canal
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  16. I'm in enough trouble if I miss the toilet pan - I dread to think how much bother I'd be in if I told her I was aiming for the bloomin' bidet! ?
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  17. You can fit a screw down vent like a radiator bleed plug at the high point, one the water has lost its dissolved air it will stay air free, avoid auto air vents, vibration makes them weep. If you use plastic pipes, fix them to rise on top of a batten to prevent all the sags when hot. Expansion tanks can be bought but its easy to use a heavy gauge plastic container, like oil drum, with a Hep2o tank connector in the bottom, no over vent pipe required. Should be approx minimum 2 litres volume for each kilowatt of boiler output. No more than 1/4 filled when cold. So a 10 litre one for say a Squirrel stove. Make sure it will stand boiling water without collapsing. If you have a tame fabricator a nice stainless steel one is lovely. Put a loose lid on, not sealed, to reduce evaporation and check water level twice in the heating season. Antifreeze with corrosion inhibitor included at min 30% concentration will stop the radiators rusting.
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  18. On another forum i frequent (not boating) a poster recently posted this in response to a question as to why so many people buy 'rubbish'. Ignorance is bliss. These younger collectors (which being in my early 30s, I must admit part in that group) do not visit the *forum*, they pretty much stick to facebook. They do not do research because they don't want to spend time doing so. Research is not instant gratification. And with so many of us (not me) living at home with parents, they've got extra cash to spend without doing that research or even caring.
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  19. Black Prince boats are generally well regarded. The only downside is that many hire boats are fitted out to maximise the number of berths, rather than living space.
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  21. Preventive and Maintenance, two words missing from Big Dick's Canal side Glossary.
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  23. If you have not paid the Surveyor it matters not a whit how good or bad the survey is, because the Surveyor has no contract with or responsibility to, you. Boatyard and "brokers" surveys are worth nowt. Always commission and pay for your own Survey or buy-in to a previous survey if you wish to avoid another lift out. N
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  24. Given your boat is over 4 inches narrower than ours was built to over 80 years ago, you should never wedge even with fenders down. I have never been beaten by a current lock, and never had to get assistance ( to date), though i have had to ask volunteers not to get involved when we have stuck. So I can say I have passed a seven foot and a half inch boat through Hurleston and Wilmcote locks in the last 10 years, so they are at least that. However our boat is only 57’ and many lockside are not parallel through 70’. Dont know if that helps answer your question. You also of course have a perfect right to lock with your fenders down. Its your choice, in the same way I have the right to take my boat designed for the grand union down canals designed for horse boats. At my peril.
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  26. You should always seek professional advice and if not use an experienced person you trust with a proven track record in the business. Like everything the quality of Vloggers vary, these “Boating Beyond” said it was normal for a seller to survey before putting on the market, this is just wrong and dangerous advice, look what has happened to them.
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  28. Now, if I'd been stuck up there all day turning that 'andle, with all my ... errrrr ... working parts removed, I wouldn't have been too pleased, either. ?
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  29. People complain that Nicholson's guides go out of date. I can just imagine the potential for complaints using a 1904 Bradshaw's. Jen
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  30. I am British also. But my education from the age of 11 or 12 was entirely in the metric system and I have only used metric units at work except on occasions when having to refer to historic information and I do occasionally lapse into talking about inches and threpny bits when speaking . I don't consider the metric system to be un-British. I do find the hanging on to imperial units is a quite quaintly British thing. My mother in law who passed a way two years ago at the age of 96 had no grasp of metric measure other than money which she understood to the penny. The Fahrenheit scale is not British at all. Fahrenheit was in fact born in Poland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Gabriel_Fahrenheit
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  31. Don't about the lock but I can see the Beatles, crossing the road.
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  32. Fresh water mussels on the shelf behind the bottom gate was the cause when I got stuck in there. They were removed with a long keb by C&RT Ops.
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  33. Wasn't Matt Gloss in an 80s pop group?
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  36. Yup, got a Hive. I fitted it myself - it took about 10 minutes from start to finish. If you already have a modern time controller for heating and hot water it’s dead simple - you unclip it and replace it with the Hive main unit. The Hive hub then goes somewhere near your modem and of course the thermostat/controller goes wherever you want it (batteries last a year or two). If you don’t currently have a combined hot water/heating programmable unit then I’m unsure how it could be fitted. If you have one but it’s an old one then you have to also change the backplate for the Hive unit to fit. Once installed it’s simplicity itself to use. I don’t use it for lamps etc because I use Sonoff / eWeLink for that.
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  37. On this day in 2005 Gamebird returning to home base in Scotland after attending the IWA National Festival at Preston Brook Bridgewater Canal
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  40. Kebtastic. Could have been nasty falling in like that too. I take it you made light of it suggesting you thought you would dive in and clear by hand?
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  41. Don’t weep. They’re singularly unsuited for powering a high current device.
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  42. OK, lets be clear about toilet roll and kitchen roll. Important info if you are flushing them away!. All paper products these days are basically cellulose fibre bound together with plastic. They vary with the amount and type of plastic. So in comparing toilet roll with kitchen roll. Toilet roll is designed to disintigrate the minute it hits water. The plastic is designed to allow the fibres to break apart very easily. Kitchen roll is totally the opposite. It is designed to let the fibres swell and take up water BUT NOT to disintegrate as that would be very against what the kitchen roll is doing. The plastic is keeping the fibres together. Toilet roll will therefore become a 'mush' when flushed away but one that breaks up very easily in a boat system (but maybe still not good enough for a vacuuflush system). Kitchen roll will become a 'mush' but will tend to stick together and not break up....and get stuck in many places in a boat system. You are therefore asking for trouble putting kitchen roll down any toilet ...even a house one...as it will clog up drains etc. Bonkers to use kitchen roll!
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  43. Our latest purchase was a first aid box! We couldn't believe that neither of us had thought to put one on the boat when a plaster was needed last week. We both have one in our vehicles and of course the house and Gamebird have one and we have both been involved in organisations where we supplied them. How on earth did neither of us think to put one on Kelpie for the last few years? Haggis
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  44. Some will just not believe it as they have with other things
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  45. So are you suggesting that its perfectly acceptable for questioners to expect us to remember their details from 7 years ago? I don't think that is on just as I don't think not bothering to give the engine model is really not on when asking for help. On the basis of the opening question the engine could be a 1.5, 1.8, 2.2 or 2.5 with the 3.x series far less likely. There is always the possibility it could be a petrol engine although unlikely. So do we guess (which in thesis case would probably got the correct answer) or ask for clarification.
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  46. You want 'curved ball' - a 12' 6" foot beam will pretty much navigate those exact same waterways. The manufacturer is making a 'Marketing statement' to lull you away from wider boats. The problems come into play when you meet another 12 foot beam boat going the other way and the 'channel' (the dredged bit) is only 20 feet wide (just enough for two 7 foot boats to pass) Theory and practice are very different 'beasts'. The reality of cruising a 'fatty' (as I think you found out) is not always pleasant.
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