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Still a work in progress but I have now got a usable printed timing tool for the 1500. To make it involved learning how to use CAD software which was an interesting lockdown distraction. It took about 9 hours to print in total, I'm sure the printer settings can be tweaked a bit to reduce that, perhaps that'll be the next lockdown project.

Indeed, no one questions that you are doing it 'right', but not many have your land-based facilities. Who was it, just a couple of days ago, who said they'd put the liquid in the hedge bottom and the part-composted solids in the bin ?

White cock-up juice (aka Tippex) required. N

I managed to persuade the boss to let me have a 4WD vehicle as a company car (well I needed it for launching the boat on the beach), Car delivered and as part of the sale I was given a 'one day course' on off-roading in an old quarry - amazing what it would do !!! Anyway the following week it snowed heavily roads blocked etc etc so I decided to visit one of our branches at Aldridge. The roads thru the industrial estate were compacted to ice but I kept going until I got to a hump-backed bridge over the canal - it was very 'polished' due to the number of cars that hadn't made it up but I got 'up and over' and then noticed a milk float sideways across the road with a couple of huge RSJ's on the back. It was going nowhere. I then slid sideways into the milk float and the RSJ went thru the rear door and across the rear seat. I didn't half get 'some stick' when I got back to the Manchester office "got a 4WD, trained how to drive it, 1st time a bit of snow and you crash it." Without studs nothing grips on ice !

... Rosé.

A giant swan would have made an excellent CaRT on the water employee. Checking boat licenses, mooring overstaying, anglers permits and slowing down speeding cyclists. Enforcement would come with a broken arm from a single wing blow. Much more effective. If the swan is hissing, your license is missing! Broken arm. What's the reason? You're fishing out of season!

I've never seen a white back cabin range but some did come in vitreous enamelled finishes around the 1940's. There's currently a Belle on Ebay in grey, and in my restoration corner there's a Dover that was originally green and a tiny Bandera No1 in pale grey. The problem is the enamel suffers from corrosion quite easily and is very expensive to have refinished. There's only a couple of places in the country that do it and as the process involves grit blasting and heating to an extremely high temperature there's a good chance of breakages on fragile parts.

It's not a new logo, though, is it? The big information signs at places like Foxton have the logo and the sweeping different blue colours -- and they've just used a bit of the shape rather than the logo on its own. Such as on the vans as above, or this downloadable map:

Somebody has filled ya bottles with butane ?

Well it's a start, just need to work back down GU to Berko

Who is going to know you are running a boat on diesel that has not had the relevant duty paid? Crack on I say

Information received from a friend who browses the forum from time to time, but doesn't want to join. From The Rochdale Observer, 17 August 1918 Independent Order of Rechabites. Hope of Littleborough Tent. Annual juvenile picnic by canal boats to Hartley Farm will take place this day (Saturday). Boats leave the Canal Wharf, Littleborough at 1:45. Juvenile members free. Tickets obtainable on the Wharf from 1 o'clock. C. H. Dryland, J. W. Payne, Supers. And Rochdale Observer, 24 August 1918 A JUVENILE PICNIC. Unsettled weather had its adverse effects on the annual juvenile picnic arranged by Hope of Littleborough Tent of the Independent Order of Rechabites and held on Saturday. In accordance with the programme about 300 children assembled on the canal wharf at Littleborough, where two of the Rochdale Canal Company’s boats were in waiting to take the trippers to the Hartley farm. The party was in charge of Mr. J. W. Payne, one of the superintendents, but the enjoyment of the children was spoiled by the frequent rain showers which fell as the boats were slowly drawn along the waterway. An occasional burst of sunshine lent but slight encouragement to the youngsters to romp about, and after an enjoyable tea prepared in the farmhouse by Mesdames Milnes and Howarth an hour on the field completed the outing. On the return journey the children evidently thought it would be more congenial to crowd into one boat. At any rate they did,and left the other one returning to the port empty save for her pilot. On a similar trip last year there were over 700 children and friends. The photograph looks to be taken at Littleborough Wharf. The corrugated Iron warehouse was there until a few years ago (but without the overhanging canopy). But the base of the stations supporting the overhang are still visible in the towpath. Not sure what the MCA would say about 300 children in one wide boat today!

Depends on the router with most you have to delete the origional APN create a new one and set that as the default, the Huawei B535 has an Auto setting in the list however the 818 doesn't appear to have despite having the same interface.

Mr Athy tut tut. Only some now like a good tobacco. Shag Tobacco's (thebackyshop.co.uk) When I sailed at Draycote Water Cormorants invaded the reservoir. The fly fishermen there got most upset and had them culled - miserable gits. At least the birds fished to eat.

Yup, its as easy of that, so once in 11 years we have been reduced to same indignity that cassette owners live with every third day. For 8 years we kept an emergency porta potti under the bed but eventually declared it a waste of space and gave it away. If it gets really bad you could crap in a plastic bag, leave it a couple of hours to "compost" then put it in the rubbish bins. ? ..............Dave

You can’t easily do that. The inverter has to be fed from batteries in a 24v configuration. That means you can’t connect a 12v alternator to them. You would have to replace the alternator with a 24v version. Slightly easier to supply 12v boat systems from 24v via a dc to dc converter. But surely it would be vastly simpler, easier and cheaper to fit a 12v hybrid inverter?

But if you buy a lot of hydrogen, you might have to make sure you have also bought enough heavy shopping as well, so you don't float away...

On a canal boat I think the overlarge prop causing engine damage is far more theoretical than actual. If you were on a river and perpetually drove with the throttle flat out and smoke pouring from the exhaust then maybe but in the hands of a sensible boater I think not. If you look at the power and torque curves of engines you will see the torque (twisting force) starts to drop while the power continues to climb so typically an overlarge prop will only show itself as the torque starts to drop. The engine will refuse to rev up any more, whatever you do with the throttle, and its likely to produce exhaust smoke. Sensible boaters recognise this and back the throttle off a bit. It is not uncommon for inland boats to be propped for maximum torque because that tends to give a better stopping power and fuel economy. In my view if a prop was so oversize the engine components were likely to suffer excess wear it would simply refuse to rev up or even stall when put into gear, much as we see with flat batteries and huge highly geared alternators. If the engine revs up and the boat can get up to about six knots in deep open water (where allowed) without excess exhaust smoke I think you can ignore the damage from oversized prop thing.