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We had a similar type thing to this but running from mains voltage in the house we lived in before moving to France,supposed to change the pulses at random intervals. In our case it didn`t seem to make a great deal of differance. but the water was extremely hard & no method seemed to have much effect.

While having work done at Charity Dock on LILY in the early 60`s Jess Owen made &painted me a cabin stool, which had a drawer fitted. I was told that he worked at Braunston in his early days so that may be the reason mine was made with a drawer

Built in house by SUC owner John Stothert [from May 1968 too Dec 69 by myself] Later by Seamus Walsh, Fitted out in house. Engines mostly LISTER SR2/3 dependant on size. Can not help after 1970 as I left to run my own hotel boat company. To the best of my knowledge until JS sold SUC all the work [shell build & fit out was carried out in house]

I also found him to be very helpful. From my own observations he dis liked people who tried to impress or bulls**t He helped a lot with a few teething troubles I had with the SEFFLE, would not accept any payment & always mentioned the fact I gave him a couple of bottles of wine & his good lady flowers & chocolates

I can not think of any that were renamed & am pretty sure that some were [spodged/ painted] in BW blue /yellow at various times, although I seem to remember most were in a sad state paint wise for the whole of WW`s lease period

When the engine dies away ,have you tried selecting neutral & trying to turn the prop shaft by hand? some years ago a friends boat had a similar problem & it was the bronze stuffing collar had to small clearance & was heating up & partily seizing Or is it any form of tightness 0n any of the drive train

HNBOC teardrop brass plaques are 10pounds inc P&P 8 without

Our main heating in the house is provided by a wood burning stove &here you can buy chimney/flue cleaning products I find the ones that are like golf balls are the best put 2 on a fire that has glowing red cinders & they take away most of the tar/ soot. We do it 2 times per year Here if your chimney catches fire the pompiers[fire brigade] will attend & put it out, but you are then taken to court & fined + the fire service send a bill [in our area it`s 550 euros]Since using them, when sweeping the chimney I find there is almost no soot etc.

I think it was about 1963 BW had a couple of powered work flats & I think that one had a set up [Don`t know if it was Kitchen or something similar]I do know the guys working it hated it[ Quote It`s always getting full of c**p].I can`t say how long it was kept, or what happened to it, but I remember seeing that boat some 3 years later, & it had a standard rudder set up. Can`t for the life of me remember its name but it was at Hartshill for a time

The speed wheel throttle control I made up for LILY`S SEFFLE was fabricated from the bevel gears from an old fashioned breast hand drill, the small pinion on the wheel control part,so IIRC it was approx5/6 turns from tick over to full throttle. As an aside the gear lever worked back to front, [forward for reverse/back for forward] + it an oil rod to adjust the injector, [back for closed =No load .Forward for open =engine Loaded] you could adjust this to have a clean exhaust = minimum smoke

If you have some time to spare, check out www.arboristsite. com or www.chainsawcollecters.se That will give you some idea of the pro`s & cons of different makes & models, Or confuse you even more You can lower the risk of kickback by fitting a safety chain but it won`t cut as fast.

Around about 1963 IIRC a guy started to build a riveted steel hull in a garden along side the cut just above Gallows Inn lock on the Erewash. I have no idea if he ever completed it as I didn`t pass that way for about another 12 months, & that time he was building a Ferro concrete hull, just a thought as the two locations are not to distant Again IIRC it had Joey/BCN Day boat style bows

In the late 60`s that piece of towpath did the same thing several times, one of my hotel boat passengers did much the same thing [no harm done except getting a bit muddy]Seems that 40 years on not much has changed

If the printed bits are small enough there are some very classy ones available at custom motorcycle shops made for road fund disc, Probably not big enough &wrong shape

That MORSE type top mounted lever has quite a large plate down below to take the cable/s more of a design to be mounted on the top of a console with the cable work going down between front face of console& bulkhead The hanging down bits are quite large

The Bottles of Q8 ATF used to say Suffix A & suitable for ZF/HURTH Marine gear boxes

If it was still the same as his 1970`s builds 6x6x5 Or possibly 6x5x4 on the smaller boats

Back in the 60`s a Davisons hire boat came out of the Soar mouth & turned right, managed to go halfway over the weir before the boat stuck. Don`t know if he/she was lost or not, but I would have thought it became squeaky bottom time.

I would be Very suprised that given the number of times that Tam & Di have boated up & down the lower GU That he didn`t know where Cowley & its winding holes were

Yes it was possible, If there were no boats tied between the order hut[used to be where the 4x4&cars parked in the video of Archimedes] &the Grey hound. As I said in an earlier post the deep water was around the outside& if you took most of the way off it would come around quite sweetly.Never managed it the other way as there always seemed to be boats tied ,I have seen it done, with the fore end just scuffing the wall but not enough to stop the turn. Problem was the cut on Coventry side was not Really wide enough to allow you to swing wide at the start of the turn

Years ago in the working boat era there was a much deeper channel around the outside, & on the Coventry side of the bridge `ole. I would suspect that with the passing of deep drafted boats the deep water may not be in the same place, which rather messes up full length boats from staying in the groove,& as in the Quote once you are on the mud you might as well walk away & leave it [so to speak] because no matter what you do with the tiller bar ,the boat willgo straight on

I have a similar set up on my camping car [motor caravan].in Europe you are not allowed to remove the bottles from the van to fill it, you have to have an external filler point & a fixed connection to the bottles + the bottles must have the valves to stop over filling[80%] although the bottles you showed have all this as standard.[i think the regs are the same for the UK] so I would think that it would be VERY difficult if not impossible to access a filling point[a canal side garage carrying LPG/GPL with a filler pipe long enough to reach the cut?] Unless the canal system has changed a lot since I left I`d guess this would be a non starter If any one knows different I stand corrected

Try looking on sites that do gear for Trucks, some years ago I got 2 off guards for the vertical exhausts on american tractor unit I was refurbishing [ somewhere in the Oxford area IIRC]