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4 hours ago, kris88 said:
Interesting question is an action illegal if you have not been prosecuted for it?
YES.
If I speed it's an illegal act even if I don't receive a ticket. If I break into your boat/house it's illegal, even if I'm not caught and prosecuted.
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3 hours ago, Tonka said:
And paid how much council tax in those 10 years.
We who pay Council Tax are not allowed to say that.
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On 15/04/2023 at 20:14, MtB said:
Ah, yes I've had this too. Back in about 1978 I learned the hard way that those cork balls are fekkin useless if you have more than about one key on the ring.
My advice to anyone smug that their key ring will float when dropped in, to fill a bucket with water and test your keyring for buoyancy. I predict yours will sink, like mine did.
That's exactly what we did following a conversation with the guys in the marina chandlery. It took 3 cork keyrings to support my essential boat keys
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My immediate thought was Camden Town (Regents Canal) with the ABC bakery in the background.
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3 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I think that you can get silicon rocker cover gaskets for those engines. They do not dry out and distort like the cork ones do, but still stick it to the rocker cover. It is just two but "bolts" by the lifting eyes to undo to get the rocker cover off. Be wary about overtightening the fixing bolts because you can distort the cover.
Calcutt do a silicon gasket.
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16 hours ago, Peugeot 106 said:
Incontinence pads are brilliant for soaking and cleaning up oil and water. It’s amazing how much one pad will soak up and you can buy them from discount shops.
Or cheap babies nappies. Less embarrassing to buy if you're of a certain age.
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At the very least plates welded over the tube at each end. Maybe also have them remove the redundant tube itself. An alternative may be for them to make a hefty contribution to a thruster.
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3 minutes ago, Peanut said:
The insurers were happy to increase the value of a friend's wide beam by 10% this year.
Yes, but in the event of a claim they would only pay up to the market value unless the policy specifically states otherwise.
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4 hours ago, jonathanA said:
I would check the economy 7 set up. I have economy 7 and there is a wire out of the meter that (used) to go to contactor that would switch on a load of storage heaters when the economy 7 tarriff was operating. Economy 7 can switch on/off several times overnight depending on Grid load(the whole point of it) . All that rubbish has long since gone from my house, but could it be the supply to your charger is via some sort of economy 7 controlled circuit ?
E7 was in the house when we bought it 39 years ago.. When the house was re-wired we retained the original white meter (apathy cos electricity was cheap) Everything else was replaced. When the meter was changed to a digital one it still had/has a day and a night readout.
Picked the car up today and was told that they had updated the software controlling the charging. Hopefully this will solve the problem 😅
Many thanks for all the suggestions and ideas.
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12 minutes ago, Loddon said:
Are you with Octopus by any chance, it seems there might be an incomparability🤔
No, as it happens I'm with Ovo and charging via an economy 7 tariff.
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13 minutes ago, sueanddaren said:
Bluetooth Temperature Humidity Recorder Data Logger Thermometer Hygrometer CF UK 705495126753 | eBay
Put a bulb or a heater in the same mains supply and monitor the temp.
Thanks but if the interruption was only for a couple of seconds the temp would not drop.
10 minutes ago, Chewbacka said:Plug a simple electromechanical time switch (the sort driven by a little synchronous motor) and if it is slow in the morning then you know how long the power was off. A simple digital clock will flash if the power was intermittent. If no problem then all done, if there is a problem, then maybe more sophisticated monitoring is required.
TRied the timeswitch idea already but I'm looking for potentially a very brief interruption. Thought of the clock idea but no one seems to have one these days. Smart speakers rule supreme. Thanks for the suggestions though.
9 minutes ago, Loddon said:Depends on how long it was off for, if less than a second then it might not flash but it may be enough to trip the circuit in the car.
That's really the nub of the question.
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I know this is not boat related but electrickery is a popular subject here .
Wondering if anyone can suggest a way of proving that my home 230v supply to the charger for my new Kia Niro PHEV (Plug in Hybrid EV) is continuous and uninterrupted.
Briefly, when scheduled charging is set on the cars system eg midnight to 7 am and using a granny charger plugged into a 13a socket sometimes it charges and sometimes it doesn't. There is no pattern. It's not the charger as a couple have been tried.
Presently the car is with the dealer for the third or fourth time but according to a conversation I had this afternoon the techie is baffled. One suggestion that's been made is that it's caused by an interrupted 230v supply. I doubt this but would like to prove it one way or the other.
Can anyone suggest some kind of data logger/gizmo that I can use to establish what's happening.?
Many thanks.
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8 minutes ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
British Standard Pipe sizes not matching any size you can actually measure on a fitting comes from the same country that thought that 16 ounces should be in a pound and 240 pennies, or 20 shillings should also be in a pound.
And there's me thinking that was what Brexit was all about😇
Sorry, I'll leave the room!
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15 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Click on your name or avatar to open your profile page, and you should see the option Edit Profile.
Thanks.
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On 12/03/2023 at 10:10, peterboat said:
I cancelled my subscription last year, for some reason I was paying peanuts for it and they caught up with me! Wanted a fortune to continue, I could not justify it
Many years ago a nephew gave me a years subscription as a Christmas present. The following year he bought me something else. CB continued to send me copies. (I checked with nephew who confirmed that he had NOT renewed subscription). Copies only stopped arriving on my doorstep a couple of years ago and yes I did send several emails trying to stop them but to no effect.
On a totally different subject how do I change my displayed personal details ie name of boat?
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I used Farcela 3/10 with a DA polisher with good results. Very little paint removed.
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3 hours ago, JemShaun said:
I was always lead to believe that if you pay CT on a property, then have a holiday home ( which a boat is) the you have to pay CT for both, all Beit at a reduced rate for the holiday home.
No.
Once upon a time you paid full CT on your main residence and 50% on your holiday home. This then went up to 75% then some years later it went up to 100%. There are now pressure to increase this further .
Death and taxes.
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11 hours ago, rusty69 said:
Shirley the roll out of smart meters was to allow consumers to make an informed choice about their energy usage;and on the strength of that reduce their consumption to save the planet.
Shirley making millions of devices obsolete prior to their natural life expectancy would negate some of that gain.
Shirley our policy makers are no that short sighted.
Shirley, therefore, you must be mistaken.🙃
No, your first paragraph is (in my opinion) wrong. The rollout of smart meters was firstly to reduce the long term cost of meter reading / billing for the utility companies and secondly to permit the introduction at a later stage of flexible charging.
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25 minutes ago, Loddon said:
I'm not counting the PBK as that was part my dads or the UF24
I built a PBK 56 Gannet at school. It was a hard chine plywood canoe. EVERY screw slot (and there were thousands) had to be either horizontal, vertical or in the same plane as the structure. 'Woody' Walker, the woodwork master was a hard taskmaster.🥵
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I've owned a boat since I was about 11 (that's 56 years ago). Mind you the first one was all of 34.5" long with a 2.5 cc ED Racer engine.
Watch this space for developments.
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10 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
This is why some boats have ducting under removable panels in the roof. They may be down the centre or one on each side. Using a right angle trim section between roof and cabin side provides another opportunity to fit accessible ducting.
PS the electrical course notes on my website might help you see address in my signature
When I fitted out my boat I created ducting running the entire length of the boat under both gunnels and down both sides of the ceiling panels. Over the years this has made it fairly simple to add or alter wiring.
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1 hour ago, Troyboy said:
Far more knowledgeable members will be along shortly but if it were mine I would remove the rocker cover to see what is happening when you turn the engine over using the crank nut . The fact you can turn it half a revolution proves it isn't seized solid but something is stopping it turning over a full revolution . Depending on what you find with the rocker cover off the next step would be to remove the head and again depending what that reveals dictates what happens next .
Before removing the head I would look to removing the gearbox and looking at the driveplate.
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2 hours ago, MrFish said:
Is that the smaller fans or will a 120mm fit?
Depends upon the dimensions of your mushroom vent upstands.
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If an 8 mm bolt won't fit is there enough 'meat' to tap out to 10mm?
BSC for inboard generator
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I had a cocooned diesel generator installed in a cockpit locker for the last 5 or 6 BSS inspections. All passed with no issues or advisories. I always mentioned it and every examiner seemed to develop a hearing failure. One did look at the connecting fuel lines, said OK and that anything inside the cocoon was down to the generator manufacturer. Not saying what's right only what happened.