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Don't bother trying to fix it. It will leak again. Most of these pumps whilst stupidly expensive are built cheap and nasty usually in China. I do appreciate that during lockdown you will find it hard to get a new one. It doesn't look to be leaking much so soldier on with it for now then get a new one.
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On 30/07/2010 at 11:24, Guest wanted said:
Haven't seen the saws in the flesh, but I am the not so proud owner of an 18v angle grinder, which is a bag of sh*t. It's only good for jobs that I could do with a hacksaw. I may be wrong but I would avoid.
Yup same here. 18 volt grinder worst tool I have ever used.
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14 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
I've remembered it!
3) Make EVERYONE wear masks when out in public. The countries that do this have a R of about half that of those (inc the UK) that don't.
Trouble is, the gummint don't have the option of 2) or 3), as they sat on their hands doing nothing when they had the time to get manufacturing the massive stock of test kits and face masks needed for those options. .
Part of the problem with wearing masks is that idiots, even some doctors and I believe that a poster on here has said it, are saying that masks are very inefficient in stopping the virus. That says to people that they wont work so very few people actually use them. The thing is, as MTB has pointed out they are used to protect others from your spit and snot. AND any protection, however small, is massively better than no protection. You also have the British aversion to "looking like an idiot."
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40 minutes ago, frangar said:
I suspect this won’t be the last crime during this....if we get out the other side without any large scale civil unrest I will be most surprised.
And me.
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2 hours ago, Slim said:
Back to lockdown.
It's weird. Here at home I've yet to hear a car drive up or down my road which is normally used as a rat run . Juat looked on an aircraft tracker site. 2 aircraft in the air over the whole of S E England. One on route from Moscow to some south americian sounding country the other inbound from Bahrain.
Dunno about your flight tracker but this is what mine shows 5 minutes ago
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1 hour ago, Kudzucraft said:
Yup!
In the States and we are just now starting to see things like this happening here. My Dentist cancelled my visit, has to close except for urgent needs. I understand but people are going to go full on panic as they keep tightening things up.
People are already there, at least in this country. Hence the hoarding and that troops have been put on standby ostensibly to drive oxygen trucks to hospitals. Yeah yeah pull the other one BOJO.
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You want an opinion? Well this is mine to which I am eminently entitled. Others will disagree and they are entitled to do that as well. Anyway my opinion, DON'T do it. Get a boat for leisure but stay in your bricks and mortar.
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My Aldi Comfort 2829 doesn't heat the hot water, only the rads. I suppose it could but I have experience of three of them and none heated the hot water.
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3 coats minimum and an extra coat along the water line. Bottom line is that it's bitumin paint and bitumin is bitumin. We used Comastic.
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Just wrote a longish reply to this and it's all disappeared. Have a couple of pictures instead which shows how it's all held together. Someone will be along to explain it
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On 22/02/2020 at 17:09, Tony Brooks said:
and just how is the IWA going to actually protect the and just how is the IWA going to actually protect the waterways. I can;t see a load of huffing and puffing making much difference and I can't see the IWA luminaries taking direct action nowadays but we will see.
This ^^^^^ I was a member of the IWA for a couple of years until I saw that they were certainly not pro-active in their efforts to keep the waterways open. They were once the saviours of the canals a long time ago as we all know but the IWA have become more and more inactive in their campaigning as the years have gone by in my opinion. Current IWA members will, voraciously, attack that opinion but I'm afraid I haven't seen much, if anything, to change my opinion.
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1 hour ago, haggis said:
But, how are potential new boaters supposed to find out things if they don't ask and you would think that asking on a "canal" forum would be a good place to start. I know we have heard it all before but the folk asking haven't. Lets be a bit kinder to new folk! I appreciate that we don't often get the whole story at the beginning but we know what other info we need to enable us to be more helpful, so why not ask the original poster to provide it? having said that, I must admit to being a wee bit puzzled by the "no metal pipes" but I am sure there is a reason for it.
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Come March the 3rd this year I have been on this forum for 10 years. I don't post much because of the way that some of the "experienced" boaters answer questions. I have been subjected to, what I consider to be, a "holier than thou" type of response to my questions by people who really should know better. Ever since I have been here the bit that I have highlighted in red has been a recurring plea. It hasn't happened and nothing has changed.
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Just to put the other side of the argument. I wouldn't live on a boat in a million years. Far too restrictive in room and, sometimes, facilities, not to mention expensive for what you actually get. I do have a narrow boat but it is purely for the pleasure of pootling up and down our local canal and having the occasional bar b que bankside.
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Be careful OP if you are buying your Planar heater off Ebay or Amazon. I have just looked at their website, because I had no idea what a Planar heater was, and this popped up
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I think if £8000 is over your budget and you want to live around the London areas I would suggest you go away and have another think. It will cost you a huge amount more to live on the canals especially around London.
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Okay. that's better. Now leave it well alone and go boating or something.
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Not going to get involved in the ins and outs of this. Suffice to say that all I have now on the "recent threads" or "recent posts" or whatever it used to be called is VNC,VNC,VNC. As I rarely actually log in I cannot change anything and as it stands it doesn't work.
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2 hours ago, Rickent said:
Don't try to please everyone as you won't succeed. Hope you enjoy your new life, we have lived on our boat for nearly five years now and it was the best lifestyle choice we have made.
Especially on this forum.
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Good luck with that. I tried everything when mine did the same thing. Nothing sealed it and eventually I gave up and bought a new one.
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42 minutes ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
Do they? What makes you think that? The last thing CRT wants is more boaters.
They are doing their best to get rid of boaters. With no boaters, the canals would be vastly easier and cheaper to operate. To CRT boaters are a perennial thorn in their side. The fewer boaters the better, from the CRT management point of view.
Goodness me you have actually said something sensible and true for a change.
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Don't worry CRT are doing all they can to attract cyclists, walkers and fishermen/women to the canals. Soon every towpath will be tarmaced because those people wouldn't want to get their booties and brightly coloured lycra all dirty with that nasty mud stuff.
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The problem, as I see it, is where are all these people going to go. Apparently there are 38000 people living on britain's waterways. How many are doing that illegally I have no idea. It's all very well saying that that is not CRT's problem BUT CRT must be a responsible organisation and just cannot boot, how ever many illegals there are, off the waterways to live on the streets. Councils do not want the problem and it is much easier to just let it go, at least for the time being.
Oh and I am no advocate of freeloaders. I pay my licence and everything else and I do see these people getting something for nothing that I and lots of others have to pay for. But I can see that The Canal and River Trust are stuck between a rock and a hard place to an extent.
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As said, be there when the survey is carried out, you are paying a lot of money for it. I followed my surveyor around as he was doing the surveys. He pointed out out problems to me as we went. I turned down two boats, which cost something in the region of £1400 for the two surveys, but that was a LOT cheaper than doing the work that would have been required to bring those boats up to an acceptable standard. I would also suggest that you find out what things the surveyor is looking for and what the consequences are if things are not up to scratch, of course you may already know about these things.
Surveys are critically important when buying a boat. They are also very expensive. Ulitimately your pocket could be hit badly if you have a bad survey or you accept a boat that doesn't come up to par. It could, in extreme circumstances I will admit, cost you your life. Do not entertain the people on here who waffle on about buying boats without a survey. They are either very knowledgeable and know what to look for thenselves or they are waffling.
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You will need to drain the engine of coolant unless you know what the present state of the coolant is. On my BMC 1.5 I did this by taking the bottom hose off and allowing the old coolant to drain into a bucket. My heat exchanger had a radiator cap and that was where I refilled the coolant. Your radiator cap is on that tank at the rear of of the rocker cover.
After draining the old coolant you then need to mix up the correct ratio and type of anti freeze and water and fill that blue tank at the rear of the rocker cover (that is actually the front of the engine but looking at that picture that tank is at the rear of the rocker cover). This after reconnecting all the hoses of course. Then run the engine for a few minutes to circulate the new coolant and, being careful of removing that filler cap if the engine is hot, top up the tank with new coolant. If you are going to leave the boat for any length of time I would turn the raw water inlet sea cock off until you return.
I have to say that that engine does not look particularly easy to get at the relevant bits. I would also suggest that if you don't understand what we saying that you get someone to show you how it is done. On my BMC 1.5 I never drained the coolant unless I was doing it as part of a service but I was checking my boat and engine, more or less, every day and I had a heater in the engine compartment.
Windows Vista laptop.....Obsolete?
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Also being "uber pedantic" whatever the hell that means, take note of item 17. The one that says "This selection must match the edition for which you BOUGHT the product key." You cannot upgrade from Vista to Win 10 without buying an activation key from Microsoft. To be fair though Windows 10 does work quite well without activation as long as you don't want the pretty stuff such as themes etc.