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Been that way for a couple of years. Needed a full survey for London at 30 years old. Between booking the survey and getting it done I decided to sell, still went ahead with the survey and it eased the sale😎
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It's not just bottom gate leakage that's a problem it's the leakage through the lock walls. It started at lock 59 back in the 1990s the mooring access used to flood if the lock was left full. Lock 54 flooded the basement of the lock cottage. If water levels are good GU locks will self fill if the bottom gates are closed and paddles down, it's part of the original design of the bywashes.
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https://tinytach.com/diesel-tinytach Having said that the UK supplier seems to have vanished. He always was a bit flakey There are others on the market now, Google is your friend.
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Used it for my last few winters on board and in the cottage. It's a mix of olive stones and other stuff. Even in my hobbit stove it burned well.
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ECoal Nice smell and burns cleanly. Grab a 10kg bag of ECoal from Wickes and see if you like it. Oh as a bonus it comes in 10kg bags easier to lift for us olduns🤭
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I would fit a new regulator. Cargo used to make 14.2v and 14.6v regulators not sure if they still do.
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DILLIGAF 😲 There is also a difference between doing it with a bow up GU motor and a normal NB
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It's the depth of the threaded hole or the length of the bolt. I had to order 13mm* bolts as I had more than one lug on each post. * Think it was 13 might have been 15.
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How many people have a torque wrench that goes as low as 4Nm? I seem to remember my small one does but I'm not going out to the garage to check.
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There is more than one way to skin a cat. When a boat is slow out of the lock and I'm going the opposite direction I have been known to enter the lock before they are out. Pushing water into the lock speeds them on their way🤔
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If you put the lugs at 90deg to each other you can get up to four on a bolt on the top of the battery Not that you should.
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Often when sharing locks uphill with only one crew on the bank the crew would open one gate, I would enter the lock up to the cill and push the stern over behind the closed gate with the stern thruster and hold that gate closed with the prop wash leaving the other boat a clear way in. Much quicker than one person opening two gates. So two boats entering at the same time is not always quickest.
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Places I have lived Deanhanger Northants MK postcode Culworth Northants OX postcode Neither postcode in the correct county.
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That's why I won't use posts on batteries. For the last 25 years all the batteries I have bought have had either M8 or 5/16" bolt fixings. Much simpler and neater.
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That's as many be it's still part of Swindon Borough as shown by the line in the previous picture.
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The A361 Nth Devon link road that has been rebuilt over the last few years is covered in dead pheasants, it will take aing time for them to learn😲
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From what I can deduce the north bank of the Thames is Gloucestershire, the Oxfordshire boundary is the river Cole and the bit in between the Cole and Thames is Swindon Borough 🤔
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Flow and return in 22mm the calorifier is treated just like another radiator between the two with a valve on it to regulate the flow.
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Many systems do not link the ends of the 22mm pipe (mine did and was never a problem). So the water has to go through a 15mm to get back to the boiler. You then use the rad valves to balance the system so that all rads get equal flow.
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But it's far more fun watching them explode😲
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This is how it needs to be done.
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But lead won't react in the same way with their stomach contents🧨
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They don't enjoy sandwiches with lashings of English mustard 😉 Stopped bothering us after that. Calcium carbide pellets are better😱
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The PUK is usually on a sticker on the back of the unit so you have to take it off the wall to see it. I find sometimes that my phone won't connect to a device and by switching BT off and back on it will reconnect. Wrong type of PUK 😲
