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great engine

clever lol

lovely photo's thanks!!!!

will you please sod off and leave the thread alone....youve been an idiot in the chat room and on this thread

i just wanted to know if it was normal to be honest...i can live with it cuz i know how far its out...i wasnt slagging gs controls off i just wanted to know if its the norm

mr mutli quote gibbo perhaps????

yes its a cool subject and possibly a commercial possibilerty..there are some garage heater availible.they shut off at any sign of water...i enjy the challenge...hope you crack it and do well..let me know if ya get a decent break through..i'll pm you some details over the coming weeks so it saves you some time...

tit!!!

people tend to have to leave there boats for periods to get supplies,trips to the pub or even stood on the back steering..it normaly goes "light fire leave running all winter" its never going to take off if a system has to be shut down everytime you need to leave the boat.....even if you sort all the emisions,fueling and reliability issues out.the waste oil still needs to be filtered.garages have a way of chucking rubber gloves,anti freeze,brake fluid and alsorts of other rubbish into waste oil which alters the burn and cloggs needle valves..we have been playing about with these systems for a few years now and its a mine field.yes we have a succesful garage heater and a decent water heater BUT a very big NO to a stove id want to live with on my boat..the more we learn the more issues and problems we come accross..i missed an meal out a couple of nights ago because we were playing about with a forced air system till the early hours..loss of browny points with the mrs and we didnt resolve the burn issue with the stove..if you look at a simple reflex stove and think along a similar line you wont be going far wrong..

its not all over the internet its on this forum.and my initial post was asking if anyone else has had this ...i havnt said anything bad or untrue...and at best they are going to say?? send the panel back..so were does that leave the boat whilst we have no power??.perhaps you should say somthing constructive rather than stating the obvious!!!

other mods?? youve got my interest,,,four days 96 hrs..25ltrs of oil.that aint bad going for a passive system AND a gate valve..boaters arnt going to be willing to cart and store barrels of waste oil unless its an amazing system that holds some similarity to somthing they already know...read through all the threads on passive derv heating and the problems people have from pilot error alone..its not just a matter of building a drip feed waste oil heater and away ya go...emisions.safe storage.and FLAME FAILURE all need serious consideration...forced air in workshop heater arnt necesserly about mega heat we were going decent emissions and economy...

iv checked at the back of the volt meter on the panel its self with 2 multi meters.both of which gave the same reading...iv got a evil bay cheapy blue volt meter in the main cabin and i agree its more accurate..im a little disapointed with the volt meter on the distrabution panel if im honest..

if you read what iv put we arnt going to do a forced air system on a boat...they are power hungry!!!!.......no flame failure no bss ticket!!! try explain 25 ltrs of waste oil over a cabin floor!!! gate valve?? yeh we started that way many years ago..lack of control ..needle valve is the only way to go if you want control....although waste oil is free at the moment we are working hard to get an easily controlled economical stove..but there ya go...go crack nuts with a sledge hammer!!!...

we are working on the final stages of a waste oil heater using a squirel stove outer..there have been various obstacles making a marine version..we have built a number of forced air systems which work very well but with the chase for battery power on a boat we are working on a passive system with thermo flame failure..the only problem i can see that if these stoves do well people will start to value waste oil so we limit our sales to a few a year..

hi, a few months ago i bought a 10 way dc control panel with volt meter....the panel seems well made with decent enough cable supplying the trip brakers a standard 10 way panel is £74.17 for a 10 way panel one with volt meter its £110. iv wired it all in and the volt meter is nearly 1 volt out..for a diference of £35 i was expecting a reasonably accurate volt meter.has anyone else had this problem???

make your own version and try it...dosnt look dificult and i recon you could do it for less than £15,,,,

youve ended up with to much fuel in the stove before lighting...iv always used a 1" square of fire lighter ..light then turn the stove onto pilot...if it does start maaking the un godly noise's lift the lid a few mm's and this will allow air in and will drastically reduce the flame..i wouldnt recomened meths or anything else but a small piece of fire lighter to get one of these stoves going...dont panic it will be fine..in the past when these were fitted on BW work boats they used all sorts of things to get them lit such as rags soaked in diesel to carboard..if there bw proof you aint going to bust one

hi..im just fitting my wiring domestic and engine..my engine starter and alternator are 24v insulated earth return.i have used heavy duty lucas battery isolator's one for the engine and one for the domestic battery bank which isolate earth and pos...my domestic batteries are 12v which i have used a 130 amp bosch alternator again on its own pos/neg isolator so in total i have three pos/neg isolaters on the boat...my 12v domestic system is on push button breaker panel..i have no intention of having an inverter now or at any time in the future and i have no 240v sure line....my thinking behind this is that no power going through the hull so no electrolosis...is this safe and ok for the boat safety??...

but i'd only pop round to say hi n borrow a cup of sugar lol

your so kind and helpful on the forum,i couldnt think of anyone more suitable

id give an audable warning "dog handler with trained dogs" then i would release the hounds and watch the said attacker stand very still whilst my dogs did the perfect bark and hold..if there was damage done to my boat i would then phone the police and wait for my rescue...lol ....it would be awful if said attacker attacked me and my dogs were forced to defend us...

thats the down side to fitting cheap wood chip kitchen units allen

jimmy hamptons scrap dealer has a number of these pumps as new..think he's in stoke/newcastle...

iv got a brand new sureflo water pump...just opened the box to have a look and it says 16psi,,,i want to run a paloma and have a decent shower is this pump going to be useless???

my bank is made up of 6v cells..i had made a compartment next to the engine that would of been easy to get to and all would of been well..the batteries when they turned up were far to tall so they are under the back cabin floor and will take ten minutes to get to so rerigging every day or so will be a real pain....the starter motor on the boat is 24v so it would of been an idea to make the domestics 24v.but iv gone for 12v..i bought a job lot of fitting out gear which was all 12v so thats the route i took......