Everything posted by bizzard
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Difficult delivery, HX78AD
Tel em it's very urgent because you've eaten a load of plums and you have the runs.
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Covid and flu Oct 2023
I find it quicker to find a walk in near you.
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Rudder Stock on Mike Christian / Wilson Tyler
Too much blade forward of the stock pivot will cause nasty negative helm, ie tiller pushing against you all the time and let go and it will fly over and put you into the bank.
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Porta Potti 165 v 365.
I have had a 365 for many years the pump packed up ages ago. I just keep a little jug of water handy to flush it. I spray the seal and slide with silicon spray each time I empty it.
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Trees seems to be attacking canals!!
In very dry weather like now the soil around tree roots dries out, becomes lighter in weight and looses it's grip on the roots especially trees growing on steep banks' Along comes the wind and down comes the tree.
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Calculating the capacity of the diesel tank on a narrowboat.
There's a much simpler way of doing this avoiding complicated arithmetic. Here's how. Fill up the tank to the top,then syphon it all out again into cans, then place it back into the tank by a half pint at a time with a half pint glass counting them all and jotting each one down on paper then by adding them all up you will obtain the correct answer if you don't spill much. Simples.
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Boat Trailer Bearings
The lumpiness he mentioned is possibly an outer bearing track not shoved fully home on it's seat and so not quite square on to the taper roller race.
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Gluing together Douglas fir strips for the weighted centerboard - polyurethane glue or epoxy?
Ideally. A solid hardwood board is the thing, like knotless Mahogany. Apart from the strain on them whilst tacking and going about they are also often stood upon to help right a capsized dinghy.
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Quick question...since canals are on average 4 ft deep in the centre, how do people drown in canals?
Playing mobile phones. Some folk can't stay still whilst on the phone, they wander about willy nilly. A while ago one of our moorers did this and walked into our Southmill lock. He climbed out alright but the phone drowned.
- Insurance
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Strong wind
Storm Trigger should be next.
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Artemis 2
Three blokes and one woman together in a mini bus sized pod, mm. They must have been given some sort of pill to quel their sexual urges,, although the males might be Eunuchs
- Meetings of forum members
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Meetings of forum members
We now have wretched smart phones and social media to thank for the loss of banters, not to mention nice hobbies ie hand crafts ect most hobby shops have now gone, all due to bl--dy phones. The hobby is now phones. Phones are also the reason why posts on here have shrunk by quite a lot. It's hard having to prod at those little buttons to post and to reply.
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Some good news for once
According to Jonathan Swift we are all Yahoo's.
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America on the brink
I once had a customer that told me he was Sherman tank driver at the Cherborg peninsular landings during ww2 and he said they were more afraid of the Americans than the Germans cos they were popping off guns at anything that moved.
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Mike the Boilerman
- Mike the Boilerman
Titfield Thunderbolt.- Mike the Boilerman
Perhaps cofused with Tom Dudgeon skipper of the Titmouse sailing dinghy in Arthur Ransomes ''Coot club and The big six''.- Is this an ST Engine?
- Webasto - Two Queries: Intermittent No Start and Behaviour
That's not so bad then.- Webasto - Two Queries: Intermittent No Start and Behaviour
I'd never use tap water in a boats heating system or in vehicles. filtered rain water or bought distilled is far better to prevent lime scale and corosion. I wouldn't buy ready mixed coolant either.- Stoves
I make sure they are nice and dry by putting them on this for a while, as I do coal too if it's wet. Or you can chop em up in the summer and dry them in the sun.- Stoves
Buy Firelighters !!!!. I keep a jar of nice dry sticks half filled with old used paint thinners, or paraffin, diesel, avoid meths and petrol too volatile. Light a stick put on grate add some kindling and then coal or whatever. Never fails.- Stoves
The front fire bars on the Boatman is standard grate bars easily available, just saw off how many bars you want and slip it in. I have 3 bars. The air control is easily modifide by unscrewing the knob off the bolt and tighten the bolt hard up against the inside of the door. The control knob can now be worked externally on the bolt stud sticking out and will no seize up. - Mike the Boilerman
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