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A home for the shells shouldn't be more than 39 steps away.

Until the summer use Capt Tollys creeping crack cure, when dry run beads of it along the top edge of the frame. You'll see it disapearing into any holes, keep feeding it until it stops disappearing.

Also on the Coventry Victor 14hp petrol engine which I once had, but direct drive with no reduction gear.

Ideally oxy acetylene is the best way to go. Small flame trained on one flat only of a nut which will heat and expand it very quickly enabling undoance. Paraffin is still one of the best penetrating oils.

WD40 is not much good as a lubricant, it's really a moisture dispersant and cleaner. Try squirting proper penetrating oil into it or even silicon spray. And try to keep it covered when not in use to stop rain getting into it.

Folk wearing those bloomim head torches walking towards and dazzling you in the dark are a pain.

Michael Green' Beaufort Scale. On the water. On Land. 0= calm= boat moves sideways with tide, Cigarette smoke gets in eyes= less than 1mph. 1=light air= Course Yachtsmen hoist sail then wind instantly drops= wet finger feels cold=1-3 mph. 2=light breeze= Course sailors keep quanting or rowing= public houses close one window=4-6 mph. 3-Gentle breeze= boats careen, difficult making tea under way.= Pubs close another window= 7-10 mph. 4= Moderate breeze= course boats lose mainsheet through block and have to go aground to recover it= Beer froth blows off= 11-16 mph. 5=Fresh breeze=Course sailors look up in book about reefing= Customers in pub garden go inside bar. 17-21 mph. 6=Strong breeze= Course sailors try to double reef and go aground= Elderly customers have difficulty leaving public house. 22-27 mph. 7=Moderate gale=Course sailors rescued by launch= Pub door can't be opened against the wind. 28-33 mph. 8= Fresh gale= Aaaaaaah= Public house sign blows down= 34-40 mph. 9=Strong gale=Course sailors in public house= Course sailors struck by falling sign. 41-47 mph.

What amazes me is there is never ever a mention of the weather in southern Ireland on any TV channel forecast or radio, I know it is not a part of the UK, and yet we get weather news from other parts of the world that are nothing to do with us. S/I is totally ignored.

Boats don't need as strong a antifreeze solution that vehicles do. They don't have a radiator presented to a freezing wind at speed than can freeze the rad before the thermostat opens, even though it was not frozen when first driven off.

I think it was 1993 or 4, the river Stort began to freeze between Christmas and new year, at first it was cat ice but got thicker and thicker until folk were walking along on the river. We played Curling with old batteries cos they had handles on then. The ice did not thaw until late April and even then still lumps of ice about when we tried to move boats.

Those early Morris Minors used the pre-war Morris 8 s/v engine, 918 cc, Great in the pre-war Morris 8 but pretty sluggish in the post war Minor. I taught my sister to drive in one, it was my dads, a covertible, very valuable now.

They're a job for a midget to do, under the heat exchanger manifold.

Probably an orrible job getting down there to view things, a head torch and mirror or mirror on a stck might help. If you can pump the oil out of the drip tray you might discover a plug or something that's come out lying in the tray.

I think they were choking too. Tyres would be dreadful things to chop up. You'd get so hot doing it you wouldn't want a fire.

Probably Phurnacite. About half the size of say Exel

I'm only on the ordinary basic state pension and don't claim any other benefits because my capitol savings are above the amount I mentioned earlier. Check on the DWP website if your getting any extra benefits like pension credit, health, housing, child, ect ect. There is an awful amount of fraud claiments out there, rich and very rich folk, pensioners and non pensioners claiming benefits just out of sheer greed, and healthy young lazy bu--ers that are not at work, the reason according to the government are clamping down on it. I don't really blame them for that, . If you are Lady G it or they will be stated on your bank statements as was, I repeat was the old winter fuel payments, they will be headed DWP like your basic state pension payments are on your bank statements.