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It's the reason why most boatyards refuse to test batteries installed in boats.

I guess the boatyard won't test them on the boats because most are often located in ridiculously stupid and confined spaces, like under the after deck with only a couple or few inches clearance above them, which means fooling around getting bent up like the letter Z getting in there, trying to get the tops off, fooling about with a mirror, dipstick, trying to get a hydrometer or whatever tester in there. You can end up all distorted, broken, bruised, pins and needles, excruciating cramps, watery eyes, filthy, dizzy with hydrogen fumes, a burnt and bistered bum with crouching on the engine. To emerge completely disorientated, throwing up and with your clothes falling apart and disappearing off you with acid attack.

Thin fold flat type hoses tend to pop if laid across towpaths where cyclists can run over them, build a speed bump around them.

It might be an idea to encourage bird life like Swans, Seagulls, Eagles, Coots, Waterhens, King fishers and so on to make a home and construct nests all over and around the boat. The RSPB would then step in and order the boat not be moved. Important!! One would need to swat up and research different birds nesting habits though to ensure that there is always some variety of bird or other sitting on eggs in nests all the year round 24/7 to give extra solid reinforcement to the plan.

Good point but I don't know if that stuff is flammable or not though. Maybe best to squirt a drop into a little pot and brush it around the joints with a little paint brush rather than spray it. I find its better to do it like that on any gas joint because you can brush away any fizzy bubbles that emit from the squirter which tend to confuse you into thinking there might be a leak when there's not. It might be best to re-seal with Calortite that pipes nut.

Quite so Peter but it's still a worrying thought when your actually doing it though.

Yes, Mike the bit with the tiny hole in it is the jet, unusual way of doing it though. Lets hope they'll fix it under warranty if need be, and hope they don't want you to Andover any more money.

Sounds like they may have put fuel in the tank to run and test the engine before welding the bracket on and tacked it on gingerly for fear of igniting the fuel, instead of a lovely hot proper continuous all around penetrating weld with an empty tank.

An enormous statue of him could be erected in Trafalgar square, opposite Nelson. No outside the bank of England near the Duke of Wellington would be more appropriate.

My gas cooker as do all or most have a gap, mine has a 1cm gaps between its jets and burner bars. My old Electrolux 122 gas 2 way fridge also has a small gap.

Both the direct 12v from the battery and 240 mains from the inverter will draw about 8 amps or more from your battery on that fridge and will have your batteries flat in no time. The direct 12v supply is really only meant to be used whilst the engine is running.

I don't think Dexion is made anymore. A few bits of say inch angle and a drill should do it. It's best to leave the keys in the shafts for the hose to grip on or super glue the hose as well as the clips to prevent any slippage.

A cannon ball is best for that, being spherical it won't snag on anything on the bottom.

The jet is in the big nut on the left of the burner tube. Remove the feed pipe and undo the big nut to release it from its bracket. Although the 1cm gap should allow you to probe the jet with 'say' a tiny needle or dress makers knob pin. The burner flame tube looks like it's secured by a screw in that little bracket underneath. The gap is there to mix the gas with air like a carburetor.

Quite so most modern cars can run them up to around 6000 revs or more. Connecting an alternator or dynamo nose to nose with an engine was very popular years ago, but with torquey old Briggs and Stratton lawn mower engines.

With a big alternator and a flat battery I doubt if it'd rev to anywhere near 6,500 rpm. 4,000 revs would be ok.

No, but I've seen fingers get nipped on a wall behind.

If the engine has a bit of crankshaft stub sticking out from either end, it's quite simple to couple the alternator minus it's pulley directly to it nose to nose with a bit of flexible hose and a couple of hose clips. Only pick an alternator that's well within the capacity of the engine. The whole ensemble could be mounted on a Dexion frame.

Your hot water bottle can even be pressed into use as a water carrier too, but the water will taste a bit rubbery, but that can be rectified by shutting off your taste glands when drinking it but if it you were In the desert dying of thirst you wouldn't be particularly worried about that.