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If a ship carrying containers is becoming unstable and in danger of capsizing in very rough sea conditions the captain without hesitation will order enough containers to be jettisoned to stabilize his ship. Insurance cough up.

Yes, using them to bath in was a joke. I had an aunt who was paralyzed from the waist down. She would come by train down from Liverpool to visit us and always travelled in the guards van in her wheel chair feeding the guard with toffees. She had her own wheel chair, but at stations like Lime st Liverpool, Euston and Liverpool st station London where I as a kid was taken to meet her with my mum. I noticed that a porter would for some strange reason always insist on transfering her from her own wheelchair to one of the stations huge ''bath chairs'' 'some BR company rule I expect, before the porter would wheel her to or from her train, while we trundled her own empty chair along behind. I remember the last time she visited us. When she left to return to Liverpool we got her to Euston doing all the wheelchair transfers mentioned and got her installed in her own wheelchair in the guard's van of a very long 22 coach train hauled by the Lizzie, 46208 Princess Helen Victoria. She was a lovely lady, hugely popular with everyone, especially with the porters whom she tipped well and the sweet toothed train guards because of her toffees. Hence, most of the guards on the LM ended up with rotten teeth.

The tub might still be occupied by someone, someone that took a bath, nodded off in it and are oblivious to what has happened.

There was also once things called ''Bath chairs'',enormous three or four wheelers, the front wheels being big caster wheels, in which, when filled with hot water a person could bathe whilst being pushed around seeing all the sites. Big Railway stations had them for porters to transfer invalid passengers from cars-taxis to their train. They just use small, ordinary wheel chairs now.

One great gnashing Yeti-bite.

Follow the tube that comes out from the bottom of the pump. It should lead to the engines sump plug. Some have a branch with a two way tap so the pump can drain either the engines oil or the gearbox but that set up is fairly rare. A cartridge oil filter will be in a thick steel bowl with a bolt head to remove it on the bottom. A spin on filter has a thin casing with the filter name and or numbers on it and no bolt head sticking out the bottom.

Toast for breakfast in bed can also cause crumbs to collect in yer drawers. Very itchy.

On the other hand thick oil will not splash around as much as thin oil, which could starve the lower ends of the bores to be starved of oil as well as other things that rely on splash lubrication, until the oil heats up and thins anyway.

It's all them there scary Terrorbites and Gorillabites that cause the problems.

And if the crank journal proves to be ok and your putting new shells in, hoist the con rod up out of the way and turn the engine over on the starter a few times ''with the stop control on'' until oil pressure builds up to make sure oil spurts out from the journals oil hole to make sure there is no blockage which might have caused the seizure in the first place.

Yes Peter I reckon MTB's clear lacquer should do it. Either cellulose or clear Japanese lacquer, preferably sprayed on. Super glue brushed over it would probably also do it, but the amount needed would be expensive. I restore antique toys now and then and when I have an old diecast Mazzac toy that is crazed and crumbling away I paint the inside with super glue which fills all the crazy cracks and reinforces the whole thing, makes it all nice and strong and playworthy again. Or what about stretching cling film over it.

Thanks Nick. I've done all that, but will try re-entering my log in details. It does try to sign out, the whirly thing starts and the text gives a little jump and then sign out reappears again.

For some strange reason I still can't sign out of the forum without re-booting, Firefox on Vista. I can sign out if I use IE on the same machine though. Though on my notebook computer, windows 8.1 I can sign out on Firefox. Any ideas please?

Re-tick the remember me box on the sign in page. I still can't sign out without re-booting. I don't like Boots, I once opened their door, shouted Sandals and ran off. I'll try Freeman Hardy and Willis' or the Army & Navy store instead.

Me too, I mentioned it earlier. I still can't sign out without re-booting.

Oh Hokey Cokey Cokey, Oh Hokey Cokey Cokey, Oh Hokey Cokey Cokey, knees bend, arm stretch, Ra! Ra! Ra!.

Re-booted my machine and sign out seems to be working now. Nope, stopped working again.

Please let me sign out folk'll be thinkin I've nothin else to do and I have to go and fit a new chimney collar for someone.

If you google ''clear cache'' it should tell you how to do it for most browsers. For example, Firefox, Click Options, select advanced, click network tab, Cache web content section ''Clear now''.

Just discovered another issue, with me anyway. 'It won't let me sign out'. I keep clicking on sign out, but it keeps me signed in. I didn't know I was that well liked.

Snap. Eggsactly what I was a doin until about 7pm yesterday, clicking on my old CWDF bookmark. You might need to clear your cache, I did. There's one thing I've noticed, is that the names of members reading this or a thread do not appear below anymore, like now.

Done.