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As others have said try and remove the lever thingy and straighten or bend it so the screw hits the stop, but! then the max rev stop screw might not hit its stop properly. If the idle screw misses the thingy on its outside face you could drill a little hole in the lever thingy in line with the screw and with a little nut and bolt ''say 2 or 4BA bolt a little L bracket to it to widen the point of contact. If the screw slips behind the lever thingy the L bracket could be bolted on facing that way ''inwards''. The wee L bracket could be cut from a bit of say 1x1 cm steel angle or bent up in a vice from a bit of say 2 or 3mm strip. This of course could be welded onto the lever thingy as it would only need a couple of quick buzzes of a Mig welder and wouldn't get too hot. The Nyloc nut wouldn't be very satisfactory because of the domey shape. An ordinary nut might be better being flatter faced, loctited on.

Those anodes might not last 8 years though Mike, they looked half depleted.

But it might not pass.

Fatal error massage, 11.30am.

Never sit cross legged to eat off the floor like they tend to do in far Eastern countries, or you'll end up with bandy legs. To eat comfortably off the floor holes can be made in the floor to poke your legs through into the bilge to enable you to sit down. The holes should be cut with an angled blade in a jigsaw, this will produce a chamfer all around the cut which will make the discs you've cut out into ''bungs'' and should fit snugly back into their respective holes after everyone has finished dinner.. Number each bung and hole to save wasting time puzzling out which bung fits which hole. A finger sized hole drilled in each bung will make them easy to manipulate. Mind the splinters.

Erm, maybe, but I can't type at 186,000 miles per second, the speed of these lights. I'm more comfortable with the speed of ''Dark'' which my experiments with the electric dark bulb have bean quite successful but not perfected yet.

Perhaps you've rubbed off the little amber dots that make the LED's emit the warm light. Belay that. Cool whites wouldn't have amber dots. I shall investigate by covering and uncovering my LED's with different coloured toffee wrappings from my box of Quality street.

Mmm. A very interesting observation too, the kind of observation which I enjoy. Thanks.

Talking of Braces. A PT master hung me up on a high up coat peg by my braces in the changing room at school once. I was strung up there for about 20mins until I managed to release myself by undoing the braces buttons on me pants and plummet down, or I would have been up there for 2 hours until the class returned from that wretched football. The master had overheard me mentioning my dislike of the game and sport in general.

Jokes!!! Indeed not John, serious adaptations and inventions I've bestowed upon mankind via this forum free of charge ''because charging would infringe the forum rules'',to improve and perfect all their future endeavours for centuries to come.

Here is a little list of the current times 'now' that some of my friends and relations are posting drivel on FB and are supposedly at work. Oliver 18mins ago, Simon, 1hr ago, Julie 32mins ago, Som 4hrs ago, Carol 21mins ago, Lisa 52mins ago, Keith 4mins ago, Katie 3mins ago, Jas 16mins ago. Incredible time wastage init. Non of these folk ''I hope'' read this forum, 'so they say', because they say I post all boring and sensible stuff and no drivel.

Indeed, drivel, drivel, drivel. Mark my word FB and computers will gradually grind the whole world to standstill. We are completely and utterly doomed. Fewer and fewer folk want to get their hands dirty anymore, folk are becoming less and less practical. My nephews can't even bang a nail in. Almost all youngsters now want jobs in IT or some kind of computing, they have callous free baby hands. Evolution will cause great anatomical changes to the human race, like the development of the index finger which will become extra powerful, enormous and hideous with prodding at keyboards whilst the other fingers and thumbs just wither and drop off with lack of use. Both eyes will gradually merge into one huge square kind of unblinking, staring rectangular screen, eyelashes will disappear and the motto ''Microsoft or Apple'' will permanently become etched and illuminated at the top righthand corner of this enormous eye screen. Super, telephoto shortsightedness will set in and everything more than 2ft away will become a blurr. Almost all computer freaks already have to wear glasses for their watery, bloodshot eyes to see their screens. Legs will eventually wither away into bits of muscleless gristle with sitting and no excercise. Commodes to sit on, complete with toilet rolls will become commonplace for fear of missing something on FB. Food will arrive at the computer desk in tubes by conveyor. Any movement away from the computer 'before the legs wither away entirely' will be performed in an awkward, unsightly doubled up crawling fashion in a posture like an inverted letter 'L'. Pens, pencils and paper are already almost extinct now. The animal, Ape and Monkey world will have to be trained to carry out all the practical work that humans once did. For example;, Baboons will become pilots and fly the worlds aeroplanes. Chimpanzees, constructional and steeplejacking workers. Orangutangs, Supermarket home delivery drivers. Gorillas, policemen, Night club bouncers and all forms of enforcement. Monkey's with their dainty little hands will all be set to work at manufacturing computers, tablets and the Eye-pod things. The eventual outcome will be unbelievable, a different world, a world which animals will inherit because of mankinds total inability to perform anything practical anymore. That is until the animal world begins to learn computing that is and discovers Facebook.

Tripping over things on the toepath is easy.

Yes, but I think the Carabo stove is like the small Boatman stoves which has the single large and deep door which encloses the ash pan area too. On stoves with lower ash pan door as well as the main door would find it more difficult.

Once you go above 90amp batteries become taller, other dimensions should remain the same as 110, 120amp and whatnot. The tall ones might not fit your box if it has a lid. An 80 or 90 will be plenty big enough, but don't go any less.

Sea sickness prevention. Two centre lines spread-eagled, one staked down on the near bank, the other stretched way out over the water and staked down on the opposite bank, to arrest rolling.

Or a big ball of string will get you out of trouble. Wound round and around V section pulleys several times tightly and tying off with a reef knot,''left over right and right over left''. Multi-V Polly belts would need the appropriate number per groove of separate strings and knots, don't just wind the string continuously round and around higgledy piggledy on these as it'll all get chopped up and flung off instantly in a big mess. For the string to work and be allowed to grip It is important to relieve the alternator pulley from undue strain by turning most things, or everything off, especially electric fridges.

Unless you left the door open 'no'. With the door closed bottom air, or indeed hardly any air would reach the fire bed of wood at all and it would quickly go out.

Quite so. If you watch the engine running with the bonnet up in the pitch blackness dead of night time at 70mph, St Elmo's fire ''HT tracking'' around the naughty plug top and coil maybe observed.

Lambda sensors can also cause a missfire, particularly if the car is only used for short runs and the engine doesn't warm through thoroughly. The plugs can get wet with petrol. Soot builds up on the sensor. A good thrashing in an intermediate gear will often clean the sensor and dry the plugs and so cure the missfire.

Last time they resurfaced the towpath in B. Stortford they used I think Granite chips onto tarmac, sprinkling them all over the place, and didn't roll them in properly ,if at all, more than half ended up in the river.

Any good 'trade' motor factors would sort that for you. Or online, ''In-line filters'' just put the details in their search, or phone them. Dolomite Sprint and TR7 would be the same engine. The Acclaim is a Japanese 1300cc Honda design engine.

Maybe the Hurricane is though, having the same engine.

A large proportion of the cost is probably down to time wasted whilst the workers are messing about on Facebook. I had an enormous surprise last week when I discovered my old secondary school's website. I posted some stuff about school dinners, how I dreaded sport and described the various administrations of punishments, which raised a laugh. What I didn't know was that the website used Facebook and that I needed to sign up on the dreaded site to get full advantage of the school website and so I did and began having a little wander around it, checking to see if any of my friends and relations use it and wow!!! To my surprise they nearly all did ''Big time''. But the biggest eye opener was the fact that most were on and off it continually almost 24/7, and talk a load of drivel. The list of your friends on the right tells you when they were last on I believe and the rate was roughly 2mins ago, 30mins ago, 7mins ago, 1hr ago, 18mins ago ect, ect, ect. Absolutely amazing when most of them are supposed to be at work. I'm only glad that I'm not their employer. No wonder we're struggling to break out of the recession with all this carry on and wasted time. Must go folks, to get back on Facebook, I'm hooked, like ------ am I.

Proper log burners are unsuitable in boats, especially narrow boats They are very long in depth and would need to be fitted sideways to avoid having to jump over them. They have no grate-firebars and burn the logs on the flat bottom plate. They are purely functional and so are usually ugly. A multi-fuel stove is the way to go, although not as efficient in heat output burning wood as the proper log burner.