Paul C
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3 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
How about if you fit your spare wheel and don't bother to tighten the wheel nuts, drive down the road, wheel falls off and the car goes through front hedge writing the car off. Not really a good example as I think car 3rd party insurance now covers uninsured loss, but you get my drift.
Normally it is easy for a competent driver to sense there’s something wrong with the attachment of a wheel on a car, and stop before the wheel comes off. Then they can either tighten the nuts or wheel bolts (a wheelbrace being one of the few tools routinely found in a car*) or seek further assistance.
* I know many cars now have no spare wheel and no wheelbrace any more.
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55 minutes ago, Midnight said:
Only about half of the vendors I've used in the last two years mentioned splits or asked me to sign any declaration.
This. If there's been any recent change, its that the retailers have stopped even asking what split the boater wanted to declare, instead simply selling it at 100% domestic rate and "assuming" that the lowest price would be what the boater was going to declare anyway.
More generally, a boatyard is under no obligation to offer to sell at the split the boater wants, they can set the split(s) and the boater pay at this rate or choose to not buy diesel there. But most boatyards offered it in 10% increments and had tables drawn up of the net price per litre.
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The fact that its not a loaded commercial barge, would spoil the "loaded commercial barge" look.
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17 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
There lies the problem if the bank is on the port side the propwalk just pulls the boat into the bank again or worse into the boat behind.
Trust me after 50+ years I've used most of the tricks and not all of them work every time.
A burst of throttle in reverse will push the boat away from the bank more than any propwalk will drag it in. And if the boat is moving forwards slightly (from the forwards and steering away from the bank) then it won't result in much actual movement backwards, just take the stern away. You only need to get a slight amount of movement away from the bank and its working, then you can repeat it a few times if needs be to send the stern out far enough to clear another moored boat*
*This is for the odd case where the boat is too heavy to push manually, yet isn't fitted with a bow(/stern) thruster, and/or its gunnels are too high up to enable pushing then getting on/off. Personally I'm not attracted to that kind of boat, I'd always want the option to be able to push it around. But if I'm feeling lazy I'll use the above technique to get sideways off a mooring spot on a canal.
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13 minutes ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
but Brentwood does have a motorway service on the M25 if that helps
Do it doesn't
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18 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
The are of springing is obviously going to be lost for future generations.
Try that with a boat that weighs 35ton and the gunwale is 3ft above the bank.
You can use the phenomenon that the back comes out when reversing, to 'push' it out.
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1 hour ago, Bargebuilder said:
An excellent summary, but unfortunately, Mr. Angry who shouts 'slow down' as you pass, doesn't base his rantings on science.
They'll base it on perceived engine revs, due to the sound of the engine. So, an ideal fitment on a narrowboat would be an "overdrive" on the transmission.
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3 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
This just came up on my Microsoft Start page this morning Your car is spying on you – but police won’t say if they’re using the data (msn.com)
Sloppy article. It goes from saying "your car may be spying on you" to "your car is spying on you" title, without any justification. Trust me, if a car IS generating 25GB of data every hour, its not storing all of that; and its definitely not transmitting anything like the tin-foil hat wearers would have you believe. Note that you'd need the Berla iVe hardware kit to be able to interrogate the relevant modules on the car, ie you'd need to have good access to the car. Its not being transmitted. And that the police only use it in serious cases such as murder, robbery, etc not eg speeding offences.
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Don't stick the mifi at the front of the boat then try to connect to it at the back of the boat.
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4 hours ago, hider said:
If its not covered in Aware Tape, report it, they likely don't know.
There could still be someone in it......
Do they have aware buoys?
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Its going to be a better quality connection - let's assume your decent mobile signal is 100Mbps, a wifi5 connection has a bandwidth of approx 1Gbps or greater.
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Ethernet won't make any difference at all. The mobile 4G/5G connection will have less bandwidth and more latency than the Wi-Fi connection, so the wifi won't be a bottleneck.
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If anything, online is more protected than bricks & mortar, because you have the 14-day "don't want it" legislation. Its there because you can't physically see the item........but you don't get 14 days to try it out in a shop.
Paypal is a third party payment gateway which is why credit card protection doesn't apply - Paypal's processes apply instead. If you use a credit card on Amazon (or eBay directly now) you will enjoy the same protection as any other retail purchase.
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18 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I try very hard to avoid buying online, but as the likes of Amazon seem to have tax advantages over independent retailers it is getting to be almost impossible as local specialist retailers close. Buy on recommendation if you can, just like the meter in question, Blackrose confirms it will measure AC amps which is what is wanted.
I think that approach is severely limiting. My approach is to read the listings carefully, take advantage of the 14-day right to return as required by consumer law, and use a bit of common sense (if its too good to be true, it normally is).
I appreciate we're talking about unbranded - or unrecognisable short-lived brands - Chinese stuff here. If it were a branded/boxed item (for example, a pair of speakers) then Google shopping on price is normally safe enough since they should be boxed and sealed. Of course, there's fakes out there, but that's a whole another topic.......
PS don't really read or use feedback/reviews unless there's none at all (bad sign) or many horror stories. Reviews can be bought and eBay feedback is superficial.
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8 hours ago, MtB said:
So we end up with an "Irresistable force meets immoveable object" type of situation. CRT can't afford to maintain these stupidly epensive navigations and neither can it afford to divest itself of responsibility.
How will it pan out? CRT heading for insolvency obviously. Any bets on how long it will take for them to go bust?
I'll kick orf by suggesting fifteen years from now.
We could end up with the equivalent of "Parliament Trains" where eg Rochdale and HNC are theoretically kept navigable, but pragmatically the money isn't really spent on them and they are closed for much of the year. We are not far off that scenario now, not long to go.
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9 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
Amazon are facilitating fraud on the public, just because successive governments have chosen not to protect their citizens from such practices does not mean Amazon are not responsible. No Amazon, no misleading adverts and frauds. The same applies to Ebay.
Making the whole social media companies and advertises like Amazon publishers would be a first good step.
So what's your recommendation for buying online, if not using Amazon or eBay?
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1 hour ago, Bargebuilder said:
It's not looking good for ducks, geese and swans either.
Perhaps the CRT could put up signs asking them to leave their waters, with subtitles 'quack' 'trumpet' and 'snort'😁
No need to ban ducks and swans. Geese on the other hand.........just keep a breeding pair in a zoo and that's enough, right?
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27 minutes ago, Jerra said:
I don't think they carry human infectious sources.
e.coli
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6 minutes ago, Jerra said:
Sewage even in small quantities is classed as hazardous waste.
Even in the small quantities that ducks, swans and fish produce?
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If the shoreline came out then it was too tight or the ropes were too slack. Shoreline shouldn’t be used as a mooring line (thought that would be obvious, but……)
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9 hours ago, Bod said:
I have two of those "simple devices that plug into a cigar lighter socket"
Both are at least .3 of a volt off true, 1 above true the other .4 below!
Take the advice, get a decent multi meter, take the trouble to learn how to use it, it will reveal many things.
Bod.
I would say a multimeter can only go so far and doesn't give a full enough picture. It’s better than nothing (or those cheap 12v socket ones) though.
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The issue isn’t your inverter or lights usage while up in the evening, but what’s happening behind the scenes eg current draw thru the night. This is why I suggested an amp hour counter - so you’d at least be able to quantify what’s going on during the night. There’s 3 possible options:
1. The fridge is drawing a lot of energy
2. There is some kind of as yet undiscovered current drain
3. The batteries are knackered and their capacity is actually a tiny fraction of that suggested by their label
1 can be determined by turning fridge off one night
2 would need troubleshooting, eg observing the current draw and going through each fuse or circuit breaker in turn to find the culprit (and other possible current draws eg faulty alternator)
3 would explain it but would also need further investigation to find out why
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Smartgauge or an amp-hour counting battery monitor would be a good investment. But be sure to read the manual to understand their limitations
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4 hours ago, Slim said:
Excuse me, 1.5 years ago I traded in 3 year old Volvo v90. Over the following weeks I was able to track it to the dealer then a storage facility in London then to a Volvo dealer in Poole, Dorset. It was only when it was being prepared for resale did my access cease. No specialist tracking devices just OEM. If I could do it so could big brother.
Ok no probs, a few more modern cars do this.
Can the police use it to secure a speeding conviction?
Toxic chemical spill in Walsall Canal
in Waterways News & Press
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That’s what insurance is for.