jonathanA

I'll have pint of what's he's been drinking.....

They actually built it on the bank, it was only when I passed a couple of months ago and saw it in the canal I realised what they had been building! Would liked to have seen how they got it in the water. As an aside I wouldn't say there is shortage of maintenance facilities on that stretch with bank hall dry dock at Burnley, Altham engineering (just past this floating dry dock), wheelton boatyard and Botany Bay all within a few hours cruising.

Got to the top of the Wigan flight last week to find a boat moored up on the water point/pump out machine both of which we wanted to use. Nothing behind the boat so moved it down so we could get on. When he arrived back he was apologetic and said he thought no one else would want to use the water point as it was gone 6 pm. To be fair the whole thing was quite good natured and we parted on good terms I think ! I think it's about attitude, in this case we were both quite reasonable and could see the others point...

Back to the topic (sort of) I read a report suggesting the fobney lock sinking might have been due to the rudder getting caught in the gates ? Would explain the stern down aspect on the video I suppose ?

As Tony said . Loads of car type temp gauge and senders on eBay think I paid less than a fiver for one from China. Most come with a 1/8 npt sender but you can get other sizes or simply get an adapter to whatever size the 'hole' is on the Perkins.

Since your in Lancashire you will get proper marine ply from Preston plywood supplies off bow lane Preston. Think I paid forty something quid plus vat for a sheet a couple of years ago. Also c & w berry in Leyland, their website suggests a sheet would be £65 inc vat. They will deliver but will charge a fair whack for delivery.

You clearly don't understand the laws of physics ( although on the basis of this thread we could decide to amend the laws of physics to suit our own peculiar viewpoints) There is no risk whatsoever of an overfilled bottle exploding anymore than an normally filled one. What there is is a risk of release of gas if the over pressure thing goes, although the greater issue is liquid gas getting into the regulator and or pipe work, think that was mentioned at the start of this thread but I lost the will to live and cba going to look.....

I Don't really get the point of having a 240v system that can only work on landline. We have a couple of 240V table lamps that came with the boat and with CFL lamps I reckon they are more efficient than incandescent/halogen 12 v lamps when the inverter is running for the TV anyway. Of course now that 12v LEDs are so much better, we hardly ever use them now. If your fitting a mains lighting circuit you might as well have the capability to run it from the inverter, I'm not sure with modern electronic systems, voltage conversion is that big a deal. If we were all running motor generator sets then maybe...

Yes I'm sure you are right I'Ve had ours to pieces to remove no 2 sons girlfriends sanitary items but didn't linger to see how it all works. To garyprc if it's emptying the water tank into the loo tank the that sounds like water is running all the time. We have a stop tap on the supply so if you have, try turning off the water there and see if that stops the macerator running. Pretty sure there will be solenoid operated water valve and that could be letting water through.

They will start if the water level is high enough even though you haven't pressed the flush button. If there is no filling going on and it just runs by itself frequently then you need to investigate. The flush button is a pneumatic thing rather than electrical so could be a problem with that. Ours does occasionally run briefly for a second or two randomly say once every 2 or 3 days but it's not a full flush cycle that's for sure.

Fair point actually I've no issue with calor, but BOC where exorbitant and it was an annual rental for the bottle plus the cost of any refills. Although I wasn't saying you buy a bottle, because clearly as you say you exchange your empty one for another full one

And really interesting he was prosecuted for manufacturing a sub standard device, not for refilling bottles be they calors or anyone's else, also really telling that no where in that article does it say it's illegal to fill bottles just that calor and their like are trying to discourage the practice. I bet they are.... The business of renting bottles is just a scam plain and simple, for many years I rented BOC bottles until I got fed up of them putting up their rental prices every few months, was quite interesting when I said there your bottles come and collect them then.... I think the prosecutions for theft of gas cylinders are where they are being sold on as scrap metal. The calor 'rental' agreement is no such thing what it says is that your deposit will be refunded if you return the bottle on sliding scale with zero refund after 5 years. This would clearly indicate that calor consider bottles of over 5 years old to have no value.v Eta oops lost the link to the article about the fella being prosecuted posted by RLWP and quoted by MJG

I'm with Frangar on this. How can they enforce it ? Although I was lambasted for suggesting civil disobedience in a previous thread it seems to me that peel have more to lose than Crt so they should be careful

We got ours at crick show one for the border collie and one for the Labrador. Really useful for fishing the beasts out of locks which seems to be where ours misjudge things and end up in the water. The handle on the back makes it reasonably easy to get them out, can even use the boat hook to grab them. Only problem we've had is in hot weather they get a bit uncomfortable for the animals. It can be a problem trying to get a 30+ KG dog out of the water without a harness or something to grab hold of which is where the dog buoyancy aids are so useful.

It must be going somewhere - is the expansion tank completely empty ? Is coolant leaking out somewhere e.g calorifier connections out of sight ? How do you know it's overheating ? Temp gauge or warning light ? I'd be tempted to take off the top hose to the skin tank at the exhaust manifold near to exhaust pipe, and see if there is water there. Good luck!

We'll both Pennine and snay Gill can manage to have someone at gargrave to meet their hires so not quite sure why silsden can't, in fact given the size of their fleet it should be relatively easy to meet the majority of the west heading hirers. In my experience a lot of their boats arrive at gargrave on the same day anyway. Whilst having some sympathy for Silsden given the size of their fleet, I have to say there is definitely some issue that they need to address its not just my personal experience over several years of cruising in this area but a 'known issue' to most boaters in the area and indeed other hire companies in the area are fully aware that Silsden have a bad reputation. I'm not sure what they can do but suspect a small amount of effort would pay dividends both for their reputation and more importantly for the safety and enjoyment of their customers.

I have to agree with you any cruise to that part of the L&L and you invariably meet with the swarm of silsden boats. I've shared many a lock with a silsden boat and met a fair cross section of boaters hiring them. Having asked most of them what training they got the answer is consistently very little. They are given a DVD and told to watch it.... They do operate a big fleet so that probably doesn't help their cause but there is something not quite right....

I'm afraid there aren't - that's one of the problems and I speak from experience !!! This also begs the question of why it would be fine for me to moor during the day and run engines, generators and have my stove going but come 6 pm I'm suddenly anti social ? To be honest I wasn't that impressed with saltaire

Whilst I don't agree with salts lad entirely I do respect him for coming on and putting his side and think some responses are harsh. I'm one of the people who have ignored the previous nonsensical signs at this spot and probably will do if necessary in the future... To be honest mooring in a wind tunnel between two former mill buildings overlooked by flats wouldn't be my choice but the lack of reasonable alternatives in the immediate area means you don't really have much option. All it would take is a bit of dredging so you can get in to the side either side of this spot and problem solved imho....

The beep / overheat sounds a bit strange (is there good ventilation? ) The fans seem to come on and go fairly randomly on mine. If it's working then what's the problem? although I guess it could be sign somethings on its way out but you might as well see what happens. Worth checking the ventilation and that the fans aren't clogged with dust and fluff

Good turn out at this years Blackburn Canal Festival and lots going on including historic Liverpool short boat Kennett here and the superslowway peeps. Celebrating 200 years of the L&L Worth a call in if you're in the area

Yes!!! they generally have slightly higher turn on voltage meaning they are less likely to be affected by small leakage currents often associated with switched mode power supplies. This is a good thing. Also the lights tell you there is a problem and also indicate if it's on the DC or AC systems and finally make it easy to test the GI with nothing more than a 9v battery

How did they manage to fill the lock with the paddles up I assume that's what you did next ?

Yes I did mean 3 pole, although accept nicks point about switching the neutral in gibbos diagram ( actually iirc it was someone else's diagram on gibbos site). I personally choose to do it a slightly different way using 3 poles as I didn't have space (depth) for a 4 pole unit. I needed to do something having invented perpetual motion with the old inverter running charger charging batteries running inverter routine... Which I said I'd never be stupid enough to do until I did it..... Eta Wotever : the number of positions is going to be determined by number of sources and whether you want an off position.

At last - wonder if it was helped or fell of its own accord.... Always think that house is quite fascinating...