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Setting a circular saw up to be cutting the board surface exactly flush is a fine start, as the blade cuts horizontally.

Sorry, havn't been on this forum for ages, and slightly off topic; although power storage could be usefull; I do have quite a few half decent leisure batteries, to offload for a small fee if anyone is interested. Can even probably arrange delivery round the network somehow

Short answer: no, it's an enthusiasts thing, but curiosity gets the better of us!

The mind buggles ... my claim is to have started a trend to also paint the bilge inside as the clean metal had ran out! about the mid 70's is when damp got well sussed out as a thing.The mid eighties, the metal got canned. I'm curious to know if any types of sandwiches survived the Bilgemonster!?

1987-started it becoming a standard Surveyors and insurance company staff can be a marker point on this sort of detail. Wet bilge conversion is best suited to serious restoration/rennovation projects as the labour involved in clearing back to metal is mental! You may also need to be prepared to find holes!

Something that people forgot is that you can also "bond" constructions with dark matter such as wedges and pockets. If you aquire these by increments through the build you could end up with everything easy to remove. That is working narrow and in the box for you! The last piece you fit will possibly need screwing down to prevent anyone picking it apart; but this can be incorporated into the chandlery fixings. Common problem; sorting it all out then never going anywhere!

That seems a much less frightning list! I would just add the price of materials to the start; and probably set that before even enquiring about products, mostly 300, 500 or 1000 incremental choices; and it costs 20 to go out the door, goes at the end!

As Tony mentions, you realy need to get a bit more "fussy" to track it down! Completely clean the suspect area and anywhere above or besides, where oil could be flowing from and consequently end up in that area. Run it for a bit, then investigate with the side of some tissue paper or suchlike, touching it to suspect crevaces and bolted/nutted zones. you may find the leak when oil soaks up the fibres on the edge of the tissue paper. I bet it's the casing bolts leaking a bit of oil.

You may find that the flocking is in fact felting. If so you may be able to find someone to make new felts; as felting is having a revival; such a project could give some practice and practical use to the craft. Or have a go yourself?

So how long is so far? I used some in a shower for a lip as the customer liked the finish and it was all they had! I sealed it in so no "bush" was showing, and it took about a week to soak a tin of varnish into the compacted pieces of compacted hedge cuttings it seems to consist of underneath the formica. It had such a huge absorbtion capacity that it may not show water ingress for ages; long enough for a whole series of beasties to set up a fairly large base camp?

Primer seems to have evolved into sticking and presenting a shiny finish more than absorbing corrosive molecular activity. Some even absorb compatible paint so well, that you could almost shine the primer, and merely stain the coating with overcoat. Rough sandpaper to it!

First thing to mention is to make sure the connections are securely connected to the terminals when fitted. I have recently found a narrow boat yard that has an undisclosed policy of loosening the terminals as part of the service, and the result is a battery change once a year as standard! It can also show a battery is knackered when the plastic sides bow out of true.

Have a Happy New Year 'n all to all; but be carefull of killing your well nurtured seal with invasive fixings such as screws. Usually you get seals such as varnish to be more effective diluted on initial application to get them to soak in as much as possible, although some modern chemicals may not conform.

It may well be within your capabilities stuart23! I would take the injectors out, as it is a simple job, and gives such a good idea of how much carbon is accumulating in the barrels. Something simple to check, but a rigmarole to get off in boats, is the sump, which will give you an idea of any dodgey wear from the quantity and quality of any metal particles settled in it, and in old engines, the mesh on the "oil pump sucker tube bit" may need a bit of degunking. Be carefull not to loose any gunk tho as you dont want it sucking into the bearing oil holes.

Is the inlet tube now completely clear, why was the piece if pipe in it, was it some bodged important joinery, has the degraded stuff from it caused any problems?

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The dstance will be defined by keeping the stove flue away from the heating unit by at least 3". Best check that distance though, as it's a whle scince I fitted a boat.

They've forced the custodians out of that area and registered the towpath as theirs with the land registry now! Fortunately you cannot claim land by forcing people off it so one day they should loose it all. As far as Pole fishing on the S.Oxford goes, I can't see why the fishermen don't just cross to the other side and drop a line at the edge of the bank, and do away with poking it from the opposite side with a long rod! I wonder what Freud would have to say about it?

That's just great!

As hot water rises up rising pipes, creating a pump, it is possible to make the hot water avoid heating the engine "environment", if you want, by directing it useing a partial "u" bend to pipe the water to and from the engine at the level required to get the "organic" flow required "sustainable". This is a muticultural method used by the indigenious population of Britain to provide a "low impact" and "carbon neutral" solution.

Joe, as in Joe Springer?

“They basically failed to heed the excellent safety messages contained in the MCA calendar 2010 for the months of Jan/Feb/Mar/Apr/May/Jun/Sep and Oct. Some still available from most Coastguard Stations!

72' is fun in the way that it slots into the canals engineering, but sometimes that engineering may need checking .