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man1nvan

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  1. Just thought I would update The tips were good, I got the water consumption down to something reasonable so thanks for the advice. Then the muncher pump packed up. I managed to fix it but I ended up taking the whole shooting match out and replacing it with a cassette, no more anxiety about whether it is going to flush or not ?
  2. thanks . boat is in the yard at the moment ..... tank full :-( i can try it as soon as i can get pumped out
  3. Haha. Fat boat, no weed hatch and mounted in the middle. How much wronger could it be. Anyway have welded in a nice high bulkhead now so when it eventually pops at least we don't sink
  4. A bit of googling and that is just how they are. Have spent the rest of the afternoon welding in a bulkhead hopefully will finish tomorrow. I did want to remove the prop to clean the tube properly but I am a bit nervous about breaking the seal, if it ain't broke etc If you did pull the prop assembly out it looks like a bit of a game to get it back in again though
  5. Having cut an access hatch to get at my bowthruster (it must have been fitted before the deck!) I am a bit concerned at what is in there. Having removed the motor, the flange it bolts to appears to be held on to the tube with plastic and not much else. Is this normal? The view from the top shows the only bolts involved in the process I was expecting to find that the flange was welded to the pipe! On top of this there is no bulkhead behind the tube either. One solution is to weld the tube closed but I would like to keep the thruster since it is already there Advice welcome
  6. With the sliding roof and slanty windows that looks more like a dartline to me I used to have one and that was advertised as a H+L I think quite often if people have a 70s narrowboat and they don't know what it is, the default answer is Hancock and Lane, springers and harboroughs are easy to identify but many of the other makes from that era can look very similar
  7. Two minutes later panel off it is like bozlite said there is a dial behind which adjusts fill level, now turned right down and if that doesnt fix it i can put a valve in line. A lot easier than ripping the darn'd thing out Thanks all
  8. Ahh remember you are responding to a long term cassette user where the target is obligatory :-) right I am off to spanner the bog wish me luck! Unfortunately I only have 1 big button so the panel is coming off....
  9. Thanks both will give it a try seems a shame to rip it out, it must have been an expensive item new
  10. Ok Our new boat has a Tecma macerator bog. We have always had cassette type before. On about two flushes a day it is emptying the fresh water tank into the black water tank and we have to pump it out then refill fresh water ever 6 days. It seems to use a collossal amount of water. Is there something wrong here, can you adjust the amount of water it uses? Or is this just what they are like? The fresh water tank is a similar size to our old boat and a tankfull would normally last us 3 weeks of normal use.
  11. Thumbs up for Bailey's coach enamel from me. Me and mrs did the whole boat last summer on the shropshire underneath the M54. Great finish with just a Harris brush and some sandpaper. It does dry fast though so you have to be well prepared before you start. But that means you can paint a coat on, and by the time you have cleared up and had some breakfst the paint is dry enough foy you to set off on your travels again!
  12. You do need to see the boat out of the water definitely! if you know enough about steel you could satisfy yourself of the hull condition. If not get a survey. Imho a fair few surveyors are certifiably insane but most of them will let you know if the boat is going to sink or not in the near future, which is always handy to know. And whilst it is out you can touch up your blacking and go back in safe in the knowledge that blacking is something to worry about waaaayyy off in the future
  13. Funny one really I always epoxy everything under the waterline. I have just spent the morning rotoblasting and epoxying the baseplate of our new second hand widebeam. Given that it is 10 years old and doesn't appear to have ever been blacked "down there" I am quite surprised at how shallow the pits are. Most of the corrosion is galvanic (electricity corrosion) which isn't surprising as it seems to have been fitted with every type of gizmo available (still not sure if a full size freezer is actually necessary) my first narrowboat (a lovely old dartline) had no worse pitting despite being 25 at the time. But the most sophisticated gizmo on that boat was a gas hob. I suppose the answer is paint it unless you want to spend a Sunday in the year 2028 waving a grinder around near to your face whilst laying on your back in a puddle.
  14. That is the way everything above the waterline will get done
  15. Ahh yes . the best google search is always the simplest....ta .
  16. My hull needs a bit of welding doing. Back in the last century i used to be a welder, but never time served and never qualified. whilst i can easily do the welding on the boat, the yard (quite rightly) won't let me unless i have insurance. Does anyone know where i may be able to get said insurance to cover me carrying out "hot works" in the yard?
  17. Documentation. ours was built by a bloke called Dave in 2000. i love Dave, he documented where every cable, pipe and join are located in the boat and put it all in a big book which is known as "the book of Dave" in our boat. Over the years as i have added bits and changed things, the documentation has been invaluable. If you don't have this and you need to find anything you can end up cutting holes all over the place just to find a pipe for instance. Oh . and make sure you update the information as you go as well ! You should be able to tell the quality of the workmanship by having a good long inspection before you buy
  18. Thanks all will post accuracy if the crane driver can tell me the weight when it is lifted
  19. I am trying to work out the weight of my boat as follows 1 cubic meter of water is very close to a ton A boat displaces the volume of water equal to it's mass so If i measure the depth of the boat from the baseplate to the water level as close to the front and the back of the boat as i can . then average them to give me depth in meters (X) Then work out the foot print of the boat in meters (Y) then X x Y = metric tons Is this right or am i just an idiot? Sorry . i know the swim isnt full depth but that is just a bit of contingency....
  20. Have got 3 Voda and GiffGaff . Vodafone....don't get me started on that lot, Giff Gaff sounds good but in practice speed is very very slow, which leaves 3 . which works pretty much everywhere (travelled the south, midlands and Llangollen this year), i work from the boat and i have managed to be up and at it online every day. there are places 3 doesn't work so i tend to use the giff gaff in those instances. We stream everything, TV included and manage to live a pretty normal digital life. I do tend to choose mooring spots on a combination of 4G, Pub and View, but anywhere near a train line works.
  21. I there is one of those dozy types in front of us, i just pull in and make a cup of tea, by the time i catch them up it will probably be time for another one, after all, what i the point in hurrying around the canals, only hirers need to rush. If you are the rushing type, get a different hobby because this one will ultimately drive you nuts or turn you into the type of nutter who rammed me the other day as i was exiting the bridge at walking pace!
  22. Sort out the leak i killed an sl2 by not doing so, it ran hot for days then started making clanging noises then went phut mind you i replaced it with an sr2 which gave a 33% power increase to a whopping 12 hp. Chances are it is just a loose injector pipe the post mortem on mine showed that to be the cause of death, that and negligence on my part.
  23. Sounds perfect just like every other boat i have owned :-) even my plastic ones had osmosis
  24. Thats the kiddie! 9500 for the 55 that looks like a bargain probably about the same that you would pay for a new boat today. Not sure i like the sound of melamine walls though all a bit harbour tug Thanks for that, now has anyone got a trentcraft going cheap?
  25. That is Tuckers Maltings in Newton Abbot incidentally my parents had a couple of bits of the granite tramway as the garden path, quite common thereabouts. i am sure they could have them back
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