AndrewIC

The front panel switches look pretty weedy, perhaps that’s why there are relays? Seems overkill though. What I don’t understand is why the 2-pole relays have both poles connected though.

St Peter, Upwell has six bells...

Stanthorne is a shambles. Not only does the lock take an age to empty because the paddles have been crocked, you’re supposed to wait until the lock is half empty to relieve the water pressure before trying to raise the offside bottom paddle, and even then it needs a long-throw windlass. Presumably the gate is so rotten that it distorts enough to jam the paddle. But there’s a nice yellow “we’re aware of the problem and working on finding a solution notice” to read while you’re waiting. Two-hour queues reported.

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The key word was “retail”, I can get any amount delivered. Quantity of boating is a known problem ‘Cos it’s a bit cheaper in bulk!

From Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denatured_alcohol Ooh, MEK aka Blanket Cleaner, used to use that on the offset litho machine at school!

FWIW the one in the link - which it turns out is not what the OP has - does unscrew. The flap covers the keyhole, and once unlocked the whole shiny bit unscrews. The one in the link couldn’t end up going round and round as described by the OP.

Does engine oil (bog standard 15w40 mineral) have a shelf life? It’s getting harder to find retail so I was thinking of getting a small barrel, 20 or 25 litres would last me 3 or 4 years.

All the other sheep, cattle, etc between Hurleston and Llangollen being competent swimmers? Came past on Friday, a couple of days after the signs were reported to have appeared, and there were still four or five boats moored on that side.

Barnton is not timed entry, and is straight enough to see through clearly. Saltersford is timed entry, kinked, and has a wide-ish bit in the middle which looks wide enough to pass, but isn’t. It is possible to see through Saltersford in both directions, but still fail to see a boat coming the other way! It’s the main reason I have an antisocially bright headlight and a big klaxon...

I had a pair of Elecsol 220s in the early noughties, from before they went over to sealed batteries. Got 12 years out of them, although realistically they were more than a bit ropey by the end and should have been about 9 or 10. Whether I would have managed the same wit a decent pair of unsealed generics is unknowable.

Quite.

Missed it once by a whisker, spent the night at the southern end, but I’ve justbeen to CRT stoppage site to check the opening hours, and on the current version they’re not there! Latest email with them says current opening hours are 8am-2pm, 7 days a week (42 hours) rather than the usual summer 8am-6pm, 7 days a week (70 hours). You could just about cover the former with 2 bodies, one at each end, but not normal hours. at the moment if you arrive at 2.05pm you’ll have a long wait until tomorrow!

More people would in theory permit longer hours, staggered lunch breaks, so more transits per day. In theory.

On reflection I could only think of two potential reasons for the white valve, both suggested above. One is to decompress the water system without wasting water, which seems a bit over the top. The other is to drain the system, but that assumes another valve somewhere at the “other end” to let the water out - perhaps into a pumped bilge?

Because the alternative would involve Peel putting their hand in their pocket?

Your “calorifier” looks more like a pressure accumulator. The beige square box is a pressure switch. The arrangement with the red knob looks like a pressure relief valve, presumably the intention is to divert over-pressure back into the tank - never seen that arrangement before though. I don’t understand the white valve at the bottom of the picture though.

How leaky are the bottom gates? I recall a spate of sinkings on the HNC at a lock where once a boat was over the top cill, so much water was leaking out the bottom gates that not enough could get past the boat to maintain the level in the chamber, which would start dropping rapidly. If the top pound was a bit too low or the boat a bit too deep, the boat would drop onto the cill, and it more than half way in would tip forward and sink.

On the aforementioned back door panels which had come adrift, it was apparent that the previous glue (I don't know what it was) had gone rock hard, and that it was the glue itself that had failed, rather than the bond between glue and wood or glue and steel. In the end I sacrificed a small multi-tool blade to get the remains off the surfaces.

Based on other recommendations here, I’ve just re-stuck my back door linings on with Stixall. Ask me how it turned out in about 5 years or so

I believe Hall Green stop lock had two sets of gates because the T&M summit level could be somewhat variable, so that if the (newer) Macc was higher it would feed the (older) T&M, and if the T&M was higher most of the water would go down the T&M flights and not onto the Macc.

Can you be certain that the extinguishers you inherited were the same as those present during the previous BSS?