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If you don’t like that quote, shop around?
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8 hours ago, Slim said:
A slight digression but relevant. Watch out for Screwfix 'white spirit' At least one version has gone solvent free and water soluble. It's useless for most purposes.
Yeah, I got caught out by B&Q with that stuff - “Clean Spirit”
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Bosley and Marple closed completely from June 24th.
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If this keeps happening, with the same alarm, and for no apparent cause after reasonable investigations, then I’d start to doubt the alarm itself, and for the sake of a tenner or so get a new one. Worst case, both go off and confirm that you really do have a problem elsewhere. Best case, the old one proves to be duff.
(Not directly relevant, but one of our optical smoke alarms went off in the middle of the night last year. Full alarm, no failing battery chirping, but turned out to be the battery.)
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3 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I understood that PRM90 is the like for like replacement for the PRM80. Similarly PRM 125 is replacement for PRM120.
Yes. The newer ones are a bit slimmer, take less ATF, and have easier access to the drain plug (on the side), but the key dimensions are the same.
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42 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I think a PRM 90 will go straight in, may need minor adjustments?
I've just checked the PRM and ZF drawings, not quite:
- HBW100/ZF10M - Drop 62 - LOA 195 (mounting face to output flange face)
- PRM120/125 - Drop 72 - LOA 217
- PRM80/90* - Drop 72 - LOA 196
(* The PRM90 drawing is missing the LOA, but I'm 99% sure it's a straight swap for a PRM80)
When I was looking to replace the (second) failed Hurth/ZF, PRM recommended the 120 over the 80 (as the numbering was then), despite the power rating of the 80 theoretically being big enough to replace the Hurth. I had the engine mounts raised about half an inch on steel blocks, otherwise the engine would have been perched right at the top of the threads, and there is just enough room lenghtways to get the 120 input shaft out of the drive plate without dismantling the coupling off the shaft.
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Not worth reconditioning, IMHO. Put it in the skip and get a PRM 125, as long as you have space - the PRM is very slightly longer, the the drop is larger, so you’ll need to have the engine mounts raised a bit.
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6 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
To isolate the batteries you have to disconnect the terminals, you may then find different voltages on them
And while you’re at it, suggest you adjust the position of the two positive cables that appear to be resting on negative terminals, in case of chafing of the insulation.
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Even seen (on a webcam) a barn owl deliver some sort of water bird chick (probably a moorhen) to its owlets.
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6 hours ago, Rob-M said:
My oven was installed by my BSS examiner so I presume he was happy with the installation as it wasn't removed on the last BSS.
Likewise, about a year later in my case. He didn’t ask to see them again.
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13 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
I thought the Caldon was closed with a breach
Caldron is still closed from Etruria to Ivy House Embankment. Are they pumping any water around the closure?
The Cheshire Flight was bad late last summer - plenty of water coming down Bosley (apart from when someone came up just the bottom lock to wind), then scraping the bottom on the T&M summit and many of the pounds down towards Middlewich. I think the tunnel was closed a couple of days then as well.
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CRT also still reporting low water between 54 and 57 as well
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A long as they are in good condition, appropriately marked, and don’t have a marked expiry date, they’re fine. Looks the same as one of mine (sans magnets).
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6 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
To describe what I was looking for is difficult, but roughly "locks built in the modern era to a traditional design using modern materials and techniques" - the main emphasis is "modern era", at least in part to compare with any locks that might be built in the near future - "here's one we did earlier" kind of thing
Thurlwood Steel as an anti-example of one built not to a traditional design that was plagued with problems and scrapped as a result?
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1 hour ago, Barneyp said:
It's not discrimination if applied equally, so no single sex groups is not discrimination, both sexs are being treated equally.
I am not a lawyer, but I’m not sure that would wash. Any one of the (all male) party (or even all but one) could argue that, had they been female, the hire would been allowed, and therefore they were being discriminated against on the ground of their sex.
Given that gender reassignment is also a protected characteristic, it would be a brave company that waded into that territory.
As it happens, the party of chaps we met on a pair of ABC boats on the Bridgewater & T&M a couple of weeks ago couldn’t have been nicer, even the ones dressed as pirates.
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4 hours ago, Puffling said:
Today I picked up a dead blue tit fledgeling in Mercia Marina. Earlier, I'd recorded a pair of mallards swimming with five ducklings, when the day before I had counted them with seven.
It’s sad, but if they all survived we’d be knee deep in blue tits by now. The great tits have occupied one end of our “sparrow terrace” (it’s had great tits, blue tits and bumble bee nests over the years, but never any sparrows), and the house martins arrived back a few days ago and are busy making a mess of next door’s walls.
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Big Clive on YouTube has done some videos on various versions of these LED strips.
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8 hours ago, Timx said:
Two weeks to do four counties, then two weeks to Liverpool and back,
Well that accounts for 4 of their 3 weeks…
25 minutes ago, doratheexplorer said:Hi Saskia,
You haven't said why your husband didn't like Manchester. Was it the locks? The 'scenery'? The people? The mooring locations?
As others have said, cruising through Birmingham is quite different to Manchester. You want to avoid Farmer's Bridge and Aston, but your alternative takes you down Delph and Stourbridge flights anyway.
If they want to do the BCLM then they’re going up and down via the Wolverhampton level one way or another.
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How about…. 4 Counties clockwise as far as Autherley, on a bit to Aldersley, up the Wolverhampton 21, BCLM, Netherton Tunnel (either nip down Factory, or the long way round Old Main Line/Brades), Delph, down to Stourton, back up to Autherley and continue the 4 Counties. Potential side quests to Hawne Basin, Stourbridge and even Titford if time allows?
That said, T&M down to Fradley, into Birmingham via Aston/Farmers Bridge and out again via BCLM/Wolverhampton and back on the ring at Autherley is a possibility. I’d rather do Aston/Farmers Bridge/middle of Birmingham than go through Manchester again.
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1 hour ago, magpie patrick said:
I don't think any other new "not a lock" changes of level have been built!
Out of curiosity, does the drop-lock involve a change in level either end of the lock?
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T&M, Thurlwood Steel Lock - been and gone of course
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Had the alternator belt break once in Barnton tunnel, fortunately close to the exit. Pushed out with the pole and changed the belt. Came through Harecastle late one day and moored at the end for the night. The following morning the gearbox packed up just before Longport Wharf!
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I see the report is recommending that the Boat Safety Scheme get involved in areas beyond its stated remit to “help minimise the risk of boat fires, explosions, or pollution”.
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3 minutes ago, Tonka said:
weight on a rope with knots every 6 foot
Proper old school!
DIY Fuel Polishing...
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I tried my spherical-type Pela last year, but the tube was too narrow and got blocked with crud. I got a cheap 12v vacuum pump from eBay, a 25 litre plastic container, a curved length of 3/8” copper pipe, and some clear hose, and that was reasonably successful apart from the container’s tendency to collapse alarmingly under vacuum - I’ve not found a suitably robust replacement, so I’ve just bought a larger (and cheaper) a Pela-alike clone which has a 10mm inlet tube.