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Is the diode pack for an insulated return A127 different from the conventional automotive type?
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Some signal boxes had levers operating detonator placers.
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Looking at that 25” map, the line to the west of the canal appears to be raised on an embankment, and runs over the small arm (the outline of which can still be seen on Google earth), and stops short of the side bridge. The line to the east doesn’t line up with it, and also appears to be on elevated land. I went for a drive-by today, and although the industrial landscape has changed dramatically, it’s difficult to see how a railway could have run under the canal. I wonder if this was an elevated loading arrangement over the arm for dropping product into boats?
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The Wayback Machine has some snapshots of the Driftgate website, the latest sensible one seems to be from 2013.
https://web.archive.org/web/20130325094445/http://www.dg2k.co.uk/
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Just now, blackrose said:
My boards are lockable. Never been an issue over the past 4 inspections.
Is a key a tool? Discuss
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2 minutes ago, robtheplod said:
thanks... where is your sign - is it on the deck board itself or just under the seat etc?
Signs adjacent to the switches, sign on the board itself, partly so it’s obvious that you have to lift the board, and partly because there isn’t really anywhere else convenient!
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The requirement is “readily accessible”, defined as “Capable of being reached for operation, inspection or maintenance without removal of any craft structure or use of any tools or removal of any item of portable equipment stowed in places intended for storage of portable equipment such as lockers, drawers or shelves.” Mine are under the deck boards as well, appropriately signed, never been any issue with accessibility - it’s a very common arrangement. There might be an issue if the boards were lockable?
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Do the links on the All Activity menu do what is required?
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The standards used to be freely available online through Manchester Libraries, but they turned the service off, or possibly restricted access to actual libraries, presumably to save money.
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36 minutes ago, blackrose said:
So looking at these specs of a CO alarm is it a Type 1 or Type 2?
As stated, it’s 50291-2, but the manufacturer didn’t opt to certify that model for boat use.
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I’ve used these people before: https://simplyextinguishers.co.uk/
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Small point, certification for boat use is an option within 50291-2, the certificate of conformity (or the manual) should say whether boat use was included. I think most are now certified for boat use, but there was certainly a -2 model a few years ago that was certified for caravans but not boats. Check the small print!
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Make a template out of a bit of cardboard. You can hack away at that until you are happy before you attack the wall.
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1 hour ago, matty40s said:
Collidge asked me for a 25 year survey a couple of years ago, and stipulated every 5 years, however, it was extended to 10 after my survey as the Comastic had kept the hull in such good condition from new.
Snap.
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41 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
I’ve gone back and found my electronic BSS certificate (which was introduced in 2015) and neither the 2015 or 2019 certiicates have that table - I wonder if your examiner was using up old paperwork ?
No, electronic copy, separate document from the BSC itself, but arrived in the same email. Perhaps previously it was a working paper and is only now becoming mandatory?
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3 minutes ago, MartynG said:
Are you thinking of this?
No, that’s the front page of the “certificate” receipt. This is from the separate appliance record document:
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Is this new? I had an appliance record for at least the two most recent BSCs, with the appliances, ventilation and fire extinguisher info on it. Possibly further back than that, except that I can’t be bothered to go and dig the pre-electronic file out.
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Thermostatic mixing valve somewhere to prevent scalding?
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25 minutes ago, haggis said:
Another sunk boat at bridge 211 on the Trent and Mersey. Moored beside a grp which looks unloved. Didn't get a number but will look on our way back down. Small green boat might be a Springer .
I seem to recall that’s been there (afloat) quite some time.
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There is theoretically still a bike hire scheme in Liverpool, but I can’t remember the last time I saw one in a docking station, let alone being ridden. What Liverpool does have at the moment is hundreds of rental electric scooters, the riders of which seem to have even less road sense than the cyclists.
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13 minutes ago, matty40s said:
I wonder which version this is...
Cough.!
Beat me to it!
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An afternoon with the vacuum pump and a long bit of copper tube yields this lot… For scale these are 10 litre containers. Probably only a couple of litres of water in total, but a lot of muck - the first lot out is on the right, by the time I got to the one on the left all I was getting was clean fuel. So my hope is that the agitation of filling up put enough of this into suspension to clog the filter and that nothing worse is wrong. I’ve left them to settle out for a couple of weeks, presumably I can re-use the clean parts if I decant it carefully? As to where the water came from, I have my doubts about the o-ring on the flap that covers the key way on the locking fuel cap; the collar screws are not exposed and the main o-ring looks ok.
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23 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
What about in the lift pump
Not as far as I know. The lift pump looks to be a sealed unit, unless anyone knows otherwise. I suppose the lift pump could be on its way out, though, @MarkH2159 thought it a common fault.
On alternator failure.
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That’s what I thought, so buying a “spare” diode pack would have to be the right type (or alter the wiring to provide a solid negative connection.
I don’t believe my starter is insulated return, although it’s a while since I stuck my head down there. But the glow plugs, senders, etc don’t have any other negative connection, so I doubt that it is as that’s the only negative to the engine.