Bee

I no longer use fuel treatments, mostly because trying to work out the amount to put in stretched my long division abilities but also the amount of conflicting advice was concerning. Nowadays I just open the plate on the top of the tank (You do have one don't you?) shine a torch into the gloom and decide what to do. I don't fill the tank up at the end of the year either, reasoning that unless there is a constant change of air and water vapour in the tank there is no point and anyway if i do have a problem i don't mind losing a few gallons and not a whole tankful.

Well if it hasn't worked over the last few days it never will. Tomorrow I will be sawing up a tree that has come down in the garden. The huge Sycamore that I would love to get rid of or at least trim it mightily is unmoved by the storm. That generator is, I think, a Savonius rotor, I think the problem is that the resistance to spinning caused by the back of the rotor reduces the 'shove' produced by the front. I have seen a couple on the M6 supposedly charging small things through roadworks but I don't think they do a lot.

i don't know exactly what Grenfell was clad with but after the fire it looked as though there was a lot of yellow foam insulation that was not burnt and still in place, I could very well be wrong. As for boats the stuff is well covered by (usually) ply and by the time the foam caught fire you would be in serious trouble anyway.

Cripes! That is some pitting ! Modern epoxy paint is brilliant stuff so long as it sticks to the steel. Our boat is getting on for 20 years, has spent about 4 years moored in brackish water and virtually no pitting anywhere on the hull. The rudder which had lost its anodes to wastage and has been badly prepared and painted for years is extensively pitted. Last docked and painted approx 6 yrs ago (I think). If it gets wet - PAINT IT. PROPERLY!

I think most of them are not take-apart-able except with a hammer and cold chisel and then they are not put-back-together-able. There are (at least) 2 types, one with a lever that works off a cam and one with a roller. They are always on E Bay under Kubota and there is a roller type for £12.75 on there at the moment from the place where I bought mine. Mine was brand new and I guess it was removed from a new engine and that engine fitted with an electric pump for some sort of plant. Seems like a Kubota weakness.

To go back to the original post I have a Beta 43 which developed a starting problem. It would start, run for perhaps 20 seconds then die, that was probably just using fuel in the injector pump. If I unscrewed the fuel filter on the engine it was not full but about an inch down, if I filled the filter from a bottle of fuel then replaced it it would run OK, This looked like a lift pump problem so I replaced the lift pump - they are not repairable but cheap enough on E Bay, problem solved, now runs perfectly. Those lift pumps will only lift about 18 inches or so.