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In the supermarkets I always put the separator thing on the belt lying down. It is funny watching people stand it up. The kids do it now and we have a giggle. Sometimes people don't but in the vast majority of cases the idea is for the thing to be upright.
5 minutes ago, haggis said:not nice ! It's almost as bad as knowing someone has a mental disorder then setting them up to fail and being amused by it.
OCD is quite a difficult thing to deal with. Humour is one way of doing this but the person with the OCD needs to know for sure that you are winding them up otherwise they could internalise it and this would potentially lead to significant psychological impacts.
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Yars ago I had a black and white telly on the boat and the picture used to get smaller vertically as the battery ran out.
Happy days.
2 minutes ago, rusty69 said:Oh dear.
I'm getting rid of our old lead acids this week. I hope they will give me 20 quid at least for them.
Did you call the scrapyard in advance? You might get more if it was linked to a phone call.
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One could probably get a bit more money for a battery if it was linked to the phone.
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57 minutes ago, bizzard said:
Self tapping screws are the worst.
These are much better than the alternative to be fair.
I would not want to buy a tap and die.
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3 hours ago, Ronaldo47 said:
In the 1970's, the makers of the "Killaspray" garden sprayer used to make a model with a long hose and a shower head for use by campers and the like. I bought one from a stall in a London street market that had a pile of them, presumably discontinued stock, along with a garden spray head, to use as a garden sprayer. It was much cheaper than buying the ordinary garden sprayer model. I did actually take a shower with one that had been provided at an old farmhouse that was being used as a hostel in Snowdonia that had no mains water or electricity, and it worked fine.
Empty large fire extinguisher filled with water (the top unscrews) and pumped up with a bicycle pump (schrader valve in the neck) chuck it in the campfire or hang it in the sun then discharge via a shower head.
Hozelock used to do a hanging basket pressurised watering thing which had a nice little shower head fitting. Plastic but it was quite a good device.
I gave up washing some yars ago so no need for this sort of complication.
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Death watch beetles make interesting noises and my resident mouse is quite loud at times.
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Charles Sterling. Kaitec cycles.
Now dissolved I see.
Website was called bicycles4u.
Cheap chinese gear.
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I was not impressed with the Sterling ebike my mum had. Low grade.
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Water liberty!
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The herons are bad because they are stealing the fish. They should be locked up.
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Thank you for correcting me David.
I had thought the reason was because it didn't form part of a direct link to other canals and was not favoured by earlier pioneering enthusiasts.
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On 03/03/2023 at 08:16, Naughty Cal said:
There was an interesting article in one of the boating magazines (possibly Practical Boat Owners but I can't remember off of the top of my head) where they tested several different lithium ion domestic batteries including the Sterling units and they did indeed conclude that the Sterling Amps batteries were higher capacity than advertised. The 100ah battery being closer to 120ah.
The test was done by Emrhys Barrell.
Here it is
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There is a reason why that canal fell into disuse. Maybe the CRT will look at it when the funding shortfall kicks in properly.
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11 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Its the house, its in the bilge on the boat as I don't have a toilet cistern
I had a boat once which was ballasted with gold. Only found out about it after selling the boat and the new owner was replacing the floor. He politely asked if it was my gold. It wasn't.
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It seems interesting about the RCR. If a boat they were salvaging was actually a sinker one can't help wondering how many times they would raise it under the insurance. After a while this seems to cause some problems. 3 strikes and you are out?
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It works just like that in inner east London.
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If the supermarkets were in bed with the card handling companies it would be easy enough to "accidentally" cause smaller competitors' card machines to all of a sudden not be working.
I was in a small beer shop and the network operating their reader had failed. Out of 5 people in the shop I was the only one to have cash. They lost a considerable amount of business. If that happened a lot it would be bye bye and the customers go to the Sainsbury.
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It is a bit brighter now (well not today) so the big solar panel should help.
I'd not be relying on a float though. Definitely a second pump on a timer if the boat is reliably taking on water.
I didn't realise the RCR did insurance.
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I wonder who has to pay when it gets scrapped.
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I do remember Chris Pink in fact I posted a narrow boat T stud to him a number of yars ago for a boat project.
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Always sad when a boat sinks.
Is it made from sheets of ply screwed together ? Interesting approach but does seem to be fairly obvious what is going to happen to it.
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8 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
What about all the gold I've got in the toilet cistern 🙄
Feeling flush are you?
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59 minutes ago, Onewheeler said:
Looks like a solder bridge (or spatter) top left of lower picture. Doesn't look original anyway.
I don't do any of this sort of thing but first impression was that this looked a bit naughty
Batteries not charging as expected
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I believe one can distill the Lithium out of it and take it in hot tea to cancel out the anxiety one experiences about not recycling. It apparently interacts with the serotonin.
The rest can be put in the bin.