waterworks
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My phone is on another network and basically cannot make any calls from that location , texts come through . Nothing to meter signal strength, a house has been built on the hill in the direction where my signal comes from.
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I'm using mobile Internet from a Huawei B535 which started out fast enough but the signal has dropped to nothing over the last year where I am, can anyone recommend a low cost external antenna for it ? I only need enough speed to get basic Internet, I'm not sending files or working from home.
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I asked the Mods to delete this. Everything was legit except the owner fly tipped rubbish on the towpath and a mattress behind a bridge. Case closed.
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I have a Voyager 4500 LPG cooker which needs a new jet on a hob burner, can anyone tell me if the jets are a generic item all the same thread ? My jet has a " 61" number on it and I can see that similar is a few quid on Ebay while the OEM part is double or triple that .
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Mods please delete this post now as new information has come about.
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This boat ( 512095) has appeared on tne Grand Union near Milton Keynes and is being hastily repainted , the people doing it are suspect as hell in my opinion, claim to be boat painters but know nothing about it , maybe totally legit but checking suspicions are how we find stolen boats.
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I made my own from refractory cement ( not fire cement ) and a simple plywood form, they lasted as long or more than off the shelf Morso bricks and were a fraction of the cost.
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This fuel tank dipstick came from a Town class motor , is it an original part , do other boats have them or is it a later addition ? It got chopped in half at some point. Anyone can have it if it is useful as its only in my scrap bin.
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Anyone know anything about a set up for a 60 ft NB with an enclosed AC Diesel generator and electric motor propulsion ? How big a generator ? Single or 3 phase ? What kind of motor ?
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Can anyone show me what kind of steelwork a large vintage engine sits on, I have a NB shell I'm converting from a rear modern engine to a traditional engine room with a JP3 ( hydraulic drive no propshaft ), I have 120 x 75 angle floor bearers at 450 mm spacing , this engine needs 350 mm + clearance from the floor to mounting brackets, that's a lot of height to make up. How has it been done on your boat ?
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Wha5 happened to the boat in field man ?
waterworks replied to waterworks's topic in General Boating
Did he get away with it or was he prosecuted ? -
Can anyone tell me what happened to the boat in the field case or link me to the discussion that was on here ?
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I painted a nb stern just above the waterline with cheap red oxide from Srewfix and an old can of DIY store water based gloss , it's still there 5 years later.
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Oxide primer has to be in contact ( chemically bonded )with bare steel to have any anti corrosion effect , putting Vactan under it just stops it working, a self defeating waste of time and money.
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The people who broke into my mooring are Gypsy / Travellers , the police have their vehicle linked to theft of a caravan on the same night.
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Our offside CRT mooring was broken into last night and a generator stolen , can anyone reccomend a camera for security? There is no mains power and I only have very limited solar in winter, maybe a trail cam ? Nothing fancy or expensive just images saved to a memory card. Good news is that there is only one entrance and exit and a tree to mount it on.
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Lit torch straight down the manifold as you start it works the same as ether.
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If you don't want to use ether then use a gas torch in the air intake manifold.
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If its thin say 1 mm ( like mine ) then it will expand and contract and get much hotter than thick mild steel so it sheds all the soot by itself. I never need to sweep mine .
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1mm stainless will last for a lifetime, I have it on my stove, because its thin it sheds soot and rarely needs sweeping out, plus the radiation you get from it significantly gets more heat into the room.
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cooking on a one pad cooking wood burning stove recipies
waterworks replied to Anthony James's topic in Recipes
Get a Dutch oven that fits inside the stove, you only need a few coals to cook in one. -
Fitting new stove door rope tips?
waterworks replied to Hudds Lad's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
You dont need rope glue, you can use high temp silicone if you have that left over. Works the same. -
If your just doing DIY projects then stick will do most of it IF you learn how to use it on low amps. Get some 2mm 6013 for sheet metal work, ( forget 1.6) which should get you down below 40 amps. Learn to use run off plates and copper backing plates and all the tricks . DIY welders run to MIG first for no real reason than they can't be bothered to learn stick welding. Oh and ignore DIY flux core.
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Forget it now , too late, mods please delete this post. I should have known better to post it on here.
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Can someone report Diesel in the water around Soulbury Three Locks on the Grand Union, near Milton Keynes ( Post code MK179DD,) it's at least 100 metres long oil spill, I dont have my phone on me at the moment.
