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BD3Bill

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  1. Incidentally folks, Interzone 954 also comes as 954-BG, suitable for brush or roller application, which is nice...
  2. So right, I was so right... sussed! Touche !
  3. "Awesome", really, on this august forum of all places? Well really! Cheers !
  4. We don't have arguments here, just discussions I think the line/ stiffness of a hull is the factor in going to heavier steel to be fair
  5. And I cut my hands a couple of times on mill scale that came out of a British Steel plant Chap. I concur utterly, bitumen is for wooden boats. Now if they made anodes that were like a rubbling strake from front to back, that'd work ( if it didn't rub on canal 'furniture' Cheers ( I'm not a total numpty, just a bit of a numpty, sometimes :0) )
  6. Ahhh. the vagaries of the internet, so briefly do yesterdays posts become stale. If you have to do that much bailing you do have a problem somewhere. The 'linking' of the batteries sounds odd. One for starter and one for 'House" is better surely? Can you compare the voltages stored in each? Have you tried the pumps, do they actually do anything if you connect them? Maybe a little 12v battery (motorcycle size ) connected up to them to see if they do work at all?
  7. Fairplay But you would agree ( for the OP's benefit ) that the treatment of the hull after manufacture is vital in terms of prep & coatings? Would you also agree that the design and placement of Anodes on the average NB is far from ideal?
  8. So I'm not imagining it/ mad/ making sweeping statements then. If I knew how I'd give you a greenie... Cheers!
  9. http://www.eef.org.uk/uksteel/Representing-our-sector/briefings/UK-Steel-warns-about-Chinese-structural-steels.htm mmm.... interesting reading.
  10. I bow to your superior knowledge, its 30 years since I worked as a guillotine operator on sheet metal. Glad to hear quality is better controlled nowadays. Cheers
  11. Hi and welcome to the forum If I were having a boat built from scratch I think I would share your concern. I would absolutely insist that Chinese steel was not used. In the 1970's folk used to jest that Japanese car were made of recycled razor blades, the Chinese use a great deal of recycled steel.... If you want to be really pedantic, which I think I would, I would specify steel from Sweden made by Sandvik or German steel made by Krupps. Good info btw; But steel can meet OR EXCEED this standard of course. You WILL pay more, you will be happy. Far more important is how the steel is treated once it is all welded together and that's a whole other thread. Cheers! Bill
  12. Maybe it was someone's Propellor?
  13. You need a float switch, so when the bilges start filling the pumps come on automatically, one for each pump. If you are connecting them directly to the battery (by-passing the main isolator) fit a fuse in line in case of a short circuit. Wire them separately. If you want to fit a manual switch avoid the three position on-off-auto bilge pump switches. Just flick the float switch with a stick, brolly, broom.... etc.
  14. With Bows shaped like it has very little chance of getting on the plane IMHO. Looks like a BW work boat !
  15. I should think it will go up the Rhine against the tide if it has a decent prop ! The lorry exhaust is priceless.
  16. Click on the linky for the whole Marmite experience...
  17. I do wonder if a lot of these battery problems we see on here are related to poor interconnection of battery banks??? Even though I only have two leisure batteries I found the existing arrangement was wrong, & wonder how much of the previous owners problems / dead bank were down to this one simple factor??? Go and look at Mr Brooks excellent diagrams ! The good fellows who venerate Trojans will of course be an exception by the very nature of how the banks have to be built up as they are multiples of 6v...mmm. I read these threads with great interest as someone who doesn't get problems with the batteries. ( That'll jinx me ! ) What I do conclude is Inverters are bad. ( Runs for cover ! ) Is this assumption wholly wrong? Cheers Bill
  18. Not much use to you single-handed folk I know but... I put the lovely Jayne ashore on the towpath. She holds a line to the T-stud on the bow. I reverse in a straight line along the towpath side. She doesn't have to haul or strain on the line, mostly it is slack. It works. When I've finished the reverse, she pulls the bow in, steps on with a push off and I start winding/turning. Saves a lot of stress. Cheers Bill
  19. I have a Briggs & Stratton P2000, it's a happy compromise between a Honda & a Kipor. Good discounts out there if you look. Incidentally I run it on Aspen fuel, horrendously expensive but doesn't go off like pump unleaded. Cleaner too.
  20. Sorry was away for the weekend, still it looks like you are sorted now Cheers
  21. Loafer has a BD3 engine I think. Warming up takes a long time as the 3 litre lump is a heavy beast at 450kgs, plus gearbox... I have had the same issues ( see 'Smaller Calorifier thread ) with it being slow to make a tank of hot water. I fitted a heat exchanger system ( copyright of Smileypete of this parish) instead of using the Cal-coils, reduced the time to about an hour. At the end of the day it's a tractor engine designed in the early 60's when having a tractor sat stationary in the yard running PTO machinery was still required, i.e. a cool running engine anyway... Cheers Bill P.S. and no my thermostat isn't a wrong un :0)) No disrespect to Mr Brooks, sorry if this sounds flippant, respect due Sir.
  22. I'm sure they did hand start as an "optional extra"( PMSL), with a lethal chain & sprocket arrangement to an auto decompressor (valve lifter)
  23. Pleasure to be of help, you'll want a new gasket for the thermostat housing, you knew that :0)
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