Roadsteam
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I heard of a fluid flywheel going walkies once from off of a diesel railcar engine(11.1ltr Leyland) at full chat, it cleared IIRC 6 railway lines and partially demolished a house before stopping, it would have been a similar weight to a JP3 flywheel.
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Rose Narrowboats at Stretton Whf also have an indoor painting facility.
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Unfortunately, bizarre objects which can & do get caught in a propeller and require a trip down the weedhatch, can end up in any canal, even well maintained ones. Granted that there seems to be more in some canals than others, eg BCN has a particularly poor reputation for debris in the canal.
How about 10ft length of 6ft high chain link fencing wrapped around the prop of a tug, if the dredger had been unable to lift the stern high enough out of the water to get and cut the wire off it would have been a drydock job. The operator of the tug was not amused.
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In my experience the return pipes on ST and HR used to snap against the inside edge of the rubber where the pipes pass out thro the cylinder heads. A big clue is the high oil level & thin oil with a dieselly smell. Another place that can dump diesel in the sump I used to find was the check valves in the top of the injector pumps working loose in the pump.
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The old arm is blocked off by mountains of rubble just behind the two moored boats, so there is room for only 3 boats - one of which is the Willow Wren trainer boat.
That was done years ago when the deck was removed from the railway bridge.
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The Ansty signs were because the 'lady' who owned the house they are in front of was at the time a local councillor and was a mouthy piece who demanded them or BW would find her apposing them when ever possible at council level. That is what I was told by people involved in installing the signs.
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The reason for not dropping the ham baker paddles now is that the paddle boards are different to when they were designed and the lower rubber buffers are quite often no longer in the right place to do their job. So instead of the board landing on rubber it smacks into the iron frame. Information from retd lockie at Stockton, retd lockie at Bascote and current principle engineer for south east.
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I had 'greentyre' solids on a bike that i used on the towpaths. They were bloody awfull, the effort to pedal was higher than on pneumatics, on soft going they were hard work as the footprint was smaller than pneumatics so the tyre sank in and on tarmac etc they could slide out from under you very easily being made of plastic rather than rubber which has a better grip. As well as the problem that they wrecked the wheels by breaking the spokes cos they transmit a lot more shock thro to the wheel which also showed up in that after some time i would find my hands tingling from the transmitted vibration and one day the jolting thro the saddle put my back out.
Changed over to Schwelbe Marathon Plus and still had punctures so fitted 'Slime' tubes. That cured it but eventually you will get a flat tyre that wont blow up or reseal as the slime is exhausted, removing the tyre to change the tube the sight is that the tube is absolutely covered in tufts of fluff and the inside of the tyre is riddled with thorns, i think there was something like 50 thorns in each tyre. Now the slime is a double dose plus slime thorn bands.
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The gap inside the pulley on the front looks to me to be because there is a steel(most likely) collar on the front of the tin pulley.
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Have spoken to very helpful chap at Calcutt and he says the cylinders are dry lined and a crack in a liner is not uncommon and would lead to exactly the problems I have had
Well with that comment the chap at Calcutt has contradicted himself. A dry liner is exactly that, it is pressed into a bored block so if the liner had a crack the block is still holding the water so no water in the sump or cylinder. A wet liner if it cracks will let water thro as the outside is wet and its sealed top and bottom to keep the coolant in the cooling jacket.
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emulsified (yep I think I just made that word up)
No you havent, i have heard it used and used it for years.
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Tony Redshaw?
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Picture of my new diesel engine being delivered awaiting fitting to my 35ft. Springer.
Photoshop image of a Ford Festa engine sitting on a corgi 1/50 scale model truck and trailer.
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A picture is worth a thousand words they say and from your description it could be anything.
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The OP says he has changed seals etc so presumably the boxes have been in bits. So have the dipsticks got swapped??? the reduction box stick is the longer one.
Get them the wrong way round and neutral will be iffy/sluggish to happen and reverse does not engage..
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Your first picture, Shipton Lift Bridge, shows a boat on the bridge mooring he was wrong in his asertion that it was an official mooring. You should have come alongside and done what you had to do and tuff if you woke him up. However the bridge should be up. I think he is overstaying. I'm sure he was there before I left in October.
Your second picture shows Chisnel Bridge above Somerton Deep Lock. That is finely balanced normally. You only have to push it up and it should stay up, however a standard 9 foot boat hook will prop it up if the deck is wet.
As far as the lock down bridges are concerned they take vehicular traffic and locking down stops the farmer getting stuck on the wrong side as used to happen before the lock were fitted
Its a Bunbury pole I think but a standard 9 foot boat will do!
The 2nd bridge is not Br193 Chisnell Lift Bridge, that has a wooden post and rail fence along the t/p side with a 5 bar gate in it for the vehicle traffic.
Old picture of Chisnell Lift Br.
I think the 2nd pic is Br170 just south of Banbury looking towards Banbury.
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They look like very sensibly sized wine glasses - his and hers
Although I don't see why the lady has to have the biggest.
Whats wrong with pint glasses for the wine?
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1) I don't know. Your post would carry more weight if you had told us!
2) A cyclist needs about 2'6" at handlebar height, plus a bit for balance.
Hope that helps.
MtB
Sorry i was assuming that readers would generally be familiar with the location. I would estimate the width to be over 12ft at the point i was stood. So the remaining 9ft was not enough for her.
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Air cooled will always be noisier as there is no water and less metal to absorb combustion noise when compared to a water cooled job.
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I have been told on more than one occasion that the towpath is not a footpath,it is a cycle route.
George ex nb Alton retired
I was asked to mind out of the way by an early 20's female cyclist as she wanted to come by when i was stood on the t/p by the lift bridge at st edwards school in oxford one day, how wide is the t/p there and how much room does a cyclist need? She was told in no uncertain terms that the towpath is a path not a cycleway which means that the pedestrian has right of way and the cyclist gives way.
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There are quite a few cases of blown concrete covering over rebar on the concrete GU bridges going north from Braunston. There is also a lock in the 3 at Fosse IIRC that the facing has gone and the rebar mesh is exposed at the top gates.
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I used to have Trevor inspect boats for me and he was always straight and sensible, so i would use him again if required.
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Thils was shown at the very last xmas party at Bulls Bridge Repair Yard December 1991 and some of the men shown in the film were present, the storeman who handed over the bundle of hessian sacks being one and the fitter checking the revs of the rebuilt engine on test another.
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The top gates usually seal a lot better than the bottoms due to the tops being smaller. So less lost water.
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IIRC the APU on a Vulcan was a small electric start gas turbine(jet), I am sure that there was one for sale at Station Road Steam.