BlueStringPudding

That doesn't make any sense for patients taking medication for chronic conditions, like me. My medications have remained the same for decades and will continue to do so for the foreseeable, so there won't be any wastage. There must be something else behind the policy.

And mine will only allow one month at a time, even if you're going away on holiday or the prescription runs out over Christmas while they're closed! Total pain.

Thanks everyone 😊

Now my problem is trying to find a wet lead starter battery that has both the terminals on the same side (the left). This is where I discover that Midland Swindlers' photos of starter batteries don't match their descriptions! 🤔 And how many amp hours does it need to be?

Brilliant. Thanks everyone. I'll ask my monkey man to measure up the old one so that I definitely get the right size and check the terminal layout. I suspected the boatyard guy was making it sound way more problematic (and expensive) that it was! 🤔 I also had my doubts when he questioned in disbelief that my Kubota 3 cylinder really had 3 cylinders! What!? No worries. I'll find myself a cheapy online. Sealed or wet, do you reckon? I've had sealed domestics before but they didn't last long so I went back to wet. Does the same apply to wet vs sealed starter batteries?

I need to buy a new starter battery. But I've no idea which to get. I've got a fairly basic 12v set up, with 4 × 12v wet domestic batteries charged by their own alternator, and a 12v wet starter battery with its own separate alternator. Looking on Midland Swindlers website they've got sealed starter batteries, wet lead starter batteries, 2 different brands, some with 2 terminals, some at £60 and some at £85. I don't know what's best to get, or whether I should go for a different brand from somewhere else? https://www.midlandchandlers.co.uk/search?query=Starter+battery (Having just had a chat with a chap from a nearby boatyard, he's made buying a starter battery sound very complicated and expensive (£125) and that it takes up to a month to order one in. Midland Swindlers have them in stock ready to dispatch, but boatyard guy said their batteries are rubbish (I paraphrase). He wouldn't tell me what brand battery it would likely be for £125, so I felt a bit fobbed off.) Any starter battery buying advice, please?

Great video! I would really have liked to have a go on that. Although maybe not when the tracks were lubricated with leaked oil 🤔😃

Carpe Diem = Seize the Fish Or Fish of the Day 😉

Youre right. And funnily enough, I didn't have my reading glasses on! 🤓 Rising Sun banter must have been 2011. I've been on the forum since 2006. What made you think of the banter? Edited to add: ironically I didn't need reading glasses when the thread was originally started 🤔 😀

Excellent news, Carp. Wow indeed - your original post was 3 years before I joined the forum, and I thought I was one of the old pieces of furniture here. 😉 Happy travels, hope to see you pootling along the cut someday soon 😊

Cool. Thanks everyone. Saves me a job 😊

Give or take, it's 32cm long × 18 cm diameter. Kind of about the size of a really fat bottle of Coke to look at, I reckon. So maybe 3-5 litres?

Thanks. But how does one find out if it's got a self-closing valve, if it needs one? (It's for a drip fed heater, not an engine)

This is what I'm talking about:

Well, Alan, someone told me it had to go to pass the BSS. Either someone on here or possibly the BSS examiner last time around, when I got him to look at the installation (it hadn't yet all been connected up) Of course if it can stay, I'll be happier, less work for me and I still get to see how much fuel is in the tank! 😊

They're on a diesel day tank I acquired second hand, holding in place the "sight glass" aka see-through straw wot shows the level of fuel in the tank like this -> 🌡 I need to replace it with some sort of end nuts / blanking nuts, to take the level indicator out altogether, so I'm ship-shape for my BSS later this year. 😊

I need to replace a couple of brass nuts. The nuts fit a number 12 spanner (deduced because the number 11 spanner was a fraction too small, the number 13 is too big, and the number 12 spanner is missing 😉 ) Any idea what size nut fits a number 12 spanner please? 🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧🔧

Morsels of food that get washed down the kitchen sink, perhaps.

I've done that before. Or better still, pretend to be broadcasting it live to Facebook from your phone. That way they might think twice about trying hurt you to destroy the evidence on your phone and rather feel a sense of urgency to b*gger off.