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  1. This post cannot be displayed because it is in a forum which requires at least 10 posts to view.
  2. I got sucked into fluorescent lamps when I should have said UV lamps for detecting holes in condenser tubes.
  3. I've used fluorescein at sea in a previous life to find leaks in condensers on steam turbines. Used in conjunction with fluorescent lamps (as stated by IanD).
  4. Or neither of those two options, but a trip to Chester or along the Middlewich branch?
  5. Yes, I believe so. He’s back on YouTube at present with season 10, going down the S. Oxford.
  6. Yes, it is! Well I knew it began with a K!
  7. That’s Keith, known as Country House Gent, his site is Travels by Narrowboat.
  8. One of our previous owners had a share in our boat and also a share in another. He used to enjoy our AGMs as we rattled through the agenda in good time, but then dreaded the other one as it used to get bogged down in the most trivial of items.
  9. Yes the Black Prince base is further towards Worcester, in fact, it’s beyond the bottom of the Tardebigge flight, so lots of locks to get to Brum.
  10. The Anglo Welsh base at Tardebigge is at the top of the flight, so lock free into Birmingham.
  11. Our shared owners boat is reverse layout, ie from the rear-galley, dinette, bathroom, fixed double, lounge with en-suite. This suited us when our son and daughter came with us as it allowed three distinct sleeping areas each with access to a WC at night without disturbing anybody.
  12. If I remember correctly, Hexagon narrowboats were/are built in Poland. Before they went bust, Ownerships had some Polish built narrowboats, possibly by Hexagon?
  13. Extra zero on your figures Mr Hound! There’s only 8,760 hours in a year! The Beta 43 which replaced the BMC referenced above, was fitted in 2014 and is just approaching 10,000 hours. It’s running well, and has been regularly serviced.
  14. The designated licence holder is actually away on board at present. And I thought this was a forum, not Facebook? This forum is a far better source of canal related info than F/B.
  15. I don’t get it as I’m not the designated licence holder for our shared owners boat.
  16. Yes, that’s what I thought. They have plenty of skips for recycling, ie cardboard, garden waste, oil, metal, clothing, etc. I guess that the material used to produce energy is the wood and suitable stuff in the general waste.
  17. I went to our local tip last week. On driving out, there is a sign stating that 99.7% of the waste is diverted from landfill. What would be nice to know is exactly what happens to it all.
  18. One of our owners has just done that trip this week. He said there’s a fair bit of weed, but he had a couple of trips down the weedhatch to remove discarded clothing. Quite a lot of rubbish to be seen too.
  19. And Black Prince at Wigrams.
  20. Our boat is fairly deep, somewhere around 30” or a shade more and we did Llangollen three times in the last three years. Several of the other owners have made it too. It’s a bit shallow near bridge 34W, we were scraping the bottom for maybe 50 yards or so, but shouldn’t be a problem for you.
  21. That’s something I not heard before. Ours is a Reeves with corner bath, so perhaps we’ve got the extra foot! We’ve never been anywhere on the system with the shorter locks, so we haven’t had to lift fenders to fit in locks.
  22. For me living south of the Thames, Essex is the North!!
  23. Yes, I fell into that trap last year on the Llangollen.
  24. This happened just a mile or so from us. Unit full of plastic, went up in smoke and took sometime for the fire service to put out. Renters of the unit who filled it were long gone.
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