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jonesthenuke

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  1. Try agricultural merchants like TFM if you want Golden Film and buy 20L rather than 5 (you will use it). Golden Film commands a premium price from many suppliers (morris included if you order direct) Alternatively try Smith and Allan or Westway Oils, look for oils which are both SAE30 and API CC (thus a low detergent oil like Golden Film), plenty of listings on eBay and these will include delivery.
  2. Try Wet and Forget, it's a biocide. Follow instructions, do not drink, do not pour in canal, etc etc
  3. I am curious about the standardised design for BCN gates. Does it utilise a frame faced with planks as shown in your coloured drawing or is it constructed in the current style with thick timbers placed side by side and held together with long transverse bolts? A couple of years ago I have a long conversation with a CRT guy who explained to me that the modern style tend to bow under water pressure as they age and this causes the paddles to stick in their frames. I would appreciate a look at the new design if that is possible.
  4. Just use the oil from Westway, it is the spec you originally asked for.
  5. This supplier provides 15W40 in API CC. I have used oil from this supplier before and it's been fine, though I have not used this particular oil as I need a straight SAE30. The price includes delivery. PS The company is adjacent to the Staff and Worcs canal in Wombourne https://www.westwayoils.co.uk/products/15w40-mineral-classic-oil-high-zinc-zddp?_pos=6&_sid=725db1702&_ss=r
  6. On the Bradley Canal restoration there is a large tree with three trunks below the lowest lock. The tree sits in the bed of the canal where the bywash used to emerge. The CRT ecologist will not allow us to remove it even though it's in the bed of the canal. D'Oh!
  7. The trees do seem like a big risk to me. They add a lot of weight, but also catch the wind and then topple and collapse. Sadly, allowing unrestricted tree growth is very much the norm on cuttings for roads and motorways these days. Consequently I suspect more incidents will result. Having said that, I fully agree that the Easenhall cutting looks to be too steep an angle given that the soil appears to be soft throughout the depth of the cut.
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  9. AFAIK the S&W cottage were not timber framed but all brick. I still doubt this is a lock cottage.
  10. I think my suggestion is largely valid, though I accept your argument. Abandoned locks may only have collapsed due to decades of dereliction and zero maintenance and thus this does not necessarily negate the value of the original design. Also I suspect there are some part demolished locks (or photos of them in a part deconstructed state) which will also give an indication of the designs used.
  11. So what's this- F'ing scotch mist? Perhaps you should engage brain before letting clutch out on keyboard! Just search BA spanner in RS https://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/?searchTerm=BA+spanner
  12. BA spanners are available, Zoro, RS, Amazon and of course eBay have them. RDG tools have some open ended spanner sets which look ok and they have BA socket sets . Quality spanners from named suppliers are becoming quite expensive (ELORA etc). I am not sure you will find combination spanners. Nuts and bolts are available from model engineering suppliers but again the low demand causes prices to be much higher than equivalent size metric fasteners. Taps and dies are available from model engineering suppliers.
  13. I doubt it, all the Staffs and Worcs lock cottage locations that I know of are alongside the lock.
  14. Gothersley lock cottage on the Staff and Worcs is for sale, though the title "cottage" is somewhat understating the nature of the property. https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/145218935#/?channel=RES_BUY
  15. B.A. threads were mainly used in the even sizes, 0, 2, 4, 6 etc. IIRC the GPO used a lot of the odd numbered sizes in their equipment, apparently to stop them being used for homers by their staff.
  16. When you have chosen the two pack paint system that you are going to use, download and read the instructions carefully. It is highly likely (near certain) that it will specify that the substrate should be shot blasted, usually to a standard of Sa2.5. If you choose to do any less than the paint manufacturer specifies then you are likely to be disappointed by the outcome. Note the same applies to meeting all the requirements, such as ambient temperature, humidity, curing time before re-floating the boat etc. Any boat yard saying they know better and that you do not need to comply with the manufacturer's specification is at best taking a chance and would make me doubt their competence to do the work. After all its worth doing the job properly as it should last many years if done correctly.
  17. At least some of the Perry Barr flight work as originally intended with automatic closure of the lower gates when filling the lock. I tried this last time we went through (about 3 years ago) and the ones I tried all worked. PS I think there is an Andy Tidy Canal-hunter video showing them working.
  18. Just a thought, but are there any derelict locks that would give an idea of construction and design? I am thinking of the scenario where part of the walls have collapsed, thus allowing an insight into brickwork thickness etc.
  19. Similarly on Romney marsh. The roads have ditches along side and the practice was to plant in the ditch sides and bottom, however this is on a far smaller scale than a canal cutting and is this not a model for growing trees in massive cuttings. In recent decades farmers on the Marsh have grubbed out trees and filled in roadside ditches to gain more farmland. Now they complain that the fields get waterlogged and flood in heavy rain such as occurred this week.
  20. Trees do not dewater in the winter when they are not growing so I suggest the effect of trees is minimal at best. Large trees are not required to stabilise the bank, small trees and bushes would do.
  21. I seem to be getting this due to a change in Chrome? I have a link to the .gov.uk river levels site and I persistently got this error, so have had to create a new link to the site and now its repeatedly OK
  22. This does sound like a lack of fuel, embarrassingly we had this issue when I left the fuel line isolated at the tank, the engine ran for quite some Time on what was already in the system. Coasting to a some hundreds of yards down the canal was a surprise. Given what has already been done I suggest removing the bowl from the Amal pump and checking its clean. Then pump fuel through using the lever on the Amal pump making sure the engine cam is not holding the pump arm pressed down (rotate engine a bit if needed). On our 3LW you can feel a change when the pump has filled the system, this gives some indication that the pump is working. Another thought would be to take the air/fuel vent line off the fuel filter and check fuel/air comes out when manually pumping with the AMAL. A word of caution though, on our boat the fuel filter is below the top of the fuel tank, so if the tank is full to the top, fuel flows from the tank continuously so I cannot do this check if the tank is full.
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  24. I wonder about the effect of the trees in these cuttings, now allowed to grow very large. On one hand the roots will provide some stabilisation of the bank, on the other, a tree uprooted due to wind causes significant bank damage, perhaps exacerbating the state of the ground which is saturated and ready to slip. So, what would the designer of the cutting have expected in terms of allowing unrestricted tree growth? Is there any evidence that the cuttings were kept clear of large trees in the past?
  25. No room for toe weighting in that cutting. The toe weights at Folkestone warren extend to 50m or more in width. Drains would help but I would think difficult to install.
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