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Due to the wierd and wonderful plumbing system that Baldock has we need to fit an "automatic" temp controlled valve on the calorifier circuit
Ideally switching between 74 and 88 deg in an utopian world)
The reason being is: if th Calorifier circuit is left "open" the engine ues this as a short circuit and the water will not go through the cooling pipes ie: Engine overheat !
Any and all suggestions much appreciated before I get too bogged down on the internet trying to find something I am not sure of what I am looking for !
Ta
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I recently dropped my prize aluminium windlass into a lock. I desperately would like to find a similar replacement. On the handle was written something like: DUBLO, or very similar wording.
I am unable to find any reference to these letters on the web and would much appreciate any advice from fellow readers. Is there anybody that can help ?
Without making a plug
Uxbridge Boat Centre 01895 252019
and they do mail order
Chris
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My wife makes a loud humming sound when she's on heat
Far to much information thank you
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wow, some nice gear there.
just a few servos away from being a radio controllable boat too
Visions of the HBF zigzagging along the summit spring to mind ....
Ok i'll get the coat on
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Funnily enough the backcabin (I've never heard a boatman call it his 'boatman's cabin) is, contrary to what Steve says, ideal for singlehanding. How else do you keep your tea pot on the go without a backcabin stove and water can?
As will all things to do with "trad" narrowboats the backcabin has become a pastiche of the original concept
Baldock's backcabin admittably has been rebuilt at least twice to my knowledge but still retains the atmosphere and originality of the 1936 build
So many of the modern trophy boat replica cabins have like Steve Hudsons bows become so distorted over the years it's hard to tell what they are really supposed to be
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65 Deg is the correct running temperature for a Marine RAW WATER COOLED HRW3 this temp was ordained by those who knew things at Lister's to avoid calcification of salt water in and around the Heat Exchanger
A HRW3 on a Keel Cooled system would typically be run with either a 74 or 88 Deg Thermostat depending on if you have a calorifier fitted and how hot you wanted that water to be.
The engine itself will run happily at either of the higher temps
The HRW3 in our boat we sold was fitted with an 74 Deg 'stat and did not run with a sooty exhaust
Chris
Lister Petter Marinisers, Spares and Advice
Edited cos I cannot spell !
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It's OK. I've strapped the blades so that they can't spin
ECOFAN "2" ( The bondage model)
I do worry sometimes
Sometimes I just worry
Sometimes I Just
Sometimes I
Sometimes
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A'noon, all,
Treated myself to a three blade EcoFan this afternoon, but have discovered that if I place it at the rear of my Morso Squirrel it overhangs a bit and could be easily knocked.
Anyone actually had experience of putting one at the front? Does it really make any difference in real life where it's placed?
Did you get the one with the safety guard around the revolving blades ??
Just an observation
with your current form
OK My coat is on
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On the face of it these two products seem to do much the same thing?
http://www.victronenergy.com/upload/docume...eryCombiner.pdf
http://www.smartgauge.co.uk/sbdesc.html
Does anyone have any experience of either of them. Does one offer worthwhile advantages over the other? Any recommendations? I ask as I am planning on fitting one (or the other).
All suggestions gratefully received.
Endeavour, if you want to see a smartbank/smarguage setup in situ please contact me with a phone number
we are moored in Uxbridge and are very pleased with it
Chris
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Out of curiosity, and just to let me know I'm not the only one that has a place they can't "face" going through ...
(Remember - A Phobia is an IRRATIONAL fear ...)
This week I had utterly intended to REALLY start CC-in by going from Uxbridge to Bishops Stortford ... weeeellll, that was the plan.
I'm f*cking terrified of going through Camden!
I know I can do locks on my own.
I know the police are there.
I know that the druggies and drunks won't affect me really.
But I'm still sat at Greenford and have agreed a "Plan B" with who I was going to meet at Bishops Stortford.
So - does anyone else have an utterly irrational fear of going to/through somewhere?
Untie your boat and get down those locks !
or else..........
It's nothing to worry about
The worst thing to happen will be you making a prat of yourself and 100000 tourists taking the piss
Just Do It Young Man
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lol:I don't think you should be doing that during working hours ...........................
Some of the to**ers we get here would challenge that view !!!
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Boringly and typically mine is the name of the boat ( full marks for originality!)
Now for the even more boring bit, The Name is Chris Bennet and for my sins
I w**k for Marine Engine Services in Uxbridge (Lister-Petter and Isuzu Distributors) so if you need bits or just want to abuse me now you all know ! ( ok cheap free plug as well)Chris
Oh yes and my spoiling spilling sppellin spelling is c***p
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Buckby can?
- I hope it used... ...non of this pretending lark!
Daniel
Used when the range ( Chernobyl Mk2) is fired up and we are making brew ups in back cabin
In summer usually used to put all the empty beer cans in as decoration
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Then I suggest you don't look at the front cover of issue 69 of Fluvial, the French equivalent of WW:
http://www.fluvialnet.com/lemag/article/zo...r=images/69.jpg
"Not suitable for work", as they say over here. The French are of course a little more liberal.
Wouldn't that qualify as a breasted pair ??
Chris
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Do you need to be invited John? I thought they were open to all
Ohhhh I love a good stoneing
walks away humming...." always look on the bright side of life"
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no honestly, they come that colour when you buy them...
lol ok
Nice shot of Shirley's cafe in the background btw
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oh do tell me where it is so i can avoid that place... sounds like a tossers paradise.
i will have you know, that it is perfectly possible to utilise the space on the roof, for practical purposes. there is not one thing on my roof that is junk or will not be recycled or repaired in the next few weeks.
our roof space is a constantly changing landscape, and despite all the stuff up there, it is still possible to walk up and down the entire length. plus we dont fanny about mooring up in a marina permanently and polishing relentlessly to keep up appearances, but we actually use our boat... guess what... as a boat not a floating caravan.
see... the dog can do it no worries
I also forgot the two deck brushes we have on the roof...
errr is that "legally" qualified as dog ???
Oh and your brasses need polishing !
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It does seem a little strange to me that we have just had probably ten consecutive threads along the lines of "My boat looks like a floating scrap-yard, I don't care and I think I am quite proud of it".
Soon we will have another thread with someone wingeing that they have just had an eviction notice, is it just possible that there is a connection.
In my marina there is a 'zero junk rule' whether on the boat or alongside it and all the existing moorers are all for it. Those that weren't have gone somewhere else, democracy in action.
I would assume that all you have on your roof then is your usual smugness !!
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Long Shaft, mop,short kebbing shaft ( no namby pampy weedhatch), centre line and boarding plank
Oh yes and occasionally but not always the two painted "buckby" watercans normally inside due to thieving scrotes
( Oh and one Rose in a plant pot !)
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Oh no here we go again ding ding round one
Glad I am going on my hols
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Hi Peeps. Just joined your 'merry throng', so will take the opportunity to say 'hi', as well as ask for some advice. Our boat is powered by a Lister SR3, (yes, I know, pension time!), which drives an 75amp alternator using the Lister 'big wheel' charging pulley. The boat has about 600amp of leisure batteries, plus of coarse a starter battery, controlled by a manual change-over switch. Recently, and because we don't do the long trips anymore, I have noticed that the time spent charging has increased. The SG of the batteries is OK, and having done a drop test, I know that there are no dead cells, so now I am looking at alternator units, Kestral, Advarc, or whatever, in order to lower engine running times when charging. Any recommendations as to whats available, and maybe a pointer or two towards the best to buy???
Dave.
I suggest you have a good look at currently running threads first
Otherwise there will be a battery of experts ( group noun for a gathering of electrical boffins)
getting tetchy again
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Not seen this, but it's inevitable when you think about it isn't it. Dunno what to do about it, thinking.
I know there are experts out there who are far more learned than I... but whay can't you just remove the 12v domestic alternator completly and use the travel power to feed the inverter/charger system No confusing back feeds then
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Id like a voluptuous naked lady as my tiller pin noggin thing.
where can i get one of those?
Full sized or scaled down ??????
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Erm, if anyone sees a brass hamster at a boot sale..........
With or without the singed arse ????
Temperature controlled Valve
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