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  1. 4 hours ago, Momac said:

    But it didn't work

    I did have an A series in one car that dis not leak oil but I think that was unique 

     

    I had a Riley Elf that didn't leak any oil (except for the time I changed the oil and didn't tighten up the bolt securing the oil filter... 😒)

  2. 5 hours ago, Mike Todd said:

    "Characterful Stone Detached Residence": characterful = semi derelict

     

    "For many, the dream of living with the peace and serenity" - fails to mention that it is v close to motorway and dual carriageway roads and shares a site/access with a former industrial activity of undisclosed nature

     

    Who'd be an Estate Agent? 

     

    A pathological liar? :)

     

  3. 11 hours ago, robtheplod said:

    BCBM are a good company to deal with. The syndicates may work slightly differently so be aware. Some build up a pot of cash for large works, whilst others will ask the shareholders to chip in when needed to cover the large jobs - if you're looking for an in, try to avoid the latter just when a new engine/paint job is planned although most syndicates will go easy on you!

     

    Living abroad you may not get the best part of being in a share, which is the unexpected week or two that crop up last minute for free as someone elses plans change...... unless you can get over here quickly!  :)

     

    I had shares in boats for 21 years and because of work commitments only managed one impromptu week in all that time... :(

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Tracy D'arth said:

    The good folk of Wolverhampton keep the canals full.

     

    Indeed, you used to find locks piled high with detergent foam.

     

    Given the water companies recent practices, I wonder if the foam will make a return?

  5. 4 hours ago, Paul C said:

     

    We got £3k off the purchase price of our first boat we bought, due to the survey. And they spotted the propeller nut wasn't present. So it worked out for us.

     

    Likewise, the surveyor noted the inverter wasn't working. Seller agreed to a £2K price drop rather than get it repaired. When I got the boat home and plugged it into my mains the inverter worked, so it must have been a dodgy supply at the dry dock.

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  6. 1 hour ago, dmr said:

    Try a different cable and USB socket, these things can be very temperamental and fussy. I suspect its USB C? These have loads of little contacts inside and it only takes a bit of wear for it all to go wrong.

     

    If its USB C, the socket on the phone often gets fluff and dust in it. A wooden cocktail stick or better still soft plastic equivalent easily clears it out.

  7. 2 hours ago, MtB said:

     

    Didn't there used to be a thing called a "Mooring Licence"? 

     

    Pretty sure boats with a CRT or BW mooring used to display two license 'discs' back in the day. One being the normal boat license and the other being one's mooring license when mooring on line. 

     

     

     

    Still is but you no longer get a bit of paper to display.

  8. On 21/03/2024 at 12:22, Hudds Lad said:

    Well, i like it. Only been boating for nine years so it's nice to see how places i've been looked before i saw them for the first time.

     

    Thread drift is an inevitable fact of forums, unless moderated with an iron fist, and surely no-one wants that?

     

    Completely agree. I've been boating for 51 years, and had shares in boats from around the same time as @PeterScott. Hence many of his photos resonate with me as I recognise the locations and the boats.

     

    I will echo.what others have said, if some people don't like liking at the photos taken by @PeterScott then why look at this thread?

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  9. 3 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:

    I do like demobilisation. I wonder if they mobilised the construction site in the first place, though I suppose that would the second place, as they'd have mobilised it from the first place, in the first place, to Tod, which would then be the second place.

    I wonder though how you can demobilise a site, unless you just take the wheels off.

    Not that it matters. Happy St Pat's Day everyone, I'm off to play me fiddle.

     

    I suspect that someone has heard the project manager talking about mobilisation without understanding what it means.

     

    It is the contractors and sub-contractors that are mobilised, i.e. they turn up on site to do some work and de-mobilised when they finally leave site at the end of the job.

  10. I don't know if they still offer it, but when I bought my boat 10 years ago RCR offered to train you on your own boat for £150. Basically you undertook the service under their instruction and they provided the materials.

     

    Years ago I used to service my own cars, but many years of company cars had resulted in my practical skills going a bit rusty. The technician was allocated 4 hours, so when I had completed my service in less than an hour, he offered to show me how to maintain various bits of the boat not included in the official RCR course, which of course I accepted.

     

    It was definitely money well spent.

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  11. 2 minutes ago, IanD said:

     

    On the first canal holiday -- well, weekend -- I went on with some friends many years ago, the "experienced" steerer (whose idea it was) mostly treated the throttle as binary -- only two positions, (full) on and off. Well three actually, especially in locks -- full astern, off and full ahead. Cue lots of noise and smoke and thrashing water everywhere... 😞 

     

    My late mate used to drive like that, full throttle or full on brakes. I put it down to the fact that his first car was a Citroen 2CV and he never changed his driving style after that, even when he had a Porsche Boxter... :)

     

  12. 6 minutes ago, PeterScott said:

    Yesterday 2024

     

     

     

     

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    Gas Street Basin Birmingham

    Compare  1970s  #Sep1979  1Jun1987  25Jun1990  23Jun2002 (#2) (#3) (#49Aug2006 28Nov2008 24Jun2010  23Mar2004  24Mar2004  28Nov2008  13Nov2005  7Aug2016  19Aug2016  2Jul2018 (#2) (#331Aug2019  20Oct2020  23Jul2021  31Aug2023

     

     

    Black Sabbath Bridge BCN

     

    I've said this before, but I still don't understand why CRT didn't name one of the many heavy metal bridges like this one as the Black Sabbath Bridge rather than a brick one.

     

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  13. 14 hours ago, PeterScott said:

     

    For a moment I though CRT had added two park benches to the roundabout at Old Turn.

     

    I was wondering how tired passers-by were supposed to access them?  :)

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  14. 4 hours ago, Higgs said:

     

    I've had a 3 mobile, unlimited everything, for four years. Due to be renewed. Thinking, maybe not. For the amounts I have been able to use, and my average needs, I might just try a Vodaphone monthy sim deal, for half of what I'm paying now. And I'm only paying £19.00 now, for 3.

     

    I also have a phone on Tesco's PAYG. Too expensive to do more than texting, and the odd phone call. The good thing about it is, I put a tenner on it when it runs out of credit, no having to lose what isn't used every month. The credit rolls over, for as long as the credit lasts.

     

     

     

     

    My wife has a Tesco PAYG mobile which she only uses for emergency use. Recently it ran out of credit, despite not being used. When I queried it, Tesco said they have changed their policy and the credit is lost if the phone is unused for 90 days. I believe this brings them into line with other PAYG providers.

  15. 17 hours ago, MtB said:

    I was wondering if it would get the verdigris off LG's brassware.... 

     

     

     

    Failing that perhaps it could be used as a paint stripper? :)

     

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