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I have heard of people turning their fridge upside down for 24 hours after moving.
Problem is when fridges are transported on their side. Some new fridges have the box marked with which side should be up if carried on their side.
I have also heard that some fridges can lose the lubrication in the compressor if carried wrongly.
This is a method of getting old absorption fridges, powered by gas, to work. It mixes the ammonia crystals back in their refrigerant, allowing them to dissolve.
The OP's fridge is a conventional compressor fridge, which will be damaged if turned upside down, as it will allow liquid refrigerant into the compressor, and you can't compress a liquid!
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Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 14942208) (tried to allocate 97833 bytes) in /home/ggbqjfrf/public_html/forums/ips_kernel/classDbMysqliClient.php on line 234
Try clearing the cache of your device. It works every time for meme when I get fatal errors, but you will have to log in again.
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Mondays & Tuesdays are the quietest in Llangollen, so try to be there on a Monday.
Grindley Brook locks are a pinch point. I always try to stop at the top or bottom, depending on direction of travel, and have an early start the next day to get through them before the queues can build up.
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Didn't they try a submersible boat lift on the Somerset Coal Canal? Not identical but similar in principle to the yacht tilting lock.
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In my working days, one of the tasks my group had was to investigate all high impact power failures and near misses.
Wound devices (transformers and motors) failed about 3 times more often than power aemi-conductets, when weighted for population.
This was with very high quality components, which may not be the case with marine IT's and GI's.
My boat is fitted with a Vetus GI, which although reliable, has no failure (or even working) LED's and is mounted in such a place as to be extremely difficult to test. Ideally it needs a "door" cutting into the panel which covers it, to make access easier.
Does anyone know of a good carpenter in the Tamworth area that could do this work?
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I've heard that there may be riffraff on the canals, but never riprap
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I looked on lots of sites and yes it states light duty but it never said you can't use it outside, and I think electric lawn mowers use it in orange and I don't see much grass growing indoors.
Neil
Most cable is designed for internal use, so cable designed for external use will usually say so. If not the expectation is that it should be mechanically protected, I.e in connduit, or trunking.
As I said in post 2, the difference between the blue and the orange is the outer sheaths abrasion resistance. One is designed for outdoor use (hence orange is used on lawnmowers etc, and he is designed for internal use and flexibility at very low temperatures.
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Been through Stoke many times over the last 20 or so years, usually in school holidays on a share boat. Only time I had anything approaching trouble was on the Caldon, when the boat was hit by an air gun pellet, the shooter hiding in the undergrowth. No harm done other than a chip out of the paint.
I have had incidents near Wigan (thrown maggots), Rugby (thrown crab apples) and Bedworth (shot at by a youth with a BB gun filled with rubber pellets). None has caused any damage or put me off (although I did threaten the maggot throwing both with a windlass - he ran off before I could stop the boat and chase him). Usually pointing a camera at them causes them to stop and then run off.
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Given the number of times it brought your engine to a standstill I think "One stop" is a misnomer
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I bet your pleased your ordeal is finally over. Let's hope your insurance company picks up the tab.
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After clearing the cache on my tablet everything has returned to normal for me (for now).
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Same hear. Following one of the earlier comments I've cleared the cache and now working. Still slow but at least no fatal errors.
Thanks for the tip to clear the cache. I have just done this and can now read the threads that I was previously getting the fatal error message on.
Back to normal as last. Woohoo
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Forum is much faster for me now, but I still get fatal errors on the solar, neural earth and page 2 of the MtB broke the forum threads.
Edited to add the thread entitled "Question" is now coming up as a fatal error.
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I believe the abrasion resistance of the article blue cable is much lower than the orange. Therefore if you used the blue you would have to remember to check it frequently for abrasion damage.
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Contents of my workshop, lathe, welding kit gas and electric, both Snap-on tool trolleys, compressor, press, plus all my collection of odds and sods, think I could leave lawn mowers out.
According to a recent post, you may need the lawnmower if you intend to cruise the Staffs & Worcester
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Perhaps us CDWF addicts should set up a self-help group, at least until the forum is fixed?
"My names Alan and I'm a CDWF addict..."
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My experience is that it is no different than yesterday.
It is slow and I still cannot access some threads, just get a fatal error message, and they are the same threads as yesterday.
Strangest of all is the MtB broke the forum thread, where I can access page 1 but not page 2.
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Thanks Paul,
I really appreciate the efforts of your good self and the rest of the support team.
I didn't realise when I registered on this site that it would be addictive. Perhaps you should consider a warning to newbies who register?
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Whenever I try to read the "Solar SoC" and "Inverter neutral\earth connection" posts in the "Equipment" section I get a fatal error message.
Can anyone else read these threads?
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Depends on whether you want to just deal with emergencies, or whether you want to do all your own preventative maintenance.
For the first category, you just need hammer, screwdrivers, gaffa tape, self amalgamating tape cable ties and a folding pruning saw to cut most things off the prop.
For the second, you need a decent socket set (Halfords do several, each containing a range of ratchets, sockets and spanners); a DC current reading clamp meter; filter removing wrench; pry bars (to check engine mounts); and a range of plastic containers with and without the sides cut off for collecting gearbox oil, drips from oil and fuel filters etc.
Beyond that buy tools in advance of other jobs, planes, jigsaw, circular saws, mulit-tools etc
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On my recent trip to the Llangollen, the pawls on the two New Marton locks had been modified by putting a piece of metal above then, to limit the upward travel and prevent them from being flipped over.
Most annoying, because you needed two hands to wind the paddle down, as one was needed to hold the pawl up. Is this the modifification that CRT want comments on?
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Ah, "proper" engineering. These days it can be hard to find someone to do this kind of work. I'm sure it leads to our "throw away" culture.
Well done to Richard, and also the owner, who got it repaired rather than simply replacing it.
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Crack a can open, drunk half of it and then stick the can in the chickens orifice.
I always find that the drunk half of a can is the bottom part of the 10th or so can.
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They probably at to mount it like that to stop it being unbolted and "weighed in"
Edited to remove a letter "v", that snuck in disguised as a space.
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Well done guys,
New site seems to work OK