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As are Mercedes A Class. Much cheaper to buy the exact same spares for a Renault for your A Class.

You can get green coolant now. Saves having to add lime...

That seems pretty cheap to me. Five years ago I enquired about having my 60 foot boat repainted and the quotes varies from £130 per foot plus signwriting to remove windows & other external fittings and rub down the existing paint and put more coats on (three colours including coach lines) to £210 per foot plus signwriting for a back to the metal job. I chose the cheaper option as the original paint was sound but faded and it still looks good five years later.

A self drive UCC camping boat similar to this was my first experience of canalling back in July 1973, courtesy of my local mixed venture scout group.

I think that Allen's built the hulls for the all steel hire fleet once Peter and Linda Millward took over Teddesley in the mid to late 70's.

I think you are talking at cross purposes to @rusty69. Most domestic calorifiers are thermostatically controlled to 65 degrees to save enregy and avoid legionella problems, not an issue with boats where the calorifier is heated by the engine coolant (typically 80 degrees or a diesel boiler such as a Webasto). Fitting a thermostatic mixer valve set to around 40 degrees to the outlet of a boat's calorifier ensures that no one can get accidentally scalded AND effectively increases the useable capacity of the calorifier.

I have those and other train/canal ones in the series printed on decorative plates.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68270068 A step.in the right direction or too little too late? IIRC Labour suggested this some years ago, when sewage polluting rivers first came became public knowledge and the current government poo poo'd it (pun intentional).

I took my driving test in Surbiton, Surrey. Some of the avenues there are quite wide, and my examiner chose one of these for me to "turn the car around using forward and reverse gears". I turned going forwards, reversed back across the road perfectly, then a lady chose to park exactly where I was turning, prevent me from completing the move. I didn't know what to do, but my examiner got out and remonstrated with the lady, and got her to move along the road a bit and park there. By now I was completely flustered and couldn't release the pawl button on the handbrake. When I finally managed it I shot across the road and had to reverse back again as I didn't have time to turn properly, turning an easy 3 point turn into a 5 point turn. I was convinced that I had failed and was very pleasantly surprised when the examiner announced that I had passed.

An "H" chimney on top of the flue should reduce the downdraft which causes the stove to belch fumes into the boat.

I'll bet your mum didn't have any trouble finding out where you were hiding on a dark night...

Yes but just how big are these lumps?

I project managed putting the containers (which contain 2MVA generators) onto the roof of the building in the background.

When did you last buy diesel? Winter diesel has a anti waxing agent added to prevent the formation of wax at low temperatures. If It starts and runs OK when the temperature rises, it will be because you have summer diesel in your tank which has waxed because of the low temperature and caused a blockage.

I remember watching a saloon car race at Goodwood many years ago. A car fuelled with ethanol crashed and caught fire. The driver, Peter Proctor, got out and began rolling about on the grass. It was only when the grass began to burn with visible flames that the marshalls used their fire extinguishers on him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Procter

We had real switches and switchboards too, it was just that they were switching 50 volts DC. The only fake thing was the standby generator, which was a cassette player playing a recording of a diesel.generator... 🤣 Once you had passed the initial course you were then trained on specific real installations and if successful given either an 'HV Approved Person' or 'HV Competent Person' ticket, which was valid on that specific installation for one year Later I became the 'Engineer HV' for a site and eventually 'Senior Engineer HV' for an area. These roles were mainly administrative, writing or approving method statements and switching schedules.

Yes when I did my initial HV course at a BT training college the instructor wasted no time in saying not to worry, the switches were actually switching 50volts DC not 11,000 volts AC. I told him he had ruined it for me as I wouldn't concentrate as hard on what I was doing.

Which is why domestic RCD's are set to 30mA (thirty thousandths of an amp for the benefit of those who don't understand the term "milli"). Even 30MA directly across the heart can kill in the right circumstances. I initially studied electronics at college, so was familiar with currents in the milliamp range. When I joined BT's predecessor Post Office Telephones, they put me on the power section, where I was put to work maintaining DC power systems rated in thousands of amps. Scared the living daylights out of me at first. Then they merged the AC & DC sides and I had to learn to work on 11,000 volt high voltage AC systems, which initially scared me even more!

You would have to moor there for a long time to break even on licensing costs, even with the proposed above inflation increases...