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On 22/04/2021 at 17:57, LadyG said:
When I was young and adaptable I lived in various rented places, but the final straw was one that had a lovely walled garden but no means of heating, there was a fireplace but the fumes exhausted in to the flat above, so neighbours were not keen on the fire.
I bought a new house, the mortgage was half the cost of the rented place, but it was pretty basic, a fireplace, one cheapo kitchen worktop, and that was it, the Baxi fire did not work either , so I installed a gas fire and an immersion element, to make sure I could still have a bath every week, whether I needed it or not.
....................... and your point is?
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4 hours ago, howardang said:
.......................... some forum members I must be considered totally beyond the pale having not only a bow thrust but also a stern thrust!
how very dare you!!
what are you driving? ....................... the Stena Line ferry to Dublin?
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Bladder tank made from inflatable boat material is an easy solution. Mine was custom made by Hovercraft Consultants - don't know if they are still in business. Can be installed inside an existing tank ideally. It had a webbing loop at the top 4 corners so it could be suspended and held in place.
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8 hours ago, buccaneer66 said:
Have we not yet learnt that the media is incapable of reporting anything
canal relatedcorrectly................ corrected that for you
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12 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:
If this is anything like the Dyson, it seems to happen if the filter's blocked.
what a shame when someone comes up with a simple explanation.
as a workmate (an automation and instrumentation engineer) used to say - "if all else fails, read the manual".
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7 hours ago, blackrose said:
I tend to agree. If the wind is strong enough to prevent you from steering with a rudder then trying to counteract that with a BT won't help unless it was completely oversized for the boat. They're really just for close quarters handling at slow speeds and useful for reversing any distance.
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at home? running off an inverter on the boat?
who did the "replacement" and why ?
go on, gie us a klew !!
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9 hours ago, Cheshire cat said:
What happened to the stretch of this boat? Did Wayne ever do it? He seems to have a third boat now
sorry to say that all his news is available "elsewhere"
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On 14/04/2021 at 18:38, David Mack said:
There's more than one ex-LMS station boat in LMS crimson livery. Delhi, much discussed on the forum a while back, is one and belongs to forum members.
............... because someone (owner, signwriter?) couldn't spell and it became Dehli.
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16 hours ago, MarkH2159 said:
This topic may have been highlighted before but I thought I would add my 2p worth on the subject of the price of Vetus spares.
My Bowthruster packed up last week and I nailed the fault down to the relay. Inspection showed that it had worn and the Positive in Pin was moving when the solenoids activated. A light tap to push the pin downwards made the thruster work but only until the opposite solenoid was used then the contacts moved back up out of place.
With the solenoid pack listed by Vetus at £241.74 I thought it was worth an attempt at a repair.
If not then I was considering replacing it with an Off Road Winch 12v Switching Relay unit rated at 500 Amps which would do exactly the same job and cost me nearer to £35
Anyway I successfully diagnosed the reason for the existing relay failure and repaired it. A basic design fault causes the central input pin to wear in its bakelite case mounting which eventally allows the positive contacts to float about a bit too much and it fails. A little bit of work cleaning contacts and resetting the pin in its casing with some Gorilla Epoxy and it was as good as new.
Whilst I had the access open I thought it would be a good idea to check the motor brushes and found them to be about 40% worn, good for a few years maybe but it could be worth getting a spare set just in case.
This is when I realised that the Vetus price of £291.61 for a set of 4 carbon brushes was just ridiculous.
A quick search of the brush specifications and sizes revealed an almost exact match available on Amazon at a more realistic £12.22 for 4. - Ordered immediately.
I have read elswhere that the cheaper brushes fit and work just as well, so how are Vetus able to justify a price that is 24x higher ????
Even if they do not last as long, I can change them 20x and still work out as a saving.
I have been there. The relay ("contactor") is manufactured by Allbright International. In my case the components that failed were the silvered contact strips that chattered because of voltage drawdown when the button was pressed; replacements cost just a few quid. When I needed help Allbright were brilliant - discussed on the phone, bought the recommended parts and never looked back.
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12 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:
And didn't we know if any escaped
was G4S involved ?
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7 hours ago, MarkH2159 said:
Diesel Outboard could be the better option.
linky please ?
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2 hours ago, The Happy Nomad said:
Seconded.
She can sing too.
WOW !! amazing .... nice one, thanks.
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26 minutes ago, The Happy Nomad said:
That comment was specific to the Regents Canal not canals in general.
................... and, if that is the case, then it was not obvious to most folk who watch it, most of whom are not riveted to the screen, carefully analysing the precise meaning of every potentially ambiguous statement.
During my 45 years as an engineer, I was expected to be able to address meetings of every group involved, from the Client at progress review meetings to the workforce at elfin safety courses and toolbox talks. It was essential that every statement made was completely unambiguous - and my job was not primarily about communication. Journalists, presenters, producers and editors' work is primarily about communication, and sadly whenever I watch a TV documentary about a subject with which I am familiar, I find it is substantially inaccurate.
Those meedya folk really need to get a formal and disciplined edumacashun, innit?
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9 hours ago, Machpoint005 said:
There is no compulsion to watch anything.
Not even endless kowtowing to so-called royalty.
you miss the point by a farmer's mile: there is a compulsion to pay the licence fee if you have apparatus that can deliver BBC TV even if you choose not to watch it.
the fee is only spent on BBC services.
my brother was harrassed at 3 addresses in the good old days of the "detector vans" but never had a TV until 3 years ago when he moved to France. On 2 occasions they demanded entry so they could see for themselves, but he replied that if they weren't from HMRC or the police with a warrant they could piss off.
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51 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:
All the restoration societies where obviously doing nothing.
my comment posted on the other thread:
Wow!
I never realised how little I knew about the canals.
I never knew that the canals fell into disrepair after commercial use dried up, and only the intervention of CRT allowed the canals to be brought back from a state of dereliction, which has all been achieved since 2012. Apparently the efforts of the hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts who actually restored so many canals, such as the K&A, was just a bad dream.
I never knew that frogspawn appears in ponds "and the frogs are not far behind". The diver/reporter showed the frogs mating among clouds of frogspawn. I guess I need to revise my understanding of the birds, frogs and bees.
Like the disastrous BBC coverage of the Jubilee parade on the Thames, the final programme was clearly ruined by the clever just-out-of-nappies producers who edit and sequence the input to produce an entirely misleading scenario. WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOX!!High time the BBC was made to be competitive and to finance itself through sponsorship and advertising (but I'll bet that CRT wrote the script about the history of the canals). Why should we pay a licence fee to be presented with a load of propaganda rubbish?-
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8 minutes ago, Machpoint005 said:
Because it is infinitely better than paying someone like Rupert Murdoch (through advertising) to feed us blatant lies?
so you think it's appropriate that we should have to pay to watch CRT's propaganda that belittles the efforts and blood sweat and tears shed by so many forgotten amateur canal restorers?
tonight's Countryfile has IMHO clearly established that the UK is now subjected to blatant fake news by the publicly-owned broadcasting company. The Fox News of Britain.
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Wow!
I never realised how little I knew about the canals.
I never knew that the canals fell into disrepair after commercial use dried up, and only the intervention of CRT allowed the canals to be brought back from a state of dereliction, which has all been achieved since 2012. Apparently the efforts of the hundreds of thousands of enthusiasts who actually restored so many canals, such as the K&A, was just a bad dream.
I never knew that frogspawn appears in ponds "and the frogs are not far behind". The diver/reporter showed the frogs mating among clouds of frogspawn. I guess I need to revise my understanding of the birds, frogs and bees.
Like the disastrous BBC coverage of the Jubilee parade on the Thames, the final programme was clearly ruined by the clever just-out-of-nappies producers who edit and sequence the input to produce an entirely misleading scenario. WHAT A LOAD OF BOLLOX!!High time the BBC was made to be competitive and to finance itself through sponsorship and advertising (but I'll bet that CRT wrote the script about the history of the canals). Why should we pay a licence fee to be presented with a load of propaganda rubbish?-
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I suppose it all depends on whether you consider yourself a continuous
cruisermoorer or not.If you do and you are mooring in the best place to run your life, you should get a statement from WWF to declare you compulsorily static for at least 12 months.
............................ damn! now I've said that loads of folk will be seeking out nests to transfer to their back button.
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22 minutes ago, Bee said:
Narrowboats are pretty much the only boat I can think of that have a big flat plate over the prop. I can't think of any benefit to this apart from, as Bengo says, to prevent air being drawn into the prop and even then the modern device of a weed hatch negates this. My boat has a counter more like a sailing boat (or Titanic) the boat goes perfectly well in forward but its right on the borderline of prop immersion, if I stick it in reverse the stern lifts and doesn't hold back as well as it should. I think that its not the immersion of the uxter plate that is the issue but just getting the prop down that last inch or so to prevent it sucking air.
I really don't understand why you think there is a distinction. From experience with various types of work barges, including deck-mounted outboard propulsion units, I can assure you that a propeller will create a negative pressure on the 'upstream' side which will tend to draw in air, which tendency is limited/controlled either by being deeply immersed or by being separated from the air by either a cowl or by a structure like an uxter plate. With an uxterplate the air is 'socially isolated' from the prop by about 60cm of water, which is not easily overcome. A prop with no isolation (like a conventional outboard) needs to be 'well deep' to achieve the same result.
In the case of a narrowboat lowering the uxter plate by an inch probably has the same effect as lowering an unguarded prop by at least 5 times as much.
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16 hours ago, Telstar said:
Hi Murflynn,
As a seasoned boater (but only recently narrowboats) I can answer this one.
The longer the boat, the smaller the bow wave at any given speed.
Some good reading here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hull_speed
Andy.
Fully aware of that, thanks, but some hulls are better than others of the same length.
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We have a mature wood at the back of our garden, several trees overhang with huge horizontal branches. Our neighbour used to keep chickens in a coop that was moved around to keep it fresh. A buzzard habitually spent much of the day in an overhanging branch keeping his greedy eyes on the chickens. If one of them escaped I reckon it wouldn't have stood a chance.
On a sunny day the resident fox comes out of his hidey-hole in the wood and sunbathes on a grassy mound of earth where he can keep half an eye open for any threats.
A family of badgers used to make daily visits across our lawn, that left a veritable footpath through the grass, to scrounge food from our patio door.
On a couple of occasions a deer has come out of the wood and stood at the edge of the lawn for a few minutes, looking somewhat nervous and confused.
........................ and all happening, not in the countryside, but in the lovely city of Bristol.
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flying f***ing rats, the lot of them.
What amp battery charger to run a 12v fridge?
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which is nowhere close to 240Ah.
what exactly is your point?