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MarkHez

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  1. Stovebright do various colours, available on ebay: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172342879962?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&var=471164248781&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
  2. Windscreen wiper motor and gearbox for throttle/gear, 24v mobility scooter motor/gearbox for steering. There are many instructions on the internet on how to equip them with positional feedback for servo use.
  3. Possibly in better condition that those in boats belonging to people who only know how to polish? My boat looks bleedin awful, but mechanically it's quite spot on!
  4. Forgive me but the OP contradicts itself (although now I've seen it's years old!) - the engine on the auxiliary water pumps carried on green goddess appliances was a petrol Coventry Climax engined Godiva Fire Pump (at least the one I have is!). The only "Godiva" engine that I'm aware of is a V8 Petrol. [edit] after further research I stand corrected about the 2 cylinder diesel!
  5. Is the engine definitely classed as a "Coventry Godiva"? as far as I was aware, the engine is the Coventry Climax, the water pump attached to the engine is a Godiva Pump.
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  7. Gate lifted back into place: https://www.facebook.com/663635089/videos/10154055697235090/
  8. Surely its the same as millions of motorbike fuel filler caps that work just fine?
  9. I'm guessing it's one of the brackets shown on this microfiche, if so it will give you the part number that you need to order: http://www.cmsnl.com/t99elrbelhbexhb-2003_model11140/partslist/D-01.html#row6G84853151
  10. Is the outboard tiller controlled or remote? Can you post a photo of the broken part?
  11. MarkHez

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    Relatively easy, but rather annoying having to lock twice. Are you on a broad or narrow canal? If you have 2 boats of narrow beam, they'll fit breasted up in a wide lock.
  12. Because when you do post, you give out bad advice that can cause damage to solar charge controllers?
  13. I live on a 27ft Centre cockpit cruiser, power is all solar (alternator stopped working in winter and I haven't got round to fixing it yet). There's more than enough room for me on my own, and it wasn't unbearable when living with my ex mrs and her border collie! Yes I would like to upgrade to a bigger boat eventually, but this is perfectly adequate to live on!
  14. Glasson branch on the Lancaster canal has welded windlasses, padlocked with BW key locks. Very long throw on them, which is bloody handy as most of the bottom paddles are awful to operate!
  15. I only came into this thread as I saw it was equipment section, and thought the title was "Horses - which one?", I feel a bit let down now
  16. This arrangement should work fine It isn't the most balanced, but it's close enough with big enough cabling.
  17. Must visit: Kenlis arms, bridge 54, last pub before Garstang
  18. I could, yes, if I were to make a new duct out of fibreglass. It would also require fitting a large bilge blower to keep air flow moving through the engine bay from outside. I would still prefer to ditch it though.
  19. The reason for getting rid of it, is I can't put the cockpit floor in place while cruising, as the radiator sticks up through it by 2" ! I'd be going with a dry (lagged) exhaust, just water pump from the seacock, through a strainer, through the gearbox oil cooler, through a plate heat exchanger for the engine, then back out through a skin fitting. Plate heat exchangers can be had for £30-40 quid, which is why I need to know if it would be suitable, or if it would block up too easily having raw canal water pumped through it!
  20. I drilled and tapped the flywheel to take an R&D drive plate (with a spacer turned down from 10mm steel to bring it further away from the flywheel) and made my own bell housing to mate the engine to the original velvet drive 1:1 box.
  21. Hi all, the Perkins 4108 that I had in my boat (27ft cruiser) was beyond economical repair, so I fitted an Isuzu 3KC1 that I scavenged from a 360 digger. Currently I am using the diggers radiator and pulley driven fan, but obviously this is not the most efficient method in a small boat engine bay. The perkins used a tube and shell heat exchanger and wet exhaust, unfortunately I sold all this with the engine (for much too low of a price!). As I can see it, I could either use raw water cooling (not really too happy with that idea), or use a heat exchanger system which would also allow me to run the bypass circuit to a calorifier. So my main question is, where can I find a reasonably priced heat exchanger? Any tube and shell heat exchangers with the word "marine" in the name are ridiculously expensive (upwards of £300 for the size I'd need) whereas a plate heat exchanger of the same thermal properties is about £30. Has anyone used a plate heat exchanger with raw water before now? The only thing I'm worried about is clogging of the cooling channels, obviously I'd be using a strainer in conjunction with it, but I'm still not sure how easily it would get blocked. If anyone can weigh in on this, it would be very much appreciated. Thanks Mark
  22. ALDI have a lot of "caravan" items on sale in their special buys section from tomorrow, a lot of these may be suitable for boats (Toilet chems including Bio, torches, canopy cleaner etc) https://www.aldi.co.uk/specialbuys/dates/Thursday-17th-March/c/2016-03-17/?sort=popular&q=%3Apopular%3AtransactionalStatus%3Atransactional%3AtransactionalStatus%3Anontransactional%3AlatestVersion%3Atrue%3AEvent%3ACaravan&page=2
  23. Aldi have the caravan items on sale from tomorrow: https://www.aldi.co.uk/specialbuys/dates/Thursday-17th-March/c/2016-03-17/?sort=popular&q=%3Apopular%3AtransactionalStatus%3Atransactional%3AtransactionalStatus%3Anontransactional%3AlatestVersion%3Atrue%3AEvent%3ACaravan
  24. Project for sale, recently blacked, perfect liveaboard.
  25. Brayzel are certainly very good, I know they have 1 in at the moment for painting, but it's certainly worth giving them a phone call 07889 299731
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