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I would think a 200amp 12v heavy duty relay in the battery feed to the inverter coupled with the aforementioned vacuum switch to activate the coil would do the job
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13 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
Other way round, first month driving a series 2 SWB rag top
Or first month driving an articulated lorry so they see how much room is required. Cyclists should also drive them so they finally understand what is meant by a "blind spot"
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9 minutes ago, mrsmelly said:
Yes quite. Four wheel drive simply means four wheel skid when in the hands of most drivers. You will be surprised to know that many people do not even know what the differential does to drive wheels and how it moves drive. People also believe ABS shortens stopping distances and makes the car safer. The list is endless. People mainly pass a very very very basic driving lesson aged 17 ish and have zero further training throughout their life and insist they are " Good " drivers. Many driver training courses exist to many differing levels but people in the main don't take advantage of them and some are free but the ones that are payable and the free ones teach everyone who does them things they had no clue about.
Personally I think that before a provisional licence is even issued everyone should be made to sit a basic IQ test. The roads would be a lot less congested
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The big problem with this current fashion for the "Chelsea Tractor" is the amount of idiots who think, because they have 4wd, they can dive them faster in the snow than 2wd vehicles. 4wd will certainly give you more traction whilst moving but they seem to forget that at some point they will need to break. About 20 years ago I did a bit of minicab driving when I was in between jobs, I did the late shift right through the night. One night it started to snow, by about 3am it was about 3in deep, I pootled about all night at 20-25mph, at around 6am traffic started to build and I just wanted to go home because they kept overtaking me. A rangerover over took me doing about 40mph, which was fine because this was the speed limit on this road, he then had to break hard because the traffic lights changed on him. I watched with a smile as he slid across the junction and sideways into one of the traffic lights.
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3 hours ago, carlt said:
Just add a banjo and you've got all the kit you need for a skiffle group.
I had a 1980s Bendix Supercompact which was small (2.5kg) but fine for the two of us plus (later) a baby.
How do you play one of them?, and how do you tune it?
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Why bother with a waste tank, why not just pump the water over the side above the waterline? The base of your wet room will be a sump, put a submersible pump in it and connect to a skin fitting.
try a search on here for wet room, Plenty of threads covering this
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Well there are certainly a few ideas to toy with. I won't be buying the panels until the spring so I have plenty of time to mull the idea over. However as I haven't selected the panels yet and don't know what sizes they will be I have no doubt that whatever I decide on will go out the window and I'll do it differently anyway.
i spent 20 years working on different ideas to modify my house, when I finally got around to doing it not one of my original ideas was used.
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2 hours ago, WotEver said:
Casement window stays could be made to work - the tighten-up-with-a-knob type, not the ones with holes (although they could work too I guess).
Something like this:
Perhaps stays could be made to work if the panels were only hinged on one side. I was hoping to hinge them both sides, roof boxes with a plywood lid, the panel hinged off the lid for one direction and the plywood lid hinged off the box for the other direction. I would think figuring out the trigonometry of the stays could be awkward for the locking screw type. Stays with holes would be easier if I could lock them in place once in position.
I was thinking of making a stay from flat aluminium rods but I need to figure out how to lock them in position when raised.
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Next year I intend to fit more solar panels. Currently I have two panels sitting flat on the roof on brackets that have been glued to the roof with sone kind of silicone adhesive, these I intend to remove. I want to fit panels that can be angled towards the sun, I was thinking of building roof boxes out of decking with a hinged plywood lid with the panel mounted on top and hinged the other way. Then I need to figure out some sort of locking support arrangement. I say locking because I can't believe the amount of panels I see on boat roofs and just propped up and not fixed in any way.
I don't like the little pivoting triangle mounts. So my question is what type of panel mount arrangement that allows tilting panels works best?
photos would be helpful to give me some ideas of what I need to build.
thanks
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If you are going to fit them low near the floor don't forget to add a couple of inches to allow for the flex on the plug top to bend at a reasonable angle, also some transformer plugs hang low of the socket and won't plug in if too near the floor
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I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong but I believe at least one rad should be fitted without valves (probably rad 2) so it can't be turned off and the system therefore always syphons and circulates. If for some reason all rads get turned off then the system can't circulate and the water will boil.
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3 hours ago, bizzard said:
I used to get a pint of petrol in a milk bottle frpm a garage for my Corgi bike which I bought from a retired council rent collector for 2/6p. I only rode it at night because I was under aged, no licence, nothing. It was quite rapid, 90cc Brockhouse engine, no match for the polices Triumphs though.
I wouldn't mind one of those now, ideal bike for a CC'er. Takes up less space than a Honda Dax monkey bike
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How would you stop your ticket getting soggy?
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1 hour ago, ditchcrawler said:
When you see the price you would definitely change your mind
When you see the "we only accept a 60/40 split" sign you will most definitely change your mind
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Hi Katty,
The question you should perhaps be asking yourself is, will I be happy to or even able to CC?
From your previous post you state you may be inheriting a wide beam and that your son will live with you and need to get him to school. You have not made mention of a partner, this leads one to conclude you will be boating singlehanded, unless of course your son is a teenager or you have a partner you haven't mentioned. Singlehanded boating can be and is done by many people but I doubt if there are many doing it on a wide beam (stands back hoping to avoid the barrage of contradictions)
Steering the boat isn't a problem, any one can learn to do it. Handling a boat when mooring is more difficult singlehanded, it only takes a bit of wind or a bit of current to make it tricky. This is not to say it can't be done, but some things are hard enough on your own with a narrow boat let alone a wide beam. I've had many situations when trying to moor the wind has picked up and tried to, and even succeeded in dragging my narrow boat across the cut; I'm nearly 16stone and have struggled to get the boat back to the bank. On occasion I have needed my partner to add her weight the rope.
From what has been posted above about the logistical difficulties you will face CCing and then take into account the problems you will face singlehandling a wallowing big boat, especially in the winter when you need to move (even if you don't really want to) in order to comply with the rules, perhaps you would in fact be a lot better off swallowing the additional costs and finding a mooring
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16 minutes ago, WotEver said:
No, anglers always fish on the side opposite where the fish are. If they didn’t, why would they need those long poles to get across to the other bank?
Maybe that's the answer, make them fish on the side where the fish are. They wouldn't be on a mooring and they wouldn't need to spend so much money on silly long poles.
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5 hours ago, katty45 said:
I am a private music teacher and i finish in the eves and saturdays but im worried about the dark etc when i finish and walking down lonely footpaths so just wondering how other people work etc . I may need to stop the evenings and just work sats but look to supplement my income another way. I may be inheriting a widebeam so i am looking at the options.thanks
Hi Katty, welcome to the forum. You may have noticed by now that it doesn't take this lot long to get side tracked, my current theory is that they spend so much time in close proximity to fish that the fish telepathically transmit their attention span through 6mm steel with ease and affect the attention span of long term boaters. Hang on Ive gone
myself, bloody fish!
Dont worry about dark tow paths just walk along humming Karl Douglas's Everybody was Kung Foo Fighting and you should be left alone as everyone will naturally assume you are a martial arts expert, or perhaps just someone stuck in the 1970's
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What about the signs that say maximum mooring stay 14 days per calendar year?
i did wonder what would happen if you moored up on December the 18th and didn't move on until January the 14th? They are different calender years, so technically you would be compiling with the signage even if you were playing with the spirit of cruising
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None of this explains why anglers want to fish on moorings when there are hundreds miles of canal that you can fish on and can't moor on. It's almost as though they do it so they have something to grumble about.
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1 hour ago, sharpness said:
Copied & pasted from Damians Bits & Bobs this week!
As stated in the winter mooring terms and conditions, if the winter mooring site is in a location regularly used by anglers, boaters should leave at least 5 metres between their boat and the next one along to allow space for fishing. Boaters must be prepared to move temporarily to facilitate match pegging and where anglers are aware of when match pegging will take place, they will give you reasonable notice (usually 2 weeks).
Did you notice 8.13.
Diving, bathing and fishing at the Winter Mooring Permit Site is not permitted
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1 hour ago, rgreg said:
Just a quick update on this. Whilst I've had an acknowledgement from the local CRT office that they are looking into it, I see in today's Boaters' Update that the 5m rule is mentioned when on WMs where fishing regularly takes place, so I guess the notice is official.
This however doesn't answer the bleedin' obvious question, why fish on a visitors mooring in the first place, when there is more canal bank that can't be moored on than bank that can and all of it can be fished on?
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One great advantage of having a full size boat is that when entering a lock a gongoozler may say something along the lines of, "You've got a long one." To which you can then give the standard response, "Nice of you to notice." Whilst giving them a cheeky grin
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Is longer better or worse?
I have been reliably informed that "size doesn't matter"
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Space for anglers, I've got no promlem with that
Doubtful they will catch any fish
myself, bloody fish!
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The heat from chillies causes the brain to release endorphins to counteract the pain of the burn. It's a bit like self mutilation, the more pain the more pleasure, it becomes highly addictive. I have to order extra spicy vindaloo in order to be able to taste the chilli heat theses days, more often than not I am still disappointed