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Ex Brummie

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  1. Not just about faster trains, but to provide greater capacity to the transport network which is sorely needed, especially when personal transport options are being seriously curtailed and punitively charged.
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  3. I.I.R.C. The throw can also be adjusted with the position that the nipple is screwed onto the cable ends, and also there are 2 positions where the outer can be clamped.
  4. Spot checks are quite common in busy urban areas, often targetting minicabs😉
  5. We ate there last summer, and has been said, they standard pub meals at a standard price. With limited moorings, and in the middle of nowhere, they don't exactly have a large catchment for clientele. On many canals, there is little 'fine dining' for the same reasons, and a lot of boaters aren't exactly big spenders, but like to occupy the convenient moorings. Since Covid, there has been a big change in catering outlets, and the fabled'cost of living crisis' hasn't helped.
  6. This is a swedish cowl. It offers downdraught protection without too much obstruction as caused by an H cowl. I have a 750mm piece of 4" stainless flue pipe which fits into the flue pipe protruding through the collar. This is then ru n inside a standard 6" boat chimney, and one of these 4" swedish cowls is fitted to the 4" pipe. THis makes the outside chimney double skinned and maintains a good flue temperature and draw.
  7. No, it is a public service to free up the trolley park.
  8. But once released, after use when you try to retrieve your coins, you find the release tag has dislodged the alignment and you can't get them out, or release the trolley, or any of the stack it is in. I carry a , pair of snipe nose pliers that rectifies this.
  9. I recall when visiting my in laws in Australia, how my brother in law opened the shed to remove something, squirted inside with "Fogger", then shut the door for 15 mins to kill spiders. This was fresh in my memory when 2 mornings later, there was a spiders web between the mirror and the door on the car. He squirted behind the mirror and then collapsed laughing when I took off like a bat out of hell as a spider was ejected from behind the mirror. On the boat we have a resident spider who will descend from the deckhead of an evening when things settle down and wewatch TV or read. It isquite reassuring that it has been there for many years. We also have a spider at home and when decorating the landing once, I found lots of skins behind an inaccessible corner above the stairs wallpaper.
  10. This is exactly how mine is plumbed. If you do need to bleed the system, closing off the return valve brfore opening the radiator bleed achieves the process.
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  12. You've missed out Puffin crossingm (Pedestrian user friendly intelligent crossing)
  13. The Bubbles and Lockgate have pot burners with holes in them for combustion. They do not produce ash, so there is nothing beneath them to collect any ash if it was small enough to fall through. If the pot were to be removed and replaced with some form of grate, then there is no provision for enclosed ash collection. What is your problem with the oil stove? With the cost of the right fuels these days, the delivery and storage of the same, there is no real advantage whereas the minimal maintenance oil stoves need along with the superior cleanliness gives them an advantage.
  14. Does this facility still have the full turn deadlock Yale cylinder fitted. If you opened it with the BW key, and turned the key too far to withdraw it, you were locked in with a deadlocked catch, and it's very isolated from the footpath to raise awareness. Don't ask my friend how we know this!!!!
  15. Is this in Wales or England? The rules are different.
  16. As any tablet, except Apple, uses Android, then there is no reason to discount cheaper makes.
  17. Cut out the existing fuse holder and replace it with a spade fuse. Guess who pressed the button first
  18. And when the lock keeper tells you to come straight in, ask him to confirm that the lock really is empty. DAMHIK.
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  22. So for the 2nd time this year, or is it the 3rd?, the parapet of Dimmingsdale has been knocked into rhe canal. When will the Council/Highways authorities do some thing constructive at this site. Single lane working with barriers inside the bridge would do it, controlled by lights if necessary. The banning of the quarry traffic would go a long way to reducing traffic flow and offer some protection to the bridge. At least the culprits are known, so the exhorbitant cost of repair to this listed structure will be met, albeit by all of us in increased insurance premiums.
  23. Just be aware, your freeze up is one day closer every day. I have had a heat exchanger freeze on a Main Nymph in cruiser, many years ago, and latterly the pipe from the water section to the heat exchanger on a Vaillant multipoint. Last year, I had a central heating pipe blow a joint where draining down obviously left a pipeful of antifreezed water. maybe all the hot air produced in London has saved you.
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