Claude
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UPDATE: Other unearthed appliances, lamps, tv, etc, are working fine. I will check to see exactly what's tripping on the bollard tomorrow. I've got a feeling this might have something to do with the mains plugs my battery chargers have. They have integral switches with internal neon lights. Might these be affecting something? Just a hunch.
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I left a big offcut of green MDF that was used to build my bathroom counter on the pontoon outside my boat for about 9 months. I then gave it to a neighbour who used it to cover a panel. It had resisted all water ingress during that time and hadn't warped.
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Or on the other hand, perhaps he was just trying to get to Napton.
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Will report back tonight,
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Not sure, I'll find out today after work. Other appliances were on but I'll try it again with/without other appliances on .
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Who was this reply directed towards? I don't have a Victron inverter and Nicks said his hasn't tripped the mains for years.
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16 amp
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Sorry I should have explained that everything else on the boat including the washing machine is working fine.
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Turned up at my new mooring yesterday but for some reason when I switch the charger on (sterling pro-digital) it trips the mains at the bollard. It's not overloading the mains and when I tried my backup charger (same model) it did the same thing so I'm pretty sure it's not faulty chargers - they never tripped the mains at any mooring before. Does anyone have any ideas/solutions?
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Good to hear positive anecdotes of a marine insurance company paying up promptly without hassle. Does anyone have first hand experience of the opposite happening to them?
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Looks like that one year old boat was never (or very badly) blacked. I wonder why these small stones and silt have never worn or affected my bow thruster tunnel or any others I've seen? In my personal opinion the best advice is to stop listening to unsubstantiated heresay and nonsense and just carry on enjoying your boating with whatever equipment you want on your boat, whether that includes a bow thruster or not.
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I guess so if the welds were no good in the first place, but the same would go for any other weld at the bow area. No. The prop blade tips on a bow thruster are supposed to be within a few mm of the tunnel wall.
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I guess so if the welds were no good in the first place, but the same would go for any other weld at the bow area. No. The prop blade tips on a bow thruster are supposed to be within a few mm of the tunnel wall.
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In terms of welds "giving up", I don't see what possible difference there is between a weld around a bow thruster tube and a weld anywhere else on a steel boat. Either it's a proper weld with good integrity or it isn't. As for prop cavitation causing bow thruster tubes to corrode and leak it sounds like more "canal purist folk myth" to me.
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My sterling 1800w MSW inverter doesn't like my electric toothbrush so I just go back to brushing my teeth the old fashioned way if I'm away from shore power.
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I don't think one person's experience necessarily constitutes a phenomenon. I've spoken to plenty of surveyors and marine engineers and none have ever raised it as an issue.
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To a certain extent PU foam will soak up and trap water, and in conjunction with gases/air in the foam cells it really will create a corrosion issue.
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Why would they rust any more than a baseplate will rust? My bow thruster tunnel is unpainted and 11 years old but showed no sign of rust when the boat was out the water last summer. Also, the tunnel needs to be insulated on the inside of the boat otherwise it will condensate. That's much more important than painting it.
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What is keel black exactly?
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But what's the problem with bubble testers exactly? If you have a bubble tester and a test nipple then surely it's the best of both worlds?
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While that's true they are still useful devices for the layman boater. Most of us don't use manometers after all and a rough test every few weeks may be better than no test for four years.
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It's not that hard if you have access to a bench mounted vice. That's how I did mine.
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Having recently cleaned the rust out and repainted a water tank, I'd have a stainless or plastic one even if it cost 750 quid. Duratank in not so sure about. Anyway, you've still got to de-rust， paint and insulate the space whatever kind of tank or tank liner you go for.
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If indeed you can actually find anywhere to pump it out. In some European countries such as France facilities can be scarce. So they have the rules but is anyone actually following them?
