Mikexx

You are in just the one household? Isn't that still a 'single household'? Now if there were two independent families living there it would be called a 'dual' or 'multiple' household! ?

I find it disingenuous for CaRT to interpret British Waterways v Davies Judgment to indicate "moving a vessel every 14 days on a 10 mile stretch of canal between Bath and Bradford on Avon was NOT use of the vessel bona fide for navigation". https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/67073/response/174565/attach/2/BW v Davies Sealed Judgment.pdf?cookie_passthrough says that Davies "moves the boat, usually a mile or two at a time, never remaining at any given mooring for more than 14 days". There was also "overstaying at moorings" and non payment of charges. Irrespective of the 'spirit of navigation' his movement was very limited indeed, plus he had history. This is a very polarised argument and there are three type of people involved. 1) Those with a permanent mooring paying between £1,500 and £3,000 per year enjoying hassle free mooring often with electric power and close to amenities. These people look down on those who are willing to move to boat to conform to the 14 day and other rules of navigation. Probably because they see those are bypassing mooring fees. 2) CCers who I would expect are a rare breed(?) who move around the UK who enjoy the way of life. I would be tempted to say most are temporary after retirement and return to land based accommodation after a few years. 3) Those attempting to conform to the CC rules while actually being based around some employment and shuttle between 3 or more points. They are denigrated by those who can get and afford moorings. Often they are in a circumstance where they cannot afford local housing. [1] My experience is that those who use rules to their advantages do best, whether in business or some other way. We choose to improve our lot, to ask and expect a pay increase, or some other feature that improves our quality of life. Those who disparage this form of behaviour and claim a moral high ground by making noises of the "spirit" of the rules are seen as short-sighted, moaners and a reflection of their own lives. It may be best to consider their own personal objectives, what they are doing and value their own time and quality of life rather than having concern of others. [1] Many years ago I worked away from home, and for a time I slept and fed myself in a van travelling back home at weekends. We were living hand to mouth and there was no way I could afford lodgings in the first month. I'm no longer in that position, yet I have sympathy for those who are now in that situation. Some of us seem keen to forget our own heritage.

Assuming £45 is 45litres, and each litre has a calorific value of 10kWhr, you're burning 450kWhs of fuel, or continuous 2.7kW over the week. I might suspect that would be the case if it's several degrees outside, but I wouldn't have thought this rate of usage is typical?

I think something like this instruction on how to bleed the BMC should be made a sticky, or perhaps an archive or similar? The subject often comes up and its a procedure anyone who changes a fuel component or filter should be aware of.

Or a conventional fluorescent lamp. It should flicker at 100Hz so show as 6,000rpm.

I wasn't aware you had two separate means of measuring revs until now. What are these means?

Makes me question the accuracy of your rev counter. I suggest checking against another instrument.

Not even a hint of blackness to full throttle? Even if your pump was recalibrated I do wonder if there is enough fuel? The consensus seems your engine isn't providing the expected output power. I'm wondering if its worth measuring fuel flow rate and with an accurate knowledge of the maintained revs you could check actual fuel usage with expected. How is the rev counter driven? Is it from the alternator? Are you confident the pulley sizing is correct? You can get cheap optical tachometers on eBay to check.

I shouldn't think so, I'm sure the top end of the pipe is well above the oil level given the pump is bolted to the exhaust port of the heat exchanger. If you run the engine there may be sufficient crankcase gases to push the oil out, but I doubt that would be the case either. I would be wary of running the engine just in case.

There is more than one thread on these sump pumps. I might be tempted to remove it and check size with Slim and if necessary get adaptors., or the correct fitting on the bottom of the pump to match the pipe flare and nut.

Its a good selling point. In reality I rarely find it makes much difference when browsing most websites when it comes to loading pages. Many web-servers seem highly loaded leading to a modest latency. If your shifting large files over the 'net then that is when a high local bandwidth can help.

It is beleived to have existed from the 1920s https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29442642 Perhaps your mother was very wise?

The old Housing benefit system was a local system with local knowledge and local responsibility. There was access through your councillor. The new system has none of these features and is bound to fail, or at least fail its claimants.

I have great sympathy for anyone who turns down the opportunity for temporary work given the difficulty of restarting a claim. It was a long time ago but a housing benefit form I was obliged to complete consisted of 38 pages. Given that 20-25% of the adult population are classed as illiterate the fear of restarting a claim for some can be overwhelming. Until things are streamlined and done on a PAYE type of system, I can;t see any improvement. Universal Tax Credits is another disaster area.

This was never an issue. No houses were ever destroyed in the process of selling them off. If anything flooding the market with low cost housing actually reduced the value of houses. What has happened in the meantime is increased demand through demographics and immigration and a lack of housing stock. It doesn't matter who owns what, but by analogy, when the music stops when playing musical chairs, some are inevitably are not going to have houses if there's a shortage.

I associate chemotherapeutic drugs with chemotherapy and cytotoxic drugs. Antibiotics are cytotoxic drugs where defined as being toxic to cells. It is astonishing, yes I've used that word, but I am truly amazed how discoveries are attributed. You would be forgiven if you thought Edison invented the light bulb or that the Wright brothers were the first to fly. There are many others where politics has played its part. One other comes to mind is the Crooke's radiometer and James Clark Maxwell where Maxwell's explanation was wrong but the Royal Society didn't want to publish a critique, even after Maxwell's death!

I think it goes to prove that anyone who works in microbiologoy will know Penicillin wasn't the first discovered antibiotic. If it wasn't for Arsphenamine / Salvarsan being introduced in the early 1910s Syphylis might still be a hazard for a sexually active person. I have no idea why it is astonishing Penicillin wasn't discovered over 10 years later and only available as a antibiotic in the 1940s?

I would prefer a simple system, where thousands of civil servants hadn't been hired to look after the new nefarious rules about Child Benefit. The old system was simple, and anyone on £100k would be paying 41% or more tax on their wages. That more than made up for the Child Benefit payments. What is the alternative where the country's landscape has changed so much through cheap labour and a massive increase in demand for housing? A sort of double whammy for so many.

It still goes to the principle carer for the children. Therefore there are instances where a male looks after the children and received child benefit, but they are naturally the exception rather than the norm. Of course if one is a higher rate tax payer then there is a complicated calculation in reducing Child Benefit. In some instances it is reduced faster than the increase in pay, resulting in a net tax rate of higher than 100%. I guess its called means testing and is a mess.

I find means testing abhorent. I can't think of any better way of discouraging extra hours worked or self improvement. Lets take a typical example of a family with children. Lets assume one partner has the opportuity of an £10 increase in pay. They get stopped 12% NI, 20% Income Tax, and 38% reduction in tax credits. That leaves £3 They go to the local council and they reduce HB by 60% of £3 and CTB by 25% of £3 That leaves 45p. No wonder this country is a mess!

It's to make sure that when the time comes and you claim your benefits, or as others here call them, 'handouts', there will someone creating the wealth and paying taxes for them. Plus when our time comes for our bums need wiping for us there will be young workers out there to do the deed.

Why do you feel the entitlement to your handout should be treated differently to anyone else's entitled 'handout', such as Pension Benefit. It's only an insult if you think the benefit you received isn't a handout, whereas everyone else's is.

One thought is to save the legs and use a pushbike, perhaps a folding variety, to get back to fetch the car, otherwise two hours of cruising can be 2 hours of walking, rather than 30 minutes of cycling. Just make sure it is light if you cycle along the tow path. Tow paths are very variable and unlit. I've come a cropper a couple of times though never fallen in the drink!

I've re-found this thread after intending to send a private message to John! Is there a place where we could keep useful miscellaneous data on the BMC? One way to to update the list and keep it as a sticky. and on every update to lose the 'old' sticky? Just an idea.

I don't think things have changed much. Carl Sagan said 30 years ago, "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology".