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13 hours ago, PeterScott said:
My daughter is the only member of the family to have cruised from here, Scout boat picked them all up there first thing, then we collected her from Shepley Bridge Marina in Mirfield at the end of the day (myself and J were not jealous at all, honest). It has an interesting dry dock that seems to get little use judging from the greenery in it.
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Wonder if they got the driver? It's incidents like this that make CRT's idea of bridge cameras seem worthwhile.
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15 minutes ago, BEngo said:
and make sure the glass retainer can be got out.
@robtheplod I've been bitten by this, if they look corroded consider replacing with new screws and add Copaslip or similar. My efforts to remove the last remaining screw with a sheared off head resulted in a split mounting hole so couldn't drill and tap. Cost me a new door in the end
I'll now check them every year and for the sake of a few pence i'll probably replace the screws each time.
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34 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Yes, i could do that, ty, but my current set up, mi fi (needs new battery £19), wired through open window to twin antenae (£19.99) and a monthly sub to Three seems to work without my intervention, which is what i want.
Fair enough, just wanted to make sure you weren't being put off doing it by thinking it was too tricky (your mention of lack of skills and tools).
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6 minutes ago, jonesthenuke said:
I do not see that being a worthwhile purchase at the price and with the additional issue of the access charge.
Ouch, £1100 a year to get to your property
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3 minutes ago, LadyG said:
I have considered the Poynting but it requires tools and skills i dont possess.
If you can pass the cables outside easily through a mushroom vent or similar all it requires is the ability to use a screwdriver to tighten it's clamp onto a suitable pole (we use a short mag mount one on the roof). Guess it depends on your perception of neat and tidy. The cables themselves just screw on so no special tools required. There's a fair length of cable attached, ours passes through a vent into the well deck void where the water tank is then into the cupboard by the doors, so all excess length is coiled in the void.
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You could substitute the white or brown mushrooms for Liberty Caps, no slicing required, and makes for an interesting after dinner experience
If i was using white mushrooms from the supermarket i'd add them at the last stage of cooking otherwise they'd turn to mush, don't know if they use a different variety these days but they just have no substance like a good chestnut mushroom does.
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6 hours ago, LadyG said:
Ive ordered Huawei B535-232 which is about £87, saving £55 , aparently. (Amazon).
Its supposed to be 12v and has twin aerials attached, not sure if i can replace them with my outdoor aerials.
Ive got great internet from the pub next door ( they sell White Rat, a rather nice IPA style beer).
You can unscrew the stubby aerials and connect an external one, you may need new adapters though as they will be SMA-Female on the back of the router.
You'll need to connect to the router with a laptop/tablet/phone to switch the setting to external aerial too for best results (connect to wifi, type 192.168.1.1 in a browser window). Don't think the Huawei app gives you that much control if memory serves.
I have the same router paired with an external Poynting aerial.
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3 hours ago, CruisingRobin said:
"The parties agree as follows:
1. THE singular shall include the plural and the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter and
obligations entered into and burdens assumed by a party consisting of more than one person shall be
deemed to be entered into and assumed jointly and severally so as to apply to and be enforceable
against all both or any of such persons and their and each of their personal representatives."That's why legal types get paid the big bucks, to sit and come up with guff like that.
Admittedly i've only just finished my coffee, but it took two read throughs of that to understand what it was saying, or perhaps i'm just thick
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17 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
It.....is......an.....autobot..... reading.....a.....script.
Usually text-to-speech has a slightly posh middle england accent, never heard a Brummy one before.
Even if it was, it's not the usual style of wrong intonation you get with a script/AI voice.
Very odd.
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Well, its not wrong.
Very strange voiceover, oddly emphasised.
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1 hour ago, Sir Percy said:
On a Musk-related note:
What funky-but-stupid features might you design into a Cyberbarge, i.e., a misoverengineered technonarrowboat?
Subscription items that can be locked and unlocked by Elon. Oh, you didn't renew your navigation package? No steering for you.
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5 hours ago, BoatinglifeupNorth said:
who was the broker?
If he's based at Dunchurch, i'd guess it's New & Used Boat Co. as they operate from there
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2 hours ago, magpie patrick said:
I think the HNC was of the order of £30 million
The grant received from the Millenium Commission was £12,840,000, they originally offered £15,000,000 but English Partnerships whittled this down.
Total estimated cost of the restoration since the formation of the Huddersfield Canal Society in 1974 was £45,000,000 (incidentally the Society is 50yrs old today!!).
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22 hours ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Today, Lee Navigation, another Goliath
Was probably having you on, all geese are called Steve to confuse the authorities
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14 minutes ago, GUMPY said:
HDPE can be cut with a saw and drilled much like wood can just take it easy. I used a jigsaw to cut my fender hangers. Never had a problem with it melting. My hangers were two pieces bolted together as I only had 10mm thick HDPE. A deburring tool is essential to get rid of the sharp edges.
A slower speed on the router then maybe? Might have a look for a bit and have a test.
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2 minutes ago, Tonka said:
Mine are made of wood. Hardly get used though
Being a much-maligned marina moorer, ours get a lot of weather
Lost one to one of the storms in the marina last year, vanished like an old oak table, fender and all.
Then J snapped one last year using it to pull the boat in for some reason (she did once pull an oven door off too, doesn't know her own strength).
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Is HDPE easy to work? Can it be machined easily or does it melt? Only ask as the hangers i made are starting to delaminate after two years of service despite being well painted and i was thinking of using a different material once the spares have been used up.
Pics for reference, i know the one showing how they tie-on isn't the best but it's all i could find.
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I fettled a longer one for the shareboat as a few of us wanted it long enough to stand inside the doors.
This assumes you still have the old one to measure from.
I measured the original tiller bar for first hole and drilled a pilot hole then enlarged it (don't go too big too soon, i tried to jump from pilot hole to full size bit in one go and it kept grabbing the bit, step up in sizes or get one of those conical step drill bits). I also made a U-shaped box to hold the tiller bar in whilst i drilled to keep it straight as i didn't have access to a vice when on the boat, wedged in with some shims to stop it rotating.
Once i had the first hole done, I placed in situ and aligned using the tiller pin, then drilled the next pilot hole straight through whilst on the bar, then continued to enlarge to correct size.
The hardest part was getting the new handle in the new bar, both came from Midland Chandlers and were allegedly the correct size. Even after copious sanding the fit was so tight i didn't need to use the wedge. That handle is never coming off, ever
Pretty much as @ditchcrawler has said above.
I also had to make a new step-side bracket to hold both the old and new tiller bar as some owners wanted it as was, but that's another story and the joy of shared ownership
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I'd deffo look for a valve, we had the opposite problem with our MV Hydro 5-S where we got hot water but rads were stone cold.
Turned out to be a closed valve that we didn't notice as the big red wheel had been removed
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3 minutes ago, tree monkey said:
What you actually saw was the mattress controlling the kids to enable it to enter its aquatic breeding phase, I guarantee the kids will have absolutely no memory of the incident.
You sir are a very lucky man being able to observe this wonder of nature
They do flollop and vollue beautifully when the mating rituals are in effect, although the mournful globbering of those that don't find a mate can bring a tear to the eye
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5 minutes ago, MtB said:
True.
And curiously, doing a bit of pop philosophy reading up on why Occam's Razor is not as much help as one might first expect regarding whether God exists, or not, It came up with almost exactly the starter motor scenario we've been discussing!!
"But some caution is needed. If Ockham’s razor is used properly it can be a very helpful tool, but if used incorrectly it can become a dangerous instrument. First, consider a scenario where Ockham’s razor works. Suppose your car won’t start. Two possible explanations are a) that the battery is faulty and b) that the starter motor is faulty. You call a mechanic who quickly determines that there is indeed a problem with the battery. Since this would explain why the car didn’t start, there is no longer any reason to think that there is a problem with the starter motor. Ockham’s razor removes the need for the further explanation. Or to put it another way, the truth of the faulty battery hypothesis has explained away the faulty starter motor hypothesis. Of course, it is possible that there is a problem with both the battery and the starter motor. That cannot be ruled out until the car starts, but it would be really unlucky; based on the evidence so far and the application of Ockham’s razor, one explanation is sufficient."
https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/Science_Ockhams_Razor_and_God
P.S. Ockham and Occam are interchangeable spellings apparently, for the village near Guildford where the chap lived.
Surely at that point Sod's Law comes into play?
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Possibly refused planning due to all the blue Pagoda's, willow tree planting and little bridges you can't get a boat under
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1 minute ago, Puffling said:
Comment from bystander Matthew Fell with typos corrected. Jeez, the Hudds Examiner used to have better writing than this when I bought it as a paper...
Because most of the "stories" are skimmed from Facebook groups these days, and written by trainee "journalists" in an office in Manchester. Not worth wrapping yer chips in now.
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One of those batons they like to twirl down London way?