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Blackrose has covered it but don't confuse BSS fail and legal.
As I interpret it, it is not a BSS fail to keep a petrol can in the gas locker provided that it can't rattle around causing sparks or mechanical damage and it can't block the drain hole(s). The long and short of it is in Sections 7 to 7.5 from the link below.
Ask your BSS examiner, mine isn't a monster.
These regulations also apply to the genny itself as it too has a petrol tank.
It's a fair bet that that won't fit in your gas locker.
This depends on where you leave the boat and your attitude towards leaving high value, portable items on public display but many boaters get a motorbike lock and chain a genny to the stern.
5 minutes ago, 36national said:Blackrose has covered it but don't confuse BSS fail and legal.
As I interpret it, it is not a BSS fail to keep a petrol can in the gas locker provided that it can't rattle around causing sparks or mechanical damage and it can't block the drain hole(s). The long and short of it is in Sections 7 to 7.5 from the link below.
Ask your BSS examiner, mine isn't a monster.
These regulations also apply to the genny itself as it too has a petrol tank.
It's a fair bet that that won't fit in your gas locker.
This depends on where you leave the boat and your attitude towards leaving high value, portable items on public display but many boaters get a motorbike lock and chain a genny to the stern.
"As I interpret it, it is not a BSS fail to keep a petrol can in the gas locker provided that it can't rattle around causing sparks or mechanical damage and it can't block the drain hole(s)."
Actually that may be wrong as the drain holes have to be a specified size dependant upon the mass of LPG stored in the locker. I can't find a spec for combined LPG and petrol. Your BSS examiner would have to take a view on it. If you're concerned keep it elsewhere or ask.
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is it a petrol genny ?
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Bit mean to shoot his dog on his birthday: respec:
but to return to topic
In the OP you write skin tanks plural. Are you certain that there isn't one tank for the propulsion engine
and the other tank is separate and for the generator?
If the engine water heats the cauliflower and the tanks are connected then generator water heats the
cauliflower too, probably a very inefficient system, but If presume that the 3 pot Missibissi you mentioned
is the generator engine not the propulsion engine then you are probably better off
using y meaty generator to power an immersion heater. (unless you got a gas boiler too)
This makes using the cauliflower pretty much academic.
If the engines are on separate circuits could you use the generator water to feed a run of radiators and
a nice heated towel rail.
Might be a piping dream.
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yes apologies bargebuilder
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A Chiwawa would have to shit its own body weight every day just to keep up.
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2 hours ago, sueb said:
Why are cars painted the same colour as roads? Surely they should be a bright colour so they can be seen.
just paint the roads a different colour to the cars
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granted that vid isn't complete bollox
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I ve seen many yootoob vids on this subject and theyre all bollox. If I seriously wanted to rejuvenate a flooded battery I would empty out the acid and fill each cell with ammonium formate solution. (lead sulphate is soluble in ammonium formate) and then bung the whole thing in an ultrasonic bath for a while to aid the dissolution process. Empty out each cell and repeat. At a rough guess 3 iterations would be enough to remove most of the lead sulphate. Then refill with new battery acid. This won't replace lead shed from the plates but if your battery is still heavy that won't be a problem. It also wont work if the plates have warped and shorted causing failure which would be a problem. Never tried it, probably never will because my current set of cheap and cheerful flooded batteries have just done their 4 th full time liveaboard winter and I'm in the rag em in bits and then replace brigade. Otherwise, as has been suggested, give em an aspirin, and take a couple y self.
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12 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Buy bigger it works out cheaper.
Our 47kg cylinders have gone up from £62 18 months ago, to £94 now and increasing to £99 next month.
Still way way cheaper per Kg than buying diddy-cylinders
he's a chuckle in't he I just bought a 40 year old springer for a song, turned it back into a gasometer and now I carry it about on the roof of my Gardner powered Hudson waiting for the gas price to go down again so I can sell it at a loss.
Actually 13 Kg Propane is 42 quid here ( Manchester) same as last summer but up by about a tenner from Jan 2021 which is a pretty hefty increase. Look at it like this: No standing charge, ain't I the lucky boy.
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panic not: water on the lower Mac is fine ( maybe not quite as tasty as the 2017 vintage )
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perhaps the CRT should tell whoever is supposed to be putting the locks on coz the flight was open 10 minutes ago
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No restrictions on as yet, came down yesterday afternoon. 3 ish
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my entire boat is made outa that stuff so i guess im cool
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i know someone who takes on sewing work from a boat, got a card somewhere, industrial sewing machine in the cratch. Takes on all sorts lots of cratch cover repairs obviously
I sew on mine with a hand cranked singer the boat swaying is not a problem but having nowhere to spread and accurately measure material is.
so im going to clear out the engine room of all that noisy greasy heavy smelly cast iron junk and fit an 10 by 5 baize covered table, adjustable tilt with a brass ruler along the bottom. After all you can paddle with a ruler
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7 hours ago, LadyG said:
I replaced the 20 year old thin rubber gasket, and it now needs to be screwed down with a wide chisel,
luv it
50 000 RPM
I find chisels make the most effective paint scrapers too.
I wonder if some poor fool ever tried using a chisel for woodwork !
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It seems like a bloody stupid idea to alert a driver
the idea is to wake the driver
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Theres a wharf about halfway between Disley and New Mills a length of wash wall and couple of mooring rings, enough for one boat. Its just a field you think what could it possibly have served. Hmmmm I need to top up my field with soil so ill get some brought in by boat.
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There are the remains of what I assume was a crane on New Mills boatyard. The upright looks similar to the one in RLWP's picture. Sorry don't have a photo but you probably know about it anyway. Related: I was wandering about in the woods just downstream from Swizzels between the canal and the railway and there are remains of a stone structure in there, low, flat top bout 2 meters wide with a gentle incline. Higher than the towpath so nothing to do with the embankment. possibly tramway but I've no idea if there is a record of anything in that area. Any ideas?
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Radon doesn't accumulate in cellars because it sinks. It accumulated in cellars and other subterranean places because it is created in the ground.
you could get through the shallows ok but not under the low bridges
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at least Nitrogen would be cheaper.
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No I'm thinking of Argon. It varies slightly but Argon is usually estimated to make up 0.9% of atmospheric air and it doesn't all sink to the ground.
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The Argon thing wont work. Argon is also a constituent of air but it doesn't all sink down into your bilge.
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Cheers Pirtek in stoke, ill try em on Monday, its funny you mentioned the banjo, when I was looking at the photo in light of Tony's comments I noticed the hose looked strained. By slackening the banjo and rotating it clockwise a bit the hose would be a lot more relaxed. The first time I remember this boat losing traction due to loss of hydraulic oil was about 5 years ago. Its been an intermittent fault but that's a hell of a lot of nappies since. An oily bilge gathers no rot; or some such nonsense but its cheaper and easier to apply than paint.
A Generator on a boat
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Also the note to section 5.4.2 reads
"NOTE – outboard or portable combustion engines not stored at the time of the examination, for example, generators or outboards running or connected, must be recorded as compliant."
you could argue that your genny with its cover on in the cratch where no sane person would run it, is "stored" and infer that therefore it does not need to be compliant.
A pleasant morning reading BSS regulations, anyone know a good book? Or have a life ?