Boater Sam

How do you recondition a knackered drive plate? I've only ever seen new ones fitted. R&D make new, don't recon. ######################### RCR - phutt.

Open a new bank account in both your name and the vendors name with both required to withdraw any funds after a certain date . Get the other vendor on side too? Pay your cash in. Bank will hold. If it goes pear shaped you can withdraw before the date. Or Get a solicitor to hold the funds for both parties.

Yes, just square, and those crap small sockets from cheap sets that we never use are small enough on the OD to fit well in the handcuff, hard enough not to wear as well.

Cylinders and calorifiers fill from the bottom and empty from the top so will always be full. So you emptied the cold tank, the pump has run on without water? Battery flat? oh, no, you must be on the shoreline. If you managed to boil off the water until the element was exposed, it will just burn out. Where did all the steam go? Does your heater not have a working thermostat?

If they are real engineering bricks they will not have soaked up much diesel but it will be trapped under them.

I have a home made one that fits all perfectly. Its 1/4" drive sockets with an allen key jammed into the hex ends so its double ended. Its lighter than the "proper" one and fits the pocket better.

Blocked vent hole on the air side of the diaphragm?

Do a fish rescue, 1" is not enough for a duck, goldfish? Worry not, just dry it out. There must be hundreds of boats with more water than this under the floor and the owners never know and don't care.

Only ever install a thermostatic shower. Fit a thermostatic blending valve to the hot water supplies throughout the boat set to 65 degrees and another for the washing machine (assuming it is cold fill only ) set at 40 degrees. Saves the element coming on at the start. Kinder to the inverter and batteries. Sam.

'ere Bob, this ere jack won't work. 'Ow heavy is it then?

It seems to feed from a regulator on a propane bottle.

Why did the stationary engines have wheels? The gas hose is over a metre long, BSS fail.

With any luck, he will never get on the canals. With the attitude problem, would he be welcome? I think not.

1/8" BSP I think. Sam.

So the cats are wired and on the sauce? Its a funny old boat for sure

Could you not empty it first?

Can't read what is on the right hand wall high up, looks French? A guess, Scotland?

Put an alternator on an exercise bike and get fit as you work. Spending so much time just sitting at a computer day after day will turn you into couch potato.

I'm wondering how you are going to fare on the canals, with your outlook and demeanor and unusual looking boat. There is nothing more traditional than a Josher hull. Please bear in mind that boats that are well outside the mainstream are very difficult to sell on and they depreciate like a sinking ship.

Oh dear oh dear, now its to be built from cheap steel. Do you know what grade of steel is required for successful boat building? And where it comes from? And how much it costs?

A direct connection would increase the volume of the engine cooling water to an unacceptable degree. you would problems coping with the expansion I think.

I think it looks great, greenie given.

You might be expecting a bit too much there Phil but I wish you well. PJ Barber is known for individual boats but your budget is very small for a custom design by a good builder. Which boats already have the features you are looking for?# Sam.

I'm sure your bank can auto refund with the details you have, date and time, last 4 digits. Or the card provider?

Nokia 6310 is back in production I believe. All too modern for me , Nokia 1200 dumb phone owner. I first discovered that a tube TV floats face up on the Nuneaton stretch, terrible picture though. On one run we had two complete 3 piece suites, cushions and all, down near the estate iron bridge. And somewhere under that bridge is/was a massive magnet, I watched the guy lose it trying to get his folding truck out, after the cargo net the kids had hung from the bridge, whipped it of his roof.