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You have to weld in straight lines, de-slagging before welding the next line in the same pit else you get slag inclusions which render your work useless. Don't worry about the bits of weld that stick out, you will soon wear them down whilst boating and grinding them flat is counterproductive.

I borrowed an inspection launch with front wheel steering. It was awful! I gave up after a couple of days rapping its rear end on every bridge hole. As for reversing, impossible. Couldn't see where I was going.

Lancashire Rotating Electrics wil sort it no problem https://lre-ltd.co.uk/ They are the go-to guys for me and many others for anything electric that spins.

Is it all fuel or is it contaminated with water emulsified with the fuel? Draw off some fuel from the injection pipe and see if it is cloudy.

On a stove with legs as Tony said, there is little need for a fireproof base as the amount of heat transmission downwards is minimal. I keep my spare door glass in it packaging under my Squirrel and it has not even scorched in 10 years. The fireproof hearth in front is far more important.

I am thinking that the whole saga could be a clumsy DIY repair done by someone who knows nothing but has watched several hundred hours of You Tube rubbish and thought that they could build a better narrowboat than someone who has been building them for decades.

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I think it has been deliberately extended to clear the cabin roof with a tiller bar fitted. Its painted so its not out of place.

What fridge? No one mentioned a fridge before, only a lamp.

Doesn't look like a proper staking to me.

Its got a big pulley on the camshaft.

If memory serves, its not an ordinary round section O ring but square section else it will still leak. Get the proper one from PRM, maybe Calcutt. You don't need the rest of the overhaul kit and its expensive.

I think you have bigger problems other or as well as flat batteries. I have never known new batteries to be delivered as flat as you say these were. And if it was all, say 3 or 4 of them, I just don't believe it.

I have an operative in Bangkok, Thailand next week if it helps.

This is a contradiction. You are running the battery charger off the inverter which is powered by the very same batteries that you are trying to charge? Perpetual motion is a figment, it does not exist. Why are you not running the battery charger straight off the shore landline power?