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Machpoint005

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  1. On 02/04/2023 at 10:53, PaulD said:

    I am a chartered engineer with 50 years experience in mines, oil refineries and power stations. All I know about boat engines and 12v electrics is down to Tony Brooks and his excellent course that I attended when I started boating. Please keep posting Tony - we need you.

     

    I was a Chartered Engineer before I retired and let my registration lapse, but in common with all EC registrants mine was a specialised area of knowledge which emphatically did not include BMC diesels. 

     

    There are tens of thousands of people out there who think they know everything there is to know about acoustics, by virtue of their ownership of a pair of ears.

     

    Perhaps we should all be a little more respectful of the specialist knowledge of other professionals? 

     

     

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  2. 35 minutes ago, Grassman said:

     

    Not necessarily. My 1995 boat has a 5 digit licence number starting with 54, but there are older boats with 6 digit numbers and even some 5 digit ones above 54 which are older. I gather that in the mid 1990's BWW found a batch of old unused numbers and decided to use them up before reverting to 6 digit numbers again.

     

    That figures. Our 1996 built boat was numbered 5000xx. 

     

  3. 42 minutes ago, Naughty Cal said:

    All TVs have crap sound quality nowadays.

     

    They are too thin to have decent speakers in them.

     

    It's about finding a happy medium.

     

    I think sound-reproduction technology has moved on since paper-cone-on-electromagnet days.

     

     

     

     

  4. 49 minutes ago, M_JG said:

     

    Bang on in the main. Though I dont agree with your last sentance. Its the lack of 'specialist' knowledge that can be an issue, and the knowledge of when to refer on.

     

    General Practice is in itself a specialism.

     

     

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  5. 1 hour ago, nb Innisfree said:

    >>Or salt

    "salt got the blame for the damage caused by sugar" 

     

    There's only one legitimate use for sugar.

     

    That's in fermentation.

     

     

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  6. 3 hours ago, MtB said:

    And to expand on the point, gold and depleted uranium make better ballast because they are both denser than bricks, steel or lead. 

     

    Gold bars can be purchased on line, here: https://www.bullionbypost.co.uk/

     

    But I have to admit I've never seen depleted uranium for sale, not even in the really big branches of Wickes. 

     

     

     

    Why does it have to be depleted? 

    😁

     

  7. 3 hours ago, Arthur Marshall said:

    I've never seen why one shouldn't try to get the best of all worlds!

    Boaters don't pay council tax, but they also don't have the security that bricks and mortar give, and I would suggest that cancels out the financial advantage. We have other expenses householders don't have. Logically, council tax should be scrapped and replaced with a local income tax - it no longer performs its original function of funding councils which rely increasingly on central government.

    There is no reason I can see why moorings should differentiate between leisure or residential - it's purely the landlord's decision. It makes no difference to the water level or towpath use. If CT should be applied, boats that remain within one county's boundaries for an extended period without a permanent mooring could be identified by CRT who would have to act as agent to collect council tax.

     

    People who rent their homes have no security!

     

     

    2 minutes ago, magnetman said:

    >> Are we talking about people who never receive any mail? If you do receive mail then guess what - the premises where this arrives will be paying council tax. 

     

    Shocking isn't it. 

     

    Erm, PO Boxes don't pay Council Tax. The post office probably pays business rates, though.

     

     

  8. 2 hours ago, IanD said:

     

    You mean the usual government response to many infrastructure problems -- "The market will sort it out" ?

     

    Except of course it won't, because a lot of these problems (e.g. public transport) need money spending on them (e.g. subsidies) to make society better instead of being a vehicle for profit-making, so "the market" isn't interested... 😞

     

    Yes, that's exactly what I was getting at. 

     

    What price public investment in infrastructure? 

  9. 5 hours ago, JemShaun said:

    That is very true, however my cheeky offer would be a total insult to the owner 😁

     

    Well, make a cheeky offer rather than an insulting one?

     

    Never forget ... if in doubt, walk away.

     

     

  10. 28 minutes ago, Fraggle Moon said:

    Thanks for this, I shall wait to see if anyone else has any experience regarding the BSS...

     

    If vents are mandatory however , then I imagine there must be a better way to provide this, that doesn't leave big holes in the roof..! 😄 I'm from a construction engineering background and they just seem to be a poor solution for providing fresh air...

     

    Having stripped mine back to the bare-bones at the weekend, all 4 show signs that they have allowed water ingress in the past.

     

    They are especially effective at allowing water ingress in winter, if snow builds up around them and them melts. 

     

  11. 1 hour ago, Richard Fairhurst said:

    Signs cost tuppence hapenny.

     

    1 hour ago, Midnight said:

    Plus the cost of erecting them.

     

    ...which still doesn't amount to the cost of fixing a bridge after a LGV strike, or probably even the cost of a pair of replacement lock gates.

     

     

     

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