Machpoint005
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Regarding the counter top, how about "worktop oil" from Q Shop or wherever? It seems to work fine on our kitchen worktops, but the fitter warned us not to let any get into contact with the silicone sealant.
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Hitting machine with hammer: £0-0s-6d
Knowing where to hit it: £4-19s-6d
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15 hours ago, magnetman said:
The problem is that a lot of boats were not actually designed properly in the first place.
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Trad style narrow boats are definitely better.
I think this is what you are alluding to.
People do like open stern decks for social reasons.
Half right. Correct about the design. Wrong about the trad stern. Having owned a cruiser deck NB with properly designed drainage channels, properly maintained, I can confirm that the bilge pump was never, ever needed.
Just now, magnetman said:Accuracy. 10 inches is 254mm not 250mm. This is the sort of thing which causes silly problems in engineering projects.
4mm makes all the difference at least what I was told by the woman at the time.
And an inch is defined as exactly 25.4mm.
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14 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Standard 10.3
Every opening in the hull of a vessel above the normal laden water-line (including those used as intakes or outlets for air for engine cooling purposes) shall be so positioned that its lowest point is not less than 250mm (10 ins) above the normal laden water-line of the vessel, unless such openings are permanently and securely connected to ducts or pipes which are watertight up to that level.
Thank you. Proper units first, then ancient ones for the ancient fossils (in parentheses).
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42 minutes ago, magnetman said:
>>Many boats have been sunk in account of people relying on bilge pumps.
The best bilge pump is a frightened person with a bucket.
No, the best bilge pump is one you don't need at all, because the boat was designed and built properly.
Like ours.
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22 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Isn't it 10 " (250mm for the foreigners)
I think you'll find that the BSS requirements are expressed in modern units...but I haven't checked.
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The ability of toilet threads to cause disagreement, discord and general slanging has been demonstrated yet again.
It amazes me that people who xan get so passionate about the "right" way to dispose of natural products can't seem to get worked up about the shits we currently have in government.
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Erm, all squids are damp. Decidedly wet, in fact.
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One also suspects that anything piscine anyone caught (whether by boaters or fisher-folk) would have been eaten.
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10 minutes ago, Heartland said:
It is may be a point to consider that access to Crick (or Braunston) by public transport is difficult, In showing the advantages of boating there is a need not only to cater for the those who go there by car or by boat and so an event at the NEC has the potential to reach a new market. That is as long as
RMT and ASLEF unionsthe Government and the Train Operating Companies permit it, of course.That said places like Crick do have an advantage to show off waterway life and these events should continue, but not always on an annual basis may be.
The Boat Life show at the NEC is 10-00 to 18-00 in Halls 17 - 20 which is on the Atrium Side of the site so the nearest boat mooring would be on the Grand Union near Solihull, but there is a bus service from Solihull to the NEC (X12) and then it is walk across the station, bridge link and skywalk to those halls.
FTFY
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2 hours ago, Mike Todd said:
The canals may well have been built for boats but the fact is that they are kept navigable today for a variety of uses and users. Boaters will do well to remember that otherwise they could be in for a vey steep increase in fees!
The boats the canals were built for didn't have engines or propellers either.
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2 hours ago, dmr said:
3% thats really good. Gas is now the more worrying fuel.
UK has done pretty well on its electricity generatiion, but we are failing to reduce our consumption, in fact we appear keen to increase it, and we do outsource our manufacturing to China which is cheating and might well turn out to be an economic and political disaster.
It was zero coal-fired until a couple of weeks ago.
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Fairy Nuff.
Of course, if you had sealed batteries you wouldn't need to top them up at all.
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2 minutes ago, frangar said:
If you are being picky though there is a difference between deionised and distilled....which whilst not an issue for batteries as long as it is deionised and not just tap water labeled as such..... does make a difference for some uses...hence why a specialist chemical supplier like APC does it...and it does cost more for distilled than deionised.
I'm not, and I know,
Yer pays yer money and yer takes yer choice ... and as is often (but not always) the case, the more you pay, the better the product.
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5 hours ago, JoeC said:
Beta say to put Vaseline in the socket before connecting plug. Some boats have an extended lead so there could be another connector along the way.
...vaseline which then liquefies and runs out when the engine gets hot, and makes a mess all over the clutch housing?
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23 minutes ago, frangar said:
deionised water from Tesco...£1.50 for 2.5l
That's a lot more reasonable than Blackrose's two squid a litre, for what is basically water and nothing else (at all).
Buying distilled water is like buying perforated sheet metal: you buy the material, the stuff that has been taken away, and the cost of taking it away!
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A higher capacity battery will take longer to recharge art a given rate.
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36 minutes ago, Laurie Booth said:
In Australia if you can't pay the hospital fees you have to work there to pay off the bills
I'm sure that works out really well for the chronically sick or terminally ill.
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3 hours ago, Mike Todd said:
The principle of 'you can always work somewhere else if you choose' has been a principle of free marketeers for a long time. Until now it has worked insofar as people kept on doing the necessary jobs but one of the factors neglected by free marketeers is that in those conditions it may well just be that jobs key to maintaining our way of life etc may not get done. It is at least claimed that many of the problems in the public sector stem from chronic job vacancies - even if in some cases it is clear that the number of vacancies is much higher than budgets. Free marketeers may just have to accept that their model means that public sector pay will have to increase to meet supply rather than demand.
42 minutes ago, LadyG said:Frankly, I can't understand what he is on about
Seems clear enough to me.
It's supply and demand, and there is not a big enough supply (of labour). One reason for a shortage of appropriate workers is that the pay on offer is too low.
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1 hour ago, LadyG said:
What can I say.
You can admit that Mr Todd is right.
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Yes, I wondered too about the "give it the beans" method -- it often works.
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My Beta 43 did the same. It's cold weather and/or the multipin cable connector. You'll find it somewhere on top of the gearbox area. Pull it apart, clean and dry it, plug it together again.
Once it all works, cable-tie the connector assembly firmly together.
Worked for me.
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16 hours ago, Alway Swilby said:
What's a ska band?
It's what you wear round your wrist when you go skaing.
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You should have used Aldi vinegar, then it would only have cost 1p!