Machpoint005
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OK, so some of the feedstock isn't waste oil. That doesn't mean that the unexplained extra is entirely palm oil.
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20 hours ago, Mike Todd said:
You might argue that working-from-home is an excellent way of travelling less. However, we then shift the focus onto mental health well being and the impact of very reduced socialisation . . . So many policy issues depend on your objectives and sub optimisation (which is all that we can normally attempt) can lead to differing 'better' solutions.
However, WFH can be highly beneficial for your mental health, because it gives you more time to spend with people you want to see, rather than people you have to see.
I was WFH long before it became a "thing" - for about 15 years in fact.
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24 minutes ago, IanD said:
So I'll ask again -- instead of complaining about it, what do you propose as a better alternative to HVO for the use cases where it is appropriate, like canal boats?
Simple. Fill in all the canals and build railways for electric trains on the same routes.
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1 hour ago, dogless said:
The construction period is going to be a bit of a blot ... I suspect once established it'll be barely noticeable from the canal.
Hopefully loads of jobs will be created.
Rog
Just like Canal Fever then.
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17 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
á 4kg automatic marine engine room extinguisher is £372 (inc VAT)
How often does it need replacing?
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2 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Manufacturers exaggerate claims about their products? You'll be telling me that advertised car mile per gallon rates aren't real next and that everything a bloke says about his sex life isn't true.
I'm shocked, I tell you. Shocked.
Up to 100% of <undesirable things> are removed by our product...
Must be true. Our survey said so.
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On 07/04/2025 at 08:09, Grassman said:
Yes that's what it is, and I'm told it's going to be the largest one in Europe. I don't know if this is true but either way it's going to be a huge blot on the landscape.
It always makes me smile when boating enthusiasts talk about new development as "a blot on the landscape".
I just think of all those people back in the 1790s who didn't want to see the English countryside ruined by all those new-fangled canals.
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17 minutes ago, dmr said:
When I buy a sheet of plywood I am told its from a sustainable source, but I suspect a bit of cheating goes on so there is a chance its not. Should I stop using plywood???
Only if the glue is made from palm oil.
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15 hours ago, Phoenix_V said:
we had an all singing and dancing opso auto change over regulator one time we came to the boat and found gas had run out, changed bottle and a day later gas had run out upon investigation there appeared to be a plug at the bottom of the unit which had literally blown out (trapped water and frost???) decanting all the gas into the locker (thankfully the drain pipe did its job.
So now we have a simple regulator with no opso auto change etc.
The company who made the original have gone out of business.
I got rid of our fancy changeover regulator years ago. One tail, one regulator, and lots of practice changing cylinders in the dark.
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The correct term appears in the BSS. It is examiner.
Anybody who had read the BSS documentation would have known this.
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9 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Nothing to do with C&RT deciding if you are 'using' the boat.
You say you are going to CC - when you move every 14 days (or less) "the boat is in use".
It seems to be everything to do with the enlarged cranium of somebody who always knows better.
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6 hours ago, Victor Vectis said:
I know.
I'm so old I can remember when there were coal mines in Yorkshire.
I can remember that, and I'm not old!
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The food at the Navvy had been going downhill for some years.
Glad to see the Goyt referenced though.
The Soldier Dick (yes, really) at Furness Vale has closed too.
That used to be a pleasant train ride from our gaff.
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6 hours ago, Tonka said:
Whenever we went in there were more dogs then people which is always a good thing. <<
Not for beer sales, it isn't!
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Yes, there's a considerable volume of water in the summit level, on account of its length.
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47 minutes ago, IanD said:
I do agree that CEOs trousering tens or hundreds of millions per year is ludicrous, but not something that can be fixed without reforming the entire world financial system... 😞
CEOs of publicly-owned bodies don't get share options ...
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19 hours ago, magnetman said:
I used the word Negro
No, you didn't.
21 hours ago, magnetman said:I don't have the actual text but it was basically 'Back in the day we would have put a group of small N[letters removed]oes in there. They are generally fit and strong and nobody is that concerned if they die".
That's the gist, but they are not the words you used. Crucially, there was no "generally", that is, apart from a lazy generalisation on your part.
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As others have said, by far the most important consideration is how well an engine has been maintained.
Having said that, a Yanmatmr or Kubota nase engine will be pretty well unbustable in the low-stress application of a narrowboat.
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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Our Reeves / Welton boat had a 1000 litre tank in the bow (1 tonne of water) never had any trim problems.
Maybe, but that wasn't the question. The boat would have been ballasted with that ij mind.
Add another 33% and that's an extra third of a tonne to compensate for at t'arsend.
Besides which, Shirley the longer the boat, the greater the potential problem?
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Does the extra weight up front cause fore-and-aft trim problems? Water is heavy stuff!
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51 minutes ago, magnetman said:
If you want to be competitive about it my children are half African.
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I'm sure most people would realise referring to the use of children from countries which were previously thought of as being full of disposable people for cleaning inside water tanks is more likely to be a joke than a genuine suggestion. <<
Competition does not enter into it.
Your "joke" was inappropriate.
Someone who self-defines as non-racist should be particularly aware of that.
There are lines which should not be crossed.
1 minute ago, IanD said:Yeah well, jokes that were acceptable to schoolboys 50 years ago aren't acceptable today, are they?
Here's one I remember from school (works when spoken) with two different answers:
Q. What's black and white and red all over?
A1 (acceptable) : A newspaper!
A2 (not acceptable) : A freshly whipped n*****r.
Your "joke" was definitely closer to A2 than A1, which is why people found it offensive.
A3, a freshly-whipped nun?
A4, a penguin in a mincng machine?
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1 hour ago, magnetman said:
I would consider altering your vicarious offence settings Sir.
Have you never watched the Olympic Games or Boxing on the telly?
May I be so bold as to presume to enquire why you would find something which actually has no impact on you 'objectionable' ?
Vicarious? You know nothing about my circumstances.
Olympic athletes and boxers are the elite. The great majority of people of all ethnic groups are as weak and unfit as I am. I cannot speak for your health, strength or fitness, so why do you presume to speak for those attributes in people you cannot possibly know ?
For me, as for most people, antediluvian racism is in itself offensive.
As the grandfather of three girls who are not ethnically pure "white" I find it deeply objectionable that they might be pigeonholed according to their skin tone, by ignorant or inconsiderate throwaway remarks.
Your post that prompted this exchange falls into that category. I'm prepared to accept it as inconsiderate (or ill-considered), but the more you try to defend it, the more it looks like ignorance.
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12 hours ago, magnetman said:
Why is the skin tone of the small person relevant, please?
What makes you think Black people are fit and strong?
There's an outdated and objectionable undercurrent of racism going on here, and I suggest you rethink it.
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5 hours ago, peterboat said:
Totally agree Tony, I had stainless steel on the first boat and bathtub, food grade on the widebeam and jn hull on Dutch lady, I never want to paint in a tank ever again!, I had to send a small child in to do the edges! Cruelty it was
My 14 year old (at the time) grandson was much better at getting into the water tank with a paintbrush than me.
Well, I could get in, but getting out presented a whole new set of problems!
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Narrowboat hadling, just curious
in General Boating
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If you can see the prop wash on one side, but not the other, with the tiller hard over (only 75 to 80 degrees in my case) then you know it is indeed doing something. Quite a lot, in fact.
As an earlier poster said, it pushes the arsend out from the bank too.