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6 hours ago, BEngo said:
Fuel consumption varies surprisingly little between engines in typical midlands canal use.
On a typical narrow canal: about 2 pints per hour.
On a typical broad canal: about 2.5 pints per hour.
Once you are off the midlands canals then the water around can be have differently and many factors come into play.
Bracket open on a wide river or a commercial sized canal: Depends on which model and how well the prop is matched, but a 2200 rpm model with everything set up perfectly about 20-30 pints per hour.
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Where do you buy diesel in pints?
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It's always worrying when someone claims 'X' to be better than 'Y'. Relatively few people have the background knowledge to ask "on what basis?" or to recognise that these are hardly ever black-and-white questions.
"Nothing environmentally friendly about burning wood pellets" is a good example.
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^^^ what he said.
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Don't know if you meant on a boat or in a house, but HETAS is your starting point.
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6 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Grandfather rights?
No rights, just the knowledge and ability -- as it stood when the tickets expired.
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31 minutes ago, LadyG said:
If the whole boat feels different you have changed the C of G, bad idea.
And if the CG gets above the metacentre, very bad indeed..
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1 hour ago, Tonka said:
Also why clean the tank and then introduce a dirty pump just to save time
Dunno about saving time though. There is always another job to be done on a boat whilst waiting for the s-l-o-w system pump to empty the tank.
Even if it's only sitting on your arse doing the crossword.
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17 minutes ago, Mike Todd said:
>> Some places, however, are just simply no-go areas for parking!
. . . And such places are often no-go areas for mooring too (or should that be no-stop areas?)
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On 09/09/2023 at 14:03, haggis said:
I have come across similar fittings in a blue material and they don't fit properly. Best to stick to Hozelock which seem to fit most things
The green ones from q-shop are OK though.
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It's a great shame that bin colours and contents were not standardised across the whole country. They're not even standard across the various local authorities in Greater Manchester.
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7 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
There must be a technical / safety reason simply by the fact that the ISO specifications for small boat wiring say there is a maximum distance.
I'd be guessing but maybe there is a concern that there could be a long length of unprotected wiring which is exposed and could be vulnerable to damage.
7.2 Main supply circuits
7.2.1 Double-pole circuit-breakers shall be installed in conductors to the shore-power supply circuits.
7.2.2 A manually reset trip-free circuit-breaker shall be installed within 0,5 m of the source of power or, if impractical, the conductor from the source of power to the panel-board circuit-breaker shall be contained within a protective covering, such as a junction box, control box, enclosed panel-board, or within a conduit or cable trunking or equivalent protective covering. If the location of the main shore-power inlet circuit-breaker exceeds 3 m from the shore-power inlet connection or the electrical attachment point of a permanently installed shore-power cord, additional fuses or circuit-breakers shall be provided within 3 m of the inlet or attachment point to the electrical system in the craft, measured along the conductor.
This is all Fairy Nuff but as far as I know there is no restriction on the length of an external flexible shoreline. Common sense would dictate that it is replaced every few (several) years, but immediately if any physical damage is found.
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3 hours ago, NB Esk said:
I wonder if someone may be able to answer my question? We used to have a different kind of pride in this country, it was known as “ wear your poppy with pride “. This referenced people who had made a sacrifice in the defence of their country, in some cases becoming mentally or physically disabled, or even paying the ultimate sacrifice.My question is, if the above people are entitled to just one day per year ( rememberance Sunday ), how come members of LGB are entitled to an entire month?
Both are pride. There is no difference in the meaning of the word: it is the opposite of shame. Someone may take pride in the achievements of people during conflicts. Others may take pride being able to admit their sexual orientation, rather than being "conventionally" ashamed of it.
What anyone wants to do in their private life is no concern of mine. Two adults acting by mutual consent, and not harming anyone else, for example.
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39 minutes ago, LadyG said:
There is no celebration of war in the remembrance ceremony. <<
Then why all the military uniforms and martial music?
My father was too young to serve in WW2 and his father was too young for the Great War.
My father-in-law, and his brother, both served in Bomber Command. Neither of them ever participated in a remembrance parade because the memories were too painful.
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I would have thought -- and hoped -- the profits would be used to preserve as much as possible of the current badly creaking network, rather than trying to restore canals that have long since been filled in and built over. The fact that CRT owns little pockets of land that used to be canals isn't really relevant.
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7 hours ago, Stroudwater1 said:
Yes they do , they have another use- the removable tray stores loose change. Next to this is the cigarette lighter hole. The cigarette lighter is an optional extra for safety reasons. This can have a phone charger adapter or other 12v things inserted. The hole aperture is just the right size for 1p pieces which then titillate the fuse from said charger adversely 😕Pennies aren't loose change, they are shrapnel. I can't remember the last time I handed one over a counter in payment for something.
My "cigarette lighter" hole has a USB charger plug permanently inserted.
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6 hours ago, 1st ade said:
Orkney...
When we got the late ferry to Kirkwall from Aberdeen, I always ended up driving the minibus (12 SCUBA divers plus kit) the last few miles from Kirkwall to Stromness - that sign (just after Finstown) was the signal to ring the skipper and get him to get the kettle on! (Given it was over eight miles off the main drag - we always wondered if they kept the sign just for tourists...)
I didn't know there was one in Orkney too!
Bloody Soothmoothers ...
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21 hours ago, GUMPY said:
There is always the place in Orkney
I went past that sign last week. It's in Shetland.
Just off the B9071.
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Re the thread title: pedantry alert.
Solar panels do not produce power.
They produce energy.
(OK, strictly speaking they capture energy and change its form)
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4 hours ago, midnight cowboy said:
There’s a very interesting pub, the Station Hotel, opposite the station.
Which station?
Which town, in fact?
There can't be more then, oh I dunno, 50 or 60 Station Hotels in the country.
I've found over 20 within 100 miles of Manchester and I haven't even reached Birmingham yet.
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On 03/08/2023 at 21:00, magnetman said:
A discredited scum tory mp too !
At least two tautologies there.
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Even if you use a freezer, it's still* a distillation process, so illegal. The yield would be very disappointing, though.
.*see what I did there?
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See the thread title.
If the locals say "oop" rather than "ap", it's the North.
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4 hours ago, MumHunOnTheCanal said:
I did not expect to start such an interesting discussion about using one gate! But it’s been very insightful
thank you x
It just goes to show that the only stupid question is the one you don't ask.
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3 hours ago, HenryFreeman said:
A rectifier's licence only lets you redistill duty paid neutral spirits - so, for example, if you want to take a vodka/neutral white spirit and turn it into gin, you can do that with a rectifier's licence. To distill spirits from an alcohol wash requires a distiller's licence which HMRC usually require a minimum still size of over 1200 litres (though some smaller distilleries with good business plans get away with smaller stills)
That said, no one on a home scale gets "done" for distilling and given home brew shops up and down the country sell the stills and everything else required to make spirits, it's possibly fair to say HMRC are looking elsewhere and are probably more interested in people like this fella
"Don't tell, don't sell" is the motto in the community, of which I'm definitely not a member of.
Thank you for correcting me, and sorry if my post misled anyone. I'll go with my original intention, which was to say that home distillation is illegal in the UK.
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