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Is it possible to print off the contributions to a thread. With out going through print page move down print page etc

oow Sam ya enthusiasm for this problem sounds like ya glass is halve full, bit like the OP's boat bottom

How many gallons of oil does it take to sink a bote

Mike you right with this, if water is coming out of dipstick hole then due to oil floats on water then no oil left. I would pore in more oil, any just for protection, before carrying out further tests, and drain off the shit in the sump. obviuosly not in that order

Don't start stripping untill other test have been done or you wasting time and money. someone in past post suggested compression test, This will give you, amoung other things, balance between cylinders, slight deviation normal. Head gaskit would not give symptom of nothing coming out of exhaust when trying to fire on easy start. Most important, do not ignor the experts, not me, on here they will save you money and time

Exhaust ?

Recap Engine turning well with new batery Compression established plugs working fine No smoke with easy start. Is the exhaust blocked?

Above and also backing the kind words of MTB Lots of good local ish places to meet narrowboat owners, Stanley Ferry (park in ferry boat PH car park) you can walk for almost a mile and talk to boaters on the tow path (both sides) I have a couple of friends who live there and love to chat, although they have to close the blinds when eating because some gongoozelers thing its feeding time at the zoo. There is also a nature reserve there. Lemonroyde is now appointment only. Woodlesford is very pleasant and a small but very friendly community (they do have activities within the community) I personally like Savile town Dewsbury, visited both by car and boat., quote from the cut - "Wi luk afta each uther in here" Gargrave is nice but not many perminant boats, ones we met were helpful but didn't have a very nice word for the local youth, personally I thought they were ok. Aspley (Huddersfield), stayed a couple of times here and was made to feel very welcome, We were invited to moor on one of the private spots so we were on the "right side" of the canal. There are loads more, Yorkshire is a wounderful place for good, honest, diverse people (Visist Hebbon Bridge, wind chime or dream catcher ever other shop, bread & milk walk for miles - love it been by boat about six times) Yes there are a scattering of those mentioned before but eh stuff the lastards its their glass that's half empty not yours "fill it up lass and gu fo it"

Greeny to who ever triggers page 18 with out using ADE post

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Boaty theme from Spike Father Thames Let us look at the River Thames. One of England's watery gems. Oily brown, greasy, muddy. Looking foul, and smells of cruddy. The conservancey say their cleaning it, so why is it the colour of sh*t?

Please nobody Quote or re-post Alan D E last google post, I now have a blister on the wheel finger

Hi Jake How excited do you now feel, I remember our first hire experience over ten years ago, and remember with foundness how much we learnt about boating, its history, locks, swing bridges,tunnels and via ducts etc. We are still learning now coming up to something like 1500 to 2000 miles later, last year, for example, we hired from Sowerby Bridge (Yorkshire) three times and each cruise was so different even though it was on the same canals. No two days are the same, enjoy the experience and try not to get the bug

To get back on topic, I'm now confused! should I get off the boat and open the gate for my partner or stay on and let my partner open it for me One thing I have found out in life is we are not the finished articule and we should all be willing to learn, I didn't know that classing someone as single had other implication, like for example I used to use the phrase mixed race until someone educated me that this implies there is a pure race. Life is about learning and one should never close our minds to new concepts and new ways of looking at things, what is importent to me is it is better to respect others, even if you disagree with what they say, than to attack them personally. Any way back to the boating, my partner and I have agreed, next lock we are both getting off and we'll whistle the bugger through.

Happy new year everyone and too the OP Vanessa hope this is your year to get a boat

Thank you for expanding my vocabulary and once I get the "Spial chucker" to work I'll be fine.

Hi Ange That is such a shame, no sorry its annoying, why should it matter the genda of a contributor. we all have the right to express our opinions and agree or disagree with others, but none of us have the right to personally attack someone for their genda, colour, sexual orientation, religion etc we are all people. sorry rant over

You are absolutly right the quoted relay as a carrying current of 30 A. Don't know the typical pull of a narrowboat system but I'm sure its greater than that. Relays I do know about!

Sorry WotEver its the way I layed it out on the spread sheet to get my head round it. Yes I do understand that the charging voltage and SOC are two seperate things, and thank you for the additional explination. I have a cheep battery hydromitor that I am going to play about with on the car battery. If the bugger doesn't start for work on Thursday I'm blaiming you lot

Thanks Brian How many? thank you I'll install a lamp when I'm doing my practical learning.

Yes quite happy that battery voltage readings are taken when no charge or load pressant and after allowing to rest (3 minutes? don't know where I got that from, something to do with croc clips and explosions). Sorry the 2.6 is a typo should be 2.06.

Thank you - re-read all posts now got it (basic theory that is) going to play with charger and batery in garage to start looking at hydromiter v refractomiter for measuring SOC. Below is my basic understanding of all your help, I'll probably keep re-reading until it is fully embeded, but have I made a good start?

Forget the maps & apps try talking to people along the way.

So what is the best method of measuring soc? I have re-read posts on voltage levels and "charts" giving potential levels of charge but confusingly they differ, a poster did explain why (sorry if I have not quoted you) so what, if anything can be monitored to give actual soc? or am I over thinking it