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  1. Tracy D'arth
    Not really, these are what everybody uses https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156142610396?
  2. Tracy D'arth
    I use a bar of soap.
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  4. Tracy D'arth
    To be clear, tapered posts are fine but the clamp connectors must have a threaded stud with nut to take a crimped on cable lug, the nasty one illustrated with pressure screws onto the caple are not OK Solidly soldered cable into the connectors as are generally on made up battery cables are also OK.
  5. Tracy D'arth
    There is no restriction on using threaded posts with nuts or the traditional tapered lead posts either. Lugs with nuts and bolts are also perfectly OK.
  6. Tracy D'arth
    I used to install 'phone switching centers. The battery makers insisted on every connection on the 48v racks being cleaned and covered totally with the supplied packets of grease, which was actually the same as Holts No-Crode. And they were thousands of amps @48v !
  7. Tracy D'arth
    I am a bit passed lying on the back deck grinding and welding those panels under the stern gunwales! They are fiddly to get at. And why the standard railway gauge is 4' 8 5/8". It was the width of the wheel ruts from the horse drawn carts.
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  9. Tracy D'arth
    Utter claptrap. A minute coating of Vaseline or No-Crode will not insulate a clean, tightly clamped post and clamp terminal connection.
  10. Tracy D'arth
    IMO the dome head stainless screws look far better than pop rivets, well done.
  11. Tracy D'arth
    Excellent, I knew that the stern was familiar. 24 years ago I welded all the interior stern panels around one of these. I was told by the owner that 41 feet was a popular size for Minden Marine as it fitted in the workshop!
  12. Tracy D'arth
    I don't rate the minimalist bath on the roof, or is it a Cressy water tank?
  13. Tracy D'arth
    Just follow the heavy cables rather than guessing.
  14. Tracy D'arth
    Its nothing like a Springer, wrong bow, stern corners welded far too tidy. The big rear dollies remind me of something. Window breaker bow but I think not a Harborough. Square stern, rings bells.
  15. Tracy D'arth
    Its cranking current that matters for starter batteries.. Beware buying batteries from the likes of Halfrauds, in my experience they are often old stock and not fully charged, they come ready sulphated.
  16. Tracy D'arth
    I have always chickened out and replaced the whole window. I remember in my youth trying to reglaze caravan windows, very difficult and they were not toughened glass then either. No, they weren't bull's eyes either!
  17. Tracy D'arth
    Low resistance one way round, higher the other.
  18. Tracy D'arth
    I am fed up with reporting broken paddles, gates, etc. and they never get fixed. some have been out of use for years, Hillmorton for instance. They have too many yellow bags.
  19. Tracy D'arth
    From what you say it sounds like that panel is short circuited. I would check the wiring and the panel connections on the back very carefully. There may be a diode in one connection to prevent the panel draining the battery in the dark, it could be duff.
  20. Tracy D'arth
    As I said earlier, you have a bad connection. It will be on the heavy cables between battery terminals, + & - and the starter motor and the earth to the engine. Follow all the cables from the engine battery inspecting every connection on both cables.
  21. Tracy D'arth
    Always carry plenty of cash and credit card.
  22. Tracy D'arth
    You're all mad, mad I say, stark staring bonkers.
  23. Tracy D'arth
    A spring non return valve in the outlet of the pump may stop it syphoning but it would have to be before the accumulator especially if there is no expansion vessel on the hot water system.
  24. Tracy D'arth
    It will still syphon the tank contents into the boat!
  25. Tracy D'arth
    Was perhaps filling with already diluted AF, premix, but its an expensive way to buy water.............................................
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