Tracy D'arth

This radiator must be higher than the header tank for that to happen. The header tank has to be higher than the bleed valve on the radiator.

Where are you? Probably the alternator but checking the belt and all the connections first is a good idea though if the light is going out its unlikely to be a connection off. Check the charging current if you can. Does the battery voltage rise with the engine running?

Yes but without the tallow on the leather flap valve, propulsion is by methane from composting toilet waste plus hot air from some of the self-righteous over-opinionated posters on here.

Its the new reduced scale vacuum tube railway that is a substitute for HS2. 😊

It never was normal but I have heard of several "brokers" acting this way recently. Perhaps they are sick of the tyre kickers wasting their time but that is all part of selling these days. I have little sympathy for such firms. It was much better when most boat sales were private.

Fully accepting the difference in steel and wood gates but the Bosley flight is still functioning well with steel gates made in the 1970s as is a lot of the Ashton canal. I am surprised that steel is so much more expensive than wood, especially large section oak. Steel would of course be much easier to patch and repair and be more recyclable......................... It would seem that C&RT are using much more steel as repair material onto failed oak gates now.

None whatsoever. Its what will eventually happen.

Well someone high up in C&RT ought to as its their problem and their lack of maintenance that is at causing extended closures and additional cost. I wonder who that should be? How about introducing a temporary emergency replacement gate in steel to be changed for a wooden one when next available so as to keep the canals open? Surely heritage could not refuse a temporary solution as to have the canal closed is also against their heritage aims. No gate, no canal, simples.

There is plenty of steel around to quickly make gates that will last longer than 40 years plus. Why do they continue to ignore the sensible approach and make steel gates instead of time expired timber? It is time that function replaced heritage.

A point missed I think, Branch and Twig? Twigged?

You have twigged it!

Wasting time with this no hoper Tony, just ignore the balloon and he will be deflated.

Thankfully I don't do Facebook.

Says canal on the signs. Maureen always said "canal" and it was the canal to the gauging lock outside the cottage at the end of the Middlewich Branch.

Some of the doubled T&M locks had cross paddles linking the chambers to use as side ponds. These have wooden blanking panels now.

Good. I know of one refusenik and will name. Aqueduct Marina.

The Sherwin Williams 2 pack will be sound, its one of the best around. So clean it off well so it is no longer grey and recoat with the same. Baseplate needs grit blast and epoxy if you cannot get it in for the same with a first coat of hot zinc ( Debdale ) Or if you can't do that pressure wash and a couple of coats of bitumen will be better than nothing.

Consult this site https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/notices for uptodate info.

Is there a corresponding hole on the other side?

The wiring shows 3 connections, a ground, a trigger and a run. So its a pull in coil and a hold in coil, fairly conventional.

Madness, and the 1st of April has passed. Whether. Do you never intend to move them/it for blacking or maintainance? With the stresses involved which it is not designed for you will not keep them together, you will rip the side out of one or the other.

You will get negative comments because its a pipe dream than thousands of others have and very very few ever achieve.

If it is definitely an electrical gauge I would check it with another capillary one.

What pressure in psi is maximum on the gauge? Sounds fairly normal if the running under load pressure is around 40 psi, 10 to 20 psi at tickover hot. If the pressure is regularly over 70psi hot I would suspect the pressure release valve stuck closed.

Everyone had a brick in. I had dead fish thrown by nasty fishers.