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We have one just like that on Mintball. The iron wool style filling fell apart. We now use strips of green scouring pads fitted round the inside of the casing and just throw them away at regular intervals. If you don't have a crank breather pipe then just block the hole off
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2 hours ago, LadyG said:
It may be that he could change the location on his computer, there is something called vpn or similar, used by Mentour on the YouTube flight channel.
Wasn't anything to do with location. Something very odd in browser processing causing a bit of old hidden test code to appear for some odd reason.
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1 hour ago, blackrose said:
Apart from some isolation valves and one L-port valve between me calorifier and gas water heater I can't think of any other valves in my freshwater system? There's a NRV on the cold feed to the calorifier.... All are approaching 20 years old and operating perfectly.
The drain valve on the calorifier on Mintball is a bit troublesome - tank has been in for about 30 years and I suspect it got left open for a bit and furred up.
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On 05/04/2024 at 15:36, Onewheeler said:
I've been doing some modifications to the domestic water circuits at home and have found that most of the gate valves and "washing machine" ball valves I fitted twenty-five years ago are inoperable (won't close properly). I don't have anything quite so old on the boat, but wonder if anyone has ideas for valves which maintain their capability after long periods of not being used?
They are inoperable in Cheltenham after about 5 years - water is too hard.
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2 minutes ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
I'll be happy to when I'm able. Per forum rules, I apparently must have at least 10 posts before I can send a private message. I think this response will count as my 4th or 5th. Perhaps you can initiate one to which I can respond?
I appreciate this and have no objection to helping to the extent I'm able for the sake of others. It is noble to freely offer a tool like this, and I am glad that there are people who channel their passion into supporting others who wish to pursue it. Unfortunately, the nature of the issue is such that the site is not stable enough on my computer for me to successfully submit a report there. If this were not almost certain to be a one-off experience for me (and, at best case, an extremely rare one), I would have more motivation to consider the benefits of trying to set up an account. As it is, the benefits would be quite minor and would create the small security concern of having data in an account I know will be left dormant inside of 3 months.
I'm still trying to work out how you got an auth token for an ancient account which was for the new login / authentication process
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57 minutes ago, Andyaero said:
What happens re insurance in cases like this? If it was a car it'd be written off and scrapped and you'd get a pay out and sometimes the opportunity to buy it back and fix up yourself. Does this exist with boats?
Seems its not the owner making this video, is he fixing it for them, was it not fully insured? Or has he got it as scrap and fixing it up?
Its all very odd - it looks like when it was recovered it was just left moored up - not secured or anything. I suspect minimal insurance but I'd be pleased to be proved wrong.
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1 hour ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
This is the site I was on prior to the error pages screen capped. This tends to happen when I hit "confirm" after making changes of any kind (e.g., changes in preferences or setting the trip to number of days instead of 7 hour day default). I'm afraid I am not motivated to create an account for a bug report under the circumstances - I've described the issue to the best of my ability here and under the circumstances don't anticipate that having an account on the site to track the credentials of will serve any purpose for me.
There must be something sitting between you and our server which is trashing the urls. We don't do any rewriting at the domain level as the site supports multiple different domains - so if you start on canalplan.org.uk then you stay on it. No-one else seems to be reporting problems to us either through here or Facebook or Twitter and we've had 41 PDF routes generated today. If you can send me your IP address via Private message I'll dig into the server logs and bug reports to see if I can see anything obvious.
I did notice something very odd - that authentication token is for user 23 Users of 90 and below were only used for Beta testing and were discarded. Current users IDs are in the mid 2550s Auth tokens like that are send in the User account confirmation email and are a one use token which is never used again once we've confirmed that the account request is genuine. After that you login on the front page using user ID or Social App auth. Logins are not needed to plan routes, download PDFs etc - they are only needed for things like submitting data updates or photos. or saving planned routes so you can reload them, or reporting bugs or using the simple forum system.
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11 hours ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
Unfortunately I was unable to log a bug report on the site (again because of its wonky behavior for me, but of a novel kind). I logged in using Facebook (so as not to need to set up an account), then the bug reporting page got stuck on a rapid reloading loop.
OS is Windows 10. No JS blockers. Have the issue in Firefox, Chrome, and have had in Edge though it did not replicate when I tried today. Firefox (my primary browser) has an ad blocker (uBlock Origin), and Chrome has no extensions (it is my browser of last resort when a page doesn't play nicely with Firefox). I never use Edge but tried it when I encountered this issue the other day (it replicated then but didn't immediately today - I only tried for a couple minutes). Attached screen caps here for you of Firefox and Chrome (this isn't quite the screen I remember encountering before, but I could simply be misremembering - an error screen nonetheless).
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Thanks all for more great tips and suggestions. I think I have a better notion of how best to try to think about scheduling/pacing, and I appreciate the tips for locations. I've seen the Ellesmere Tesco mentioned in an older thread on here and will definitely make note of it.
Gabble,
Thank you very much for the gluten free intelligence.
Ian,
Those pints look enticing, and I imagine the setting would enhance them.
Canalplan is at
and looks like this
Don't use FB to login as we are removing it in a couple of weeks because we cannot comply with FB's latest requirements to use FB login (You have to be a registered business).
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16 hours ago, VisitingFromCalifornia said:
Thanks for your replies. I've gotten some helpful tips from them.
I've seen the suggestion for Canalplan before, but it really doesn't like my computer. It goes wonky and gives me off firewall errors in any browser (I have no firewall beyond whatever is native and passive in windows and have never encountered this on another site).
Firewall errors? Please log a bug and include screen shots and details about what you are doing when it goes wrong. Also detail of O/S and Browser versions plus details of any plugins (JS blockers etc).
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On the BBC yesterday I learned that some of these "Travellers" can do up to 30 miles a year......
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Whole of the Severn is now back on red and closed - its only a few feet off the quayside in Gloucester.
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On 26/03/2024 at 14:51, jacko264 said:
What colour will you paint it Ford major blue I hope 😀
paint it black.......
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9 hours ago, gatekrash said:
Looking at this week's forecast I reckon it'll be back on reds by the end of the week.
At least they've finished the dredging on the Droitwich now, so if the Severn is passable you've got a couple of options for the last bit.
Its all still very wet round here - and things are still looking borderline on the CRT Water level page.
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2 hours ago, JoeC said:
I've been on the Caldon since Christmas. As already said, get past Stoke and from Milton onwards it is much better.
Currently, Elsan not working at Endon (although it was reopened on 14th somebody blocked it a day or so ago) and canal is silted up at Consall Forge (CRT due to fix end of March) so you can't get to the services at Froghall even if you could fit through the very low tunnel.
Some nice pubs along the way - the Hollybush at Denford and especially the Black Lion at Consall Forge.
Leek isn't a bad place either - short hike from the canal but some good pubs, and you have to go through the other mad tunnel on the canal to get to it
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1 hour ago, Paul C said:
Interesting one at Tyrley locks:
Giffgaff mifi (O2)..............................................................no connection
iPhone (Talk.Home) inside boat.................................no connection
iPhone (Talk.Home) outside boat..............................4Mbps
Lyca mifi (EE), vertical aerials......................................no connection
Lyca mifi (EE), horizontal aerials................................24Mbps
The conclusion for today being, sometimes you can be in a really poorly served area where one (or more) networks simply have no coverage; and that the one(s) which do, have horizontal (or vertical) polarization. Also the (I am assuming) omnidirectional aerial within an iPhone doesn't do too well in this low-signal environment.
Mobile coverage in and around Market Drayton is very patchy.
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1 hour ago, beerbeerbeerbeerbeer said:
Dunno Tonka,
I think StephenA knows his stuff though, perhaps he can come back and explain the simple obvious difference and why it might matter.
Fewer words the better for me.
Under 10 would be perfect. And no words longer than 6 letters.
Progressive Web App - actually looking at the Camra Site it isn't a PWA. A PWA is a website that you can basically install on a phone - it's coded to use databases in the browser so it can store working data. The Canalplan Tracking app (application stalled at the moment) is a PWA and that stores chunks of maps, locattion details, tracking details and then syncs with the main site when it was a data connection,
So for the CAMRA site if it was a PWA then you could search "Worcester" and it would get all the details and store them on the phone, and if you then re-opened the app it would already have all the data stored.
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12 minutes ago, Tonka said:
I only use the CAmra what pub website. When I was a camra member you could score the beer. It is that info which is used to make the Good Beer Guide. You can also send updates to the info if you find mistakes. Don't know if there is an app for it though
I think its a PWA
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16 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:
You used to move Mintball more often than that ...
Mintball has spiders everywhere - there has been a "Boris" living by the horn housing since she was built.
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On 08/03/2024 at 08:09, blackrose said:
I've never understood how an engine without flexible mounts doesn't just shear the mounting bolts. Where does all that vibration go?
What vibration? Mintball's BMC 1.5 leg's are bolted to large wooden bearers which are bolted to a metal frame. We have a spider in the prop coupling and we've never had any real problems.
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21 hours ago, dave mackie said:
Cheers for your thoughts guys. When I started engine before battery died I was revving the engine hard but alternator still didn't start charging. It wasn't until I had to jump start it that the alternator started to charge making me think that the alternator was not being 'excited' by the battery until I jumped it with fully charged one( making me think that battery did not have enough juice in it to excite alternator originally).
That's correct
The charge light stays on when revving engine, also rev counter does not work
When you jump it and the light goes off does the Rev Counter start working?
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1 hour ago, dave mackie said:
My engine battery alternator does not 'excite' and it doesn't charge. If I keep starting engine then turn off engine a few times the starter motor starts clicking and not turning the engine (battery dead). However if I then jump start the battery the engine will start and alternator will charge. Any ideas peeps
So if you jump it then the alternator excites and the no charge light goes off but it doesn't go off if you start the engine without jumping? As Tony says does the no charge light go off if you increase the revs?
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4 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Think you're right, looks like it's just trawled the site, found an old thread, pulled a sentence or two off it and made a pointless post no human would have done.
Last visited 1 hour ago but didn't reply to Tony's post
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Glad you got it all done - it's never easy doing a server upgrade. Luckily when I was upgrading the Canalplan Server I was able to practice the build before we got the new server and once I've built it I kept syncing things up and actually kept both servers in sync for a few days before and after doing the final cut over.
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They miscaptioned their photo of the top lock of the Rufford Branch
Overnight Mooring for the Etihad Stadium, Manchester.
in General Boating
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I think it is. Peel don't really seem to care about visitors to Manchester