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11 minutes ago, buccaneer66 said:
From that map it looks like my first guess the Lake Lock railroad is correct.
The Lake Lock Railroad closed over 187 years ago - this line is clearly shown on the 1888-1913 set of O/S maps on NLS. Line traces back into Lofthouse Colliery / Brick Works / Alum Works. No idea when that closed down but I do know that similar tracks in Wigan that were in use in the 1960s were totally removed by the early 1980s
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4 minutes ago, NB Esk said:
If those rails are narrow gauge, they’re probably the the “naga lines” from Lofthouse colliery, to Lofthouse basin at Stanley ferry. Once the coal reached the basin, it was then transshipped into Tom pudding compartment boats.They don't look full gauge - I didn't trace back on the map to where they came from.
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I can't see how it can be the Lake Lock Rail Road as that closed 187 years ago - and there is no way the lines would still be there. The line shows on the 1945-1965 series of maps and leads down to a basin at Stanley Ferry
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5 minutes ago, pearley said:
Had do do it when fitting air con on the odd car.
I can imagine in a boat that things might not totally line up because of things being swapped out and an exact replacement not being available but in a car I'm surprised that is the case.
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There's a big difference between moorings and marinas - and even moorings can differ a lot. Marinas might not do short term moorings. Then there are linear moorings (CRT or private) most of which are long term and then there are all the visitor moorings (with different length of stays)
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3 hours ago, granary_bread said:
Hello
I'm helping my father to fix his Lister JP2M engine. Unfortunately, one of the cylinder heads has parts missing. Likely they fell out when the heads were being taken to/from an outside work area and they are nowhere to be found.
The first parts are the valve end caps which we have identified as part number 10-3-23 and Google has let us to a possible supplier of the genuine Lister parts.
However there are two large washers that are missing and I am unable to find the part numbers and description for them.
Attached are photos of where the live in the cylinder head, and two photos of the same part from the other cylinder head that has all its parts intact.
I'd be grateful if someone could let me know if there is a part number and/or where these could be sourced from.
Thank you
That looks like its been loose and turning in the recess.
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5 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I would love to know where those poly V water pump pulleys come from.
And who machines the crank pulley....
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37 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
I think it looks like a four rib belt, with the lower rib (in the first photo) missing. I think that you can see the shadow of its root. Why it is like that is anybodies guess, but what with the dirty pulley grooves, very odd. The outer edges are badly frayed and distorted as well. I can't recall seeing a ribbed belt do that before, which is why I suspect alignment or one unmatched pulley.
Also, the back of the crankshaft pulley looks domed, unless it is the rubber bush extruding backwards, and it looks as if the torsional damper body has been machined to provide the grooves. How they got rid of the V belt groove, I don't know. Maybe the base engine was something special, with a much larger alternator.
My V60 D5 shredded a belt when the A/C pump started to randomly stick - I ended up with a belt with shredded edges which looked quite similar to that.
The alternator mounting to the water pump looks different too - but it looks very similar to this one which is another polyV adaption.
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According to some scribbled notes we have our BMC 1.5 has a Motaquip VFB 230
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7 minutes ago, haggis said:
The last time we went through Grindley I met a young male (late teens ?) At the services and when I spoke I realised he was deaf and perhaps had learning difficulties but he was happy having a job cleaning the services. I wonder if it was the same guy who offered the phone cable.
The teen I'm talking about wasn't deaf and was there with his parents and siblings.
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11 minutes ago, Alway Swilby said:
It seems to be run by Castle Quays the shopping centre people so not CRT.
Bear in mind that the cost is 95p per kwh. I don't know what other marinas charge but at our house we pay about 30p.
I think on MeterMacs at Ladybird Mooring we might be paying 24.10 pence/kwh.
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27 minutes ago, blackrose said:
Was that completely unprovoked or is there some context in terms of some previous interaction?
I apparently "disrespected" his son. We were going up the locks and there were about 10 people hanging round the lock. We went in and the bottom gates were closed and immediately one of the top paddles was fully opened. I called out to my crew member on the lockside to hold back on opening his paddle. I was concentrating on keeping the boat clear of the bottom gates and keeping an eye on what was going on and working out where we were going to go when we came out of the lock, when a child with a windless appeared and held out a phone charger cable at me. I told him it wasn't mine
Apparently he was autistic and I should have known that he was offering it to me as a gift.
His father went off on one. Said he'd kill me, that he'd track me down on my boat and kill me because I'd disrepected his son. He claimed that the CRT people knew about him helping out on the locks and were happy for him to work locks like that. At no point had I raised my voice at him, or even at anyone else
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Someone at the top of the three locks at Grindley Brook threatened to kill me by "Bashing your f*cking skull against the side of your boat" the other week.
Things can happen anywhere.
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I wonder why they didn't user MeterMacs? Seems stupid (but par for the course for CRT) to have multiple third party payment systems.
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16 hours ago, booke23 said:
Thanks, working for me too on canalplan.org.uk.
But didn't work when I search for it on Google....they're linking it to canalplan.uk. Guess the url must have changed recently.
We have multiple domains for Canalplan. Due to a glitch at the company managing the canalplan.uk domain it dropped out of the DNS system but is now back online but there are still some problems with it in that we've can't manage the SPF and DKIM settings.
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12 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
AG?
Thats what Midland Chandlers lists it as
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2 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Thank you, all just for the search for knowledge.
I'll take photos of it all when we next go up to fix it. Also got to work out why one of the studs keeps falling out of the AG stuffing box
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1 minute ago, Tracy D'arth said:
So they are 1/4" screws, unusual. This is a small spring cushion drive plate then, like the centre of a clutch plate? What gearbox is it mated to?
A ZF12M IIRC
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On 18/06/2023 at 14:23, Tracy D'arth said:
Good man, best to do it properly 'cos it will fail again with only 4 screws. Not good for the flywheel teeth chewing steel.
The set screws need to be high tensile, allen cap heads are. Grade 8.8 or better 10.9 hex set screws will do. Do check on the size though, 5/16" is normal, about as thick as a disposable ball point pen.
We plan on replacing all of them. We believe the drive plate to be one of the R & D drive plates ( RD22AM4 or RD22B4 ) and have just 5 x 6.5mm holes for the bolts.
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Beware if you are using google maps - you can get hit by a large bill for using their maps. Canalplan got wacked with one for several hundreds of pounds - that's why we use our own map server
Canalplan has downloadable datasets
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Just now, Tracy D'arth said:
Multi fit drive plates can have lots of holes.
Am I to understand that you have just put it all back together with just 4 bolts?
As that was all we had and we broke down in the middle of nowhere we put it back together with the 4 bolts (and no spring washers) that have been all that's holding it in place for I have no idea how long. Now we are back on the mooring we want to get it fixed properly
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6 holes I think - suspect the drive plate has more.
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There were only 4 bolts holding the spring plate into the recess in the fly wheel - three allen headed ones and a regular one. We only found this out when we lost drive and having confirmed that the gear box was OK as far a we could tell we dropped the gearbox and the end plate off the bell housing and the enitre spring plate came out with the gear box and the screws were lying in the bottom of the bell housing. No photos of the spring plate / flywheel unless we head back to the boat and take it all apart again.
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9 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
They are 5/16" UNF set screws. The head is fairly unimportant but normally hex with spring lock washers. Any decent engineers suppliers will have them. They should all be the same type and length as otherwise you will affect the balance a bit.
I don't understand the 7/16" hex head, 5/16" screws should have a 1/2" hex AF head. Has the flywheel been modified in some way? !/4" screws usually have 7/16" AF heads.
Set screws are threaded to the head, bolts have a section of plain shank.
All we know is that one of the bolts isn't an allen head -its a traditional head for a spanner and seemed to be a 7/16th spanner fit. There also seemed to only be 4.
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Not sure - but the one on the maps I looked at went from the Colliery down to the basin at Stanley