Big COL

Ah crept by then, undercover of darkness with your stealth boat. The things some people will do just so as they don't have to get them in.

Hi Julynian I think, and this would be well worth checking for your own safety, Flogas bottles for forklifts have an internal pick up pipe so as to be in the liquid and not in the vapour. If so, you will be delivering liquid to your regulator instead of vapour, not something I would want to be doing. The forktruck regulator is evidently a different animal as to a narrowboat type, so is the bottle conector. There is a non return valve on the hose that connects to the bottle, and the conectors are of an entirely different type than the normal boat and caravan type. I will check my forktruck tomorrow, I know when the bottle is laid horizontal in its working position, there is an arrow on the under side which should point down, whenever a bottle has been changed without turning the bottle off liquid is always present. Flogas do LPG with the normal connections but as you say there are not many places on the cut that do Flogas

Gary The grade/ spec DIN EN 590 is for white diesel. Are Eberspacher saying that it can only run on white diesel,or any coloured diesel, so long as it conforms to DIN EN 590? What then is the DIN EN for Gas Oil? is this a back door ruling that these heaters cannot run on red diesel/ gas oil?

Hi Tim If you are in the planning stage for boat heating, I would have a look at the Hurricane heater. I have had one for 4 years. I rely on its reliability to protect the boat from freezing via a frost stat We tend to use the boat at weekends, more so in the winter than the summer. With this type of usage I cannot winter down the boat as it is not practical, so far the heater has functioned well.

Oh David what have you done. When this whole red v white diesel argument originally kicked off. I stated that there were three types of diesel in general use. 1- White diesel(road use) 2- Red diesel ( agriculture, building plant use and so on) 3 -Gas oil (domestic,industrial heating oil) I even quoted the cetane numbers for each type. Only to be ridiculed with quips like cetane number whats a cetane number? it's not in my dictionary, ha, ha, ha.( should have replied for them to buy a decent dictionary) Therefor I was really pleased to read your account, which goes a long way to confirm my side of this debate. Unfortunately this red v white argument has been hammered out so much that you start to lose the will to live Lets just hope that it is believed different grades of red diesel/gasoil do exist.Seeing that since this argument/debate started the manufacturers of certain diesel heaters have now changed their opinions, resulting in them giving warnings as to what fuel should be used. A totally different stance now from them being insistent that they could run on red/gas oil. I am pleased for all those involved in achieving a result for the underdog. Well done all of you.

It must have been a quiet titter,because I didn't hear you.

Just a point of interest which may be of some help. If your calorifier doesn't have an immersion boss then you can still retro fit one using an Essex flange. These flanges are fitted from the outside of the cylinder,there is no need to have internal access, you just need to cut the correct size hole in the calorifier. I can remember doing one of these when I was still an apprentice and I can't remember the exact process for fitting one, but they do work. I am sure someone will know the full mechanics of how they go together. Have a look at the link. http://www.essexflanges.com/flanges.html#

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Ah but the wife can no trouble

Gibbo Now lets be a little charitable, Just because he can walk on water and we can't.

GibbGibb If the armature had been set up for neutral, rather than giving it a leading field. changing the polarity of the field would reverse the motor, would it not? I appreciate that in this set up you lose some of the motor's power. God its been a lifetime since I had to think of DC machines, and I hated them then, I think I am right with this , if not I'm off for a lay down in a dark room. Nurse why is this jacket got its sleeves sewn up and why am I cuddling myself? Medication what medication?

Alan How did the early golf carts get to reverse. I was always under the impression that they reversed the polarity which spun the starter in the opposite direction, and being two strokes just fired them up backwards.Which then gave it a reverse, these were belt driven through a sprung loaded variable speed pulley, no gearbox. Today the new ones have a gearbox.

LongShen Some of these toilets also have a quick trip built into the system to protect the pump should something end up down in the toilet that shouldn't be there. Usually the trip is in the button box, if it has tripped there will be a reason why. Normally it is the pump jammed with a foreign body( send Bones the remains ) or a log jam of toilet paper. Just another possibility, Hope this is of some help.

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Last time I had the engine running I had cleaned the gauze filter on the lift pump, I had to bleed the system to get the engine going. It ran fine, turnned it off and it restared straight away. Left the boat for about 3 weeks and now it won't start. Question. The central bolt that holds the lid on the lift pump which you would have to remove to clean the gauze has a seal on it. Sometimes a rubber O ring or a copper washer, did you replace this seal with a new one, likewise the seal under the lid. Have you rechecked this, as it is possible you disturbed something in cleaning the filter. I would go over this again just to be certain so you can then disregard it.

A very neat way to fit an inspection hole is to use a brass pumpout fitting (gunnel type). Cut off the hose tail and it leaves you with a flush fitting fitting, which you can stand on without the fear of treading through an inspection door. This does not stand very high off the floor, looks very nice being brass, and for inspections you just unscrew the central plug, you then have an hole large enough to see if there is any water present. Equally the hole is large enough to take a pipe from a pump should the need arise.

Hi Alan Looks like you have it covered. Yes still on the same moorings, drop me a PM when you are around the area we could have a beer or two.

Hi Alan Just a piece of advice when you have removed the plug in the end of the head/block you will need a threaded hosetail, this thread is not a BSP thread, very close but not close enough. A BSP thread starts then gets tight, if you force it in it will either shear off or forever leak.It is an easy mistake to make as it feels like you are tightening a tapered thread. Once one of the wrong type has been forced in they will not undo, the damaged thread locks the fitting up leaks and all. You will need to get the correct hose tail from Calcutt or the likes, Calcutt are your best bet. Hope this helps Col

Teach it to scream narrowboat.