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Let's play for a second pint Taking another view at this, Mike Musson's excellent 'Warwickshire Railways' might help. I'm guessing you want the MR/LMS basins: https://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/index.htm Richard

http://www.primrose-engineering.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/Birmingham-Canal-Navigations-A-Cruising-And-Walking-Guide.pdf Found it, and put it on my website Richard

It would be even more helpful if I could find my version of the PDF!

'Birmingham Canal Navigations - A cruising and walking guide', 1984, IWA Birmingham Branch subcommittee It looks like Tim's online version doesn't exist any more. It's a roughly A5 book with a blue cover and a plastic spiral binding and rare. If you can find a PDF version, you can print it out at A4 making it readable, put the pages into a more logical order and colour it in to make the diagrams easier to understand. It takes a canal and describes it in a linear form listing all the lines, junctions, arms and wharfs Richard https://www.amazon.co.uk/Birmingham-Canal-Navigations-cruising-Walking/dp/B00I3O0YYC https://captainahabswaterytales.blogspot.com/2011/10/birmingham-canal-navigations-cruising.html

There are lots of them, Jan. For example Hockley Port: https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=18&lat=52.4921&lon=-1.9260&layers=168&b=1 Your best bet would be to find a copy of the 'Blue Book'. Tim Lewis used to have a PDF version Richard

Where's the exhaust outlet? Also, had water got half way up the block - there may be a tide mark

Rings rusted into the bores Or worse - water in the cylinder. Richard

We may be able to find you one Call Sue on 01925 356200 Richard

We have a BMC 2.2 in our distressed engine pile Richard

Give us a ring, there's a link in my signature Richard

We have had seat inserts fitted to JP heads. I'm fussy about valve regression We have pistons, valves, head gaskets, manuals etc. Richard

That isn't correct

That explains what Sue just asked me Most of the solenoids will be for the Lister Alpha engines. I'm sure you could make such a solenoid fit an SR, most things are possible Do bear in mind many Alpha owners fit a simple stop cable when the solenoid fails Richard

Did I say this wasn't your kind of boat?

I'd advise you add a plate to that to protect the deck of the block, otherwise there's a good chance of tearing out a lump of cast iron Richard

£18K for a 60' home in London? This was very much not your kind of boat. If the Ebay advert is still there, there was a very nice Lister switch panel and a lovely pressure gauge in the engine room I'd say it was home-build by an enthusiast in the 70's Richard

Far from it. And the quote she got was pretty reasonable This isn't a classic 'JP-in-an-engine-room' boat. It appears to have been a home build with a wooden top Richard

As far as I can tell, 60' boat for £18K is quite a bargain Maybe elastic is handy when comparing chalk and cheese. Who is buying JP2 engines these days? Do you want another National? Richard

What's the market for them? It looks like a tired, manual start JP2M is worth about £1800 Richard

I managed to get it started, it clearly needed some work though. She had clearly bought the boat to live on, and from the bit of googling I did it didn't cost a lot Richard

That's what she said when I saw the engine in the boat Richard

Thank God - at last someone is buying the damn thing