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    Rebecca Too
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  1. If you have access to liquid nitrogen, dip the lock in a cup of liquid nitrogen and hit with a hammer. The carbon-steel and low alloys steels used for the case and locking ring are temporarily embrittled or lose impact strength at liquid nitrogen temperature and shatter when subjected to a blow. The brass alloy use in the lock are not significantly affected by low temperature of liquid nitrogen. Demo of liquid nitrogen being used to break a padlock https://youtu.be/7KE-_dY4PdY
  2. I do have two ParMax4 pumps installed more than 20 years ago, set up so that should first pump fail, simple turning two valves and flicking a switch to bring in the backup pump. Allowing the failed pump to be replaced when you have time to do it. With a single pump and maybe a spare in a box. As according to Murphy's law, the pump will fail when your covered in soap while in the shower.
  3. Simple rent a mooring next to a coal yard, One available at the moment In March by the railway bridge next to the coal yard. These moorings are not owned by the loon with the T54.
  4. There are two planned closures of navigation on Well Creek to facilitate works: Closure of Marmont Priory Lock to replace the downstream gates from October 30 to December 19. Closure of Salters Lode Lock to clear silt and undertake a condition assessment is planned from January 8 to February 9 2024
  5. Only for live streaming of programs that are being broadcasted at the same time over the airwaves, You don't need a TV Licence if you only ever watch on demand programmes on any TV service apart from BBC iPlayer.
  6. More than, many boaters moored at Foxes are charged second home tax on their moorings since Fenland Council contracted out the collection of council tax to the Anglia Revenues Partnershire in 2016. My home is in Dorset, so only on the boat one or maybe two nights per week when I need to be in Cambridge. Main problem in dealing with these worksly layabouts is that you have to wait two or even three months before you get a reply if one at all, Yet you are expected to reply within three days. The Anglia Revenues Partnershire claim that a mooring does not need to be residential for second home tax, just what they deem to be sole use, even when it is clearly stated in the mooring agreement that the mooring is not sole use or residential. Just that you have not changed moorings aleast twice a year. Marinas don't move moorers unless they have to. Having to move a large number of boats takes time and effort by staff who have other things to do.
  7. Pump out in March, broken again until further notice, unable to get repair date from the council.
  8. Some of the pounds have been leaking for years on the flight. What puts people off is arriving at the top lock and finding that the flight has a number of empty pounds which have drained through the day due to leaks in the lining. When there was a flight keeper it was not too bad as they run water down to fill the pounds that were draining. Facing a string of empty pounds, people turnround and go elsewhere, unless they have just paid for a EA visiters licence from the Marina, so will spend some hours refilling the flight, something I have had to do myself.
  9. Hire boat bases tend to have a high turnover of fuel between Easter and September, You may not get served on turnround days (Mondays,Fridays,Saturdays) at some bases.
  10. Some of the rubber bearing pads have been damaged by the heat of the fire, to replace will need jacks or a crane to lift the bridge deck up to allow the damaged pads to be replaced. People who don't license their boats, tend not to bother with insurance, it is the same with some car or van owners who don't bother with paying the VED, or getting a MOT. No one was living aboard, much of the inside had been removed and dumped beforehand, The name and index number had been removed. The boat was about to be taken anyway by the Middle Level for non payment, a 7day legal notice had been fixed to the boat a few days before, So they no longer owned it. The picture was clearly taken before the fire engines arrived from March Station (3 or 4 minuites). No fireman would let someone stand that close to a raging fire to take a picture. They were standing at the bottom of the steps which go up the bank to join the West End road. They claim on the Gofundme page that "someone has set my houseboat on fire". Yet they told the fire service that 'the cause of the fire was accidental'. Either have they lost everything other than the boat which is longer thiers anyway. Cambs Fire Service incident report. It is belived among the people who watch the fire from the marina bankside that these two set fire to the boat themselves as a scam. When they runout of money to refit. It's both, there are two of them. It is a fact of life that people tend to give more to a gofund page when it is a woman.
  11. Thats the one, standard NBTA insurance by begging bowl. That picture is suspect, did they set the boat alight themselves? Telling porkers about what was on board, going to need far more than £10K, Highways bill for damage to the bridge Licence fees dating back to October 2020 plus towage, storage and legal fees to the Middle levels
  12. When I dialed 999 on Monday for a fire engine to put out the boat fire under the bypass bridge. I was put through to the Belfast control centre where I had trouble understand person I was talking too. Who had trouble beliving that there is a town called March, she kept telling me that she did not need the month.
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  14. There was a boat fire on Monday evening under the March Bypass bridge. Some of us watched this happen from the moorings at Foxes, there is some damage to the underside bridge from the heat of the fire. One person was injured while putting out the fire. The boat was unlicenced and the subject of enforcement action by the Middle Level. This morning Kevin Russel the enforcement officer towed the waterlogged burnout wreck back to the Middle Level yard to be impounded. The owner who is a NBTA member (Makes a point of telling people this, mostly to officials apart from MLC officals who they hide from) claims the Middle Level Commissioners have stolen their boat.
  15. Moored at the boat yard in Worsley on the Bridgewater between 1985 to1988 while doing a proper degree at UMIST.
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