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Daughter's BMC 1.5 suffered a leak on the final leg of the spill rail (final injector back to fuel filter), which has been given a temporary fix, but it won't pass a Boat Safety.
Apparently, rather than trying to replace and crimp a new pipe, the best option is to buy a new spill rail.
However, the only one that comes up on Google;I suspect isn't compliant.
Can anybody point me at a source of a spill rail that will comply?
Thanks
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12 hours ago, Dave123 said:
Just wondered if anyone else on here attended the zoom meeting/talk that CRT gave last night on these canals and their plans for lock restrictions this summer? Before I try and give a summary? I asked if they were going to make the slides available after the meeting but didn't get a reply. Don't want to duplicate and I missed bits of the talk too.
I was there, and really not impressed.
There was a lot of hand wringing about Coombs feeder, and no acknowledgment that they had known for years it didn't flow well, and that the culvert had probably collapsed.
They are (18 months down the line) talking to EA about being able to draw the water that is going into the Goyt instead of Toddbrook into the canal from the Goyt. Sorry to be picky, but many people asked about this 12 months ago, and were dismissed. I don't believe the answer to my question that they have been trying to get this supply for as long as they claim.
They are trying to make out that they are wonderful for all the works done. Works that have been neglected for years.
And now, we have an emergency stoppage for a culvert problem in Macc. This is the same attitude to bodging repairs that we saw year after year in Bollington.
This culvert had an emergency stoppage in November/December 2018. Clearly a proper repair was not done then.
Between wasting all the water through the canal bed at Bollington, and failing to maintain reservoirs, the boaters up here have seen their boating curtailed EVERY YEAR since 2016 by emergency stoppages of some kind, whether Bollington threatening to breach or running out of water, or the farce of Marple locks closing within a day of opening. What can they offer us, more of the same for the next 3 years.3 hours ago, john6767 said:If they are proposing restrictions on a Macclesfield over the summer, does that mean that they are confident that the blockage on the T&M at Anderton will be clear by then?
No, it means that they have no water whether the blockage is sorted or not.
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2 hours ago, Athy said:
,,,and quite rightly so. He's lost one of his best friends, there was no malice involved, and he will have to live with that terrible memory.
I'm afraid that I have to disagree.
This was not an unavoidable accident, and the narrative of "they were all pushing each other in, and there was nothing untoward, lads will be lads" is quite simply wrong.
They were all engaged in what was pretty stupid behaviour, and this resulted in a death.
The guy who died was stupid. Those pushing their friends in were stupid, the skipper was stupid.
He has placed himself in charge of a vehicle, and has not exercised proper attention to the responsibilities that this brings. My view is that this is gross negligence manslaughter.
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14 hours ago, LadyG said:He is retired, and volunteers to come and help me, he does not have a busy schedule. He won't come after Thursday due to his belief it is illegal, but he does not think it is illegal tomorow, but he thought it was illegal last time he came, which was two weeks ago. This is the first time I have actually asked him to come, otherwise I would have great difficulty getting sorted, while it is easy enough for him.
OK, so you have asked your brother for help. You seem to feel that as what you are asking is easy for him and hard for you, he is under some kind of obligation to help you, and you are complaining that he is going to come to help you at a time that is inconvenient to you, because it will interrupt what YOU want to do.
That does seem to be a somewhat entitled approach.If you want your brother to help you, then perhaps you should have the good grace to accept the help he offers at HIS convenience, rather than expecting him to work around what you want?
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1 minute ago, alias said:
In that case I think my phone may not be playing nicely with it. I have 20 records all timestamped at 23:18 yesterday, (all with zero keys), and then none for several hours.
Yes, it does seem to be slightly less than regular!
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5 hours ago, alias said:
After investigation it seems I misunderstood the content of this log. The entries in it reflect download of daily data on phones that reported positive matches, and the result of a check as to whether any of them are matched contacts. This download and check only occurs with the app in the foreground, but I'm told that doesn't mean scanning for matches isn't going on in the background.
The app requests the log around every 2 hours, and what it gets are the keys of anybody whose app has them as being positive (whether because they say they have symptoms or because they have tested positive)
What your app does is check if it has seen any of those keys.
If it has, then the API will flag up a banner to say that your app will evaluate the contact.
That means that the app will look at how long and how close the contact is, before deciding if you need to isolate.
I have had one flag of a contact, but the app didn't evaluate it as a close contact.
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On 29/09/2020 at 09:09, alias said:
https://coronavirus.data.gov.uk/testing
Note the caveats, particularly that these are numbers of tests rather than the number of individuals tested, and reported against the date of test processing (rather than sampling).
Not so.
The headline figure is the number reported today, but the data series you can download is by sample date.
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On 24/09/2020 at 09:12, Mike Todd said:
But that is a definition of charity with a small c. CaRT, however, is a Registered Charity, with capital letters, which is defined and regulated by law and does not depend at all on what a dictionary, or anyone else, chooses to define it. There may well also be organisations that fit the above dictionary descriptions but, if not Registered then neither their obligations and benefits, and those of their donors, are protected.
Interestingly, as the purpose of creating the Charity Commission, which registers charities and regulates them, was to provide such protection, the requirement to cite the charity number in many places has led to many donors and grant givers to use this as a primary form of identity check and 'guarantee' that the recipient is genuine etc. There are exceptions known as Exempt Charities. They have the general benefits of being a Registered Charity but self regulate or are regulated separately. One of the most numerous are the Parochial Church Councils which form the legal basis of each CofE parish/parish church. The lack of a charity number can sometimes be a pain!
I meant a Registered Charity in general -which was the point being made in the post to which I referred. At some level, all charities have to make a profit in the long term or, like any organisation, they go bust.
With my pedantic head on;
PCCs are an excepted charity, rather than an exempt charity.
Exempt charities are outwith the purview of the charity commission.
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It is indeed very sad indeed to hear of Nigel's death. I wasn't even aware that he was unwell.
I am glad that we both stuck at it from initial butting of heads on issues upon which we would never agree to the point where we still disagreed about most things, but we had moved past the fact that we disagreed.
Our arguing about the detail turned heat into light, and although we continued to disagree, we were both intellectually challenged by the fine detail of the argument.
In some cases, we each came to understand that the world wasn't as we would want it, and that in some cases the other was right as to the law.
I would have loved to hear his views on the use of the term "houseboat" in the Coronavirus Regulations.
He managed to argue well, and with courtesy, and I will very much miss that.
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8 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
The Roving Mooring Permit, that meant you paid C&RT a considerable sum to be able to be able to 'overstay' and could use it anywhere, not just on 'a home mooring'. It was basically a mobile home mooring, 'get out of jail free' licence. If you had the licence, Enforcement would not be taken if you overstayed.
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Boaters are being offered a way out of the enforcement process that means paying a substantial extra fee (£800 per year for a 60 foot boat) to do what s.17(3)(c)(ii) of the British Waterways Act 1995 already permits them to do. This is tantamount to demanding money with menaces.
CRT cannot lawfully create a ‘Roving Mooring Permit’. If it did so, it would be creating a third licensing category in between the two that were created by the British Waterways Act 1995. 17(3)(c) of the 1995 Act created two licence categories: (i) with a home mooring and (ii) without a home mooring. To create a third category would require change in the law, in other words an amendment to s.17(3)(c) of the British Waterways Act 1995. CRT would be acting beyond its legal powers if it created a Roving Mooring Permit without such a change in the law. CRT maintains that the Roving Mooring Permit is a type of home mooring, not a new category of licence, but this is not borne out by the facts. It does not provide a place where the boat “can reasonably be kept and may lawfully be left” as is required by s.17(3)(c)(i) of the 1995 Act, ........................................
My understanding is that this is an argument advanced by the baton twirlers.
The CRT legal position, namely that a Roving Mooring Permit created no additional category, because it was a permit to keep the boat in a place (in fact several places) is perfectly good.
The RMP foundered on an entirely unconnected legal point, namely that it was only available to boaters who had previously been CCers
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On 30/07/2020 at 10:24, Stilllearning said:
That is a really nice post, just exactly what the forum is so good at.
It was great to meet Nick and Jeff.
Arguments on here whilst sometimes passionate mask the fact that with very very few exceptions it isn’t personal!
i can also vouch for the fact that Jeff, quite apart from his impressive facial hair has working locks down to a fine art. There is a knack to always knowing where to be next to make it work smoothly, and it is great to see in action.
In other news, the gearbox seems to have recovered!
milky ATF suggested water contamination, so we pumped out the ATF, half a liter of red diesel and ran the box for 10 minutes both ways, pumped out the diesel and new ATF.
Running sweetly for now. Slight ATF leak around the selector arm, but not tempted to try to fix that!
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15 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
Parts are a daft price, the forward clutch pack is required.
Spurious rebuilt boxes are a gambol.
New ones are no better than the one you have, they all fail too often.
Do yourself a favour, fit a new PRM90, straight forward replacement, far far better gearbox. and cheaper than a new Hurth. Best price I find is Calcutt marine.
Loads of threads here and elsewhere if you search the posts.
TD'
Sounds promising
is the PRM 90 a straight swap, easy enough for the mechanically challenged to perform. With no need to start adjusting engine height etc?
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1 minute ago, matty40s said:
Girth Gearbox..
is it too wide for the boat?
Yeah bluddy autocorrect!
it it a Hurth!
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1 minute ago, Onewheeler said:
Have you checked that the selector lever is moving properly? Could be a n incorrectly set cable.
Tried that. No effect
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Daughter is having gearbox “fun”
gearbox runs fine in reverse, but in forward the shaft turns but only idly, and there is no clunk as it engages.
Once the gearbox ATF is warm it engages OK
box is HBW150
do these use the oil pressure for shifting? Going to try an ATF change to see if it improves
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On 22/07/2020 at 10:25, doratheexplorer said:
I may respond, but not in the way you would want. I'm not sure I can see the justification for red diesel in boats. If we are to meet our emmissions targets, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
The purpose of taxation here is to encourage alternative (less polluting) energy sources.
At present, and in the near future, I simply don't see such sources becoming viable
We already pay the duty, but this change could lead to an end to canalside supply, and an increase in people fueling from cans, which would have an environmental impact
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21 minutes ago, BlueStringPudding said:
Oh, they're sprung clips that should fold around the fuse legs, are they? Never seen that before. I've only ever seen spade-connector type sockets for blade fuses.
I had already pushed the fuse in as hard as I could with my fingers lots of times before starting this thread, but it wouldn't flex the metal, it just hurt my fingers and felt like I might break the fuse holder. So that's why I didn't think the fuse was right for the holder.
But!!! After your suggestion I thought "Feck it. If I break it I'll just buy a new one" and I opted for flipping the whole thing upside down and pressing it, fuse end down, as hard as I could with my bodyweight pushing it against the stove top (just for want of a hard surface to resist my pushing), and *click!* it went in! Thank you. It may never, ever come out again, but it went in! ?
Thank you everyone ? I now have a fuse in a fuse holder ?? And I've learned about sprung clip thingies. ?
Of course, if it needs to be replaced, and you break the fuse carrier in the process, the beauty of blade fuses is that in an emergency you can discard the fuse carrier and connect spade connectors direct to the fuse
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2 hours ago, Naughty Cal said:
No you can not go for a cruise unless you live on your boat and you are going to the facilities.
or it is a canoe.
Therein is the contradiction.
Because we COULD sleep on our boats, we aren't to cruise (second homes)
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1 minute ago, Machpoint005 said:
On the other hand, do we honestly believe that there is joined-up government, given the fiasco over PPE procurement?
The thing is that, in the normal run of things, government doesn't procure PPE. The users of PPE procure it.
Now, to take stuff like gowns;
Gowns have (believe it or not), a very short shelf life. I believe it is 6 months, That makes keeping a stockpile somewhat tricky,
Let's say that you keep a stock of gowns that is enough for 4 months normal use, and that you employ stock rotation. That means that you are continually trying to sell gowns that are short shelf-life, and nobody wants to pay full price, so you continually lose money on the stockpile.
Worse than that, the 4 month stockpile, which is about as much as you can keep without just throwing stuff away is for normal use. If you suddenly need 4 times as many gowns, your stockpile exhausts in a month.
When something bad happens there is never a shortage of people who have 20/20 hindsight on what should have been bought,
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13 minutes ago, Peter Thornton said:
A friend of mine went to an official testing centre. She was asked to open her back window a couple of inches and a test kit was passed in for her to use and then pass out again. i.e. a self test.
That was what happened with my test,
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3 minutes ago, Iain_S said:
The answer's simple : no post on Sundays.
Or Saturdays now.
RM have suspended Saturday letter delivery
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15 hours ago, Wanderer Vagabond said:
If admin didn't work weekends there would be no figures at all, would there?
Some admin work weekends, some don't.
You do know that "The NHS" isn't actually a single organisation don't you?
Different NHS Trusts will do different things.
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1 hour ago, Iain_S said:
That seems very much a retrograde step from last year's reforms!
In Scotland, it is still a doctor, two if cremation is contemplated. It needs at least a qualified paramedic to pronounce life extinct, and a post mortem is usually required if the deceased isn't being treated by a doctor or the death is unexpected. In the current situation, if Covid 19 is a suspected cause, then a post mortem isn't required in circumatances when it previously would have been. Not sure if that distorts the reported Covid 19 stats any!
It has been observed that there has never been a better time to bump somebody off, say "they had a fever and cough" and get them up the chimney before anybody asks questions.
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8 hours ago, peterboat said:
Sorry but you are wrong! just like the 4.3k that were added yesterday a load more will be added when the ONS catches up, more than likely it will be a couple of hundred give or take? I am not being uncaring here, every one of these deaths is a disaster and should not be happening, but they are and trying to say that the numbers are falling when the reality is they arnt is downplaying the situation
Sorry, but did you actually LOOK at the graph including care homes?
There is a steady but slow downward trend, that expands back before the "need to catch up" period in all settings, and quite a pronounced downward trend if we exclude care homes.
Replacement burner top for hob
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Daughter's boat is fitted with an Eastham Maxol BG21 cooker.
The hob burners are a strange construction of ring, crinkly ring and top plate.
Anyway, one of them has delaminated into 3 component parts.
Is there anywhere I might source a replacement part?