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1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:
There appears to be some muddled comments in that link :
A modern car will only provide 12,5V. Just look at the transformer that comes with it. 14.5 volt, the only time you will get that from a smart alternator is during braking.
indeed muddled no reason to think it would not work on a boat
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this is a compressor fridge equivalent https://inlanderlowvoltage.com/product/12v-lec-tabletop-fridge/ , much more efficient but a bit dearer, there are larger models though.
Or if you have a reasonable size (1000w up) pure sine wave inverter an efficient mains fridge would work but you would need to do some homework on how much extra current the inverter takes.
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36 minutes ago, steamraiser2 said:
A Dutch friend suggested that the EU will eventually listen to reason and sort the issues out.
point of order, not really down to the EU to sort out its the deal Bojo negotiated
36 minutes ago, steamraiser2 said:I then pointed out that they didn't in forty odd years and that's why we left!
really did we have any of these issues when we were in
suggest we leave it there before we are banished to politics
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13 hours ago, Mike Tee said:
Probably same as importing anything else - present HMRC with a receipt showing what you paid and they will value the item, maybe what you paid, maybe more. Then its 10% duty and then 20% VAT on the valuation plus the duty. And if you pay to get it shipped, I think that gets added in for the duty and VAT. Not cheap post Brexit.
and the agent's fee. Alternatively dismantle and bring in a bit at a time within your personal allowance.
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10 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
You'll not be wantng to know about my neighbour and his carving knife then ?
not if is connected with toilets and log jams!!!
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9 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
more if you have a 'log-jam'.
too much detail
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Just wondering of the various pump out / sea toilets available which use the most water for flushing
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30 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
And the plastic cap on the bottle is almost contains a PRV and vacuum breaker valve, as per modern cars. Ideally the one on the manifold would have a higher pressure setting so any loss of coolant would be form the bottle and not the manifold cap.
I'm not on the boat so can't examine the tank cap but coolant overflow is definitely from the manifold cap
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This is the standard Beta fit from their parts list. Plain cap on expansion tank which connects to tapping on thermostat housing. 13 psi standard pressure cap retained on heat exchanger. From memory I think they use a repurposed Citroen expansion tank!
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1 hour ago, Ronaldo47 said:
Locks at the London end of the Lea & Stort navigation were paired but I think only one of each pair is now in use. When I visited Old Ford lock in 1968, the commercial traffic I saw was tug plus train of three lighters. The lighters were pulled into the locks using a powered capstan on the central island, and pulled out one at a time by the tug by being added to the reconstructed train.
afaik they all still work albeit only one side has been electrified, Pickets of course was always single.
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15 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Yes it WAS standard practice (in the "old days")
Leaky lockgates, tip the ash down the outside and the flow of water drags the ash into the gap where it forms a thick paste and stops (or at least much reduces) the flow.
It may well not work on some of the seriously damaged / distorted lock gates of today as the gaps are so wide the ash would just wash straight thru'.
See Phoenix-V post above and the link :
probably 2 reasons why it is not common now, 1) CRT has no corporate memory anymore 2) it probably doesnt work with ash from smokeless
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34 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Thre is no need to handle the ash - out of the fire with a shovel, tip it into the ash-bucket, tip-ash bucket down the outside of the lock gate to seal the leaks.
"Untouched by human hand"
proper coal ash was fine for improving towpath surfaces and sealing lock gates, unfortunately smokeless is good for neither
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5 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:
Do modern Victron inverters still have the capability to trash your batteries if the shoreline fails in pass-thru mode?
don't they all have that feature, you can switch to charger only
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16 hours ago, dmr said:
I wonder why "out of phase 120volts" has not been adopted for domestic wiring?? As long as we avoid appliances with earth-neutral bonding the change-over could be gradual.
where we moor in Belgium that is exactly how it is done
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The hand operated ones do work, we had one, never gave any problems not even sure it was a Whale, plenty of cheaper ones on ebay.
Might be an idea to get a one way valve if it is higher than the tray to stop it running back when you finish pumping.
Of course most users prefer the convenience of a Gulper which is what we now have.
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has anyone found anywhere sensible/legal/ecological to get rid of the old stuff?
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blasted and preprimed steel or pickled and oiled does not cost much more than steel with the millscale on.
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10 minutes ago, Ray T said:
Stupid places to take your boat?
Niagara Falls?
I'll shut the door behind me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niagara_Scow
more sensibly the trip boats below the falls
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54 minutes ago, Neil2 said:
I Frances, that was it and yes as you say purpose built to sail from Canada to Moscow.
I wonder what happened to it, I remember it was in Manchester many years ago heading over the Pennines but then the trail goes cold. I'm sure I saw it was up for sale some time later so I guess it never got to Moscow but it would be interesting to know who has it now.
I understood he suffered ill health and sold the boat we saw it in London a few years ago apparently being used as a live aboard, bit of a waste
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9 minutes ago, Arthur Marshall said:
Expecting the canal system to be maintained by licence fees is as ridiculous as expecting the NHS, Universal Credit and old age pensions to be paid for by NI contributions. But people still do.
The canal system made a profit when it was a solely commercial venture, for a very short time and not all of it at that. When I were a lad, tax rates went up to 90%. You may have noticed that they don't, now, and there are a hell of a lot more millionaires than there were then, a fair number of them in Parliament, running the country, mostly for the benefit, quite understandably, of people like them. Of course, it used to be run by landowners in just the same way, so that's fair enough.
Some people don't seem to realise that you get what you pay for, and if you don't pay for it, then you don't get it. Everyone likes low taxes, and hardly anyone gives a toss about the canals. So either campaign for higher taxes or enjoy the system while you've got it, because you can't have the latter without the former for very long.
To the serious annoyance of whichever party happens to be in charge, which is why the current one is cutting support and skewing the leadership. Labour of course, would probably do the same. Objectivity is not prized by zealots.
Canada (which is generally viewed as a low tax country) regards it's historic canals as a national asset and they are maintained by Parks Canada none of this nonsense about them paying their way.
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I must stop wasting time on facebook and you tube (maybe even cwdf) this might be more relevant to the OP though
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