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seems to be the perfect solution to evade any continuos cruising rules, wonder what the land owner thinks though
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6 minutes ago, Sir Nibble said:
Chinese manufacture is fine so long as it has western quality control.
But how do you know if it is generic. That is the £5 you are paying extra for Durite, otherwise surely this looks fine https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130873109539?hash=item1e78a52c23:g:pooAAOSwTuJYtrlF
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1 hour ago, pearley said:
For £10 it's probably just had a good clean and a bit of WD-40. I wouldn't touch it.
seems to be new (Chinese?) but Tony's suggestion of Durite seems a safer bet and about £15, still don't understand why kubota are so dear!
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Thanks, my thinking was that as the keyswitch energised the solenoid directly without any intervening relay the solenoid would be taking a fair current as well, but your advice obviously still holds so will look for durite
1 hour ago, Tony Brooks said:Most of that 40 amps plus rather more initially will be for the glow plugs. I would not hesitate to use a Durite offering.
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The panel fuse being 40 amp I assume most of that goes through the keyswitch when starting maybe that is why it is so expensive? can't see any information on current capacity of any of them !!!
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hm price from Beta about £67, kubota £50, generic on ebay £10
the latter is an amazing price difference, bearing in mind the original hasn't apparently given stella performance is there any catch in buying the ebay one
or perhaps good clean and wd40 the original?
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ok will get that checked when/if I can return
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Yard have had starter checked and confirm dead due to running on.
Why would it have done that, the engine is maybe 10 years old but engine hours are about 1500 only, comparitively dry engine room.
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1 hour ago, dmr said:
Olive the very very long term landlady died recently. I have heard that her daughter will take over, but as its all about sitting and chatting in two tiny bars there is probably no point in opening with Covid restrictions.
...............Dave
Oh that is sad. I can understand why the pub is shut but there is the campsite business too that should be thriving now - worrying.
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23 minutes ago, dmr said:
If you mean the Barge at Honeystreet (K&A) then its been re-open for a couple of years now with new sympathetic owners (no evil pubcos involved). Its largely returned to its former glory but with the rougher edges taken off. Sadly the property developer who tried to destroy it had more success with his other pub at Gt Bedywn.
Another sad loss is the Red Lion at Winsford, top of the Weaver, run as a sort of community focused music venue (and public bar) with nice interesting food and some local beers. It was doing so well that Punch Taverns felt a need to put their spanner in the works. I expect next it will be a failing eatery leading to conversion to a big house after a few years.
Last week had a couple of pints at the "Puzzle Hall" in Sowerby Bridge, just about canalside, and now rescued/rebuilt by the community.
.........................Dave
I did mean that one, it was refered to earlier in the thread as under similar threat really pleased it is going again. So many iconic pubs disapearing, we went to the Red Lion many years ago when it was an Ind Coope or similar basic pub but good atmosphere all those types of pub disapearing. I was prompted to look up the Anchor at High Offley on the Shroppie, it seems to be closed, I hope that s just because of covid precautions and that it will reopen.
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The Barge seems to have reopened too despite the crowd funding apparently failing
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I would leave a tiny gap between them wood expands and shrinks
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1 hour ago, Tony Brooks said:
As the ones I have seen seem to be all plastic lighter than the rigid ones with glass. I am sure you could stick them onto alloy or plywood sheet and glue that to battens that run lengthways across your roof beams. If the roof is held in place by Liftadots or turn-buckles I am sure you can get double length ones to allow you to hold the lot on the roof with fabric strapping yet be easy to remove when required. That will not address the flexible panels propensity to delaminate over a few years.
I don't think the first would work but the second sounds promising I might buy one to try, one benefit being I could remove the panel when not in use and prolong it's life
1 hour ago, Alan de Enfield said:We have a similar canvas Bimini on the 'Cat'.
You could always make a mounting to go over the stern (we have got 3x 100w on this 'tray')
bit complex I'll keep that in reserve
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We woud like to add some extra panels but there is little room left on our main roof we have a canvas roof on our wheelhouse It would be impractical to attempt to stick normal panels would it e possible to use flexibles with some sort of removable attachement, what sort of weight are they?
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8 hours ago, blackrose said:
How do you prep and paint the inside of welded in steel pipes and what happens when they corrode through? Seems like more of a pain to me.
stainless steel
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1 hour ago, Ronaldo47 said:
I have mentioned elsewhere here that my first canal holiday, in 1976, was as part of a group that hired both of Black Prince's boats when it first started up. One had two sea-type toilets that pumped stuff out of the bottom into the cut. The other had two Elsans, and came with a shovel for use when no sanitary station was available. In that event we were instructed to dig a hole in a convenient canalside location and bury the contents. 1976 being the year of the drought with severely-limited lock opening hours, we actually did this, being stuck in a pound with no sanitary station, but a convenient towpath-side field, when both toilets filled up.
We always used to carry a spade, when did the practice stop or has it? Around 76/78 we moored in the garden of the lockhouse at the end of the Stort by permission of the lock keeper. BW as then was did not pay him a lot but then I never remember him doing much work in return, nor had BW bothered to provide a septic tank for his house. His toilet was an elsan and the contents were buried in his rose garden. He did grow fine roses.
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On 27/05/2021 at 16:01, Alan de Enfield said:
Some folks find the membership requirements a little 'demanding'.
In return for nice and cheap moorings most (all ?) boat clubs expect so many hours or weekends per year from each member on 'maintenance' (cutting grass , painting club house, pontoon repairs, etc etc) and attendance or contributions to club 'functions', fine if you are 'mixers' but for some it is not boating as they want it.
The club we joined (whilst waiting for the marina to be built) was proper 'Admirals', 'Commodores' etc and they were in 'full uniform' of blazers, badges and caps' for our interview.
We were accepted, but left as soon as the marina 'next door' opened.
ability to drink often goes down well
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Have you been able to visit the club informally that should give you a flavour of what they are like and what they expect of you. Perhaps you can even join as a social member pending boat. Do they have many spare moorings (may be suspicious but at least you can hope to get one) or are mooring spaces like hen's teeth if so would they/you be happy for you to start paying for a space before you have a boat?
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27 minutes ago, haggis said:
I don't see it as a positive , polluting a waterway.
haggis
perhaps the swans need to go they poo a lot
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