Denis R

Great piccies of a well carried-out job. Bet you're proud it! Good one.

Hope the Cut is OK for a Strat as I've just got Peter Nicholls to design in a space for my '62 re-issue Jazz Bass in its Fender hard case. My project is over budget too, BTW. I'm sure I should be excited by the whole thing, but strangely I'm not getting those vibes. Despite it all running to schedule, I just want it finished so I can get on with it. The disruption to life is taking the shine off.... Still haven't found space for my '78 Musicmaster bass. That might have to go into store....

Andy, the way I read this the first time round was as a plea to gather data in order to refute BW's argument that they're responding adequately to this issue. No harm in that as a principle, as a survey stands scrutiny better than anecdotal evidence. However, in order to maintain data robustness, I think it would have to be a 'snapshot' rather than a 'live' database?

Went to see how my fit-out's proceeding yesterday. Floor is 25mm ply, bulkheads 20mm - think it's 18mm plus veneer both sides. From memory the ceiling is 9mm ply faced with another layer of veneered ply about 6mm thick. Upper sides are 9mm and 6mm below the gunwhales I think.

Age is a state of mind.... OK, it's a smokescreen, I've just turned 48, but there must have been a mistake somewhere! I should be a lot younger as my ex says that my 'sense of humour is juvenile' and I 'go around doing things that people half my age do'.... Seems like fun to me and my kids don't seem to be too embarrassed by the old man....

OK, so the canals were originally conceived for commercial gain, an asset that realised a return for the owners and carrying companies. BW now hold this asset and taking the same commercial perspective, seek to realise a return on this asset. However, over the last 150 years or so havethe canals and their supporting infrastructure not become woven into the fabric of our land, to an extent that BW, whether they like it or not, are effectively custodians of a national treasure? Along with this custody comes the attached duty of care, the duty to protect the reminders of a significant period in our history. If that means that an inconvenient group of individuals or a community call to account the custodian's motives and judgement, all well and good. It comes as part of the deal. BW's remit does not give them the unchallenged right to develop our canals into an 1800 mile linear theme park to be run as a purely commercial venture where we all pay a charge at the turnstile. Intelligent development is essential, but are challenges such as this not also essential as a 'heads up' on BW's purpose?

Allie, from my experience the vent shafts don't do a lot to help shift the exhaust fumes and introduce fresh air. They do however contain an uncanny inbuilt guidance system that makes sure you get covered in an icy shower of dripping water, whatever course you're steering.

In the past on a reluctant Lister, I'd use the decompression levers to get the engine spinning over on the starter then drop them in one by one. It seemed to work OK. I seem to remember there being a priming pump, but I thought that was from the fuel lift pump to the injection pump. I don't recall there being a device on the injection pump itself.