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Denis R

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  7. Daniel, I agree with you. Size really does matter here. My tug's being built by Peter Nicholls and when I showed him my sketches he took one look at my son and told me my idea for the berth in the back cabin would be way too small for him when he's finished growing. We've stolen the necessary inches from the front cabin to get the necessary size and make sure we don't suffer your problem.... Regarding the backrest, I think that insufficient seat depth is the driver of an upright back. Make the seat depth comfortable enough to getsome rake in the backrest and don't forget to allow for some decent cushioning?
  8. One of my hobbies is cycling time trials and I also cycle for pleasure and general fitness, in addition to the training. I've come off twice, not whilst racing and both times not wearing a helmet would have resulted in serious injury - one of the 'off's' resulted in me having to replace the helmet. My rule for me and my kids is 'no helemt - no ride - no discussion'. To me it's nonsensical not to mitigate a risk where the means to mitigate it exist.... Sorry, I forgot the bit (reference the original question in the thread) about the bikes. I use a much upgraded 2002 Raleigh Special Products R300 framed road bike for time trials and road use and a German tank made by Pegasus for the other stuff. Once in a while I'm let loose on my son's homebuild (mountain bike) based on a Marin East Peak frame, but because last time I tried to show him a trick and made a complete a*** of myself, he's reluctant to let the old man loose on it now and risk it getting damaged again.
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  11. John, I'm tending to come down on your side on this one. I'd add that there's also a survival instinct at play here. Crane drivers are not going to set out deliberately to have an exciting day and tip their crane over or bash into something. I don't think it's unsafe to assume that an owner operator is going to make at least an attempt to protect his/her not inconsiderable investment in machinery and of course his/her own life. I'm minded to agree that a detailed lifting plan is not a guarantee of competent operation. I'm sure REME don't sit down and write one when they need to lift a main battle tank, but then again they've got a drilled-in discipline. I dunno, perhaps that's what a lifting plan is attempting to instil. However, I've witnessed a Hiab truck tipping over when operated by a seemingly experienced operater who knew our procedures and had made many successfull lifts previously. A seemingly extended stabiliser turned out not to be correctly extended....
  12. Hi Moley, Just a few thoughts on aesthetics. I think that every panel has the potential to become a cluttered 'bird's nest'. At the same time it can be made to look workmanlike without a lot of extra effort. If the individual wires are routed through decent cable trunking, in-comers are retained with cable glands and connections are made with 'proper' terminations rather than chocolate block and a bit of an effort is made to identify the wires and make their connections tidy, the whole thing takes on a totally different feel. Hopefully then if something does give a problem, the first thought won't be 'where the hell do I start to look in this lot?'....
  13. Thanks for this John. Probably explains why playing with the small deflector hasn't made an appreciable difference.... The focussing adjustment appears to work, in that the lamp moves in and out when turning the knob. I'll investigate the lamp concentricity next. The unit is from a fire engine and is stamped DAR on the yoke and has the number 9750 engraved on a number of the components - I guess this might have been the appliance number to which it was attached. I've left it at Peter Nicholls' yard today to have the mounting made up and I'll retrieve it and have another play once he's done.
  14. Thanks for your advice everyone. I've actually used a smear of glycerin to aid its refitting - seemed to do the trick. John it's a CFM11 number S53/140. Diameter is 11" overall. The switch is obviously not original and it appears to have been professionally converted to take a 12V halogen vehicle lamp. It works OK, but the focus is a bit off. The beam is not a good circle. I think the small reflector is tarnished a bit and also not central on the lamp axis. I've had a go at adjusting it with a little success, but it's still not perfect. Adjusting the focus doesn't seem to pull it into a completely 'clean' beam. The body is generally a bit worn but none the worse for it. A good going over with Autosol has improved it no end, but the chrome plating is somewhat pitted. Has an air of provenence about it though.
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  16. Paul, this is a distressing tale. I'm a member of the RBOA too and am sure that the organisation would take an interest in the subject matter at least, and hopefully your case in particular. I'm more than willing to engage with the RBOA to raise the profile of this issue and get it onto the agenda, and I'm sure if other RBOA members on this forum did the same, things might happen?
  17. I'm fettling a Francis light to go on the front of my new tug and would like to know if there's anything I can use to help preserve the rubber seal around the glass - to prevent it ageing and flaking and also make it easier to slide into its housing and then not stick. Any ideas?
  18. I'm taking the easy way out and going for carpet tiles on a 25mm ply floor. Not so sure about the galley area.... might go for vinyl there. I was put off specifying a wooden floor for exactly the reasons Gary has mentioned - intolerance to water and access to inspection panels.
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  20. Ref. your rental contract and the beneficiaries wanting to sort things out quickly.... I'm the executor for an aunt's estate. She passed on in January this year and the sale of her property completes today.... However quickly the beneficiaries want to sort things out, it isn't all in their control. Acquiring the Grant of Probate to enable the estate to do anything takes time and as has been mentioned, it could well be in the beneficiaries interest to maintain in income until such time that they can proceed further. In the same breath, there's nothing like an unexpected stimulus to force the conversion of a dream into a reality..... Good luck.
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  22. The hydrogen engine referred to was almost certainly the fuel cell, which uses hydrogen and oxgen in the cell to produce electricity. The oxygen comes from air and hydrogen from a pressurised tank. Recent developements have concentrated around reformer design so that LPG or unleaded petrol can be used to generate the hydrogen. However, the challenge for vehicle designers is the packaging density - getting it down to a size and weight that means your car can still carry passengers. The industry reluctance for going the pure hydrogen route is the infrastructure investment in a means to dispense liquid hydrogen without everybody blowing themselves up....
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