Denis R
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At the end of that they not only felt that they can do as they please, they had proved it. THEY are in charge of what you may or may not have and what you can do with it. That's power.
And of course, where are the police whilst all this is going on? ....sitting on the A43 in their number plate recognition van.
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It's not about acquiring property by theft, it's about power. Any useless waster can exercise power over you by stealing your property and destroying it. It is about making you angry, upset and prey to impotent rage. This and the ability to assault and injure someone weaker is the only power some people will ever wield and they do so in order to feel that they have some importance and cannot be ignored.
That's my theory anyway.
Very eloquently put S'nib. Some of our local wasters exercised their power around Blisworth at the weekend by smashing the windows of two boaters' cars and ransacking the insides. They then reinforced their power by torching another boater's almost new camper van....
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Hi Denis
so is it that the candy aq1000 has a 3.5 kg load is this what makes a washing machine better for narrow boat use.
So I could look for washing machines with a 3.5 kg load drum,
Does this mean(i sound thick i know
) the washing machine is physically smaller than a normal one?col
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Yes, it's considerably more compact than the 'standard' 5Kg machines, which in my mind makes it a more attractive proposition on a narrowboat and the 3,5Kg capacity isn't bad. There are other 3,5Kg capacity machines on the market.
My Candy Aqua 1000T will work off a poor mains input on the quick wash cycle but the more elaborate spin cycles don't like it. The quick wash does 80% of my needs anyway, so if I need the more intensive wash cycles I use the engine not the genny to keep the batteries alive.
A 3,5Kg capacity machine is going to be a mite more pricey than a 'dime a dozen' 5Kg machine however....
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the forum rates the Candy AQ1000, is this because of the low 1250 total power??
Yes, and because it has all the functionality of a 5Kg machine but in a smaller size - a 3,5Kg wash load - which seems to be able to do all my washing OK.
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I've got a mixture of LED, bayonet and halogen lighting and the LED lights are really no more than 'mood lighting'
You might find that if you make a direct replacement, one for one, you'll have a very 'moody' boat.
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Sounds like you might have a feint weep across the valve seats, bleeding water from the pressurised side back to the inlet side.
Maybe it's time for a service kit? Parts explosion here: Flojet 4405 Data Sheet
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My latest statement from RoyScot shows my interest rate has dropped from 10% to a still irritating 9% this month - which remains higher than when I took it out with the base rate at 5.5% or so.....
Oh well, c'est la vie.
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secondly we widened the range of the 7 segment display brightness and brightened up the normal LEDs. Again because some people said they weren't bright enough.
Flippin' 'enry Gibbo, I've got the 'old' design and maybe it's fitted in a shaded area, but if the display was any brighter I'd be needing my RayBans to read it!
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Supporting Ernie, over the weekend we were all positively looking out for some brave soul to come along and be the first to break up the ice. The moorers around me were of the opinion that the first boat through had done them a favour.... Nobody mentioned damage to their blacking.
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But, as the comment came from a builder of narrowboats (among other types) it must carry weight.
I'm sure the narrowboat builders who also build and restore seagoing boats, RW Davis and Pete Nicholls are two that spring to mind, regard the narrow boat side of their business as akin to dug-out canoe building compared to building "proper" boats.
*lol* Good one Carl! My "dug-out canoe" is a Peter Nicholls, and when I spoke to him about building it for me back in 2005, I think he thought it would be a great crack.... a bit of a 'hobby job'. "my God, I've not built one of those for years - I've still got the set of drawings up in my loft at home somewhere. That would be fun."
Having spent a few years in the fabrication industry many moons ago, it was great to talk to him about steel grades, welding rod specs, edge preparations and other sundry 'anorak' stuff. But at the end of the day, set alongside one of his Cat A blue water boats, it's still only a tin can in a ditch....
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Bike with me attached - interesting experience - 6:30am, misty, deep lock channel, nobody about to help....
Mobile phone
Ash pan from the stove
Sundry wine glasses and bottles
Favourite tea mug
Several screwdrivers, etc.
Recovered with sea searcher:
Bike - managed to get out eventually and run back to boat for magnet....
A complete fire surround
Intake petals from a Bolinder
Sundry bolts, washers, etc
A blimmin' big nut - about 3" AF
Lost forever - neighbour's propellor....
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Or wire the output of the smartguage to a engine start module & it can then start the engine when the volts or SOC reach a set level & then run the engine till either a V or SOC is reached & or then run for X time on top.
OH & dont turn it off when it hits 100% cos its not 100% till after a long absorbtion phase as well.
Justme
I like that idea - I'll have a rake through the manual and see if I can find a way to program it so it doesn't start the engine between 8pm and 8am
I forgot that seemingly minor aside about the absorbtion phase..... Without it the missing bit of the explanation should have been: "Then just renew your battery bank every 12-18 months."
Have to say that before fitting the SmartGauge, based on the before/after charging regime, I must have been habitually discharging the batteries way below 50%, which probably accounts for the first bank only lasting 2 years.
Edited: finger trouble.
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I was under the impression that a battery management system reduces the time spent running the engine to charge the batteries, by maintaining a steady charge rate; which I'm told gradually falls as the battery gets closer to full charge. The lower running costs are my main concern - all I expect from the "flashing lights" is tell me when I need to turn the engine on and off!
Having wasted a fair wad in the past on alternator controllers I didn't need, take my advice, check the voltage of your alternator. If it's 14.4Volts, go and lie down in a darkened room until the feeling for a 'battery management system' wears off.
Then fix yourself up with a SmartGauge - shows you what the pretty lights show, only in figures - turn your engine on when it shows 50%, turn it off when it shows 100%. Job done.
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Faint heart never won fair maiden....
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My neighbour has two cats, one of whom we've nicknamed Splosh for the number of times it falls in. The other is a little more careful, but occasionally goes in too. They don't seem any worse for wear. Try it, the cat might like life aboard and if it doesn't, you've got a back-up plan in place.
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Most likely the motor. If I recall it's located under the dash above the passengers feet, pull down the soft cover and there it is; one screw and it's out (fnaar fnaar). Best test is to turn on the heater and give it a belt with a screwdriver that normally makes it twitch and attempt to work confirming the almost inevitable worn out brushes. You won't get replacements and they will have taken the comm with them anyway but worth pricing one from a breaker.
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Memory plays tricks but, IIR the multi speed resistor is located close by and they have a little thermal cut out in that frequently fails open circuit and can be replaced with a bit of 15A fusewire.
There you go, two common faults on renault heater circuits.
There you go kiki, just like I said, we're a car repair forum too
In the unlikely event that it's not the motor and you're getting no heat from the engine into the heater matrix on the Clio it is usually:
Stuck thermostat - is the engine running normally, overheating or staying cold....?
Low coolant level - check this first then if it's OK.....
Air lock - there should be a bleed screw in one of the heater hoses
Blocked heater matrix - quite a favourite on Clios
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Is it too much hassle to fix the heater? Sometimes it's more effort to treat the symptoms than the cause. We're nothing if not technical here, so you could treat us like a car forum and give us a chance to sort the heater itself?
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It would be nice to think that the 5 year-old-kids who were in the crowd didn't fully know what was going on.... It would be even nicer to think that their parents/carers/other campers ushered them away before they became worried that someone was committing murder or could ask any of the "what are they doing, mummy?" type questions.
Come to think of it, at the same time, instead of disrupting them completely at the height of their passion, you could have suggested to them that they at least chew the pillow 'til they're finished
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You could try painting a sort of Plimsoll Line on the front of the boat, with markings for tank full, tank empty and then guestimate from that? You could refer to the thread on water usage in locks for more about the hydrodynamics.
There, how about that for a classic idea? ....and I'm not drunk, although I suggest you might (still) need to be to get through that thread in one piece.
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A crowd of about 30 people had gathered, all of us hideously embarrassed and wondering who'd go and tell them to stop
It could be argued that the embarrassed ones were probably on the other side of the campsite, and the 30 or so who had gathered were perhaps more eagerly awaiting the final crescendo than they were admitting?
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And what are they going to do about this how's yer father then?
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Yeah, and at the same time they can stop nibbling the b****y algae off the side of my boat in the middle of the night. Can't they keep regular eating hours like normal people?
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Hmm. My 7 month old grandson sleeps like a log only a few feet from the RB211 sound-alike that's our Webasto. Outside, the exhaust sound is more faint than the roar from the M1 over a mile away....
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Anybody here got their boat financed through RoyScot Larch? I've just checked my November statement and they've put the interest rate up to 10%. So, as the base rate has been falling, they've been steadily increasing their rates from around 8.5% up to 10%....
This doesn't affect repayments, it just extends the term. Now rates have hit a 50 year low I'll be expecting to see a substantial drop next month, but somehow I don't think it's going to happen. This feels like a case of clawing back from whom they can as much as they can - the soft targets that don't make the headlines. I suspect their Park Home customers are similarly afflicted.
) the washing machine is physically smaller than a normal one?
Blue smoke
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Well I guess it depends how long it was going on for and how long since the engine 'had its throat cleared' - if only a few seconds or you didn't leave the engine running at those RPM for any appreciable time to see if it cleaned itself up, it might have been just clearing out the clag?