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  2. Interesting bar chart, thank you. I did my own cost comparison calcs back during Covid and I spent quite a lot of time researching the cost per kWh in the various fuels. Wood was the most difficult to pin down. I can't remember my methodology for the wood but it was based on the price of a cubic metre of kiln-dried oak, including delivery to me and the cost I came up with was 7p per kWh. Solid fuel was 8p per kWh. Quite a difference from the bar chart above but mine was for the total calorific value of the fuel, not the 'useful' calorific value which strikes me as a matter of opinion!
  3. I find myself wondering it that's why they sold the boat.... to finally get rid of that old half-full gas cylinder!
  4. Much the same thanks. Age is having its impact despite my determination it won't! And living in my little thatched hovel nowadays rather than on the boat. Visitors say "Oh I can see why you bought this, its just like a boat inside!"
  5. Gosh! Faintly surprised the two metals dissolve when molten....
  6. Welcome back G&F! Were've ya bin??!
  7. I think we have a member here who dabbles in brassfoundry. Made a batch of bronze windlasses a few years ago IIRC. Was it @Bee perhaps?
  8. Buying directly from a manufacturer always will be the most expensive. It would be commercial suicide for a manufacturer to be seen to be undercutting their distributed sales agent network. The agents would all instantly drop that product and sell another brand where the manu was not competing directly with them in the marketplace!
  9. No only this but HMRC probably get about 5,000 reports a day from disgruntled customers of all types of business, hoping to prompt an investigation when in actual fact the report has only been made due to a dispute between the parties. I very much doubt HMRC would take any action at all unless the report was one of many about the same business from lots of different people. They have their own, better methods of identifying the businesses that really need investigating.
  10. A half-crown rudder would probably work even better....
  11. Brilliant. We've lured you back!! Have a greenie...
  12. MtB

    Lemons

    Mmmm, gravy! This is one massive bugbear of mine. When having Sunday lunch in a pub they NEVER give you enough gravy! 1 litre each would be about right IMHO.
  13. Heaven forfend that in refusing to respond to your demands for time-consuming statements, replies to your emails and what-have-you, this might be their preferred and planned outcome...
  14. MtB

    Lemons

    One litre jugs, I reckon. (Someone had to say it!)
  15. Must be tricky carrying a full cassette down that ladder! Or perhaps they just......
  16. MtB

    Lemons

    But folk wot don't live on boats also do shopping, do they not? If so, the thread content is not related specifically to "Living on Boats", which was my point really.
  17. Seems probable given the green and verdant nature of the surrounding land. Also that ladder!
  18. The widebeam on the 48 hour moorings here hasn't moved since November last year, so £50 of diesel is working out just fine for them.
  19. Is this the Johnson pump you are suggesting? https://www.midlandchandlers.co.uk/products/johnson-compact-water-circulating-pump-12v-15lpm-16mm-10-24501-03#
  20. MtB

    Lemons

    Not sure what Lidl having lemons in stock has to do with living afloat, either!
  21. Spoken like a true retired or jobless boater! There is no way I could hold down my job without a vehicle.
  22. In addition, the actual motive force produced by a little 15mm 12Vdc will be hundreds if not thousands of times bigger than the motive force of natural convection. No matter how clunky it might look.
  23. This is a good point. When internal combustion engines came along the most natrual thing to do would have been to experiment with ways to fit them into horse boats. Not design and build a whole new motor boat from the keelson up! So the first motorised 'butties' where probably horse boats right back when engines were first invented...
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