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  1. Thanks! Its a GREAT boat. He definitely needs to buy it....
  2. If he is throwing away one of those hopelessly useless lithium batteries, can I have it please?!!
  3. Thia seems unlikely unless the regulator in the alternator is busted. But busted regulators usually result in lower-than-correct voltage output. It's probably better to judge the regulating effect of a "long wire" by measuring the current in it using a clamp meter. The alternator temperature rather depends on the continuous current it is supplying and if the alternator is still overheating, lengthen the wire and measure how much the current reduces by. That way, you get a clearer understanding of the effect of your particular "long wire".
  4. Worse than that, we bought a round of drinks in the Dundas Arms at Kintbury after bell-ringing and the price of it seemed so steep so we queried it with the barman. We knew drinks in there are nosebleed prices but this time it seemed so insanely expensive we asked the barman for a breakdown of it. He got the till to print out a receipt, which on close inspection included an automatic 10% Service Charge!!!! Turned out that the till in there does this automatically on all bills of £30 or more, on the assumption that the bill must be for a meal in the restaurant. He explained this without even a hint of contrition and took it off as though doing us a favour. The spectacular cheek of it has us wondering how many other times we've paid it without realising.
  5. How can it not work?!! If the long wire is not reducing the charge current, it either isn't long enough or it is too fat.
  6. You also pay for the capital investment in the premises. A warm, dry, well-equipped motor repair workshop doesn't come cheap to buy (£1m perhaps?) and doesn't run itself. Heating, insurance, Business rates, commercial waste disposal etc all have to be paid for out of that £102 per hour.
  7. If it is a liveaboard however, the GSIUR applies and ventilation is mandatory for flueless and open flue gas appliances.
  8. Having to run the engine constantly to get hot water when moored up for a few days is a bit of a ball-ache in summer though, when solar would otherwise keep the batteries fully charged. Also for those who worry about such things, adding a gas installation will invalidate the RCD/RCR compliance of the boat, which isn't cheap to get re-inspected and re-certified.
  9. Presumably the attraction of this particular boat is the price. Gas-free boats are I suspect, bloody difficult to sell as the number of folk in the market to buy one at any given point in time is usually similar to the number of unicorns one sees around towing a horse boat loaded with 20 tons of rocking horse night soil. Consequently the price of a second-hand gas-free boat needs to reflect the cost of fitting a proper gas cooker and probably water heater too, and of course building a gas locker and getting the whole thing certified to comply with BSS and RCR. Endless trouble. Just buy a different boat with gas already installed. You know it makes sense....
  10. Welcome to the forum Liz E. As a tangential observation, I'd have thought the Grand Union canal near Watford was a far safer stretch of waterway than the River Nene at Northampton. Even in the Nene marinas boats occasionally sink, due to widely fluctuating water levels and boats being tied to fixed pontoons. It happened to the member here called "Tree" IIRC, about ten years ago in Billing Aquadrome Marina, again IIRC. But to answer your question I believe noddyboater here fits the bill. https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/profile/28452-noddyboater/ And I think Captain Pegg too, but I'm not so sure. https://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php?/profile/25558-captain-pegg/
  11. MtB

    Baked potatoes

    Slice a big spud in half lengthwise, then both wrapped halves will fit in the ash.
  12. MtB

    Baked potatoes

    I wrap mine in foil and bury it in a nearly-full ashpan of a ticking-over stove for an hour or two. Can't remember if the skin is crispy but ash-pan spuds are sublimely delicious, far better than oven-baked spuds. For reliably crispy skin I'd say finish in the oven on max temp for 15 mins.
  13. My opinion is any damage from missing oil will show up immediately as knocking noise rather than revealing itself some time later. For an engine to stop from lack of oil must mean a bearing picked up and seized, or possibly the friction in a piston grabbed but the governor would, I'd have thought, just added more fuel to overcome the friction until full power was not enough. So given the engine still runs with no apparent ill effects I'm wondering if the seizure was something other than loss of oil, overheating perhaps, and the oil loss was coincidental. Bear in mind I know nothing about engines.
  14. I suspect it isn't just the workers doing the grunt work who will be on the site. There might be civil engineers, project managers, surveyors and all manner of people who could be wheelchair users and still capable of doing their jobs.
  15. Published by accident, a couple of weeks early.
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  18. Curious now. I thought batteries gassing during charging produced H2. Are you saying the gas is actually H2S always, whenever the little bubbles are forming during normal charging? Or is it only H2S during 'abnormal' charging? If the latter when dos it change over to H2S? I am also under the impression a CO detector will detect and sound if both H2 and H2S in enough concentration get into the sensor. Thanks.
  19. On many boats one can loosely judge how full the tank is by looking at the waterline at the bow.
  20. So you have succeeded in filling with a jerry can previously? How do you know the tank is not already full? If it is already full this would fully explain why more water won't go in.
  21. People here do get frustrated when the questions they ask are ignored. I'll repeat David Mack's question. How do you know your tank is not already full?
  22. Star rating? Mine get "Letter" ratings i.e. A, B, C etc. But mebbe this still reflects running costs. Nobody cares, they still want the house they want. Nobody ever rejected a cute country cottage because it was rated D and they wanted one rated C or better. The house you want is rated at whatever it is, take it or leave it. Most take it. The whole thing is a money-wasting job creation scheme dreamed up by that idiot Prescott.
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  24. Looks like my prediction back near the start of Whitsun bank holiday for the re-opening is gonna be about right!
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