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Yep, sounds to me as though this bod is inadvertently using the 'long wire' method to keep the A127 from getting too hot! I think he was perhaps just lucky if all three fogstars disconnected, but perhaps disconnection at part load isn't so much of a risk?

Made in the thousands rather than tens of millions.

Which leads onto another way I prefer the imperial system. "Inch" rolls off the tongue so much more easily than "millimetre" and doesn't get confusingly abbreviated.

Which it may well turn out to be. I had a long chat a few weeks ago with the next door moorer about this boat. He reckons it was built by a shipbuilder who knew nothing about narrowboats and got the length wrong so it is probably only really useable as a houseboat. Also told me it was built wholly from 6mm plate - baseplate, hull, cabin, the lot. Its a cracking bit of engineering all around apparently!

Three-way fridges ARE absorption fridges. Three energy sources (gas flame, 12v element, 240v element), same cooling mechanism.

You are however a self-selecting sample! I'd be surprised if any of the millions of people killed by re-wireable fuses posted here to say so.

My fulI-sized Inlander brand 12v compressor fridge draws about 3A when running, which is about 30% of the time. Totally different kettle of fish from three-way fridges thqt work using the absorption principle.

I very much agree it is common courtesy when deleting someone's post for them to be told why, which I know happens sometimes but not in this case, according to the OP. I wasn't clear earlier. I was not calling for Team Mod to explain why they had deleted the post, but rather asking for Team Mod to confirm they have indeed told the OP why their post was deleted. Leaving a new member hanging like that with a post deleted and (apparently) no explanation is not good modding in my opinion.

Well that's disappointing. I feel there is more to this than is apparent from the thread, but it would be nice if a mod could perhaps comment adding their POV. Once you have 10 posts I think you can use the PM system. So keep going!!

All a bit puzzling. If your original post giving more details was removed, I think the moderators will have told you why. What reason did they give for deleting your post? It must have breached one of the posting rules you signed up to when you joined.

Which leads onto the net thing. Why do so many boaters seem to think it is a good thing to attract more boaters onto the canals who can't or won't afford to pay the going rate? And can only do it by dumping their boat on the towpath and abusing the CCing rules?

I called the CRT number at an odd time once (like, 4pm on a saturday) and was surprised to get it immediately answered. I prattled on about the low pound I was stuck in or whatever it was and after a bit the woman said slow down, I'm trying to take notes to pass onto CRT, we are just a professional answering service and I have no idea what you are calling about. P.S. I hope the funeral went ok. Perhaps not quite an appropriate thing to say but just to acknowledge I noticed you said one of the two funerals of your parents was today.

So to expand on this, my post was a joke, given an 8ft gangplank will be just about long enough to reach the bank if tied up on the outside of one of the CMers reputed to populate every inch of the western K&A.

My Inlander fridge is working fine right now! Bt to expand on this its about 5 years old so well out of warranty, but more particularly this means it prolly has a genuine Danfoss compressor not one of these cheapo Chinese clones.

To get over a CMer?

Lost its refrigerant.

lol very good!! I’ve changed it for you…

Yep. I'd say the typical stay on the 48hr VMs near me is about two months.

I don't buy batteries with tapered posts. They are an appalling solution.

Whereas professional engineer/technicians rarely actually need one, having developed a sense of feel for the tightness necessary.,

Also, a steam engine stops rotating when the steerer wants the prop to stop. No mucking about with a gearbox with a "neutral" setting. So no idling while waiting in locks, lock queues etc. Mind you, the boiler still needs stoking up!

I'd sy things are about to change rapidly. The CRT commission reviewing the whole unsatisfactory situation surrounding "how we licence boats" is due to produce it report in September, just three months away. I'm expecting a major simplification and clarification to be set out as the basis for a re-write of the law on CCing and stamping out the confusion surrounding the differences between bona fide CCing and taking the piss.

You clearly know more than me about this stuff but I still don't think you are getting it. Are judical reviews of CRT board decisions regarding whether a boat is complying with the provisions in the 1995 British Waterways Act dealt with in the County Court? I think not.

When I've taken part in the parade I'd guess it typically takes two or three hours to get around the route and back onto one's rally mooring. If you get properly caught up in this I reckon you should budget for three hours to escape back the way you came. OTOH if you aim to turn around Braunston Turn during the parade and go straight back again, someone will let you in and you'll turn and be on your way in perhaps 15 mins.

I get what you mean and I agree, but isn't this in the context of money claims? Challenges to CRT's "satisfy the board" decisions claiming they are unreasonable are not to do with money. They take us into "judicial review" territory AIUI, as the point of them is to set future legal precedent.