MtB

not just boats. Cars too. Boats, cars and cruise liners actually. Boats, cars, cruise liners and aeroplanes in fact. Cancel that. Humans are the problem actually. Life would be better without them don'tcher think?

I think you have perhaps never encountered the bug yourself. It happens just as easily on a desktop PC as on a phone. What happens is you press "Submit Reply" and nothing appears to happen. The reply screen containing your reply nicely typed in remains on the display instead of your post being shown added to the thread. So you assume you failed to correctly press the "Submit Reply" button accurately and do it again. And the same thing happens so now you take extra care to press it right. Again, nothing changes so you get cross, abandon your attempt to post a reply and press VNC instead, and see you have posted your reply three times (or however many times you clicked "Submit Reply" with no screen response before giving up.) What actually happens is each time you apparently unsuccessfully click "Submit Reply", the submission actually happens but your screen does not respond, so you click it again, and again, and again hoping for the screen to update but it never does. Hopefully the new bar on posting for a period will interrupt this process!

Same here and I find people usually just stare at you with blank incomprehension of what you are trying to warn about.

Seconded. Difficult to stress how slow the rotational speed needs to be to get the cutting speed down to a working value that actually cuts the steel rather than wearing it away! This website suggests about 200 rpm for a 31mm hole saw. Also agree with the pressure. Push hard enough to see swarf spiralling off the teeth. If you're not seeing this then again you're wearing through rather than cutting nicely, possibly having already blunted the holesaw. For just one hole I'd be inclined to use plain 3-in-1 light oil as the cutting lube. The main advantage of using a proper cutting compound it is extends tool life though, possibly from seconds to several minutes when hand drilling with a holesaw! https://www.cgtk.co.uk/metalwork/calculators/cuttingspeeds

My own jaded opinion is they find boats novel and interesting so they will often visit following a break-in and theft. When it happened to me I reported the break-in with no expectation beyond getting a crime number. But no, they went the whole hog and sent two coppers to take a statement from me and then sent a SoCo team who dusted half the inside of the boat with fingerprint powder - quite a mess they left. All seemed dead interested in the boat itself and canal life in general. Never heard a bean from them after that.

Well let us hope so. I fell prey to it yesterday and so did another poster but I've not noticed any multiple posts today. I did however notice this morning a new example of the "Duplicate thread" bug (threads displayed twice in VNC) which sometimes gets confused with the double posting bug.

Seems a lot to me. I wouldn't be surprised if the bid doesn't complete at that price.

Totally agree. 'Something' in the flue path is partially blocked I reckon. Especially as this video is of the lighting stage.

Changed my mind.

I noticed but thought you made it up!

Slight problem with my donation. I have managed to put two of my chosen donations into the "Basket", but I can't see how to access the "Basket" to cancel/remove the extra item and revert to the one donation I am trying to make. All this is before I get to the PayPal log-in.

I thought sea boats were exempt!

Nor can I, given the promises he was making. If he can't do it, don't canvass for votes promising to do it.

What?!!! I ws expecting it to take you a week or two to fully digest and understand!!

This certainly seems a case of a surveyor putting the wind up the buyer of a fundamentally decent boat. All old boats are full of flaws once you look carefully and this one seems typical of a boat at that price point.

Excellent. Also read the battery primer I just linked to, it is full of solid gold advice. Go through it a small step at a time and post questions about anything you can't or don't understand.

Yes wasn't he promising to get building immediately elected? I haven't noticed large numbers of new social housing under construction....

Have a long and careful read of the battery primer, here:

We should have picked up on this before. When there is a bank of batteries in parallel, one going down drags all the others down too so your comment that one battery had failed should have been asked about and unpacked earlier. It is much more likely that all three batteries are failing together, quite possibly from undercharging.

1 is trivially cheap but getting it to the services to fill the water tank and empty the bog can be a challenge. 3 is gonna cost more than the sale price of the rusty sinker being lived on by the few people unable to afford the extra £1,000 a year needed to make the canal system sustainable. For these people, 2 is a more vible option.

Indeed. Double the price of boat licences and boaters will all rush off and live in one of the many cheaper types of accommodation available to us all. Here is a list of all those cheaper options: .

You understate it! Headline price of £100 (ish), cost of extra bits to install safely in a boat another £150 (ish) at leat I'd say. I too find mine soothing to listen to in the back cabin. "Quiet" is not however a word I'd use to describe it!

Its a technique first described in the book "1984" (IIRC), known as "Doublespeak". Where a government department is given a title which is the exact opposite of what it actually does e.g. "Ministry of Truth". Of course CRT have no plans to keep the canals open. They would LOVE to close them all. Boaters are a thorn in the side to them.

I think just pointing out the error in the drawing is sufficient for the purposes of this thread.

In which case I'd suggest replacing it (or the whole bank) with lead acids to get the power back on promptly.* Trying to learn from a standing start and under time pressure enough about LFP batteries to carry out a successful DIY installation, strikes me as a recipe for getting it wrong. * Or just remove the dead battery form the bank and carry on with those left while you do the research.