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All a bit odd, innit. What CRT actually say: "Due to a boat strike of the bottom gate the balance beam has been broken meaning the lock is not safe for use and locked off accordingly." What I suspect they meant to say: "Due to it being old and extensively rotting, the balance beam was not strong enough to withstand a boat strike."
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I certainly read to the end of a thread before posting innit.
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I suspect for a condition to be recognised as a disorder, fewer (or less) than 50% of a population should display symptoms. If more than 50% have Excessive Internet Use, is it not those who don't who must be disordered?
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Curious typeface. There appears to be two different-sized sets of upper case letters. More pertinently, would not a letter such as this sent in 1837 have been hand-written? Did they actually have typewriters in canal offices that early?
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This doesn't address the problem I was describing, where you look at 20 boats and remember said detail clearly, but can't remember which boat it was on!
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buying a narrowboat that ISN'T RCR compliant - bad idea?
MtB replied to Beats88's topic in New to Boating?
Which raises another point. If a sea boat is built to RCR why should it need a BSS too? Same applies to canal boats. I'd expect any boat built to RCR standards to fly through the (massively slacker) BSS examination. (Any mods done by the owner after purchase will be picked up by the PCA exam the owner will obviously have done...) -
Similarly with converted iron butties. I had a look around inside one with gunwales about 18" higher than those in my own boat, and the cabin top put on with plenty of tumblehome but no side decks. The impression inside was of a boat that was massive larger inside than mine. So spacious in fact it was hard to believe it was only 7ft wide.
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Yes it is. Remind me. How many years have you lived on a narrowboat with a LFP battery?
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One hob works much the same as another. Its the ovens we are mourning the loss of.
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I've been thinking the same. But I'm sure the filter manu will assure us cyanide is totally removed from the water just like all the fish poo. Thing is if they turn out to be wrong, drinking fish poo prolly won't kill you... but the cyanide???
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As already discussed at length above, this won't happen at the SoC curve is so flat. In fact as IanD points out, it is SO flat that sometimes a cell will have a higher voltage at the same time as being at a lower SoC than another cell.
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I doubt most of us would have any way of noticing the cells 'need' balancing. So what if one cell needs an extra few AH to bring it up to match the others? We all use the middle range of SoC going neither very low nor very high, I'd suggest.
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New seals to the oil cooler on the van was £3k a few years ago. It's a plate heat exchanger in the centre of the vee. Even the turbo had to come off first!
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A "winding arm" ! 😲
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Condemneded, more like!!
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They obviously don't keep it in their weed hatch then. A misnomer if ever I heard one as it makes it soggy and harder to light.
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No do I. Hope that helps... Or how good it is!
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Love electric but 2 feet shorter please
MtB replied to nealeST's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
Hmmm... appointed director of Bickerstaffe in September 2022. So looks like the takeover actually happened at the peak of the post-covid rush to order boats. -
Love electric but 2 feet shorter please
MtB replied to nealeST's topic in Boat Building & Maintenance
Click it again and it will go away! -
Ah so its YOU taking them all!!
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The bow and the stern are 50% each too. And so is the owner.
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buying a narrowboat that ISN'T RCR compliant - bad idea?
MtB replied to Beats88's topic in New to Boating?
Of course I believe in standards. Where did I say I don't? I just think there is considerable bureaucratic over-reach. At some point, you have to let people try to kill themselves with stupidity. As they say in the world of engineering if you try to build something idiot-proof, the universe will defeat you by building a better idiot. In my opinion you could write a set of standards that would make boats fundamentally safe in a dozen pages of A4. -
I mebbe got it back-to-front. 50% of what makes a boat look ugly is vertical cabin sides.
