Sir Nibble
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9 minutes ago, system 4-50 said:
Anyone out there with a spare battery post and cable, a pot of vaseline, and a multimeter and some spare time??
Yes. I'll try it loaded with a heavy discharge tester next week.
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59 minutes ago, Alan de Enfield said:
No. Just, no. So unsafe. I've done this stuff, but with all the sensible precautions and proper waste disposal.
Interestingly, only the negative plates have any cohesion. If you drop one on the floor it goes thud, a positive plate goes splat and there's no way there's enough solid lead to weld. All the plates this guy is reusing started as negative ones. Since every cell has one more positive plate than negative, building a battery with reclaimed plates would need three donor batteries.
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10 minutes ago, john.k said:
I got a callout to a 'starter is clicking and whirring but the motor wont start'..............sure enough ,clicking and whirring.......reason was the starter was hanging loose on the wires ,with a conrod through the block.
The absolute best was the customer who's truck wouldn't start.
Does the dash light up when you turn the ignition on?
No, nothing.
Does the starter make any sound when you try it, clicking or anything?
No, nothing.
So out I go, turn on, dash lights up. Try the starter and it cranks the engine briskly.
Customer: See, nothing.
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This is one of "those" things isn't it. Unlike bizzard, I've never seen a problem with it. I must have done thousands and thousands of starting problems over the last 50 years and not one was due to vaseline, dozens due to corrosion. This is like never using emery to clean a comm, you should use glass paper. Tried it once, glass paper just not up to the job, 50 years with emery and no problem.
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Added advantage that the ducks wouldn't have to come out for blacking either.
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12 hours ago, IanD said:
Agreed -- but that still doesn't stop the boat being pushed across the lock if you get the paddles wrong, or the lock hates you... 😉
The trick is to not get the paddles wrong.
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Going up. Bowline on the centre rope over a bollard towards the back of the lock, forward gear, tickover.
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1 minute ago, blackrose said:
Yes machine screws with washers and nuts on the inside is another method - no need for araldite, I could just remove the top hopper of the porthole and attach the nut on the inside. Maybe that's the way to go? No need for pop rivets or tapping threads and the compression of the sealing medium is controlled.
Looks like the easy way to me.
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Could try aralditing nuts to the inside, with the windows out and screws to hold them in place.
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On 15/03/2024 at 18:46, jonathanA said:
Here's a picture of my old lpsw4 starter. Sadly a knacker but if yours is like this then the solenoid is part of it. This for a standard earth return marine build 47.
I'm sure a search using the part numbers will throw up lots of suppliers at lots of prices...
If the starter in question is one of these, then the common (very common) fault is burned solenoid contacts. New ones are cheap. Access by removing the 3 screws on the back of the solenoid.
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greetings earthlings, 'tis I. Considering taking the current Mrs Snibble boating this summer and looking for recommendations for hire. I don't want to travel too far from home on the south coast near Portsmouth. Last time I saw the K&A it seemed to have become even more crowded than when I sold my boat, and the Oxford was heading the same way. looking for somewhere rural where I don't need to be on a 14 day rota to moor at popular spots.
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Absolute kudos to you mate. Well outside your comfort zone but you got on and did it. Respect.
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On 13/11/2021 at 21:28, Wanderer Vagabond said:
It was a rhetorical question since I'm obviously not going to dump it, but it is getting increasing difficult to get into more and more recycling centres. Leaving a scrap microwave in a spare room at my postal address isn't quite the same problem as having to work around one on the floor of the saloon on the boat. Even the recycling centre at my postal address you have to book a slot and give the car registration of the vehicle you will be bringing the recycling in, not much help when you don't have a car, pedestrian access is not allowed.
I do understand the financial pressures that Local Authorities are under but looking at how much fly tipping is becoming visible it seems that the unintended consequences of excluding people from their recycling centres seems to mean that people then dump stuff elsewhere. I have passed a fridge dumped on the towpath in the middle of nowhere, it had to have come from a boater since there were no roads nearby. Often I will collect rubbish that I come across on my travels and dispose of it at a CRT waste site, but if I'd collected up the fridge, what was I supposed to do with it?
Years ago I was a member of my local council. The free collection of dead white goods was stopped as a cost cutting measure and I pointed out that this would encourage fly tipping. The response was, fine! Collection would cost money but fly tipping was collected by a firm contracted for the purpose at no extra cost per item.
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1 hour ago, David Mack said:
That is a lot more repeatable than the sentence my Dad taught me for remembering the colour codes used on resistors!
But Virgins go without.
The new acceptable version is "Billy Brown Ran Out Yelling Gor Blimey Violet Get Weaving".
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You have lost the supply to the ignition switch. Panel fuse?
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9 hours ago, Grassman said:
I've just replaced my rotting wooden 6ft gangplank with a 5ft metal one 🙁.
Never mind, mudweights and/or a couple of grappling hooks should do the trick
If there's enough water to get alongside, someone lives there.
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Good job you don't need armco.
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If you talk to the resident boat dwellers, you will hear a lot about what the law SHOULD be and how they're treated unfairly because the law isn't what it SHOULD be.
The river, with its varying levels and propensity to flood is a more difficult place to live than the canal and few will be living there by choice. Many will be, for want of a better word, refugees from enforcement action on the canal. I would suggest that you familiarise yourselves with the political environment of the waterways. A good place to start is to look at the CaRT licence application online then ask the various groups (RBOA, NABO etc) for their views and interpretation of the licensing conditions. Not everyone lives where they want to and you can find every state from complete contentment to utter desperation depending upon the gulf between the necessary and the permitted.
Sociologically, it's a can of worms.
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2 hours ago, Athy said:
I assumed it was a misprint, yes; but what connection does "owned" have with losing an argument?
I use the internet quite extensively but had never come across any of the jargon terms quoted above until now. It's always instructive to learn new vocabulary, though I doubt that I'll be using any of them.
Incidentally, how would you pronounce "pwned"? It looks as if it should be a Polish word; "pwund" perhaps?
You don't pronounce it. It's a typo🤣
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8 minutes ago, Athy said:
I assumed it was a misprint, yes; but what connection does "owned" have with losing an argument?
I use the internet quite extensively but had never come across any of the jargon terms quoted above until now. It's always instructive to learn new vocabulary, though I doubt that I'll be using any of them.
The loser, and they need to have been pretty spectacularly shot down, is said to have been "owned". Don't ask me, I still think "amazing" requires someone to be amazed so I'm no lexicographer.
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CWDF doesn't exist in isolation. It's just one small corner of the Web. If you use it enough you will find that what looks like jargon is the native language of the netizen. The example I gave above, "pwned" originated from one person missing the "O" on their keyboard and hitting the "P" by mistake. Now "pwned" has become the term for one who has been demolished in argument.
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2 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:
Probably as its a modern word originating from internet discussions, in a similar vein to “doxxer” or “haxxor” stemming from online chat rooms where the cool kids used “leet-speak” (leet/l33t/1337 meaning elite), which is like a whole language to itself derived from shortened words and typing errors caused by folk trying to get a point across quickly in a fast-flowing chat window and trying to appear part of the crowd.
"Pwned"
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37 minutes ago, MoominPapa said:
Mine certainly doesn't say Lucas anywhere on it.
MP.
Lucas was taken over by marelli and then denso and now the units are made mostly by prestolite. Makers name usually cast into the slip ring end bracket, under the regulator.
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22 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I have checked on availability of 75A A127 alts and it seems that there are an uprated A127, by whom is not clear. I doubt that they are the original Lucas units.
They were made in 45A 55A 65A 70A and 72A. Don't ask, I don't know.
Clicking when trying to start engine
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I think this solenoid has an ignition supplied hold in winding and the pull in winding connected to the starter.