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Hi Harald, Thank you , brilliant- Safari is good to go. Now I can sell the boat and have a Virtual Working Boat, a lot less heart-ache. Cheers, and thanks to David too.

There are 3 flashing targets ( engine hole, on the wharf and on the welcome screen) pointing at any of them and clicking with the mouse doesn't do anything and I can't seem to get any action at all ( on the screen that is!) pressing any keys. It's an iMac and Safari is usually 100% good Like the one in Brian's workshop? I've got a pair of ear defenders already.....

Posted a few years ago: http://iwn.iwai.ie/v29i2/ifrances.PDF I spoke to the skipper and had a guided tour of the boat in Manchester, he was planning to "do" the Huddersfield Narrow, more difficult with that vessel than the North Atlantic I thought!

Hello, I can't get it to do anything at all in Safari but cold starting a National was always a problem . Any ideas? Bill

Star Oils at Bredbury- will deliver or you can collect (just down the road !)

The engine will originally have been an SR1. I don't think the ST was available in those days.Perhaps it's been re-engined? A silencer intended for an early (19)70's car should fit ok. The exhaust manifold casting on the engine is tapped 1" BSP. Try Oldham Tyre & Exhaust if you are up this way, they are good at modding pipes and silencers to individual requirements.

Not wishing to cast a damper on anything , please correct if any of the following statements are inaccurate: 1. You live on a boat and haven't done any locks so you are seeking advice. 2. You own/manage/ operate another boat which is a powered day hire boat. 3. You advise your hirers of (2) about safe navigation on the Peak Forest Canal before they take the boat out ( I know they aren't allowed to use locks) 4. You have been on an appropriate boat handling course with e.g. Top Lock Training , so that you can carry out (3) I feel a dichotomy coming on, better lie down Bill

I only asked about an 'owd gearbox , I'm not interested in where your venom & 'ate is directed, keep it in the VP please. Thank you to Tim and Tony (via George) for useful information.

Some advice please. The reduction box is supposed to have heavy gear oil in if I understand right? The gearbox proper uses engine oil circulated from the engine sump. Somehow the two sections are kept separate, I suppose some shaft seal. I found that the reduction box has engine oil in and no gear oil . I suspect it has run like this for a long time in previous ownership. Can I put off dismantling and fixing seals or is disaster imminent in the reduction box? As I say , there is a lot of engine oil in there, which isn't leaking out and everything works just fine. Thanks Bill

The air pollution is not particularly old boat engines, more likely old railway engines in the connected railway tunnels! The summer months have large steam locos through there with perhaps 13 coaches going uphill.Also, there are regularly 50+ year old class 20s and 37s which do not comply with modern emission requirements (grandfather rights). A boat engine, even a Bolinder , won't have those levels of pollution -15HP against 1500 or so.

Point of order: The HNCs western end is at Ashton Old Wharf , Whitelands Road just below lock 1W. The canal from there to Portland Basin, about half a mile, is the Ashton Main Line and was completed before the Huddersfield and the Peak Forest. Ashton Old Wharf had warehousing and a colliery tramway . Ashton New Wharf was at Portland Basin, the warehouse there, with its waterwheel powered hoists was completed in 1835

You're a boilerman, used to using fire irons??? Just a natural extension of that. No doubt you own some fire irons for use in the Epping. A Manchistoh expression, no cockney in my history.

As a crumb drawer, it's perfectly functional. As a knife(cutlery) drawer it's less than useful- you just get the table laid and realise you've forgotten the steak/fish knife or dessert spoons so you have to clear the table ,lift it and open the drawer. My heretical idea would be to have a cutlery drawer under the lower shelf in the table cupboard, so accessible with the table down. Also, with the " traditional "set-up, you have to clean the drawer out and its contents after each use , otherwise unhealthy growths can occur amongst the eating irons. Anyway,crumb drawer is the term used in these parts. Bill

Heater plugs in the inlet circuitry? I've done it with a blow lamp under the manifold, takes a while, one pair of cylinders at a time. Didn't the earlier models (pre E & F) have provision for fitting a starting "lamp" under the inlet? Objectively, the HR2 is a lot less messing about , but what a din compared to the F4's dulcet tones. The F4s ability to run for long periods on 2 cylinders at a little less than half power is useful on narrow shallow canals. Bill

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/east-manchester-fire-wall-foam-8988182 Bill

For a permanent installation you could use a Jabsco type 12v pump but you must fit a rotor suitable for handling diesel ( the rotor fitted as supplied is for water). I have used one of these as a transfer pump from main tank to header day tank for 25 years with total reliability. Self priming too.

Surely any call to a pest control company would be a "nuisance"? Also, that company should be well able to deal with it.

Here is a link to the RN , training to attack "lines of barges on tow": http://www.macearchive.org/Archive/Title/atv-today-17081972-new-royal-navy-publicity-campaign/MediaEntry/17866.html

I have fuses..... Slo-blo,quick blow, in-between blow, HRC, 11/4 inch, 5/8inch, 20mm. But what caused the fuse to fail, that needs addressing first? Could be just old age of the fuse. Is it related to the turntable motor(s) or something in the amp? If the latter, it could be something like leaky coupling caps on the output valves' control grids- that would cause them to conduct too much current, then HT line fuse blows.

Not information, but experience. The two boats I was with got stuck going downhill here between the lock walls just by the bottom gate recesses. The boats lodged at quite an angle with the counters about to go under. We struggled to drop the stiff paddles and raise the ground paddles. The whole reason for this near accident was that there was NO warning sign, there had been signs at all the other "narrow" locks so we were just not expecting it. I reported the incident to the then BW foreman who seemed moderately concerned, but he had not realised that this lock was narrow. I cannot say if a sign was ever posted there, it was more than 10 years ago now and not long after the canal was re-opened throughout.

I've just confirmed what I thought one of those was. Not enough headroom through the bridges round here for the verticals and no table for the tabletop (desktop!) models.

So, our music format has to be age -related to the boat? In that case I'm going to build a Victorian Music hall in the hold with an orchestra pit behind the towing mast. These new-fangled wax cylinder thingies are just too convenient.