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still flooded i am on beeston cut and the water here is high over the towpath opposit still raining ive developed web feet
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:cheers:I read an article some years ago on "Fly Boats" The boats were built with a long swim so as to reduce wash and the horses used to trot, sometimes as fast as 10mph. The horses were "staged" like the old "stage coaches"
Cant remember where I read the article
the horse may have troted at 10 mph but i dont think the boatman did
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So theres going to be 6 of these masterpieces lets say the materials cost £2,000 each
that leaves £78,000 and lets say it takes 2 months to do each one , thats £13000 each or £6,500 a month £1650 aweek not bad wages that think ill nip down to the poly tech and sign up for a art course
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boaters go bashing into whatever is in front of them , so the cill is a buffer zone , boats can bash it and if they bash it hard enough and knock out some stonework the water above will not cascade through the gap as the cill protrudes out from the vertical line of the gate.
rochdale canal 2 years ago a boat hit the cill so hard it knocked the cil out emptied the pound i was stuck for 3 days while BW put it back they were not impressed if they had of caught the boater they would have hung him
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This might be the right place to point out the desirability of regularly annealing copper injection pipes.
Go on someone, point out the desirability of regularly annealing copper injection pipes.
go on then explain what this is please
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just a quickie a 70 ft boat wont fit quiet a few canal systems if your planing to do the whole system
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http://www.canalworld.net/forums/index.php...ic=9282&hl=
think ive done this right click on it was posted earlier this week
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We have plenty of young artists around this neck of the woods they have "decorated"all the bridges for Free
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John, as far as I understand it RCD compliance applies to all new fully fitted boats which should be CE marked. Sailaways should have an RCD Annexe 3 declaration for partly completed craft (not the full CE marking because they're not completed). The 5 year ruling for sailaways that Chris mentioned is basically there to stop someone setting themselves up in business fitting out sailaways and selling them as new boats under BSS regs. They can do it if they follow the RCD of course. As you suggest there are no plans to abolish the BSS and I and many others fitting :blush:out their own boats are following the BSS and not the RCD because we don't intend to sell within 5 years. Chris wanted to follow the RCD but that was purely out of choice.
Mike
Edited to ask: Where on my boat (according to BSS!) am I allowed to have CO fire extinguishers rather than the ABC powder type, and what sort of fires should CO extinguishers NOT be used on? (After doing it once, I never want to set off a powder extinguisher on my boat again unless absolutely necessary. I was clearing up the mess for 3 days!)
I too have co2 15 kg and powder to conform to regs, i know the co2 is going to put out anything just pull the trigger and throw it in the hole
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The £90,000 project
wonder how many lock repairs that would do ??
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Ok. So why INSIDE the lock where they can cause problems and not outside?
stops the water pressure on the high side of the lock from pushing the gates in the wrong direction ie its basicly a door stop and it prevents the errosion of the canal bottom under the gates
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i believe the RCD to be a waste of time if i could find the thread from last year about that wide beam that was a death trap fully marked etc ,i think garry ended up with it to repair, am i right? what happened about it
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OK I'll do my best
1 Create an album. Go to My Controls, on the menu panel on the left hand side select Your Albums, the album manager panel will open. Select Create Album, you can then give the album a title etc. and don't forget to tick the public box. The finally press Create Album. You now have a new empty album.
2 You put the pictures in the album one at a time, as follows. Open the album manager panel as before, the album you created will be displayed. On the right hand side click on the down arrow next to select an operation, select Upload Image, a new page will open similar to the one used to post a reply etc. at the bottom click the Browse button, this will open a page allowing you to find the image(s) you wish to post, select one and the image name will appear in the box next to the browse button, then select Post Image, repeat as many times as required.
Hope that's clear Good Luck
Ken
Glad its not just me then done all that but keeps telling me its to big how do you make it smaller
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Linked to the thread - I inherited what I guess was an expensive hand made kitchen when I moved here. The cupboards are (dark) Briwaxed pine and now look grotty. The pine has yellowed and the wax is gunky in the mouldings.
I would like to paint the pine in a Farrow & Ball oil based paint to bring the kitchen into the 21st century (as I would do if I bought a boat finished in pine - I hate the stuff)
How do you get wax off the doors? Is it a trip to the 'strip & dip guy' with them?
white spirit wil fetch it of and youll find it probably isnt as grooty as you think once you strip it back
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I tried boiled linseed oil previously, which said it would give a hard gloss finish. Very disappointing - it doesn't do what it says on the bottle. I also tried teak oil which I found similarly poor. I haven't tried Danish but I've got a feeling these oils are only good for hardwoods.
oils work well on soft woods too but it takes time to build up the layers to get that mirror finish
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If you want an authentic antique effect you want to use briwax i think jessops sell it biulds up quick if it gets to much hammer you wipe it of with white spirit and start again
if you have lots to polish a brush is available bit like a giant bottle brush that you can stick in the end of a drill whole house was full of pine at one time wife used to buzz around the house black and decker in hand
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might be the cable as john says as a quick test try making a jumper cable or use a jump lead from were its connected to starter and try starting
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swmbo has informed me we shall be on our way back home as we are going a week early this year damn
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Do bw define what a fender is? can i use a tyre, tennis ball etc. chained-on rope fenders are dangerous in fact i believe one did result in the death of those disabled boaters some years back. No fender or a tyre which can't hook up also prevents boats from lifting gate pivots out of their pots seems sensible.
Yhat was a horrible incident but unfortunatley it was still down to human error at some point otherwise every boat that went through before or after would have sunk
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I got 9, yes nine. I know 9 is ridiculous and nobody needs 9 blimin batteries, but I get them free (Slightly used) and I've got plenty of space.
! ballast thats useful then
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just goes to show that you cant believe everything on tv
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all the above are way over my head too much info for me to absorbe but heres my tuppece worth take your batys to a good baty suplier to have them checked if there a bit iffy get rid and get some new ones i know that you dont mix new and old (the weaker ones will drag the good ones down) as to how many get ? as many as you can afford/fit i have 5 135amp leisure and 1 110 starter
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Just stick a mercury tilt switch on the hatch so if one end starts moving up/down too much you get an alarm. Also have weak links on bow fenders or no fender. And keeping an eye on the boat can be helpful too.
small flaw in that breaking BW byelaws if you donnt have bow and stern fenders
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Any system that relies on humans is hopelessly flawed!
I may be flawed but i havent sunk in a lock
The River Trent
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no but i am fluid in coot