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I am thinking of putting underfloor heating down just to warm the floor up a bit as the floor is the coldest place (feet are always cold and roasting from the knees up) Has anyone out there tried it on a boat and di it work ??
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try giving this man a ring hes the best gearbox man i know and he should be able to reckomend best box his name is John Else on tel 07710270380 nottingham area
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Well in view of the fact that the chap advertises in every boating mag there is I think it is a bit churlish to complain when people ring him up. Perhaps he should have a recorded message saying 'I won't talk to anyone who can't guarantee me a profit'.
he is very very arrogant i asked him what oil went in an enfield outdrive a few years back he repplied have you got a fiver yes i repplied good he said heres the manual only a fiver??and i know of some other horror stories nof people who have used him
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i had a similar situation on my first boat a new shell bw gave me a lic for the first year then they would only issue a 6 monthly lic after that which i refused as it was only another £ 80 or so for a full year so when the local inspector would visit every month the first thing i did was offer the lic fee there and then he couldnt accept because i had no BSC on that grounds BW could not take any legal action because i had offered to pay and they would not accept because i was not willing to have an examiner comming every week to tick off what work i had done.took 2 years to finish then had the full test
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Eco warriors on the war path again doom and gloom were all doomed
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Five and a half KVA!! What alternator have you got man!
- even 120 amp alternator is is only what, less than 1.5KVA
We have a 1kva genny which will happy run a industry hoover, and 700watt drill and near on full load, and the 25amp (24v) battery charger... ...and probberbly some more...
but whatever
i have a 160 amp american alternator monsterous thingrunning of tw0 18 in pulleys when it clicks in the engine knows and a adverc 40 amp charger that won t run on any generator under 3.5 k
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dont know were you are but in nottingham try battery city at basford last lot i got 4 x 135 amp liesure and 1 x 110 amp starter £200 no quible garentee for two years any problems take them back and he will replace them
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I beleave everyone walked away, but still, its food for thought...
very unfortunate the main thing is nobody injured my point is no amount of correctly labeled kite marked fire extinguishers are going to put that out are they
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we live on our boat and go out every weekend river permiting
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can i just ask this question when was the last time any one died as a result of a fire on board a boat on the inland waterways ??Apart from the plonker who used hose pipe as a gas pipe run down the outside of his boat about 4 years ago on the broads
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running my egine is far quieter than a generator whining away at the side of the banki would probably need a 5.5.kva gen to charge my btys 6 x 135 amps
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i run engine in gear to prevent bore glazing ive been told old engines need to be under strain to prevent this happening
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Hi every one
Sat here on the bank side charging my batteries engine ploding along in gear and ive just had a BW lock keeper tell me i am breaking the law by running my engine in gear while i am tied to the bank is this true if so i think quite a few people are breaking the law
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BE CAREFULL, surveyours will rip you off, tell them you want a survey restricted to the underwater plating only, maybe prop, and stern gland if you want, they dont know owt about engines so don't pay for their advice, and the rest of the boat look at yourself. I,ve seen 4 page reports about colour of cutains, and type of plywood, thats a scam to waste time, time your paying for.
If they only ultrasound the hull, it's worthless, it must be hammer sounded, ( by someone who knows what there doing )and inspected for deep pitting. Record what they say on a little tape machine, and ask them if are any problems, or areas they couln't access.
Inspection without pressure washing off the hull is not worth much any way.
Get a look at the bottom plate from inside, to check it's not badly corroded, i.e coming off in chunks.
Remember if anything goes wrong at a later date ,the surveyour will have carefully worded the report to weasel out of any liability.
Don't let the bu####rs rip you off.
totaly agree £500 plus for bumf they miss the important things like gas leaks no anodes leaking stern tubesetc etc things ive found wrong on a friends boat 3 days after a survey and i dont have any letters after my name the surveyer has an alphabet after his(13 gasleaks in all almost every joint loose)no come back on surveyer because of small print!!!
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I may be misunderstanding this, but are you saying the boat was re-sold by the original owner, before it was five years old?
If that is the case the present owner is the second so it may indeed contravene the five year (own use) rule, is that the problem?
Anyone any idea what would happen if you sold it unfinished and within the first twelve months?
im sure i read somewere that under eceptional circumstances you can sell within five yearsie eg if husband dies etc and nobody to finish project i may be wrong but that was a few years ago goal
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I hada P4R ina 46ft narrowboat with 25 inch draught. It was a great engine but probably overpowered for the boat as I had to decoke the heads every year.i finally gave up when the gaerbox dis-assembled itself. A 50p piece would stand upright on the rocker cover at normal cuising speed. Used the original Kelvin 20x15 prop.
This was the first engine not designed by walter bergius and so is very different to the earlier models. I have a copy of the Kelvin handbook and parts list which I could copy if helpful. There is a Kelvin owners club rally at Bugsworth Basin on 19 - 21 May.
Thanks vernon will see how i get on handbook would be most helpful to me ive got to go for it now ive bought it,i think i have a 24 inch prop fitted at the moment will know when i drydock at the end of the month thanks again
Regards Denis
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well done wonderful job
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well said havent bought a paper since the falklands after reading the reports in back issues of the (war) we soon realised that 80 % of what was printed was nothing like what was actualy happening
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i may have contracted bird flu recently ive started waring make up talking gibberish and i cant park the sodding car
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just a quicky i know that some parts of the trent and the river soar there are moorings that you do not need a lic colwick park at holme peir point owned buy notts city council above the suspesion bridge at nottingham and shardlow marina and a little bit on the soar at redhill marina i believe these are exempt because these sections are marked as unavigable
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Hi
I gave an reply to this thread when it was new with regard to Kelvin J's and K's.
I have since spoken with the man who knows more about Kelvins than most other people in the country, Richard Gobal, he makes a living soley by servicing and looking after the needs of Kelvin owners and has done so for the past 20 years.
He looks after one or two model P's, the great problem with them is spares are almost none existant, they were not made in great numbers unlike the J's and K's nor were they built at the time when Kelvin's were exported to the rest of the old British Empire, so unlike the J and K spares are not still available from old stock or reproduced in India etc.
david
Thank you mr B that maybe so but i have searched all over the inter net for the last 4 years in search of a spare PJ3W to no avail aircooled by the bucket load but water cooled rarer than unicorn droppings but i keep finding kelvin p2\p4 that i could get for spares thanks for your reply Regards Denis
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How do you mean "win or lose", exactly ?
As you have already identifieed, the PJ3 is the higher horsepower, but, if, as I believe, the Kelvin delivers 20 HP, then that, as has already been said, it more than adequate for any normal narrowboat with room to swing the type of prop these relatively slow revving engines need.
Are you disastisfied with the Petter in some way ? Is it in generally good order and reliable, or does it need of some TLC ?
Do you just fancy the Kelvin, because it's a Kelvin ?
I'm not sure if you have genuine reasons why you need to replace the current motor, or just fancy a change to something with a touch of class ?
Personally, if I was in the lucky position of having the right kind of boat, and the right kind of money, I'd go for something slow-revving with just TWO cylinders. That's almost universally what I remember working boats sounding like, and frankly the engines with 3 or more cylinders just don't sound like a good old fashioned canal boat to me, however powerful or silky smooth.
THe Petter PD2 was a great sounding engine, but as you almost never see one these days, I assume nothing like as reliable or long-lived as what people seem to put in old working boats now.
ive had a night mare with trying to find spares for my pj3W ive replaced pistons liners head gaskets bryce fuel pumps(by the dozens)they keep breaking springs £42 to rebuild these everytime the spring breaks ive got water getting into the sump had a craked head £200 to get it welded i know every nut and bolt on it by name had enough of it now time for a change
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totaly lost the plot now QUESTION am i going to win or loose if i swap from my pj3 to a kelvin p4
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completly baffled now ?? anyone got a power output graph for a kelvin p4 ??found loads of info from various sites but havent found a graph to compare
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Going to lay reflecktive insulation under neath the foil dont want to try heating the canal up