[Replacement Starter]

So I ordered the motor yesterday and surprise surprise it was delivered today (Llandudno to Banbury) cant fault that. What I can fault is it's the wrong one. Big enough to start a double-decker bus, Ho um!

[Replacement Starter]

Thanks for everyone's help I am just waiting for the owner to cross my palm with the sovs before I order the motor.

[Replacement Starter]

Thanks for that Paul. I am fine hows you?

I have 7 tabs open on Ebay but as yet haven't found the right one hence, why I asked here. 

[Replacement Starter]

Having trouble finding a replacement Starter for an LPW54A042. The Part number on the unit is 47920170. Can anyone help?

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On 15/06/2022 at 00:13, MtB said:

 

You mean they fall apart into micro-plastics that stick around in the environment for centuries? 

 

 

Well there are people who know this stuff and you have to trust them. Otherwise, you would spend your life trying to replicate other people's work and be a very boring boy. If you think I should be doing a whole pile of research to make you feel better then I suggest you put your hand in your pocket and pay me!

[On English canals, is a licence really necessary?]

On 28/09/2022 at 11:20, NN247 said:

My practical purpose is that I'm considering buying a boat that needs an interior makeover, and I'm costing that out to see if the level of profit would be worth it.  I'd need to move it from where I buy it to where I'd work on it, so I'm just trying to see if I really need to spend hundreds of pounds just for a couple of weeks only to put in drydock where the license would be wasted, or if I could feasibly skip that, and only buy a license at the end of the renovation/let the next owner buy the license.

If you just want to move it to a dock talk to CRT. They have an explorer licence that's valid for a month.

 

PS why didnt you just say what you wanted to do?

[Are boaters getting more selfish or is it just the world in general]

11 hours ago, ditchcrawler said:

Never could get my head around all that lot

I have to wonder what the meaning is behind my teapot.

[Water levels South Oxford Canal]

The problem is that the Dukes cut is in between Shuttleworth Lock going North and Wolvercote Lock going South. It may raise the water going south but not the water going North which is higher.

 

15 hours ago, plato said:

Thanks for the grammar correction. A schoolboy error. And English was my best subject. 
my draught is 2’8” 

when levels are more normal I bottom out in various places. So if the levels are down by a good few inches I may well find my route impassible.

Not a great problem in itself but I wouldn’t want to inconvenience others by blocking the channel. 

It turns out that either is OK, but in my mind farther is not as sweet as further.

 

[Are boaters getting more selfish or is it just the world in general]

On 02/07/2022 at 12:43, Arthur Marshall said:

When was the last time a driver read the Highway Code? Usually when they took their test. It's changed a bit since then...

No one reads codes. Like the safety instructions on stuff you buy, and  CRTs "be aware" signs they're there so the issuing body can avoid responsibility, and a lot cheaper than installing speed bumps or those slowing down barriers, or, in fact, maintenance and policing your rules.

But at least you know that at one time a driver has read the Highway Code.

[Are boaters getting more selfish or is it just the world in general]

On 02/07/2022 at 11:52, agg221 said:

We may have given a bit of an impression at Norbury a few weeks ago, as we were on the water point for an hour, but we genuinely were filling up with water the whole time and the tank still wasn't even full when we left!

 

Sometimes things aren't quite what they seem.

Alec

Was the problem the supply or the size of your tank?

On 02/07/2022 at 12:31, Heartland said:

The CRT have published codes, how many adopt them ?

Do people even know they exist?

[Water levels South Oxford Canal]

11 hours ago, plato said:

Left the Thames this morning via Dukes cut in a relatively deep draughted boat. Heading for Thrupp. On leaving Dukes lock it was apparent that levels were very low. 
I almost reversed back down the lock to go back on the Thames. 
Being of a positive mind I pressed on thinking it won’t be so bad. But it was a struggle and slow going to get to Kidlington Green Lock. 
So my thoughts are if it’s like this down here what’s it going to be like farther up? 
Thinking now of winding at Thrupp and having another month on the Thames and see if we get a meaningful amount of rain in the mean time. 
Anyone farther up at the moment that can give an indication of water levels where you are? 
Thank you 

What do you call 'relatively deep draughted'?
 

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2 hours ago, magnetman said:

Dinosaurs are not plants. 

No, but trees are!

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41 minutes ago, George and Dragon said:

Which means what, exactly, in terms of plastics?

I'll accept that many things ARE biodegradable unless the material it's made from isn't plant-based. Otherwise, we just have to decide whether we believe the manufacturer, many of whom will say anything if they think it will help them gain a sale.

Erm!  Technically plastics are plant-based.

 

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3 hours ago, MtB said:

I was just countering the blatant virtue-signalling.

How is stating a fact, "blatant virtue signalling"?

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10 hours ago, MtB said:

 

Do you mean they fall apart into microplastics that stick around in the environment for centuries? 

 

 

No mine are actually Biodegradable!

The bags you are talking about were made from materials which have been in the environment for millions of years. When the sun absorbs the earth such materials will just melt into one big blob! 

3 hours ago, MtB said:

 

I was just countering the blatant virtue-signalling.

 

How can we possibly know they don't?

We cant possibly know that they dont, but it is only an educated guess that they do!

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On 30/05/2022 at 07:50, Bargebuilder said:

Perhaps you should check your maths before insulting others; feel silly now?

The figures were lifted from 'The Guardian ' online.

Cant speak for everyone but my bags bio-degrade

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11 hours ago, Bargebuilder said:

Perhaps you should check your maths before insulting others; feel silly now?

The figures were lifted from 'The Guardian ' online.

Interesting but my doggie doo bags do biodegrade as I am sure thousands, if not millions, of others, do as well. So if they got that wrong maybe they have other stuff wrong too!

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On 23/05/2022 at 20:25, Alan de Enfield said:

 

These 'bucket & chuckit' zealots cannot accept that they are just 'WRONG'.

We shouldnt have  'bucket & chuckit' zealots in this day and age.

 

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50 minutes ago, tree monkey said:

" it's unlikely most canal-side habitats are likely to be species-rich"

You never know where 'species' are going to turn up. Roundham Lock on the Lower Oxford had a colony of Fiercests a few years ago.

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1 hour ago, Bargebuilder said:

so long as it's the prescribed distance from any watercourse, apart from the fact that some people just don't like the idea, I have been unable to find any fact based reason why urine shouldn't be poured into a remote woodland or hedgerow.

Well, there are reasons which you may not have thought about. First, l do not want you pouring a couple of gallons of p*ss on my woodland however far it is from a watercourse (and be honest you are not going to walk full containers a mile or two). Second, most of the canal towpath has a hedgerow and there are plenty of m*r*ns who will think "well that's a hedgerow that'll do"! Then 34,000 boats dumping their urine, sometimes in close proximity, along/in the canal will set us back100 years in sanitary disposal. Finally, there is no fact-based reason not to use the socialist disposal system, one group of people being paid by all to dispose of the sewage properly. 

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On 17/05/2022 at 23:08, peterboat said:

I will just compost its easier Alan and makes great plants food 

But take away your allotment and then what will you do with it?

 

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15 hours ago, TheBiscuits said:

 

That does sound remarkably like 

"dug into a pond next to the Oxford (?) Canal" to me.

 

I do think we are discussing the same boat in the same field ...

 

 

I have been up and down the canal a long time and never recall seeing a pond there. You may of course be right, it could have been a dew pond, but it was an argument between the farmer and CRT about EOF mooring payment that caused the boat to end up in the field. That edge of the field once used to have a number of boats along it indeed the "Moorings Available" sign is still in the tree at the end of the field.

[Ashton residents complain about ‘disgusting’ state of Lancaster Canal]

On 20/03/2022 at 09:25, mrsmelly said:

Same applies on canal boats, there are those that moan and groan about dirty areas and rubbish and there are those like " @Maffi"

Thank you sir!

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On 11/03/2022 at 15:08, George and Dragon said:

Burning isn't recycling.

It could be if the burning was used to heat some houses. They used to burn waste in Newark years ago to do just that.

 

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On 10/03/2022 at 15:27, TheBiscuits said:

 

There was that boat dug into a pond next to the Oxford(?) Canal ...

No not true! A farmer who had an issue with CRT about End of Field moorings decided to piss off CRT by putting hay bales and farm machinery in the locks at Napton. Following a prison sentence, he dug a pit near the canal then broke through the canal bank moored a boat there and bodged the bank back together. The man is a froot loop. A veritable Richard Head. He should go to prison again but CRT can't be arsed.