Bobbybass
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I leave the door slightly ajar when not in use ...to avoid unnecessary flattening of the seal.
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What I did :
roughened up the area and cleaned with meths.
A skim.of fibreglass resin....then a patch of ordinary cooking foil worked carefully around edges so as not to rip.
When dry....another skim of resin and larger cooking foil to overlap the first....
Repeated again.....
I did this to a petrol tank on a mates vintage bus until he could source another tank.
Still there after 19 years 😃
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I've noticed a fair few newish CRT fences cut off near the bottom 🤨😐
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9 hours ago, Ange said:
When we bought the boat we'd decided on a 7 year plan. We let out our house which paid our living costs. We rai0 from personal loans which bought our gorgeous Doug Moore boat.
The first winter we were iced in, our water tank failed, we spent hours walking water barrels up and down the towpath.
Dave cut the water tank out - he did it with an angle grinder - he had a breather tube on the front deck that I had to be careful not to tread on.
I remember saying if we can get through this we can live this life forever.
We got over all that, I suppose what I'm coming to is. We decided we were going to live on a boat till we were too old
I let the side down. I got too poorly to live on
I'd love to get that back
I'm still cross. We decided we'd be on the boat till Dave couldn't lift gas bottles. Dave tells me it's ok. It isn't.
I let him down
No....you didn't let him down.
I remember staying on board and how supportive you were of each other.
With you working hard each day and Dave looking after the boat....you were a great team.
It's not you. Time is what let's us down and we all optimistically hope for more. I know....it happened to me....but we did it. There are many that only dream.
Bob
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We took our boat to Keithley.
Under the road bridge and moored up. Within an hour we had stones thrown at us...abuse....and threats of violence. Then the hot hatches started up.
Rather than press on....we "upped" the road bridge and then took ages reversing back to the winding hole....during the rush hour.
No....I didn't like it much 😕
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They have a steam train..
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Opinions before I change my boat....
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With the use of white vinegar to clean the loo....plus the acidic nature of certain " secretions".... my thick mild steel tank rotted through in 8 years.
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Mine in this boat...and my last....also used about 1 litre an hour.
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London will be fine.
Budget £10,000 - £20,000 a year....and still wait and wait
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18 minutes ago, cuthound said:
Indeed, and they modified the crankshaft around 2005.
The early ones have a short crankshaft extension (they cut off the splined crankshaft extension on the base Kabota engine) with the pulleys secured by a Woodruff key into the crankshaft. The later ones made use of the original splined crankshaft extension to secure the pulleys to the
The reason I pointed this out....was that the OP hadn't mentioned the age of the boat....and the huge electricity demand may have brought the problem to light.
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Be careful of that...Beta 43 and Travelpower arrangement.
It's not a good one...destroyed my engine...and my neighbour had his Beta 43 destroyed after only 6 months.
Beta paid for a new engine.
Although they have made more recent modifications...its still not good running that big load off the main crank pulley.
You need to regularly take hold of the main pulley and "waggle " it from side to side with some force. If you detect any movement...get advice quickly...as the pulley will quickly bite into the crankshaft and then its all over.
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My Beta 43 had 15,000 hours when I sold the boat.
Great compression...never used the glow plugs even on frozen mornings.
No smoke...started on second turn.
Oil/ filter changes every 250 hours with Wilko ( the late Wilko 😔 ) Classic motor oil.
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Yup....they'll definitely need that.
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The trouble is....that once one council gets away with it, others will rub their hands with glee and join in..bolstered by canal side dwellers. 😔
Look at ULEZ
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You could always look out for something like this on ebay:
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2 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
I ballasted our boat almost level bow to stern but some boats there could be a goo 100mm or more in it so the worktops , bulkheads etc look fine. I still put the draining board towards the bows of the boat. I have seen them the other way round and they don't work.
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To sum up my thoughts over the years.
Boat jobs are like normal straightforward jobs in a house...but carried out in a matchbox. If you take a few shelves out of a wardrobe to fix a pipe...you will then fall over said shelves and bury the screwdriver you were about to use.
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I had some bloke fitting out the boat next to mine.
I came back after a week away and my boat was covered in sawdust and shavings.
Not pleased !
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I met a few making oodles of wine. They didn't even use bubblers...but plastic lemonade bottles with steriliser soaked cotton wool in the neck. I crewed with some well known boaters and they had made a still out of an old pressure cooker ( YouTube)... Worked well...I think....as far as I can remember 😃 😀 😄
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On 03/01/2012 at 11:29, luctor et emergo said:
Time to move up north... it won't happen on the K&A.
Probably not.
If they carry more than a bag of potatoes.... they'll be scraping the bottom,!
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After applying Vactan you need to wire brush slightly.
Vactan converts the rust and gives a coating for your top coat. It doesn't stick to paint and will flake off.
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It worries me.....if they start to close some canals, can you imagine the pressure on the rest of the system with all those displaced boaters ?
A future life of tick over past continuous moored boats.