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Onewheeler

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  1. Found it! I hadn't realised that I'd had it done about six weeks before the due date (and the examiner didn't post date it to the due date as he should have done 😠)
  2. Sounds like a possibility. I was sure that I'd looked it up online shortly after it was done but blowed if I can find anywhere to do it!
  3. That's the other problem... I used a new examiner last time after my customary one retired, and I can't remember who he was! (Also, I thought it was due this year but looking at my records it's next year).
  4. Hi all, I can't find my paperwork for my BSC. I think it's possible to find it on the interwibbly somewhere, but the boat safety scheme page seems useless. Any pointers? (I'm not a CART customer). Martin/
  5. Not true. I've unicycled over it. Worth every billion. See profile picture.
  6. Having a straight flue I use a boat hook or a piece of wood. The baffle plate is the important bit to keep clean. Trouble is, if it sits on the fire bricks, corrosion builds up behind them and it can be a bugger to take out (thinking boatman stove here).
  7. Curtains take up room. Spring loaded roller blinds secured when down with a cleat hook is the way to go.
  8. Those blue clips that hold the push-fit connector in place are very fragile. Be careful with it, and think about buying a few spares if you are going to play with the pipework much.
  9. Are they too large to break with a couple of sets of mole grips?
  10. Nope, it would be hard to notice against the convection currents from the cold front deck given the layout of the wooden lining to the front.
  11. It took me well over 20 years to realise that they are dummy vents. I don't see why an inspector should notice!
  12. None of the four or five examiners who have done our BSC over the years have noticed that the brass louvres on the front bulkhead are fixed to solid sheet steel. They've passed on the basis of the size of the slots in the louvres.
  13. Yes. Had a burst pipe in the feed to a shower (buried right in the middle of the boat where it was in a less exposed location, before I realised that the NRVs had stopped it draining) and a probable knackering of a thermostatic shower (which was dismantled, reassembled with some bits left out that I couldn't understand the location of, and continued working).
  14. I'd try an SDS drill set to hammer, with a chisel bit. See if you can open up the interface between steel and concrete - once started it might all ping free.
  15. Looking at the river this morning it's likely to be on red for a few weeks yet. It's not far off our landing stage in Oxford and has been for a long while.
  16. +1 for the Anderson powerpole connectors, 30 A will be fine for a fridge, you can get panel mount holders for them so you have something like a normal plug/socket arrangement. The connectors are cheap too (look on Ebay).
  17. Are you sure that you won't need any welding done on the hull in the near future (at 120 y.o. it's a routine thing at docking)? You'll likely need to strip the celotex out first.
  18. The website lists no under counter fridges as having a minimum operating temperature below 10 C.
  19. Beko freezers are often rated as suitable for garages, and I'm looking at one for home. Can't find a fridge rated for that sort of temperature. I could live with no ice for the G&T when it's very cold on board, that's going to the pub to warm up with a pint of Titanic Plum Porter weather 😋
  20. I'm thinking of replacing our ancient but functional LEC 12 V fridge with a mains powered one (various reasons, but not in a rush to do it). Now, most mains fridges have a climate rating of 10 C or 16 C to something fairly high. What happens when the temperature in the boat drops substantially below the lower temperature range? At some point presumably the fridge gives up and ambient temperatures are cold anyway, but does anything undesirable happen? The boat is unoccupied for at least several days a week, but I'd like to leave the fridge on so that we have ice for a G&T when we get back.
  21. If you boat on the mainland you'll find reversed polarity or centre tap are not uncommon.
  22. It looks very Warwickshire Avon, that appears to be a river on the other side of the gates.
  23. Don't forget that H2S deadens the sense of smell so it may reach fatal concentration without being noticed.
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