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43 minutes ago, starman said:
Yes Webasto make a big thing of their pipe being essential and it does have a very small bore size.
The difference between 3/16 and 5mm is indeed only 0.25mm but it’s meant the installer couldn’t get a 3/16 brass olive on the inlet pipe so it’s sort of perched on the end of the pipe! Ideally I’d like to get it off and do a proper job but I’m nervous of wrecking the pipe end.I very recently had to get the olive off the stub end of the pipe coming out of the Webasto to enable me to dismantle it. A bit tricky as the olive was fairly well stuck (aren't they always?) Got it off eventually with a spanner close-fitting around the pipe below the olive on the pipe end, a flat-blade screwdriver held against the end of the pipe and a molegrip pullng the two together. It really needs three hands but I did it unaided. The olive gradually moved up until I could pull it off with some gentle help from the grips.
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What Bee said. 1mm is nothing. I'd have it shot basted and epoxied instead of normal blacking. Budget a bit over £2k for that and anodes (others may have a better cost estimate).
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2 hours ago, LadyG said:
For some reason discount multi stores sell melba toast aka rusks, they keep forever in a tin, good value too, also lots of foreign biscuits, firelighters. and bug buster racquets £3.99, batteries not included.
Swedish crisp rolls, rubbed with garlic, tomato and drizzled with olive oil. A sort of Swedish tostada con tomate y ajo. Five minutes work and Roberto es tu tío.
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19 hours ago, Richard Carter said:
Tom Rolt had what I always thought was a really neat idea on Cressy, which he describes in "Narrow Boat", where the raw engine cooling water outlet could be diverted to fill an external roof tank, which then filled the bath by gravity. Too many reasons why that wouldn't work nowadays, though. And they were probably happy with 1930s British style bathing, where sitting in 4 inches of tepid water were luxury ...
We've got a deck wash valve on t'other boat which produces warm raw water from the engine. I'd not thought of filling a bath from it, but knowing what goes into canals on the mainland I'd give it a miss.
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20 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
back to her in first then him then.
Bath with a friend.
We've got one of those "sit" baths. I'm not that tall and fairly slim, and for me it's only as good as a medium-sized shower tray. No way can I get my dangly bits in it but a friend who works in an old people's home says that a bloke's bits dangle lower and lower once they get older. OMBs as she calls them. Something to look forward to.
It was good when the kids were tiny, we could fit both of them in at once until the girl-child objected to her brother.
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On 23/03/2020 at 10:43, Tracy D'arth said:
Legs together, knees flexed, back straight.
(d) Head up
(e) Try not to fart.
(f) In case of failure of (e), don't follow through.
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24 minutes ago, ditchcrawler said:
You will unfortunately read loads of posts on social media saying you don't need an expansion vessel with people who are quite happy that the PRV lifts when the tank heats up.
A separate expansion vessel is only needed (in addition to an adequately sized accumulator) if there is a NRV on the cold feed to the calorifier. The NRV in my opinion only solves a hypothetical problem in most installations and in my opinion. I don't have one on one boat and took it out on the other. No issues with warm water from the cold tap and even if there was it would only need to be run for a few seconds.
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If you have a non return valve between the expansion/accumulator tank and the calorifier the PRV will pass water and you may be in danger of bursting the calorifier. That's the first thing to check. Otherwise it might be a knackered PRV. Twiddling the red knob (oo-err) may help the valve reseat if there is scale there.
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MS Amlin (formerly and soon-to-be-again Haven Knox Johnson) seemed surprised that anyone would ask when I asked last year (the boat then being 26 years old). They always seem nice to deal with and are as cheap as anyone.
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4 minutes ago, LadyG said:
Wot are census workers, I recall we used to fill in a form every ten years, with pen and ink!
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4 minutes ago, restlessnomad said:
big demand for delivery drivers due to covid 19, may be you can take advantage of it.
Census workers being recruited now as well. Soe roles better-paid than others...
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We had a very small ceremony in our village, possibly the only time that the vicar has discouraged people from attending one of his dos. It was rather moving with just a dozen or so, mostly quite old, people present (plus me, who some might say is quite old but I've got the mind of a sixteen year-old. The sort that mothers warn their daughters about.) As an aetheist I feel it's important to have these rituals, the Remembrance Sunday one always brings a lump to my throat and moisty-eyes.
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18 hours ago, 9teen60six said:
First one, these timers are in the consumer unit, one is on, one is off. What are they for and is the one that is off a spare or should it be on..?
Those timers will do from 0.3 to 768 s in four ranges. Can't see clearly which range they're set to (you can tell from what's in the little window - see https://www.gastroparts.com/en/part-110942 ). I suspect they might be to delay switching on something like a charger or isolating transformer to spread out a start up surge which would trip a MCB when reconnecting a shoreline supply. You'll have to trace the wires back to see what they're connected to!
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Of the restricted range of stuff that I can get readily, phurnacite is my favourite. Low-ish ash, hot, not too expensive.
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Depending on how you feel, it might be easiest to run trunking or conduit either under the gunwhales or at shirting board level. My inclination (what I've done) is to run mains wiring around the boat (keeping it separate from 12 V) and use an invertor or shore power as much as possible. Main exceptions are lighting and some USB outlets which run off 12 V. Our current fridge is 12 V on the UK boat, but when it dies (it's 27 years old) it will be replaced with a mains fridge.
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6 hours ago, MidnightStroller said:
Q. Is there a way of working out the speed of the river? I can’t find any useful websites with the info. I am really only interested in non-tidal Thames, particularly between Henley abs Shepperton.
I think you'll find that the speed of the water may be less than you think. Last time I went out in a flood (marginal yellow / red boards) I reckon the current below Osney (where it does whizz through) was mostly around 4 - 5 km / h. It was probably faster above Osney, but it's fast there whenever there's fresh. We made progress but slowly. It was going much faster through Folly Bridge. Beware of bridges, they are dangerous in flood conditions. Even in the 2014 floods I doubt if the current was much faster than that.
Calibrated pooh sticks are the easiest measuring device.
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12 hours ago, OldGoat said:
Umm - On my googled maps (and we all know that Google is the fount of all knowledge..) it says Natural History, which is on Parks Road.
Without scrabbkinbg around further 'just now', especially as SHe Who Must is about to announce "Dinner is Served", methinks you are referring to what I call the 'museum of mathematics (etc), which is further back down 'The Broad', before you get to the Radcliffe Camera.
Yes. My wording could have been better. I blame the gin. History of science, by the Bodleian. Natural history is going towards the University Parks. A lovely building,
I'm always taken aback by how mediocre the view is from the roof of the Ashmolean. Nary a dreaming spire to be seen. A nice place for a drink though when it reopens.
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4 hours ago, OldGoat said:
It's situated behind the museum of Natural History - just off "The Broad" with its bookshops, Mathematical Museum et al.
I think you mean the Museum of the History of Science. It's scary when you find exhibits of things that you've owned or used.
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14 hours ago, dmr said:
Oxford is good but Cambridge beats its hands down, that's a lovely boat trip.
Yes! We moor in Oxford but a graduate of the light blue.
If one likes art, the Stanley Spencer gallery in Cookham is an essential stop. The Ashmolean in Oxford is good too.
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Sleeping bags + mats.
Over the years, I've had a double futon / sofa bed (had to cut the end off so it would lay flat across the boat), a big wooden box with a cushion on top (good for sleeping and storage, unsightly and uncomfortable for sitting on) and now a single futon / sofa bed with a storage box underneath (comfy to sit on and a good compromise: something like this https://www.futoncompany.co.uk/sofa-beds/size/single/oak-switch-sofa-bed.html but I paid less than £200 from the same shop in Oxford).
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36 minutes ago, Tonka said:
you obviously do not want it. i have offered to send you the guide with photo's and you have declined it.
Apologies. I thought you were referring to the workshop manual which I've got from one of the dealers which is not particularly helpful. That link is, I think, the one I was looking for. Ta very much!
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1 minute ago, Tonka said:
as i said if you send me a pm i can send it to you
Ta! I think that's what is downloaded from Butler's. It was the helpful useful guide with photos that I was hoping to find.
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Yes, I'd found that. Someone had written a very detailed set of instructions with photos and I'm fairly sure that it was a pinned post here. Going back several years.
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I might be imagining it, but I think there used to be a service / repair illustrated guide here as a sticky post on one of the sub-fora. Can anyone point me to it please?
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You need a jiggle syphon rather than a spout for transferring from a can. Very easy to use and hard to spill more than a few drops.
We carry 200 L in cans on our boat on the mainland as it's very hard to find waterside filling points.