Onewheeler
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3 minutes ago, Tracy D'arth said:
I suspect that the glue is isinglass.
Can't have that, the missus has veggie tendencies. It doesn't stop her drinking beer though.
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Ta chaps or whatever you identify as. I'll find some of the high temperature mastic stuff. There's a tube somewhere in the garage.
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I'm fitting a new rope seal to the door of my Boatman stove. Would one normally add some cement or high temperature mastic to hold it in place?
Martin/
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3 minutes ago, David Mack said:
Surely the biggest driver is daily temperature change.
Yes, that has an effect and is probably comparable in magnitude to barometric changes and wind turbulence.
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I've always been rather sceptical of the need to keep the tank full, as I suspect that the number of air changes in the ullage over the course of a year is fairly small. The driving force for exchange is the slow variation in external air pressure as weather fronts go past, and probably more importantly the rapid fluctuation in pressure due to wind. A few years ago I did a study on the exchange rate in a vented nuclear reactor containment. I can't remember the details but the annual number of volume exchanges was quite small. In a fuel tank, the smaller the ullage the less water vapour will be drawn in. As it doesn't hurt to keep the tank full I try do so, but don't get obsessive about it.
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Why not take a relay out and measure the coil resistance.
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I think I got some from B&Q, but it was a long time ago.
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Horns, in my experience, need to be treated as disposable and need replacing every few years. Maybe the weather or the spiders inside.
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3 hours ago, Tony Brooks said:
I suspect not very once you have recharged it. Most car batteries spend their time fairly well charged so it was only discharged for a few hours. It will have sulphated but I think most will reconvert given time.
Yes, probably ok. The girl child left her car on our driveway for a month with one of those gps black boxes fitted for her insurance. It was flat as Miss Norfolk when it came to start it. At that point we discovered that some scumbag had tried to screwdriver both locks so we couldn't get in. I now know how to break in to a Peugeot 107 with no signs of damage. The battery was fine after a charge.
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58 minutes ago, Stilllearning said:
I would have put the battery on charge if
1/ I hadn’t parked the car across the square, and
2/ the bl***y negative terminal 10mm nut can only be accessed with a very slimline long socket.
Last time i needed one I went to our local Renault dealer and borrowed his, but this happened at 6 pm , of course.
Italian cars too. I was going to change the feeble battery on a girlfriend's Fiat, but gave up when it became apparent that the brake master cylinder would have to come off first.
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You're asking sensible questions. Amongst those that you haven't asked:
How to heat the boat? In order of expense, probably LPG > diesel > kerosene (needs a second tank) > solid fuel (coal / wood). Electric is probably a bit cheaper than diesel but not usable if you go cruising.
Hot water? An electric immersion is probably the most economic and convenient if you're in a marina, usually fairly easy to arrange if it's not already in the calorifier. A 1 kW immersion left on for a few hours may be better than a larger, domestic sized one used for a short period.
Ask away...
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How do you know when you've passed an angler?
You can't get the seat down.
Bye!
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A few m of 22 swg wire in a bucket of water? (Other gauges are available).
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2 hours ago, WotEver said:
Indeed. And as a capacitor's reactance is inversely proportional to frequency it can't be 'too big', merely unnecessarily big.
How does that work then? Inductance is inversely proportional to frequency.
Read this first. https://passive-components.eu/capacitors-losses-esrimpdfq/
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16 minutes ago, Blue Knight said:
Am I correct in thinkjng that you Narrowboaters never get burgled as the bad guys know that the occupants are 'packing' machetes ?
For that you need a sticker saying 'Machete on board and psycho crew'. It is also useful for creating a mooring where none existed before.
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Machete, especially if you are on the Thames and adventurous.
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Wire, 2 mm^2 in red and black, a comprehensive set of crimp connectors and a proper crimp tool.
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1 hour ago, Bee said:
Seen it done but towing a bucket from the stern. The Riqueval Tunnel in France, An electric tug (overhead wires so don't thrash around with a hookshaft) hauls a train of boats through with engines off, we were tied behind a Belgian boat and behind us were other boats so the Belgian boat must have had 50 tons on its bollards . As soon as we entered the tunnel he flung the bucket off the back on a rope presumably to keep it going straight. Can't imagine it made a lot of difference somehow. As for dragging a chain along from the front I've never done it but I must try it sometime as Bee goes backwards like an omelette in a pan.
When we pulled around 100 T of convoy through Ricqueval (first in a line of nine) our boat bumped the side lightly once in the entrance portal and then carried on in a straight line. Didn't touch the wheel at all. It took VNF five months to invoice us for the trip though and they made it hard to pay.
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2 hours ago, jenevers said:
I would think dragging a chain off the bow, would help keep the bow under control.
Our standard method for getting out of the marina. 200 m in reverse down a narrow channel with plastic boats on both sides. About 3 m of fairly heavy duty chain on a 5 m line.
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11 hours ago, Alan de Enfield said:
Was it the French woman sat in the Square eating a melon ?
She was Spanish.
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1 hour ago, Iain_S said:
On the original query, Midland certainly used to do a separate inner which was a piece of metal rolled into a funnel shape. We used one for a while. Easiest method of fitting we found was to put the small end of the inner into the flue, then ft the chimney over the top. Tight seal between iner and flue, and also between inner and chimney, so no need to insulate the gap.
We have a stainless one of those. We had a galvanised steel one which rotted in a year.
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1 hour ago, David Schweizer said:
Are they the people who used to make Craft Master paint in Phjil Speight's time?
No idea, but they're helpful, cheap and the paint is top quality. In comparison, Toplac is like a gold-plated pot of pi**.
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I've just done our roof with Black Country Paints paint. Much cheaper than Toplac, much more pigment and available in all RAL colours matt, semi gloss and gloss. They're also nice people to deal with.
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There aren't many places that you can't turn a 18 m boat, and even fewer where you can't turn within five minutes of cruising.
You can tie up pretty much anywhere on the towpath side other than near bridges and where the bank makes it difficult. There may be some local restrictions due to water voles.
It is a lovely and unique waterway. Hope you get to Sharpness, a walk around the old dock and around the riverbank is always interesting.
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Webasto not working properly.
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I've had this with an iffy connection in the power feed. The heater pulls about 20 A at startup so a poor connection will pull the voltage down. Never traced in unequivocally but wiggling and tightening everything sorted it.