Onewheeler
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If the gbox needs to come out it doesn't need a boatyard. It was a long time ago but I took a similar setup (BMC 1.8 + PRM) apart on our mooring fairly quickly (an hour or two). (Had the box refurbed and attached to a new Beta engine).
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If replacing the prv it's worth getting one with a pressure gauge to help with diagnostics in the future.
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Simple answer is yes, LNBs come in different diameters and only (easily) fit the bracket for which they are designed. Furthermore, the brackets only fit certain types of dish arm. Find out what the diameter of the current LNB is and buy one the same. You probably won't need the bracket for mounting it on the feed arm. Nothing that can't be sorted with some bodgery, but not really worth it for something of such low value. Easiest solution might be to buy the dish with the LNB!
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She was an ugly boat from the outside, looked like a block of flats passing. The paddle at the back was decorative, I think there were twin screws underneath. She was however very nicely fitted inside, and her cruises on the Severn / G&S had many good reviews. She set fear into many a hire boat meeting her on a bend ?
I had heard (but it was at least secondhand) that when she stopped cruising and became a static hotel boat, the main reason was that an insurance inspection of the bilges would have been too difficult / expensive. That might tie up with the comment above about concrete on the baseplate.
I wonder if she'll be raised for scrap.
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BBC news from Irish Sea.
(Not really a paddle steamer, there were twins screws behind the mock-paddle).
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3 hours ago, cuthound said:
Engineered wooden floors are made from MDF which will swell if it gets wet.
Our laminate floor (B&Q cheapest) went in ten years ago and is still immaculate, even next to the shower and the kitchen sink, despite having wet feet, mops and so on thrown at it. How much water do you get inside your boat?
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1 hour ago, Poppin said:
If it's the seal leaking into the housing, presumably it won't need craining out to fix?
No, it's an easy job if the bolts are accessible: the gearbox and housing are luggable. I'd be tempted, if you think it is the front seal, to slacken the bolts holding the housing to the engine enough to confirm that there is oil in the housing (unless your investigations show that it is obviously coming from there). Then get the mechanic back (I assume from Calcutt?) to stick his finger in and confirm it.
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53 minutes ago, piedaterre said:
What do you reckon the labour time / cost for ripping up the existing carpet and laminate and fitting the new floor might be,
It took me about a day to lay a new floor on top of the existing ply in our 15 m boat. Then had to take out some ballast as it adds significantly to the weight! Still waiting to finish fitting the trim around the edge.
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7 minutes ago, Poppin said:
Odd thing is this: I can see dripping under the engine itself. It is oil and it is frequent, every 6 seconds or so. But the engine oil dipstick has remained normal through all of this, it's only he gearbox getting drained.
Are you sure it's not coming from the oil cooler or the hoses / hose connections on it (more likely)? It will be on the port side of the engine, follow the hoses back from the gearbox. There's not a lot of difference between max and min in the PRM boxes, although ours seemed to run OK with a very low level when we had a leak from the selector shaft.
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Might be a slow backleak from the accumulator through the valves in the pump to the water tank. Try isolating the tank and see if the pump is still cycling. Probably not a big deal unless it gets worse.
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TBH it doesn't sound that hard to tow you on a line, if there is someone on the far end of your boat with a pole, or several of different lengths, to fend off boats and the bank. There aren't a lot of Tupperware boats along there that would be upset by a glancing meeting.
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9 hours ago, Wittenham said:
And then then I realise the boat is pointing the wrong way. So... down the Oxford Canal to where it meets the Thames above Osney Lock. Anyone know if there is room to pivot a 72 foot boat at that space? Seems plenty big when I paddle a canoe through it....
Once you're through the little lock at the bottom of the canal and at Thames level there's plenty of room to turn. Also room at the end of the Sheepwash channel but beware shallow water by the allotments.
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It has been said in the past that (so long as the compressor is working) turning the fridge off, leaving it upside-down for a day, then turning it right way up can effect a cure. Never tried it, I read it on t'interwibbly so it must be true.
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Blocked vent causing partial vacuum in the fuel system maybe? Doesn't sound like an electrical problem.
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10 minutes ago, Tony Brooks said:
You may be correct but I thought that dry dock was part of the now closed boatyard next door to College Cruisers (unless it has reopened).
Unless something dramatic has changed in the last few weeks, that dock closed years ago.
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17 hours ago, Mike the Boilerman said:
There is a yard just below Osney lock too but I've never succeeded in getting in there or even contacting anyone there, so no idea if they have a slip. But they look as though they would have.
That's Osney Marina. I don't think Les has a trailer big enough for a narrowboat, I've only ever seen him pulling out yoghurt pots. There is also a slip and hardstanding a bit further down owned by Salters Steamers, don't know if they do work other than for their own boats. The yard at Eynsham is very good but expensive.
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Or canalplan.eu
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The river at Teddington was still running fairly fast above the lock yesterday (we had a walk along there) but you won't have any difficulty. Plenty of mooring space.
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On the grounds that the most stupid question is the one that nobody asked, did you separate the holding tank from the superstructure or try to tip it all out with the bog seat attached? :-0
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My family delegate the job to me, but then I do most of the jobbies in it. Never had a problem other than occasional splashback when empying, especially if I forget to push down the breather valve. A couple of swills with a few litres of water leave it clean enough to eat your dinner out of. A tablespoon of blue is enough to keep the smells down.
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36 minutes ago, Graham Davis said:
Can any one read what is on the sign on the inner arch of the bridge?
No mooring?
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The Jabsco 2.9 comes with fittings for both 3/4" BSP and 12 mm hose. It looks as if your Shurflo has 3/4 BSP fittings, and there's plenty of flex in the pipework, so it will be a five minute job to change it. The noise largely depends on how the pump is mounted and what sort of pipe is connected. The Jabsco comes with rubber feet which helps, can't remember how a Shurflo is mounted. However I'd be tempted to cut the pipes going to the pump back a bit, fit a 3/4 BSP F to each end, then use poly hose to go to the pump via Hoselock fittings. It would make changing it a very quick job in the future. More or less what I've just done for a toilet flush pump (raw water) on our mainland boat. It makes disconnecting everything for winterising very easy.
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There's also a facebook coven called Women on Boats. The WOBs strike fear into the Blokes on Boats (BOBS). Both require approval or gender-testing or something.
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I don't recommend this until you've done a few trips on the river, but it's great fun to go out of Glos Lock a couple of hours before the tide is due to overtop the weirs, stop at Ashleworth (about ninety minutes / 8 km from Glos) for a couple of pints, and then continue as the tide starts running up. You'll be at Upper Lode (14 km further on) in not much over an hour and go faster over the ground than almost any other opportunity in a narrowboat.
Immersion heater not working.
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Failed thermostat? No electricity reaching it?