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35 minutes ago, Athy said:
Mrs. Athy bought me one fifteen years ago for easy transporting of boxes of records when I do record fairs. I put a wooden deck on it. It has lasted from then until now and is still perfectly serviceable.
I bought what looks identical for work much more than fifteen years ago. With a wooden deck added, it was abused greatly, visited every nuclear power station in the UK and a few on the mainland, and took everything that my team could throw at it or stand on top of it. Not good in mud though, but better than most of the mickey mouse ones from Aldi etc.
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In the good old days you could get beam focus magnets from dead tellies. They made excellent magmounts.
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2 minutes ago, Rebotco said:
I've little idea of the technicalities.
But if you have been able to access the whole article, you will see it is largely referring to very recent advances in materials technology.
Unless you are privy to these, previous parameters have been considerably surpassed and opened new horizons.
The UK government, The Royce Institute, EDF and countless others are not throwing £Millions at this if, as you claim, it is useless.
If you follow the links, it's not at all clear that anyone is throwing money at the company promoting the big stuff. Their website might possibly incorporate a lot of woo!
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It's harder to have a pee while steering a van than when tillering on the back deck of a boat. On the other hand, you don't find so many anglers hiding behind bushes.
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2 hours ago, Tam & Di said:
How depressing. At least from what you say it has been allowed to moor there - last we knew was Cambrai powers-that-be had filled the basin with little pontoons and only allowed little boats, plus there is no longer room to swing a bigger ship anyway
We were last in Cambrai two years ago. Quite a lot of small pontoons but space for five or six bigger boats. I didn't feel comfortable that there was space to wind our 16 m without a bow thruster, it was a bit of a job reversing back from the water point. She pulls very insistently to port in reverse. Lots of people emerged on the plastic boats opposite and put down fenders!
Francis was a very helpful bloke even if he didn't own up to understanding any English. His young assistant was great and refused to speak French. He booked us through Ricquevalle. We were amazed at how pretty the c. st Quentin is.
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I think it was the Navionics app that I played with recently. Can't remember why I deleted it. It was quite good on French canals, totally useless in the UK other than the bigger rivers.
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12 minutes ago, Tam & Di said:
I did once look at Canal Plan in France and it was not too bad, but as has been said the DBA guides are good and included entries for mooring possibiities etc. Also joining the DBA is a must-do if you seriously intend cruising continental waterways for all the essential on-the-spot back up information about engineers, shipyards, fuel providers and general info of daily life from a boat-owning view point.
Yes, I don't want to diss Canalplan at all. I have used it on the mainland, but mainly for estimating timings. It is difficult to find places due to rather random naming, and, last time I tried, it got in a bit of a mess when crossing borders.
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18 hours ago, Rebotco said:
A well argued case from the intelligensia then!!!!!
Sincere apologies. I really CBA tearing the whole thing apart, but for starters, let's consider a hypothetical 100 W battery powered by Co-60. Let's be generous and suppose that there's a way to capture all of the radiation emitted using a tiny device and to convert it to electrical energy. I'll omit the electron anti-neutrino emissions as even the original writer would (probably) accept that intercepting these might be tricky.
100 W requires at least 240 TBq of Co-60. Co-60 is a high energy gamma-emitter, which is one reason why it's not used in RTGs. It's difficult to shield. Another good reason is it's half-life of 5.27 years, which would mean having to replace the battery rather regularly.
To get the external radiation down to a level generally accepted as safe would require arounda 55 cm radius of steel shielding, even if the electrical conversion device were miniscule. A 110 cm steel sphere weighs a bit over 5 T. A realistic device which occupies a finite volume would weigh more than the boat but might be useful as an anchor.
I could go on, but won't...
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This sounds good. These's nothing like a pointless canal.
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2021/feb/09/the-fabulous-folly-of-madagascars-pangalanes-canal
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59 minutes ago, Thomas C King said:
As a software developer... WHAT!? The paywall is client-side only? That's one of the worst things that I've seen recently.
The Noscript fix doesn't work on the Times, the FT or the Irish Times. The Torygraph being carp (anag) doesn't surprise me. The article is utter BX too.
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Quite likely to be the pressure switch - I don't use Shurflos but I guess that's the two black wires going in to the end. Worth bridging them to see if it runs? It looks like one of them has some insulting tape over it.
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I my days as a wage-slave I've looked at and turned down several proposals for "nuclear batteries". They have a very niche market (space etc) where money is no object. If you calculate how much energy as heat output is available in e.g. Sellafield, it's a problem to get rid of but rather miniscule if you want to divvy it up into batteries, before any practical problems are considered.
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Canalplan is patchy and the naming is erratic. (e.g. last time I looked, Reims wasn't there). Best source is to join the DBA (barges.org) and use their downloadable waterways guides which are actively maintained by members. They give the latest info on moorings, fuel etc. The Catre Fluvial series are good but eye-wateringly expensive. There's a similar big atlas for Belgium (de rouck geocart voies navigables Belges) which covers the whole country but that was well over 50€ (I think quite a lot over)
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27 minutes ago, Puffling said:
As always, the devil is in the detail. Cobalt-60 has a half-life of over 5000 years.
BX. 5.27 years.
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Both the engine and the Webasto get our water hot enough for a shower or washing up in about twenty minutes. Roughly an hour from either to get to the tank being more or less fully up to temperature.
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2 hours ago, Jen-in-Wellies said:
If there isn't a recognised name, we can make one up. Any suggestions?
If they could be an aid to visually impaired steerers [1], maybe guide logs for the blind?
[1] including steerers who may have overstayed in the pub, a discussion of which elsewhere lead to the question being asked.
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Bridges (I'm thinking the G&S here but doubtless elsewhere) often have floating timbers leading to the opening, presumably to guide badly steered boats into the hole. Is there a proper name for these?
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1 hour ago, Grassman said:
The issues in 2015 were
1. No external riddling device. The only way was was to open the door and riddle it with a poker.
2. Small ash box covering only 50% of the space under the firebox meaning much of the ash fell each side of it instead of in it.
3. The bars that retain the ash in the grate - aren't angled inwards like the squirrel, meaning a lot of ash spills forward and out.
4. No separate door for the ashpan. I know a lot of makes don't have this. It wouldn't be a deal breaker but I'd prefer one if possible
There's a lot of plus points about the Boatman, not least the price difference , and I can see reading through the old threads on here that they are generally reliable and well liked. but the above problems with ash are an important issue for me, even if not for some people.
I find it's easier to run it without the ash pan in it and just shovel ash out into a stainless oven dish kept under the front for the purpose. It will go for a couple of days if necessary without emptying. Simple is better! Riddling with a poker is no great bother, I've got one with a bent end (best not ask) which is handy for a gentle poke underneath the grate - if the fire is low it gives less risk of putting it out.
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15 minutes ago, dreadnought said:
i`m not entirely sure what you mean,i just thought they were 12v !!!
Nope, they come in all sorts of voltage. The only thing one can say with confidence about yours is that they are > 12 V. The controller regulates the voltage to maximise the output from the panels under any conditions of illumination and to match the battery demand. It's basically a fancy invertor. Mixing panels of substantially different Voc may destroy one of both sets, and is unlikely to be better than one set alone.
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2 hours ago, OldGoat said:
I note that a shower is included in the list of devices.
If it's a domestic thermostatic type blender valve arrangement you may have problems as these are designed to work off mains pressure - hence be careful when you buy it.
At home on a tank fed system a simple bath type mixer works well - after you've juggled with the hot and cold taps....
I'd have thought that most domestic thermostatic shower controllers would be OK on a header tank unless specifically designed only for higher pressure, and even then they'd be good down to 1 bar or so. Worth checking the rating though.
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7 hours ago, Hudds Lad said:
from what i can remember its formatted as EXT3 so you can see it if you run Linux, the files will be encrypted though so unless they’re fully intact with no corruption and then put on the new drive they’ll be useless.
been a few years since i messed with PVR’s
It's likely to be ext3. There are utilities to read these on Windows, whether effectively I don't know.
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2 hours ago, Tim Lewis said:
You will be fine says someone who has taken a 71'6" long boat to Liverpool by canal ?
Bloody Vikings get everywhere!
Trolley for transporting shopping, coal...
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Having had a few different trollies for boat use, I'd say avoid the ones where the wheels fold inwards. They do it at inconvenient times.