system 4-50

but such an inelegant solution

Just to add - I'm planning on having four bottles on 2 x 2 automatic changeover. I don't expect to have to check if they have changed over more than once every ten minutes...

Absolutely right. There is nothing wrong with getting out of your shower, covered in soap and dripping wet, and wandering off to the stern to change a bottle so that your Morco can generate hot water. Better still just rinse off in cold water. Best of all, take your bottle down to your boatyard and get it changed, but in this case it is a good idea to wrap a towel around yourself. Look, we are not going to regain our empire by being soft, are we?

For me the key to keeping it in overnight was noticing on the bag of Excel the instruction NOT to knock out the ash. As long as the ash pan on my Puffin is kept not to full the ash drops down of its own accord at the right rate to limit the air flow and keep it focussed on where it needs to be. If I clear ALL the ash out the fire gets cold! and can go out! I had previously thought that it was necessary to clear all the ash out at night to prevent the fire getting choked and going out. It is also much easier to light with the ash in than for a completely cleared and emptied grate.

Strange isn't it, how people are perfectly happy to stand on the edge of a pavement while traffic roars past a few inches away, but a vertical drop bothers them?

So you normally carry this offensive weapon in your car, do you Sir?

42.5 ft cabin on 60 ft boat. 4Kw Puffin keeps lounge at 21C and bedroom comfortably lower on a quite low setting. Fully spray foamed insulation including sides and bilge. Stove mounted as low as physically possible. Definite tendency to stratification, hotter warm layers and lower cooler layers, but improved by occasionally walking up and down of a couple of minutes, waving arms about. Stove capable of taking the temperature up to really uncomfortable high levels if allowed. Above 21 C I get lazy and stop work. And stove positioned centrally in boat.

Engineering porn! Drool!

I look down on him, because he's the engineer underneath my engine, trying to make it work. I look up to Him, up there, because as God he's the only person who knows how I'm going to pay for it. I know my place. In the shit.

Please don't take it as rude. Brusque perhaps? Forthright certainly! But the abundance of smilies suggest that it be taken not too severely. It is so easy to take the written word to heart in a way that wouldn't happen with a face to face conversation between the same people. Now I shall probably be accused of being patronising - but I will just smile & get on with it!

It is easy to monitor boat movements. All that is required is a mandatory 8ft by 2ft index number painted on the roof, monitored by satellite. White on any dark background. This will of course pose problems for those who carry complete dead forests or half a coal mine on the roof. Small roof boats might be more of a problem. Occasionally the odd police vehicle will find itself with a VM overstaying charge but that should be easy to sort out.

As I understand it, a Sensor Max does not need an accumulator as it regulates the pump power in response to the pipe pressure, electronically.

And yet the installation instructions for my puffin said fill in the gaps in the knock-out plugs for the back boiler with fireproof cement if you are not fitting the back boiler?

I am suddenly having lots of problems with View New Content saying there isn't any when there clearly is. Has the site software been upgraded recently?

Thanks! I can stop worrying about that then. Now, what else can I worry about ...

I got quite a bit of oil in my engine cooling system 6 months ago, when my gearbox oil cooler cracked. It has been bled out, but I'm worried about the residual damage to the system, particularly the rubber bits. Can I expect the hoses to fail early? Should I replace them all now? Will anything else have been affected? The engine is a standard Beta 43 with skin cooling.

If I were in your position I'd degrease the inside few inches of the pipe you were putting on, and the fitting you were attaching it to, and then lightly abrade the fitting with a suitable grade of sandpaper, and then attach the pipe with two jubilee clips of the correct size. I would be very confident that it would stay on. Does this really come under any great pressure? Surely the only great pressure is suck on the pump-out and this will tend to hold it on rather than take it off? I haven't installed mine yet, I only have the tank in place ready.

Exactly. People in glass boats shouldn't get stoned.