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  1. agreed on Braunston, picture taken from somewhere just below top lock, The tree on the right is obscuring the house at the next lock down.
  2. Once you have got used to the arduino's and come up with all sorts of projects that you can use them for you will probably end up moving onto the esp-32 boards for the built in wifi / bluetooth or the M5Stack boards (which contain an esp32) for the built in screen & semi decent case (all of them use the same programming software and language)
  3. During the summer we would clock up the 100 hours between changes roughly once per week, so under our deck was geared towards oil changes, oil containers on one swim ( new to the fore used to the aft), pela extraction pump on top of the weed hatch, funnel and used oil filters stored in a cut open gallon container. purely due to the number of filters we were going through we always used compatible rather than lister branded (taking the time to find the registration No of a particular model of renault 5 that shared the same filter to ease ordering via motor factors)
  4. I catch the rollover (at the expense of a single inaccurate timing when it happens) by adding an extra check for millis being less than my previous recorded value or greater than the previous recorded value + the delay time using the loop from blink without delay as an example my modification is in Red (original line in green). void loop() { // here is where you'd put code that needs to be running all the time. // check to see if it's time to blink the LED; that is, if the // difference between the current time and last time you blinked // the LED is bigger than the interval at which you want to // blink the LED. unsigned long currentMillis = millis(); if(currentMillis - previousMillis > interval) { if((currentMillis - previousMillis > interval) || (currentMillis < previousMillis)) { // save the last time you blinked the LED previousMillis = currentMillis; // if the LED is off turn it on and vice-versa: if (ledState == LOW) ledState = HIGH; else ledState = LOW; // set the LED with the ledState of the variable: digitalWrite(ledPin, ledState); }
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  6. I think forecourt price for lpg was around 35p per litre back then, at the time we were working in hot air ballooning so filling from bulk tanks was very common (just declare the amount that went into vehicles tanks rather than balloon tanks for tax). so it wasn't that often that we had to use forecourt pumps, mainly in the winter when everyone has run their bulk tanks down because they're not flying. We never did it but there were some crews that used to refuel the balloon on forecourts rather than return to base between AM & PM flights (that could have been anything up to 400 litres into the balloon tanks and another 100 into the vehicle pulling it)
  7. If you look at the pumps used to refuel lorries most of them still have the latch in place so they can lock the pump on rather than standing there for the time it takes to fill their tanks. the worst pumps to use are lpg pumps when you have large tanks, our record was 45 minutes of having to stand holding in a 1 inch button for a single fill, admittedly it was filling 240 litres of tanks on the vehicle (2 x 80 litre main tanks + 2 x 40 litre belly tanks)
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  11. Not an empty trailer but a fully loaded (it's only 3500 kg honest officer) triple axle one. The trailer had just been towed from perth in scotland down to bedford and was then switched to our vehicle to go the last few miles to a place near tring. The roads were about a mile of narrow twisty lane then 2 miles straight to a roundabout, usually going onto the roundabout you checked the trailer in the mirrors looking for loose straps etc, 1st (passenger) side... 3 straps not flapping, 3 wheels inflated and nothing sticking out 2nd (drivers) side... 3 straps not flapping, 2 wheels inflated and nothing sticking out. Exiting the roundabout and the penny dropped... the trailer should not have 5 wheels we very slowly turned and went back to the yard looking all the way for the missing wheel pulling into the yard we found it... stood upright exactly where we had towed the trailer from with the remains of one stud on the floor next to it.
  12. That was our thoughts too. but the association gave no leeway regardless of the state of the vehicle, in my friends case the car was a 3 year (and one month) old vauxhall omega which had failed it's first mot because the brake warning light flickered (meaning the pads were getting thin). His only previous run ins with the association were for having his bins out on a day they weren't being emptied, bins emptied tuesdays but as he worked away mon & tues he used to put the bins out monday morning and take them in on weds morning, his repeated violation of this rule may have made him a target. Other people got caught with the same rule while trimming their hedges and having their garden waste bin out for the clippings. A neighbour got a warning about working on vehicles for changing an indicator bulb It wasn't so much the association more a couple of busybodies who reported every single thing that broke the rules
  13. Forget car parks, a lot of housing associations (which bought up all the council housing) have restrictions that you cannot have an untaxed vehicle parked on your driveway (even with sorn) A friend was threatened with eviction for breaking 2 of the tenancy agreement rules at the same time, untaxed car (but with a valid sorn) and working on the vehicle in the driveway (changing brake pads for MOT before it could be taxed). with my friend being who he is he later decided to park the remains of a 1930s Singer car on the driveway (which due to it's age was MOT and Tax exempt)
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  17. While we moored there (4 years up until june last year) facilities were... Elsan rubbish disposal pumpout (token operated) diesel water electric gas bottles when we first went there (and for the first two years) the marina was basic but pleasant and seemed cared for, pontoons were cleaned regularly, holes in the stone road were refilled etc. Eric (the harbourmaster) could be contacted easily and he had contact details for the owners of all boats in the marina. by the third year it was clear that the marina owner was having little to no involvement, Eric was quite open about there being post / cheques / cash sat in the office for over a year before the owner collected them, Eric was also aware of several boats that hadn't paid mooring fees for over a year but the owner didn't care, our own cheque for mooring was written in february but wasn't cashed until the end of december. also it was noticeable that maintenance & repairs were not being done (like a pontoon snapped by a boat not repaired). for the 4th year it was late spring before we got to the boat and it was noticeable that a lot of boats were away (not unusual) but there were not the number of parked cars expected for the number of missing boats. Asking neighbouring boats we found out there had been a falling out between Eric & the owner resulting in Eric & a fair number of other boats leaving, with Eric gone nobody knew who now held the marina mobile (not that it mattered because it was never answered), gas bottles / pumpout tokens / diesel etc impossible to get.
  18. light bulbs are a common choice and are usually close enough to their rating to be usable for calibration
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  20. A couple of things to remember if you switch over to a gulper pump... 1. fix all pipes firmly in place, the water flow can make pipes bounce around all over the place, I know of one boat that ended up with 6 inches of water in the cabin bilge after the gulper shook it's pipe off the skin fitting. 2. make sure nobody is standing in line with the skin fitting when you turn the pump on (unless you want a laugh), water jets of several feet can happen.
  21. given the option we would drop onto the thames at dukes cut in the morning and purchase a day license (which covers until midnight the next day) and then head down the thames to abingdon. stop there overnight and then head back up to isis lock the following day. Actually if I'm totally honest with 10 days we would do 1 1/2 long days to hit the thames then spend just under a week on there (much more pleasant boating on wider / deeper water) and then spend the last 2 days coming back to napton
  22. My test (in anything but freezing weather) is to start the engine from cold without allowing glowplugs any working time, if it's not running within 30 seconds (and fairly smoke free after another 30 seconds) then I have know I need to investigate the engine condition. although to be fair I am a stickler for wanting engines to be perfect. On my last boat we arrived having left it untouched for 3 months, jumped up & down on the deckboard to break the ice so we could lift it and turn the isolator on, turned the key straight to start and 10 seconds later it fired up with a single puff of smoke that cleared instantly, overall I was happy especially considering I knew that the starter battery was the one originally fitted to the boat when it was built 28 years earlier (sadly the starter battery finally gave up a week before we sold the boat and we had to sell it with a new battery)
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