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46 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

depends on the wood under the water. bottoms will be the worst to do as you'll be onto new bottom planks too.

 

depends if water jacket is leaking inside but you can get lots of spares for jp2 mostly aftermarket though

 

to be honest depending what you want inside it can be fairly easy if doing work yourself to a semi high standard but being wood nothing can ever be set in place as it has to come out to do work.

..if its the block you'll struggle - and its thought to be... :) ..Ive run JP2 in past...some bits easier than others but would think block is tricky.. :) 

 

....yeah all true on planks....that's why I said a catch up docking needed with all that entails... :) 

 

..still a great boat :) 

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3 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

I didn't know if the block could be welded. 

Oh it can be welded I'm sure. Tom_c on here is your man. Look at his Kelvin F4 rebuild thread on here. Great work! Anyone needing welding to water cooled heads should give him a shout!

 

Dan

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10 minutes ago, stagedamager said:

Oh it can be welded I'm sure. Tom_c on here is your man. Look at his Kelvin F4 rebuild thread on here. Great work! Anyone needing welding to water cooled heads should give him a shout!

 

Dan

 

Tom_c is a truly talented craftsman. I bought a blade from him once and he showed me around his workshop. Full of stuff that's impossible to do.  

 

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dad had his fr2 welded by brinklow a good clean up and a blast with a torch  and good welding machine will weld it fairly well.

you can go extremes and heat up all the block clean weld re heat then cool but it can last just as long as first way. my national was welded and lasted a long time. be it needs doing again due to me not emptying at winter

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On 21/09/2018 at 23:38, stagedamager said:

Oh it can be welded I'm sure. Tom_c on here is your man. Look at his Kelvin F4 rebuild thread on here. Great work! Anyone needing welding to water cooled heads should give him a shout!

 

Dan

Or there is the specialist "stitch repair" used very successfully on cast iron crack repairs I had the water jacket on the "Seffle repaired (water crack)& when I spoke to the then owner of boat some getting on 40 years later he took some convincing the jacket had ever been repaired

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On ‎22‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 09:48, billybobbooth said:

my national was welded and lasted a long time. be it needs doing again due to me not emptying at winter

I do love an embarrassing confession, and we all have them.

 

Perhaps this could be the opportunity to put a more appropriate engine into TOWY and allow that National to be repaired properly and go back into a Grand Union motor :captain:

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21 minutes ago, alan_fincher said:

About as small a bit of an "historic" as you are likely to get the chance to buy.......

(Formed from the back end of "River" class Wey)

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/323462302099?ul_noapp=true

That could make the perfect genuine historic butty to tow behind my modern pleasure boat.

 

JP

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1 hour ago, pete harrison said:

I do love an embarrassing confession, and we all have them.

 

Perhaps this could be the opportunity to put a more appropriate engine into TOWY and allow that National to be repaired properly and go back into a Grand Union motor :captain:

if you can find me a more appropriate engine thats been in her just as long then ill concider it!

unfortunately I cant easly find a k1 for a reasonable price or a bolly.

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16 minutes ago, billybobbooth said:

if you can find me a more appropriate engine thats been in her just as long then ill concider it!

unfortunately I cant easly find a k1 for a reasonable price or a bolly.

 

You can have my K1 for £20k. Very reasonable I reckon. 

 

(Plus VAT that is.)

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1 hour ago, stagedamager said:

We have a K2 for sale.... Buy one half and we'll bung the second pot in for free..... Might need a slightly bigger engine bed though.... ;)

i don't think I can get a bigger engine bed in her, it already runs the entire cabin up To the rear stank, and is 3 planks deep and 8 inches wide, k2 is too big love the engine but if changed would need to be a big single pot and the biggest single that would fit thats cold start would be a k1.

 

I would prob put a pup in rather than a 15, but as all the engines are 10k it would never be a viable swap due to costs dispite the sell on engine being worth a sim amount.

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On ‎20‎/‎09‎/‎2018 at 13:54, pete harrison said:

The first bid is in at £5k, and no it is definitely not me :captain:

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