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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2017 9:19:14 GMT
1015 - not raining Sowerby Bridge. As seen through Wetherspoons' window. Heavy cloud. Bit chilly (stove is pumping out acrid coal smoke as we speaketh!) my Rayburn might be running tonight as the diesel tank has been emptied into a bowser so I can't use the central heating
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 8, 2017 9:23:03 GMT
1015 - not raining Sowerby Bridge. As seen through Wetherspoons' window. Heavy cloud. Bit chilly (stove is pumping out acrid coal smoke as we speaketh!) my Rayburn might be running tonight as the diesel tank has been emptied into a bowser so I can't use the central heating I just looked 'bbc weather hull' - heavy rain all day today!
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 8, 2017 9:25:29 GMT
Also heavy rain all day Sowerby Bridge. Fook!
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Post by peterboat on Aug 8, 2017 10:08:27 GMT
Still throwing it down here!! Just back from walking Taff thought it was stopping just shows how wrong one can get it
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Post by peterboat on Aug 8, 2017 10:10:11 GMT
I am thinking of lighting the Rayburn as its a bit chilly, had the whispergen on earlier to boost the batteries but tonight might be cold
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 10:12:56 GMT
Stopped here (Wootton Wawen) about an hour ago.
Off for a stroll once the engine's off.
Not really chilly, and 20 degrees in boat without any heating.
Rog
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 10:14:59 GMT
A top tip for splitting your nuts without making your eyes water.
If a nut picks up so as you can't undo it unless you have the strength of Goliath (something I could never be accused of!) A surefire easy way of getting the dastardly nut off is to carefully grind through from a corner until the thread starts grinning through, a delicate touch is needed so as not to bugger the thread on the bolt, shaft what have you. Proceed to attack the nut with a blast of love juice and a good swing on a bar. In extreme cases grinding through in several places then carefully chiseling off the remains will be the order of the day.
Too late for John now, and easy to say without being at the coalface but the above seldom fails to salvage components that would otherwise end up in the scrap bin.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2017 10:37:58 GMT
Possibly Gazza, although the damned great steel domed nut on the prop would have been a bugger to do without damaging the prop (just had 2 flats)
The consensus was (because of corrosion on part of the mullered thread). that it might have happened in the past and the nut had been put on by the "force it and hope" system. That might have accounted for the strange little peg fitted to the back of the deadwood that stopped the nut being able to come off more than 1/4" or so, possibly as a backup to stop losing the prop if it failed.
As it happens, even if we had got the nut off without causing more damage it probably would have had to be replaced because of the corrosion and wear around the sand trap.
20/20 hindsight is pretty good but although renewing everything is expensive, it was probably the right way to jump.
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Post by naughtyfox on Aug 8, 2017 12:47:18 GMT
I have photos of it as it was. Foxy can see into the future!
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Post by patty on Aug 8, 2017 13:34:07 GMT
No rain here..overcast n cloudy...I wait the promised tree felling
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 14:03:09 GMT
That might have accounted for the strange little peg fitted to the back of the deadwood that stopped the nut being able to come off more than 1/4" or so, possibly as a backup to stop losing the prop if it failed. I assume you didn't do any stern gear work since buying the boat. Perhaps whoever fitted the little peg you described had lost a prop once or maybe its a traditional thing to do if using a dome nut. I thought a prop was usually fastened with a castle nut and a pin. It's definitely best to replace the shaft and some other bits as well. When are you planning to come back south?
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2017 14:52:12 GMT
That might have accounted for the strange little peg fitted to the back of the deadwood that stopped the nut being able to come off more than 1/4" or so, possibly as a backup to stop losing the prop if it failed. I assume you didn't do any stern gear work since buying the boat. Perhaps whoever fitted the little peg you described had lost a prop once or maybe its a traditional thing to do if using a dome nut. I thought a prop was usually fastened with a castle nut and a pin. It's definitely best to replace the shaft and some other bits as well. When are you planning to come back south? Not totally made up my mind yet, plan on staying up here for a month after I come out of dock, possibly longer depending on how things go and how much exploring I do.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2017 15:29:02 GMT
I suspect you could spend years up there ;
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Post by JohnV on Aug 8, 2017 19:06:20 GMT
I suspect you could spend years up there ; Noooooooo I've heard about Northern winters
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Post by patty on Aug 8, 2017 20:44:07 GMT
I just cancelled my trip up to Finegals Cave...trouble brewing on the home front needs me....
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