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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2020 22:56:42 GMT
The raddle red looks good too ... suits the style.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 23, 2020 9:04:21 GMT
The third one in two rows down is in the wrong place. Iβll have you know, I took actual measurements and spacings from HMS Subtle, constructed by Cammell Laird in 1944... Honest! π I would have thought CL were welding by that stage.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 8:26:22 GMT
My Completed treadler Very pleased with this - the patina is staying! This was a rusty old nail left at the club by me Nephew Screwed together as a second hack for Lucyy to keep at the childminders. This was a blast from the past - Littlewoods catalogue special from my yoof! A sympathetic resto for a friend down the boat club. It rode OK, the brakes were horrendous though! perfectly set up but best left in the late 80's were they belong! Another one through the workshop - I have now earned the Superhero Title BICYCLE REPAIR MAN! My mate had it new from Halfords - it wasn't expensive but was dreadfully set up by the monkeys in-store. Rides OK, not my cup of tea!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 8:56:24 GMT
Boat bodging has picked up a pace. Fairly lengthy list o jobs completed over the last few weeks. 140w of Solar on the old Freeman - all the roof space they have! keeps up well with there demands, particularly the farty little coolbox they have no choice but to use being petrol powered and with very little spare space for anything better. Service on the Perky in Vanguard for mouse , but more important than that his fridge is very nearly back in commission! VSR installed on Northern Star along with some sundry loose ends tidied up. 60's pedal boat gearbox rebuilt, tiller arm and steering mechanism sorted, new pedal to replace the lump of wood coach-bolted to the crank along with some oilite bushes machined into the crank mount blocks. Bastard hard work to pedal with a 1:5 input ratio but working OK none the less. Fairlight still getting overlooked - bar for swapping out the old 296 on engine filter for a spin on unit. The latest distraction is a mid 80's Viking 26 owned by a very good friend of ours. The engine was easy - naughtyfox , this has one more lung than your Bukh, it is green and is also a proper marine engine, nice little unit. The electrics had the potential to be a nightmare - over the last 30 years as things have failed or broken they havent been fixed, ending up with zero domestic electrics, baby wipes and torches and that is your lot! The knackered switch panel left me with a bit of trepidation on how the job was going to go. I need not have worried, as nothing had been repaired, nothing had been bastardised, every circuit was traced easily - the cause of failure in all cases was knackered fitting be that lamps, pumps etc. All the luminaries are to be replaced along with the fresh water pump. The redundant shower waste pump will be repurposed as a bilge pump -the shower went when the Paloma gas heater was condemned, no desire to get hot water back onboard so that is one less headache! The biggest improvement though was sorting the split charge relay along with getting the ancient old Electrolux fridge powered from the relay, they now have a functioning fridge that only works when the engine runs meaning no flat batteries and lovely cold booze! Yesterday evening I ran out of time to cut out the dash for the new larger switch panel, but as I have a fair bit more to do it will wait till I go down and finish it out this coming Monday.
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Post by JohnV on Jun 24, 2020 9:20:28 GMT
Boat bodging has picked up a pace. I need not have worried, as nothing had been repaired, nothing had been bastardised, every circuit was traced easily - the cause of failure in all cases was knackered fitting be that lamps, pumps etc. All the luminaries are to be replaced along with the fresh water pump. The redundant shower waste pump will be repurposed as a bilge pump -the shower went when the Paloma gas heater was condemned, no desire to get hot water back onboard so that is one less headache! The biggest improvement though was sorting the split charge relay along with getting the ancient old Electrolux fridge powered from the relay, they now have a functioning fridge that only works when the engine runs meaning no flat batteries and lovely cold booze! Yesterday evening I ran out of time to cut out the dash for the new larger switch panel, but as I have a fair bit more to do it will wait till I go down and finish it out this coming Monday. Jammy git !!! every boat electric repair I have ever had was nothing but add ons and bodges and marine spaghetti throughout
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 9:27:21 GMT
Boat bodging has picked up a pace. I need not have worried, as nothing had been repaired, nothing had been bastardised, every circuit was traced easily - the cause of failure in all cases was knackered fitting be that lamps, pumps etc. All the luminaries are to be replaced along with the fresh water pump. The redundant shower waste pump will be repurposed as a bilge pump -the shower went when the Paloma gas heater was condemned, no desire to get hot water back onboard so that is one less headache! The biggest improvement though was sorting the split charge relay along with getting the ancient old Electrolux fridge powered from the relay, they now have a functioning fridge that only works when the engine runs meaning no flat batteries and lovely cold booze! Yesterday evening I ran out of time to cut out the dash for the new larger switch panel, but as I have a fair bit more to do it will wait till I go down and finish it out this coming Monday. Jammy git !!! every boat electric repair I have ever had was nothing but add ons and bodges and marine spaghetti throughout That is the usual way of things! massive bullet dodged!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2020 13:11:32 GMT
As has been well reported here, I am utterly clueless and talentless at d.i.y. unfortunately, but have been known to 'blunder about' trying to fix problems.
My bath pump packed-in and prior to fitting my spare pump, I decided to first swap the inline fuse ... hussar, problem solved ... but I now needed at least one 15amp glass fuse.
I called at the now open hardware shop in Nantwich ... they had a collection of four fuses for Β£2.99 and of course only one of the four was 15amp so I resisted and thought I'd try elsewhere.
At the Nantwich basin chandlers today whilst picking up an oil filter I asked about fuses (stock is quite restricted because they've been moving premises).
13 pence each !
Bloomin' 13p each compared to 75p each in a pack of four, three of which aren't what was wanted ... hell of a mark up.
Rog
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Post by Andyberg on Jun 24, 2020 13:37:32 GMT
One side all done, 3 sets of rivets down side, too hot today to do bugger all... Bar may be opening earlyπ»
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Post by naughtyfox on Jun 24, 2020 14:37:10 GMT
I only signed in as Gazza has tagged me - good that we be on speaking terms again.... Nothing to do with boats - I have just washed our car trailer - it'll be dry by tomorrow in this heat, and we have some silver-coloured paint with which to tart it up. Curry pizza to start making (curry paste instead of tomato puree)(minced beef)... and whilst the dough is rising we can cut some more lengths of tree up - 2 sharpened chainsaw chains at the ready. Vaguely planning a trip by car to Senja, northern Norway, but also playing with the idea of nipping over to the boat in July - return fare just 133 Euros according to Finnair's website. But that could be just me alone as The Witch doesn't want to go and catch Covid-19 from the UK.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 9, 2020 15:44:58 GMT
Finally got round to a little job that has been in the wings waiting for a round tuit.
#A few months back I acquired a small electric crane (type designed for the back of a pick up) British made not Chinese ..... only rated at 100 Kg but built like a proverbial outhouse. It only has a small reach but ideal for lifting things in opr out of the engine room. I welded two mounting points (originally it was designed wioth a flat plate screw down base but I cut that off, so it just slots into a socket on the engine room top (well two sockets actually so it can be used down either hatch)
I have also just bought a 600W wind generator so it occurred to me that the other of the sockets would be perfect to mount the pole of the generator.
Now I have to just fabricate a mounting on the top of the pole t match the flange on the generator
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 17:02:27 GMT
The old penny hydraulics/Lucas swing lift. Nice bit of gear.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 17:04:47 GMT
As for the wind generator good luck with that. I've had quite a few of them over the years and never found them particularly effective. Well there was one that was an aerogen 6 when I wintered around Devizes on the K&A 2000/01. West country wind seemed to do the trick quite well.
I will never forget a bloke in the late nineties on another narrow boat telling me "they ain't worth a wank" about my wind turbine. It's true in some situations but to be fair if you can get out in the open and it has a clean wind flow input it can make a difference.
Good luck with it.
It's mainly about swept area. Bigger turbines by definition will produce more power due to the available energy.
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Post by JohnV on Aug 9, 2020 17:47:51 GMT
It's mainly about swept area. Bigger turbines by definition will produce more power due to the available energy. It's a vertical type (from a distance looks ball shaped) Quite impressed by the materials quality and the construction, definitely not tat.
I have always been suspicious of them as well but Peterboat has one and likes it and reckons it's very quiet (which is something that concerned me)
My mooring here in Beverley is often windy and I would like a little extra generation capacity for the winter.
During the last few months I have been totally self contained with electricity from the solar and haven't run a generator at all. (and I'm a pretty heavy user)
In fact today all the grinding and welding has been from solar on top of the normal domestic use.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2020 21:02:18 GMT
It's mainly about swept area. Bigger turbines by definition will produce more power due to the available energy. It's a vertical type (from a distance looks ball shaped) Quite impressed by the materials quality and the construction, definitely not tat.
I have always been suspicious of them as well but Peterboat has one and likes it and reckons it's very quiet (which is something that concerned me)
My mooring here in Beverley is often windy and I would like a little extra generation capacity for the winter.
During the last few months I have been totally self contained with electricity from the solar and haven't run a generator at all. (and I'm a pretty heavy user)
In fact today all the grinding and welding has been from solar on top of the normal domestic use.
I'm going to really like it if you do some more commentary about the VAWT John. I guess it's a bit of an awkward market to get into on canals due to bridges but I've always had a suspicion that the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine was fundamentally better than the horizontal axis type, in small scale units. Do let us know how you get on with it
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Post by duncan on Aug 9, 2020 23:28:48 GMT
Finally got round to a little job that has been in the wings waiting for a round tuit.
#A few months back I acquired a small electric crane (type designed for the back of a pick up) British made not Chinese ..... only rated at 100 Kg but built like a proverbial outhouse. It only has a small reach but ideal for lifting things in opr out of the engine room. I welded two mounting points (originally it was designed wioth a flat plate screw down base but I cut that off, so it just slots into a socket on the engine room top (well two sockets actually so it can be used down either hatch)
I have also just bought a 600W wind generator so it occurred to me that the other of the sockets would be perfect to mount the pole of the generator.
Now I have to just fabricate a mounting on the top of the pole t match the flange on the generator
I'm trying to work out how the hatch opens, the step looks to be in the way. Does it fold away?
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