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Post by bargemast on Dec 4, 2017 12:18:18 GMT
I imagine boats are the same as modern cars, that the current flows round the body (?). Positive cable first, then negative cable. Remove negative cable first, then positive cable. may do in cars but sure as hell shouldn't on a boat. there should be only one negative/earth pointOf course you are right with what you're saying here John, but if I would get £1 of every boat on the canals that has it's earth everywhere you touch it's hull, my financial worries would soon be a long forgotten memory The question is now, will the owners of these boats be willing to send me a £1 each ? Peter.
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Post by thebfg on Dec 4, 2017 16:14:11 GMT
I've never understood the business of electricity flowing round the body/chassis of a road vehicle anyway. How comes you don't get a jolt everytime you open the doors or boot? Never had to jump start our boat, so haven't thought much about it. Our starter battery seems to be a miscellaneous species so if it ever croaks I'll just buy a new one, a good make, something like Exide (?). Also, if the starter battery just groans a bit, the leisures will kick the engine over. Is it because you are standing on terra ferma. I find when I'm in trainers I always get a little shock of the car. Doesent happen in any other footwear.
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Post by bargemast on Dec 4, 2017 17:56:48 GMT
Of course you are right with what you're saying here John, but if I would get £1 of every boat on the canals that has it's earth everywhere you touch it's hull, my financial worries would soon be a long forgotten memory You mean 1 Euro, as you're in France. Worth 88p of our Rostbif Pounds. Nice try! No,Ii did mean 1 pound sterling, if I want to exchange these for euros, I will have a bit more in euros, but don't think I can do more with them, as something that may cost £1 in the UK, will surely cost roughly about €1,10 overhere. As you say, I am in France, but do cross the Channel occasionally, sadly enough, not as often as I would like to do. Peter.
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Post by Mr Stabby on Dec 4, 2017 18:38:30 GMT
I've never understood the business of electricity flowing round the body/chassis of a road vehicle anyway. How comes you don't get a jolt everytime you open the doors or boot? Because your body isn't completing an electrical circuit, as electricity always finds the path of least resistance and the body of the car offers less resistance than your body. In any event, 12v at low tension is not discernible to human touch, which is why you can place fingers on both terminals of a 12v battery without receiving an electrical shock. On a boat, it is best practice to hard-wire all circuits directly to and from the battery, rather than using the boat itself as the return path for numerous reasons.
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Post by patty on Dec 5, 2017 6:50:11 GMT
This mornings Complicated electrickery question from a Mr Cheetham 'Jump starting my batteries from a new battery ... where should i connect the negative too? ' Well numb-nut...You've a 50% chance of getting it right!🙄 The scary thing is..if someone gave him the wrong advice...would he follow it?
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 5, 2017 10:15:08 GMT
This mornings Complicated electrickery question from a Mr Cheetham 'Jump starting my batteries from a new battery ... where should i connect the negative too? ' Well numb-nut...You've a 50% chance of getting it right!🙄 The scary thing is..if someone gave him the wrong advice...would he follow it? Hopefully Foxy didn't answer on FB though. The internet...
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Post by patty on Dec 5, 2017 12:38:23 GMT
My brother suggested I join Facebook about 16 years ago. Suddenly everyone's friends' friends wanted to be my friend and I thought this is getting a bit too friendly so fuck off. I hope Mark Zuckerberg trips over his friendly shoelaces and falls into a friendly ditch. I'm only on FB to keep up to date with what my kids do...they rarely 'phone home' and i feel bit isolated from them at times..Eldest doesn't do FB and middle son won't accept me as friend but i learn more about the other two...well at times...I don't have many other contacts.
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Post by thebfg on Dec 5, 2017 13:48:56 GMT
Surrised you missed this little gem.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:00:30 GMT
I assume they mean bodily fluids. It must be some sort of slang term translated from Spanish or whatever. £400 a month each? Someone's doing nicely there even if they've got an expensive mooring ! Even a prime mooring at £10k a year is only about £850 a month so. 6x4 =24. Hmm!! I noticed that one of the conditions you agree to when being accepted onto the LB arsebook page is that you will not offer or ask for boats to rent.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:31:45 GMT
Methinks its a wind up...
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 15:39:05 GMT
Or a reference to the fact there is no kitchen ? Just bedrooms.
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Post by thebfg on Dec 5, 2017 16:53:38 GMT
Or a reference to the fact there is no kitchen ? Just bedrooms. You might be right it says we have 4 but want more. Kinky
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Post by Deleted on Dec 5, 2017 19:19:57 GMT
Umm.
Time for the Kinks me thinks
I often think they were well ahead of their time
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Post by lollygagger on Dec 5, 2017 19:25:07 GMT
One of the comments from that: "East London in it's entirety is one huge slum! Drive through it & all you see is mile after mile after mile of rundown slum housing!" It does not say which 'nationality/race' the 'rogue landlord' is, neither does it state the nationality/race of those all shuck/shacked up together. One goes to work, another gets in the warm bed. Bed bugs, fleas, lice, rodents running unleashed. Why is East London such a dump? Why don't the people who live there clean it up? East London has always been a comparative dump. It's the same in any uk city due to the prevailing wind being from the West and most houses being built during the industrial revolution. Knobs upwind, plebs in the smog.
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