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Smoggy
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18 minutes ago, SwanR said:
You also get access to be able to download videos to watch offline.
See previous post about 4k video downloader.
Just now, MauriceMynah said:Can I pay to see the ads and have the influencers edited out?
Might be less irritating.
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19 minutes ago, rightsaidfred said:
I must be quite sad, the only YouTube content I look at is the educational how to fix it ones and even then I am cautious as to their accuracy.
Fred
I'm very close there Fred although I've downloaded music gigs as well, usually via 4k video downloader so I can save ad free with no subscription and watch froma usb stick at leisure.
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27 minutes ago, Meantime said:
The barriers haven't been changed or moved any closer recently!
It seems it's more down to people just being more stupid and less tollerant than they used to be, that shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
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Copied from east coast notices to mariners (From Tillergirl of the YBW forums)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-68203870
3. PORT OF GREAT YARMOUTH - HAVEN BRIDGE LIFT BOOKINGS - owing to a health and safety concern raised by Great Yarmouth Port to Norfolk County Council, Great Yarmouth Port are unable to accept the responsibility and risk related to pedestrians and vehicles experienced during the immediate period prior to the lifting of the Haven Bridge for navigational purposes. We have proposed an interim solution to Norfolk County Council, however this has not been progressed by them. Therefore, Great Yarmouth Port are currently unable to accept bookings for Haven Bridge Lifts for Navigational purposes, and we advise you that any correspondence on this matter be passed to Norfolk County Council who are the owners and responsible party for the overall safety of Haven Bridge. This restriction does not impact any vessels that are able to pass safely under the bridge, who should continue to operate in the normal manner with communication with LPS.
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Forum is still down and has been for some time now, I've no idea about Richard as I have never met him as far as I know.
As with all forums the wrong mods can cause a lot of problems, luckily we get away easy here. (insert brown nose emoji here)
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7 minutes ago, Gracie said:
I can come and cook for you Griff but you might be better off having a meal in t pub
Grace x
Go to the pub Griff!!!!! Don't risk it!
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An issue like that should be fairly easy to spot with a snoop down the engine bay, the prop can't slip up a taper so it has to be a gearbox coupling or engine mounts as Vaughan says, depending on your setup it's possible the shaft coupling is loose and the shaft has pushed through which should be a fairly easy fix if it's just a clamp up type.
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As far as online banking goes I had a spare current account after doing a manual account change so decided to do a little switching experiment, since January I'm now £750 up and just done the 4th switch, just got to watch for the next switching deal now, just needed 2 direct debits to qualify (2 charities made about £16) and had to put some cash in and use the app for one so I used the app to take the cash back out again.
It's nice to get one over the banks for a change.
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As I think I may have blagged a free mooring on my local river for the rib that's been sat in my garden for 4 years and was bought on a drunken whim (as you do) I treated it to a quick top up of air, I recon a quick top up is pretty bloody good going for an inflatable boat that I think is 40 years old!
The tubes are mottled and the grp is battle scarred but it's still good, it's an old Dumi, I can see 1984 on the dataplate but have no knowlege of the make so if anyone knows anything......
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Air powered signal horn anyone?
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I struggle with the point about folk hogging wild moorings, surely a wild mooring is just a bank and has no time limits unless set by the land owner, no one actually has the "right" to moor there they are just tolerated by the land owner or a blind eye turned.
I fully agree about the junk on the banks which being someone elses land is fly tipping and should be dealt with appropriately.
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On the rivers I'm all for fenders down, I'm out enjoying a bit of leisure time not pretending I'm in the navy so lifting just to drop them again shortly after just isn't going to happen, on sea or a good blast across breydon is another matter as flailing fenders are dangerous but on the river if anyone don't like the way my boat looks they can always look in a different direction till I'm gone.
I'm sure the practicalities are different on a saily but I don't have a clue about that flappy stuff.
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39 minutes ago, Gracie said:
Or your pretty summer dress caught in the rowlocks. Picture this.....clamouring out of a dinghy (not the most dignified thing to do at the best of times) getting the hem of your dress caught in the rowlocks, hearing a massive rip. Embarrassment ten fold, dignity zero
Grace x
Your friend Sarah by any chance????
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You can fit an inline pressure switch in the pipework after the pump so it cuts out when the right pressure is built, I assume it is getting to the right pressure.
Edit to add: Is there a leak somewhere that you haven't found yet keeping the pressure just below par?
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10 minutes ago, dom said:
What goes around, comes around.
I doubt the fishermen incident went beyond a few stern words from the Police but, if it did, that'll probably bring the matter to a close.
There's still more to the story.
Same person?
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47 minutes ago, MargeandParge said:
Can you show us how please maybe a wiring picture
Is the plug into the catcher the same as a PC lead ?
Kindest Regards Marge and Parge
I got a spare charger off fleabay and chopped the lead off after checking polarity with a multimeter then just grafted an old usb lead just using the power wires by soldering and heatshrinking, usb gives 5V, I think the karcher is 3.7V from memory but it has the voltage control built in so no problem.
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Back on the window vacs, I made up a lead to charge my karcher from a USB socket, no point taking 12v upto 240v to drop it back down again losing heat energy each way, it works fine.
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If you must cross breydon at night a trial of navionics on your phone would keep you in the channel but you'd need to be well zoomed in and set to night colours, all the posts show on my garmin plotter but I'm not sure if they are from the sea charts or the topo chart card I have in.
The one time I did it there was no moon and a bit of mist and as soon as we got under haven bridge the plotter froze (due to a recent flawed firmware update, later fixed), it only takes a small amount of light from yarmouth to spoil any visibility when heading up the yare and then you realise how big the spaces between the posts are and how easy to go out of the channel, it gets shallow very quickly outside that channel.
Without modern nav aids I wouldn't want to do it and I wouldn't do it for fun with them.
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Look at surecal calorifiers, they come with prv, fittings, thermostatic valve, and immersion heater with push fit type outlets.
I have one to fit in mine due to a prolapse of the old one from when I upgraded the pressure.
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3 hours ago, PaulN said:
Will also try to remember to look at 9:00 on my Birthday next Thursday which it's the next Spring. If it's 6'9" I will give it a go!
If aiming to get under a bridge and get back aim for a couple of days before full spring tides as the chances are return clearance will get better, push your luck at full springs and the next tide might not let you get through again and could be a couple of weeks away assuming no rain, it's called getting neaped.
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The johnson pump version is pretty much a copy of the jabsco, It's still in my garage 'cos my ar5e aint that big either, I believe the bowls are fully interchangeable even with the old RM69, I've done that swap with mine as the pump handle had broken and the knackered spare I got given had a better bowl and seat and the base is the same, I now have a cast aluminium handle courtesy of a guy I worked with playing at casting (it's made from a lycoming piston).
Back to pic 1, it looks like it's just what fittings were to hand to sort a problem and blank it off, been there and done that.
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Pic 1 looks like a blanked off spare outlet to me that can be junked with a new length of hose or a straight connector depending on hose length, as for the bog they re very simple, if the incoming flap isn't fully closed by the lever beside it they won't pump water in, I have a similar thing but jonson pum bog in my garage spare if you want it, mine is a large bowl version.
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32 minutes ago, Bikertov said:
So in other words a "loading gauge", as used on railways etc ?
More like a "didyoutwatyourheadornotometer".
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1 hour ago, Mouldy said:
Don't start me . . . . . . . . . no, really, please don’t start me. The soapbox will be out!
Noooooooo! Too late. If we’re on about pet hates, where has this habit of making a statement, but emphasising the end of a sentence to make it sound like a question come from? Grinds my gears.
And when written, the use of ‘of’ instead of have - he shouldn’t of done, for example Just wrong. It doesn’t make grammatical sense. Another one that I see more of now is the use of the word ‘are’ instead of our - that’s are house, for example. What is being taught at school these days?
We say we’re proud to be British, but have no pride of our language.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Yeh, like wot he sed! OMG! Totes amazeballs!
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Electrical Upgrades ...... Wish Me Luck!
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I hate to say it but ebay bearings would worry me, there's millions of cheap chinese bearings about all with fake packaging and substandard metals, I would go to a reputable bearing supplier (often on the local industrial estate) and specify SKF or similar, they will be standard sizes and possibly off the shelf, same with seals.
I've seen bearings you can put in a vice and bend both races and balls, they should shatter.