Smoggy

Post a pic of your engine bay and we'll soon point it out to you.

Note the twist when you take the old one out and put the new one in twisted the same way although a new one should just flip over with no harm done. Generally just a ring of screws on the pump cover to remove and gentle use of a screwdriver will prise the old one out, a smear of the glycerine that usually come with the new one around the inside of the housing before you push the new one in, a new gasket with a smear of grease so you can open it again and re-use the gasket if needed. Check for water out the back when you fire it up again and jobs a goodun.

The cheaper window vac may be the better one depending on how the internal plumbing is, I find the karcher poor inside a steeply sloping screen as half the water goes through the fan and spits out the back. St.ives to St.neots is the best section of the great ouse in my view.

Not sure who this evil laird could possibly be, surely not the great god jp himself? Oh yeah I see now.....

The committee will as they're told as they always do, discussion won't come in to it, spineless bunch.....

You heading for ranworth?

That's what half of us come here for, keep it up. Unlikely. Highly unlikely. Absobloodylutely!

People keep asking how I am which I can appreciate but I don't know as I have not had time to find out, it's a huge learning curve and the house needs clearing so far too busy to work out how I feel. May have next weekend off and check on the boat then I may find out but who knows. I'm still in the mindset of no carers or carehomes involved, no bums wiped, a week and a half ago she was in my home town on the community bus with her zimmer bike and chatted to an old mate of mine so as far as I'm concerned that is a good exit.

As a side note I also found this to much merriment. I have a feeling it was something my uncle bought into a pub my olds ran back in the 80's to wind up the village idiot and got kept. It's about 3" long and made of silicon.

I lost my Mum last weekend and now have the horrible job of clearing a housing partnership house, I feel like a looter doing the job but found this beast below. I know my Mum was a civil defense warden back in the 70's and my grandad was an anti aircraft gunner during the war as a bit of background, but what the flip is it? I'm thinking possibly more to do with the in flight crew possibly bomb aimer at the moment. Any enlightenment gratefully recieved.

That 8kw will likely only really be 4-5kw, they are renowned for their exageration of the figures on these. You will have to use the controller from the chinaspacher as the eber unit will not work with it.

When you say hairdryer I assume you mean like mine, how is that going to defrost a freezer?

Very true but I'm sure there's plenty of us here that will deal with mains leccy but not qualified sparks, not on public posts though that's just wrong and stupid. I assume the grinder to the box reference was meaning a padlock just to turn a breaker back on but still a bad thing if you don't know the full reason for it being turned off.

I would imagine it would be very similar build to my 30DS in which case the row of screws around the outside of the windows thread into the separate aluminium strip around the frame inside to clamp so you should be able to leave the main frames in place (but I've only had my screen out not side windows). Wear a mask and have a good vacuum cleaner handy as the powdery mess that once disguised itself as foam backing on the vinyl will go everywhere.

Are you really going to have a morning dip or will you just be going through the motions?

I suppose the main question is how far do you live from the boat and how much free time do you have?

Where's the next leccy post?

We use the boat all winter leaving it 3-4 weeks in between and most of the time I look at the forecast ahead and judge it from that, there's not many really cold snaps that are not seen coming and worst case is a quick dash to the boat to sort it (180 mile round trip), my main regime for most of winter is shut off water pump power and let the pressure out by opening a hot and cold tap and leaving them open, run a couple of litres of 50/50 mix anti freeze through each raw water filter till gone, pump the bog empty and shut off all sea cocks, takes maybe 10 minutes when mooring up and leaving and about 5 minutes making sure raw water filters are re-primed when arriving next time and not too much anti-freeze (use the non toxic stuff BTW). If a real cold snap is due then drain the water tank and pipes as best as I can and chuck a splash of anti-freeze down there as well, not had an issue yet including during the beast from the east. My deck shower is isolated and drained over winter anyway and I have a convenient tee and valve between water tank and pump which makes it easy to drain tank and push air through the water system to clear more water. We don't get the winters we used to.

Unless the credit is via a commercially available card, they can be reloaded with the amount of your choice for some meters, I know of one pub whose own meters will accept a ba card so they do the card bit for you to make sure they get the money not the ba when they supply the leccy, I believe the beccles YS meters (different from ba meters) are the same as another pubs own meters too although beccles have to program them for the specific meter used. So there is possibly ways without actually tampering with the posts, I spotted the remarks attached to the video about use of angle grinders to turn boxes back on though (although not linked to this particular issue I must add) which is just plain wrong and dangerous if shut off due to a fault, the mentality of stealing the leccy (at all our costs) is out there amongst certain people.

As long as they have a b&b room free they often have a shower available too if you ask, I can't see Tolly closing the bar while people are drinking....

Some video evidence of life...... (about 90Mb) It Lives! Hopefully a river trial later.

I wouldn't mind a peek at that too to make up my own mind.

The big difference between wild moorings and ba moorings is that we have already paid for the ba moorings and they are charging again.

There's always greyhound looking to be rehomed and they have the advantage of being very lazy once they've had a short burst of exercise.

Here you go, from the butchers.