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mr toad

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  1. Walsall Council have their own hire boat that does trips from walsall art gallery, it was at last years brownhills boat festival when they opened the new watersports centre, They hire it out. Might be worth contacting the council and asking them.
  2. Thanks for reply, I already have a morco 61b. They are good but I do not want a boiler mounted to the wall. I looked at the alde compact but they are a bit expensive.
  3. Unfortunately my engine is a lister air cooled. No water cooling
  4. Does any one know of a diesel or paraffin water heater. I am looking for a heater for about 20 litres of hot water at a time. I dont particularily want to part with £1000 for anythinh like a eberspacher. I have thought about an immersion heater because I have a solar water heater panel to fit (small one). Just after ideas for hot water when fire is out.
  5. My boat is similar to this it has a cranked fuel filler, however the vent pipe is straight so i remove the vent plug and use a garden cane.
  6. Can I just say about those little twin tub washing machines. I have had one now for 6 months using it twice a week. They are good and a low power consumption. I run mine off my generator with a surge protect plug just for good measure. Also I have just ordered a 800w tabletop tumble dryer which I hope will be delivered before the weekend so I can try it out.
  7. Just thought this might be usefull on here. When cutting plastics and nylons with a jigsaw it helps to put a strip of masking tape across then cut through. Masking tape stops the plastic welding itself back together. I know this works on 15mm thick plastic because I have tried it
  8. Yep! easy to use but you do need to make sure you have a good pipe deburrer and a pipe cutter (some people have in the past used hacksaws for copper pipe - dont do it. makes awful mess of pipe edges). Make sure pipe is deburred then push it on the pipe. I found you push it up first then give it a final push and you feel it just move another few millimetres. I even used them on my old house plumbing - 2 years and there were not any problems and more important no leaks first time.
  9. ecofans - Im still a bit sceptical about whether these things work or not! and cant justify spending 75 quid on one until ive seen one working - one of the chandlers round here demonstrates a stove, perhaps will give them a call and ask if possible for a demo! at moment I use solid fuel stove in saloon and 800w heater in rear of boat from genny.
  10. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Bush-FREEVIEW-scart-...1QQcmdZViewItem try the above link. obviously argos must not do it anymore. although looking at this picture on the back there is 2 connections - one for remote eye perhaps other is a small plug in power adaptor. I enquired about this product with bush and they did not have any information about power consumption or that it had a power adaptor!
  11. Take a look at the argos site from memory they are selling a bush? digital adaptor that plugs into the scart socket. just a small black adaptor that sits behind the tv. which makes it cheaper to buy a lcd tv & this digi adaptor rather than tv with built in digital. From what I see there is no power supply to these magic boxes, they must draw their power from the scart socket on tv.
  12. Perhaps it would be prudent to use a high temperature flexible exhaust hose, but I can only find this in 38mm bore which is a bit big!! on the back of the kipors there needs to be an extension piece from the exhaust of about 50mm long then I could use something like this by sealing the bigger pipe to the smaller with exhaust sealing tape making sure there are no gaps for fumes to escape because as said im going to put this in an acoustic enclosure. If i use exhaust hose of this size I would think it would help instead of a silencer?
  13. thanks for that reply. I just was not sure if it would affect the running of the generator, presumably assuming that outlet pipes from exhaust are larger than exhaust then there should not be a problem. I was thinking of using a piece of 50mm nominal bore pipewith 15mm in one side from genny and other side 22mm out. and I was planning to use some of the exhaust repair compound to seal it all.
  14. Try towsure - theyre cheap for a lot of things but take a look in the electrical section. they do 12v 2 pin polarised plugs in a size to suit standard socket backboxes. but at the moment I use 5A 3 pin plugs and sockets from tlc direct. cant remember web addresses I just search for them on msn when I use them
  15. I have a kipor suitcase generator. Great little generators and when running at low power it is quite quiet however it can get a bit noisy as the electrical demand increases. Now my thought was on the rear of the generator is the exhaust - about 15mm diameter pipe. Does anyone know if it would be possible to take a copper pipe from this then through a large can of some sort ( a bit like an engine silencer) then another pipe from the other side of the can say 22mm copper. Would this reduce the engine noise? I also plan to make up an enclosure for the other sides and line with engine acoustic foam. I want to use this generator for all my 240v without anoying my neighbours!
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