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stewart&jenny

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    Stoke
  • Occupation
    qualified electrician, carpenter, plumber
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    unruffled
  • Boat Location
    Bridge 80 Macclesfield Canal

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  1. Hi John, Very sorry to hear of your loss. Ben will live on for quite a while in your heart. 2 years ago, give or take a day or two, I cried my eyes out when we had to put Max, our Border Collie Cross, to sleep. I still miss him. Within a week I could no longer stand the quiet so off we went and found Zebedee, another collie cross, and then a year ago, we added Mopsey, another collie ........ I think that is enough All our dogs come from rescue centres. I love em to bits. Max only lasted till he was 10, and though I wish it had been longer, his time though shorter than hoped for, was filled with happiness. So I keep the memory and we plod on with our latest 2 additions in the knowledge they giving us as much enjoyment as we are giving to them. Being a confessed Border Collie addict, I am happy to share my addiction .... my sister has spaniels, and she just bought another only to find it really does have a personality disorder! Having said that, it more to do with taking the dog away from its mother far too early and nothing to do with the breed. Whatever dog you choose to get, it will receive love and attention, and you will receive the same. I wish you well in your quest to fill the space left behind. You'll never forget Ben, so don't delay, go off and take a look round your local rescue centre, you won't regret the visit, no doubt Ben will guide you ..... Best Wishes, Stewart
  2. I recently bought some batteries from www.alpha-batteries.co.uk/ phoned them up and they helpful and open to negotiation....
  3. The Beta Marine guy said that the supply take off to the calorifier is before the thermostat. Thinking about it, the diameter of the supply pipe limits the amount of heat that can be delivered so the supply pipe acts as a limiting source anyway At the moment, I have no connection to the radiators except via the secondary coil to the calorifier, a sort of reverse feed if the CH pump on and the gas not lit. One of the things that I have puzzled over is how to keep the rads warm when the multifuel stove is lit in Winter. I have a radiator right at the front and sited to be adjacent to the S/S water tank. The idea being to prevent the tank from freezing and also to keep the front cabin warm. But the CH stat is in the lounge, therefore, at normal settings it doesn't come on. Am now wondering that maybe I have the stat in the wrong place! If I extend the stat to the front cabin and have a thermostatic radiator valve on the lounge radiator, the secondary slightly off topic problem is solved ..... ... thanks ALL
  4. Alan, You inspired me to phone up technical support at Beta Marine! They say that the Beta 38 engines are designed for the hot water take off to be before the thermostat, so that it only opens upon design, and the supply is self limiting so that heat transfer cannot damage the engine. I'm glad I phoned and now I shall go and tinker
  5. Sigh .... now why didn't I think of that! I went and bought an additional calorifier 700x300 for £150. I now have to work out the cost of converting 1" tappings to suitable hose unions .... still, I am quite looking forward to the challenge.
  6. I thought the same thing till a mechanic at the local watering hole suggested I could cool the engine down suffiently to warp a piston! .... I am not used to pistons warping so I thought I'd come on here and ask The bathing frequency would depend on time of year and how close to water point
  7. The photographs just show the original siting. The pipework is insulated and thermostat heats up the calorifier just fine. I have since plumbed in a corner bath and now there is insuficient hot water.
  8. I am running a Beta 38 cooled by a skin tank and supplying heat to a calorifier. See pictures: http://www.cig.canon-europe.com/p?p=GRzDMizRD2T The amount of heat is insufficient to fill a bath. On our last boat, with similar engine but larger cylinder, there was sufficient hot water capacity. So I am thinking of installing a 2nd 43 litre calorifier. I havent yet worked out the installation but I am competent to do it. What concerns me is just how much heat can I take out of the engine? Is there any guidance? The point is, can I actually do harm by removing too much heat? Thanks, Stewart
  9. We have a Victron fed by a bank of 6 110ah batteries. We have a Victron battery monitor hooked into the installation. For 3 years I used the available energy to power up my tools while doing a fit out. I basically bled the batteries way down below 50% on quite a few occasions. In October we went off for a months cruising and basically the batteries were knackered so that as soon as you switched on the microwave, the battery monitor registered a voltage below 12v and the inverter would switch off. The solution was to turn the engine on so that the driven voltage went back up. We have now replaced the battery bank and all seems to be working ok. I might add that we researched and finally bought 5 - 120ah 60% deep cycle 300 recycle batteries for £75each (from Alphi Battery Suppliers) ..... I believe that the advances in battery design are such that the 5 batteries are now at least equal to the original 6 batteries. Am quite looking forward to testing them out .....
  10. Jenny in times BC (Before Co-habiting) had this cockatiel that she asked me to look after while she and children went off on holiday. They returned a fortnight later. To get him back home we took "Sherpa" for an afternoon drive (AD) , in my Transit van.It being a nice sunny day, the cage is strapped to back of driver's seat to stop it from falling over. Me driving with the window down and we stop at this T-junction (in the middle of Epsom, Surrey ... just by the college for the anally retentive ). Just as we turn into the road this teenage girl happens to be walking up to the junction. Without further ado, Sherpa decides to let out this perfect wolf whistle! I'm sure he couldn't see her, so I guess it just something to do with the sounds indicative of my 2 daughters staying for a while during his 'holiday'. Anyway, the look I received from the passing girl who thought I was the culprit was nothing to the ear bending I was receiving from my passenger seat!
  11. dontpanic, you've asked what I've been puzzling over, will a river journey upset my equilibrium ... .. I'm not an adventerous sort so I tend to stick my head under the covers as soon as brain starts to make enquiring noises, and I go off and do something else! We are in Stoke area, on Macclesfield Canal, and intending to go all over the UK - Jenny will be in charge of the maps and destinations, and she also likes to do the tillering so no doubt the decision making will be left to me, and I will be the one who decides if such and such a place is a suitable stop over. Maybe I'll take steelaway's advice and moor up tied to a tree! There will be 5 of us on board, a cockateil, two border collies, and us two - 4 of us will have life jackets, so we can swim to the bank if necessary. I'm also thinking of taking my 16' double extension ladder - LOL - if the dogs that desparate they can walk the ladder! Have got some serious reading up to do before we venture upon the rivers and posts like yours are emminently worthy of pursuing especially when they include nice photos
  12. I found so much gas leaking from the standard 13Kg propane cylinders that I went off to: http://www.bes.co.uk/ and bought 2 new leads with rubber washers. Now I can happily tighten up the leads hand tight and be reasonably content they not leaking. One more point. Previously I would have left the cylinder unconnected until needed. The last pair of cylinders just bought, I connected up both. The second cylinder, as soon as I unscrewed the black insert, it nearly gave me frostbite because the cylinder had been turned on !!!! I cannot believe this had been done on purpose but it does make you think! Certainly, an awful lot of gas would have escaped by the time I came to connect up, and no I wouldn't be able to smell it because I have lost my sense of smell
  13. Start of ........ That is interesting. We were given a 47Kg flogas bottle (full) by a neighbour just in time for the cold spell! It's now empty and I was pondering the possibility of carrying a full bottle strapped to the front end ready for use as a stand-by next winter ......... upon discussion with Jenny, it appears the space has been / will be taken up by a container full of spuds Am now looking at what the RBOA offers End of
  14. thanks for that info. I'm with O2 mobile wise, I wonder if this can be cobbled together re other 'hotspots'? I shall pass this on to serious boyfriend of daughters who is an expert in these sort of things .... let him do the hard work
  15. I sort of held back from replying to this, but upon reading out the comments to wife, we both commented, "But I/You never remember the blasted combinations!!!!" I did put a combination padlock on the lid to the gas hatch, sadly I forgot the number. I had remembered to write it on one of the vertical timbers to the right of an adjacent window but time had passed and the timbers were now snugly covered over with oak plywood!
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