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Hot while it's plugged in? If so don't do it. For just phone calls and texts, I bought a new old stock Nokia 3220, briliant, goes days-weeks on a charge, can't be bothered with Smart phones, hands usually oily. They are a horrid addiction.

Keeping them plugged in does shorten battery life and they can go bang. Yesterday a TUI Boeing 787 did an emergency landing, smoke in the cockpit again, possibly lithium battery problem, again.

You shouldn't leave em plugged in. Anyway, remove the battery take details from it and search ebay or Amazon for a new one.

Make your own. Black soot from the fluepipe and a drop of linseed oil mixed. What folk did before tubes of stuff.

That's more like it.

I can understant greasing over and around the clamp after it's fitted but not between post and clamp, just can't see the point, just a waste of vasalene or grease.

I'm inclined to agree with Black Rose. On a few occasions during my 50 years in my garage and mobile mechanicing I was called out to cars that wouldn't start after the owner had Vasalene'd the posts and bunged the clamps back on over them. Trust a Trader.com.

That's what I do with my 25 year old 365, About 1/4 pint in a cup does mine. I got fed up with fixing it.

Sounds like you need a collapsable one like Tommy Coopers majic wand. A biff and it droops down.

Harborough Marine used them in their boats years ago. Although Solid mounted Lister SR2 and 3 engines and were really there to halt noise transmission. They were very good.

The drive line with universal flex like Aquadrives are not even fitted to most very expensive premium build mainlt cruiser stern narrow boats, your new boat probablt hasn't. In the past I've had to renew many badly worn stern tube bearings and shafts because of engine misalighnment, sinking engine mounts and even when the engine have been in alignment.