jonesthenuke

Lock 15 currently out of action due to damage to cill. From CRT:- Description Original 17 July 2025, 9:27am Please be advised that navigation is currently closed at Lock 15 on the Stourbridge Canal due to damage to the bottom end cill. Our Operations team is heading to the site and aims to carry out repairs today. We will provide an update as soon as more information becomes available.

Have you checked for water in both the fuel filter and at the bottom of the tank? Try sucking some form the bottom of the tank with a clear small bore plastic hose.

The video about appears to show that there is considerable water in the reservoirs still. The spillways being high and dry is irrelevant, surely these are just for overflow conditions. Being blunt, is CRT maintaining water in the reservoirs for the benefit of the fish etc rather than keeping the canal system viable?

Thats bad news. We were planning to use the T&M to head south at the end of the month. Have to use the Shroppie again.

If you do not get on with bootlace ferrules, use pin crimps from a decent supplier like TE-Connectivity (used to the AMP). Note there are lots of suppliers who provide woefully inadequate versions, the same applies to the crimp tools. If you buy the cheap ones you will probably get an equally poor result. You can buy from Farnell and other good suppliers. The pins as shown below may work but it will depend on the geometry of the MK MCBs. If you want to put multiple wires in a single termination use the flat blade type and put them back to back. There are multiple versions of these crimps some with longer pins, but these may be harder to locate a source.

OK so I get a form through the post that does not mention paying on line and I get the blame? You can bet all you like, but I had the form at hand and the payment card. You seem to be throwing ridiculous accusations around, do you do this just to get a response?

We were there 10 days ago, no sign of any activity nor information on likely return to service date.

Years ago my wife contributed to both Battersea Dogs Home and the NSPCC. The endless flurry of mail that came through the door put her off so the subscriptions were cancelled. Years later she still gets mail from them. This cost of all the mail must have vastly outweighed the money that was donated. I fear CRT is going much the same way, I was accosted by a pleasant but very pushy woman at Kinver lock a few weeks ago, essentially asking for donations to CRT. When I explained how much I pay for a boat licence plus and EOG mooring she backed off. Given that these people are paid to bother people I do wonder if the resulting income is worth it.

I very much doubt that CRT can hand that level of complexity. I paid my EOG mooring fee by phone this morning. After giving all my details it took the bloke at CRT 10 minutes to find my account (I had given account number, address, my name, full DNA profile etc). If there was a choice you would never use such a business a second time.

FWIW it's a T5.5 filament lamp (aka "Wedge" lamp). Used to be used in large numbers in telephone systems and alarm systems, though commonly a higher voltage, often 50Vdc. I would think they are near obsolete and supplied only for keeping old equipment going. Available here https://www.lamps2udirect.com/miniature-light-bulbs-miniature-lamps/t55-55x30-12v-12w-c-2v-10khrs-clear/148657 RS have some LED versions, but not 12Vdc

I have seen a BCS brochure which talks about the bow thruster having protection against thruster failure etc. I would guess the "clever" bits are in the epoxy filled box. The epoxy makes it near impossible to repair the electronics inside the box. Extract from BCS brochure:- In order to ensure an higher and higher safety level and an easier boat control in every boating condition, the whole range of electric bow thrusters has been provided with a new PCS control system. This new device is composed of main processor that automatically protect the boat against any damage resulting from a possible bow thruster failure and a secondary processor, that shuts down the thruster in case of a system failure . Worst case (no spares available), I would check out the connections on the thruster. Is the white connector the cable to the thruster? If the thruster has just a pair of contactors in it I would wire up a simple two way control box (like the Venus ones) and have simple left/right on/off control. Pictures of the thruster with the covers removed and the control panel would help.

Agreed, but worth watching. If the corrosion starts again following thorough cleaning its possible the seal around the pillar has degraded.

As well as the above, when its all clean check for signs of corrosion and leakage around the terminal where its exits the top of the battery case , could be signs of impending failure.