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…yep, over my head, and can’t say I’m that interested, I’ll stick to what I do best and that’s drinking my pint, ‘Entire’ today (again)

😃 I know, when I cleared me dad’s shed out I ended up with his assortment boxes that he only ever used one of out of each, Id like to think that one day I’ll meet someone who needs a peculiar grubscrew, nut, bolt etc and I can say “here you go”

two things can happen: in forward the fenaflex tyre closes and the plates clamping it come together and rub each other and in reverse the tyre stretches open and the rear plates holding the fenaflex tyre rub the steel plate supporting the pillow block, nothing drastic if I were in the badlands and needed to be elsewhere then I could get ‘home’ but anything longer it’s not good.

it does have Charity Status but it also has a corporate side too, so it’s all a bit confusing, (for me anyway)

I hate admitting it but I caved in and have just signed up to the evil empire and paid for guaranteed delivery by 1pm tomorrow, £15 including delivery for an assorted box of grubscrews that hopefully has the two I need, even though I could be comfortable here for another week or whatever, having a boat that can’t move is a horrible feeling 😃 so far the search has taken me on a wonder around Netherton’s back streets and Industrial Estates, a walk like that is more fascinating than a coastal walk, there are still so many small businesses, industries and workshops tucked away. Nothing like there used to be as you say but enough to make a walk interesting.

I was on about the donations, just the donations, only the donations, nothing else but donations, if you go online or meet a chugger and sign for a monthly donation that donation is for maintenance and does not get lost in admin or whatever, To add: the cost and overheads of raising those donations is paid for through a funding budget

Thats what I’ve been thinking 😃 I’m going to go through me box of old mixed nuts and bolts, see what I can find to get me moving, can always replace with proper later next week if I have to wait for an order.

well that is the proof in the pudding 👍 and mine too has worked for years with a lot of prop fouling and abuse so I have no issue with the set up, ….but finding two of them little grubscrews without resorting to ordering over the internet is proving impossible and frustrating.

the good thing about the monthly donation is that the money is spent directly on the maintenance of the canal, often used to match other funding, so Heritage or whoever might say we (Heritage) will meet you (CRT) halfway, we’ll give you X amount if you can match it pound for pound, so your monthly £10 won’t get spent on office carpets and coffee machines, it won’t get spent on enforcement or the CEO’s wage, as I understand it, it goes on maintenance of the canal

it did and it also pulled the tapered bush holding the coupling plate 8mmish off the gear box shaft delta 20 a bit of reading suggests that the type of pillow block I have can cope with slight/some misalignment and also thrust.

me too, but it seems to have done the trick since it was replaced 13 years ago, a well respected engineer did this for me and I can only assume he used the corrected bearer,

Ok, I’ve been in touch with company that supplies RHP pillow blocks, and they refer to them as set screws, I need a 5/16th UNF set screw, I’ll try Alan’s in Netherton a short walk away before going down route of ordering off internet, thanks for help 👍 the pillow bearer/block is between the coupling and stern tube and holds the prop shaft in line, the set screws hold the inner race of the block to the prop shaft and then spin with the prop, with my set up (using a fenaflex coupling) the screws also help prevent the shaft from sliding back and forth, if that makes sense

actually just about to walk down and get some like that, been on phone and there’s a supplier with half mile right on! I’ll show that to bloke in shop thanks oh another quick question: what length is that 15mm?

A fouled prop bust the grub screws in the RHP pillow bearer holding the prop shaft. I’ve retrieved the heads of the screws with a 4mm Allen key. Does anyone know what ends they would have had? Domed, pointy, flat or whatever ? Can’t find answer on internet, I suspect they are flat but would like to be sure thanks

interesting idea, I think I like it, but again didn’t CRT/BW have their own marinas which they sold off? Marinas where all profits would have gone in the CRT coffers? or perhaps CRT never made 12% (or whatever the number is) profit when they ran them?