oldbulldog

Hi tugcaggy. Just saying hello cause I presume your name is a giveaway for the boat you've just bought and just wanted to say that our boat, an old BCN converted joey lived in the same yard where your boat came from for over 20 yrs. Sorry a bit off topic.

A sad loss indeed. We used to own Nb Pendorric which Keith built in the 90's. We took it back to stretton wharf a couple years ago to meet up with him and we enjoyed an afternoon in his company. What a great chap. My condolences to his family.

I have a whale gulper serving both sink and shower and just have a manual shut off valve under sink for when I want it to empty shower. Simple and no real problem. Before anyone says, the skin fitting on boat is too high for the sink to drain down without pump assistance.

I have an Electroquest 30a charger and the max it has ever put out is 27.8amps. Good charger for the money.I power it with a 900w Genny.

Now open.

Gate has fallen off. No thru route currently. CRT on the case. On Trent & Mersey canal. Just north of stone.

To Pete I:- Did you manage to get rid of the gearbox? If not would love to have it as i have one in my boat. Have been trying to find out whatit was for ages and just stumbled onto your posts. Cheers, Phil

Thats exactly right.The water will always flow,either through the small loop (closed thermostat),or through the skin tanks,(Open thermostat).The beauty is its automatic, no manual valves to open and close. No pipes to feel to see how hot they are etc etc. On another note, I have also found on ebay and in line temp sender,so you just cut a hose, put in this sender and use this to connect to a water temp gauge so you can keep your eagle on how its all running. Relatively simple, cheap and hopefully effective. Will keep you posted on how it all works.

The way i will be fitting my "Lada" three port thermostat is as follows:- The 2VSH has one water entry point and one exit point. After this exit point is where the LADA 3 port will go. The three port valve will have an inlet port and two outlet ports, one will be straight through and the other outlet will be controlled by the thermostat. The straight through exit will then literally loop back to the engine and join the water that returns from the skin tanks in a tee piece. So once the engine fires up and whilst cold will just cycle round this small loop: Engine exit- Lada Thermostat- Engine entry Once the engine coolant has warmed up this will eventually open up the 2nd outlet on the thermostat which then allows the coolant to run round the skin tanks as well. Its just a case of designing the pipework to facilitate this arrangement. Will let you know how i get on. Will then have to rename the engine to a Ruston Hornsby Riva:Special edition of course.

Top man Hugh C. Have just been on e-bay and purchased a Lada 3 port thermostat. £7 squids inc postage. Well worth messing around with to design a thermostatic loop for my Ruston. Lots of them on there as well. Dont see many Lada's around these days. Looks like its a built in unit that if it fails you just throw it away and replace. Will buy some more if successful. Thanks once again.

Will go into heavy disguise and try to find out more about this Lada thermostat. Lada Riva by any chance? Old enough to remember them i'm afraid (But never owned one!) Honest!!

Cheers for reply. My first post so slowly getting into it. Have seen your comments on the other Ruston topics so appreciate your interest in vintage engines. Will try and hunt down the info.

Hi folks. Have the above engine in my old narrowboat (1910ish). Cooled by skin tanks but there aint no thermostat. Are there any bits out there that i can use/adapt that will allow me to fit one. Engine constantly smokes and have been led to believe that it could be due to not getting up to working temperature.