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If something like a prop works loose off its a taper I wonder how long a splitpin would last before it gets fatiqued/sheared off?

My old VW van steering box had tapered splines, it was a nightmare pulling it apart. A taper is a very good thing. I have personally never known anything with a splitpin come undone, though things with locking tabs have, but thats probably just co-incidence. The more I think about this splitpins are just a bad idea, maybe the concept is that something works loose and you hopefully hear it in some way and the splitpin gives you a little time to take action before the prop/wheel or whatever falls right off 😀

I posted a bit more info that might be relevent, but it got added to my previous post rather than as a separate post. This is a sort of forum bug. I make a post, somebody gives a greeny but does not reply, I make another post which just gets added to the previous post, it might be utter rubbish and no longer deserve that greeny 😀😀

Have a look on the www, there are several other forums you could join and have all sorts of arguments about this 😀. Consensus is that yours is wrong (as are many many others), and your surveyor is correct. Of course, another argument could be, is the pin part of the physical locking mechanism, or just a safety measure to catch things if the nut works loose??? But thinking about this more, your surveyor probably didn't think hard enough either. The argument really applies to a castlelated nut and how the head seats into the grooves. In your case its just a hole in a standard nut so the orientation probly dont matter.

Yes, but theres nothing like a bit of first hand experience.

Goliath flatters me but I know nufin'. I have been slightly involved in looking at the acoustic implications of boat wake on smaller seagoing boats, but that's a very different thing.

Its a nice drive up that valley, I used to get my red diesel at Walk Mill, and there is some good walking, but it just doesn't have that something extra that makes the Calder Valley so good, maybe you are right, it could be the canal 😀. There are the moorings below Hebden but they usually change hands with the boat included. There are just one or two offside moorings with gardens so they are not easy to get. Getting on the waiting list for the Callis boat club is an option but they are towpath moorings and a bit under the trees.

What do you think of Tod? Its not a bad place and houses are still a affordable. The proximity to Hebden and the desire of "youngsters" from Manchester wanting to "move to the country" should continue to keep prices rising and reduce the likelihood of it decaying into another depressed northern town. With hindsight I should have purchased a house there a few years ago. The downsides are the dark wet valley climate that really gets to some peoople, and the fact that the trendiness to some extent depends on a smallish semi alternative community and shops based in the Golden Lion area. If the Lion and Tod Almighty (and a few others) were to close Tod could go downhill. A good rail link is a big plus. If you can't afford Tod then there are some real bargains in Walsden just up the road. I assume you are looking to move to the land rather than finding a canalside garden with a mooring?

Its a big tough engine so as long as its looked after the bearings should not fail. An increase in oil level would be a good indication of diesel in the oil, so start checking it often. Wait a while after stopping the engine before checking the dipstick. The mechanical lift pump would be the most likely source of fuel leakage. First thing is to check the oil pressure, the guage is above the lift pump (on the intake/fuel filter side of the engine)

How many hours has the engine done? These things are usually due to a failing pressure switch so its probably worth replacing it. Even better would be to fit a pressure guage, though usually the JD3 has one on the side of then engine already. Assuming you have a guage what is the pressure on idle with the engine hot? I would expect about 20psi.

We have a side cooled fridge (Shoreline) and for the last few days the sides are running very hot, plus its guzzling the electricity. Its a two compartment fridge freezer and a limitation of these is that they work very hard to keep the fridge cool in this hot weather so the freezer gets stupidly cold.

Toplac plus looked to me to be just like Toplac, and I had no problems putting Toplac plus over (old) Toplac. I am pretty relaxed about putting most paints over other paints, including over epoxy, but I aim for a functional rather than "deep bloss" finish. Toplac plus is marketed as an improved version of Toplac, but I suspect removing some componts to comply with with modern regulations was really the driving force, actually I felt that Toplac plus was a better paint but that is most likely because some of my Toplac was getting very very old.

I must be an old man, I remember laying the boards out with black sticky tape stuff, and the boards costing about £30 each plus a £200 "tooling" charge.

Maybe we need an Arduino/electronics sub forum on Canalworld? 😀 I gave up on those white nylon breadboard things, too many bad connections and stray capicitance, I decided it was quicker to solder up a rats nest than to fix all the problems with the breadboard 😀

In the past Battery Megastore have delivered to the boat. Last time was about 4 years ago.