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  1. I wonder how the holes in the meccano would affect a @bizzard-built rudder? 🙂
  2. Interesting that that doesn't have the fishtail on the trailing edge or the top and bottom horizontal plates that I would expect to see on a Schilling rudder.
  3. Can you not use a plug in power meter such as this? https://www.screwfix.com/p/energenie-ener007-energy-saving-power-meter-socket/3477h#product_additional_details_container
  4. I bought some from them at £19.95 for 5 litres last week, but it's now at £27.95.
  5. But you know you have paid, and have bank statements showing those payments. It doesn't seem that they have disputed receiving any money, so why do you need the acknowledgement?
  6. A boat that hasn't moved much, judging by the absence of longitudinal scrapes along the bottom.
  7. Indeed. He refers specifically to a deep cutting across the summit. Presumably at a somewhat higher level than the tunnel was built.
  8. Why not? If its a back boiler system it was probably intended to be gravity circulation with 28mm pipe to provide minimum resistance. My guess is it didn't actually circulate properly so was converted to pumped circulation. If that had intended from the start it would have used 15mm pipe throughout anyway.
  9. Since some are getting petty about what content is appropriate for this thread, I'd question whether that is "nice on the waterways"! 🙂
  10. Belfast's hull was primed with Jotun Penguard HB 2 part epoxy primer, and the same was used internally for the bilges. If you are going to use part cans, the weight of each component you need is given at https://www.smlmarinepaints.co.uk/uploads/files/library/files/2 pack weights 0314.pdf. Get yourself a cheap set of digital kitchen scales to weigh out the 2 components - a fiver from Asda when I bought mine. Since your boat is already out of the water you would get the best out of a 2 pack epoxy paint system if you had the hull shot blasted first. It will cost, but it will be a better job and will save you days or weeks of running around with an angle grinder and wire brush.
  11. I knew someone who submitted a draft document for a project in Liverpool, which was strongly based on a similar previous project they had done in Manchester. Unfortunately, the search-and-replace failed to substitute for the one misspelled instance of 'Manchester'. The Liverpool client was not amused!
  12. Agreed. David, your contributions to this and other threads are fascinating. Please continue to post, and just ignore the rest of us when the discussion wanders off in odd directions.
  13. Is that for manually winding open the swing bridge?
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