Recent content by bluesjunior

I agree with jamesmar. I think one would find that marinas and their staffs attitude would change towards the liveaboards.

I seem to remember when Zidane was transferred from Juventus to Real Madrid some years back certain sections of the tabloid press printing nudge. nudge, nods as good as a wink type stories about a wife and an extramarital affair being the reason for the transfer. I imagine something like that...

Make sure your prep work is extremely clean and dry. Don't wear steel toecapped boots. Have a mate stand by to make sure no cables, earth clamps etc can accidently come in contact with the water while you are welding and you should have no problems. In fact it is that well worn chestnut of...

Re: I hate Ronaldo - and here\'s the proof he\'s a cheat "Bollocks, Rugby is a contact sport in the old fashioned sense, and despite it being so physical in terms of body contact, there is very little violence seen either on pitch or off pitch, that football seems to cause. Certainly very...

Re: I hate Ronaldo - and here\'s the proof he\'s a cheat I think we should all stop and take stock here. Rooney is being challenged by two portugeezers and instead of diving like they would have done and getting a free kick he tries to stay on his feet and when the two of them eventually bring...

The biggest possible thing that England can get out of this is a new manager and get rid of the £6 million man. A disappointed Scot. If you really believe it will be any different under Mclaren then you've obviously never seen the way Boro play. It's very sad really. A squad of players that...

Heard this one on the train this morning. Ronaldo walks into Burger King and says; "Give me two whoppers" The bloke says; "OK,you're not overweight and you've still got it"

Your can buy a specific shackle for this purpose. I can't remember the name but it has two G shaped half links and a pin. the gap in each G is just wide enough for the chain link. You put the end link of one chain into one half and the end link of the other chain into the other half and then the...

Check the rubber seals on your filters are in place and tight. Bleed your filters and then restart.

Thats the one Tommyrot although my way of tapering is easier and not so convoluted. When you have put your first tuck through you should tighten it all up as much as you can before you continue. If it is nice and tight it will reduce the risk of wear. Though in saying that it will need...

A long splice is what you use to splice two ropes together. I was a deepsea fisherman for almost thirty years. The splice I have described is the splice a fisherman would put on the split shackles used to join two coils of rope together so that they could quickly be shortened if the neccessity...

If you are splicing a rope to an anchor chain you must have a swivel either at the anchor end or at the rope end. If you don't then eventually your rope will be destroyed. The turns in your rope must have a way to unwind. The splice I described is not an eye splice. I think the proper name is a...

Another good tip for splicing is, if your rope is made of a nylon/polypropeline type material use a lighter or candle to melt the tails together if it is a non meltable rope then use elecrical tape to bind the ends, This will keep it all together and give you a neater splice. If you decide to...

When you splice rope to chain you must have a swivel attached to the chain otherwise your rope will eventually unfurl. Unwind the three strands of the rope enough to splice and put the middle strand through the eye of the swivel from top to bottom then put the other two strands through from...

You could also take a piece of the wood you are screwing into and by using a bench / belt sander or whatever make it into sawdust. Mix this sawdust with ordinary cleardrying woodglue, fill the cavities up with this mixture leave to dry then sand them flush. They will then be the same colour as...