Recent content by Cliveshep

You can do a lot on boats that the pundits and experts will tell you are wrong, unsafe, give you spots or make your willy fall off. The plain fact is that many are still afloat by the Grace of God and a ball of string and some sealing wax if you get my drift. I have actually removed a rudder...

I used to cut mine with a mini grinder and 1mm Inox discs that cut fast without melting. A flap disc then can clean off any burrs.

Years ago I found some pallets from the Far East that came over made from a hard redwood similar to Iroko. I was at the dump getting rid of stuff and came away with more than I took. Those pallets made a lovely wheelhouse frame on a boat i was building so certainly some pallets are good timber...

Why pay for barrier pipe? Are you running it through window boxes as it is designed for potable water pipes buried in the ground? I would go with the 15mm system - everything you buy will fit and fwiw Aldi and Lidl often do a lovely range of mixer sink taps, basin taps and shower manifolds. One...

Change the nozzle - the usual reason is the jaws are prevented from moving forwards to grip the rivet shank by the end of the nozzle. If you don't have spare nozzles unscrew yours a turn or so and see if that solves the problem. Does on mine. It is a damn good riveter and only a fool would...

I live in the tropics now - all my rubber-covered things go sticky. I think the heat breaks them down, certainly scrubbing off the stick only allows it to get sticky again later on. I've got a re-chargeable (USB and wind-up) multiple LED lantern that is brilliant (no pun intended - it gives a...

Got to do it! "One six for a copy come on hello. Am I getting out breaker? " Answer in the affirmative.................. "Oh, Roger dodger breaker, cheers." "Anyone give me a 10-13 East bound Solent come on hello?" There's bound to be one somewhere!

This is so typical of a Politically Correct organisation reacting to an insane EU law that even here in the Far East is having severe repercussions in their dealings with anything European and has resulted in me being the recipient of far too many e-mails. I'm sure most of you are in a similar...

The Norman Boats site normanboats.co.uk has been down a few days now. Can anyone shed any light on this please? There was no warning of any imminent fold up.

It should be obvious to all now that if you sup with the devil you need a long spoon, in this case translated as under no circumstances enter into any sort of business dealing with AM, What a nasty little man he seems to be, and with a criminal past yet using the law to make money, I hope...

Dylan clearly cocked-up with the hotlinking although it seems it may well not be such an open and shut case of copyright theft as the clearly venal Mr Mackie seems to hope. The fact of the hot-linking to which the serial litigant takes exception to having been pointed out, the offending link was...

The above (one of each) are still in their packets and unused but 2005. Seems a shame to bin them when corrections are not hard to get, callers only to Sandhurst, pm me for an address and you can have them. If you have a chart of the Chao Praya you can swop LOL but not essential. Edit - The...

Actually, most survive, non-survival is a rare event. As a spectator sport watching rowers come to grief is a waste of time, watching cars going under water on the other hand is a very common event. Well, it is below Teddington where it is tidal. You can take a camera and go for a sail up or...

We've got one of these fashionable glass electric kettles that unfortunatley love limescale build up which looks unsightly. So I give it a swirl with brick-cleaner periodically - naturally once it is sparkling it gets a good rinse out of course!

Two points here - a failing CDI unit can maybe give enough of a spark to start a cold engine, and when running get enough spark to maintain running as the mag is spinning up faster than when you pull the cord, but when it is warm the slower rotation of a pull-cord start may not give a hefty...