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No personal experience, but it's a Whale, innit?

I wish I'd known of this thread! I was so mad when I found Schwartz salt and pepper grinders were not refillable and I had to throw them...

I think the basic ratchet spanner only ratchets one way - you undo with one side and then turn it over to retighten the nut. A...

Just make sure it's a compressor type - this is not a new technology; fridges are basically unchanged over the last several decades.

Nobody really regards SSB as essential for offshore these days - now sat phones or Garmin Inreach or similar have taken that role. I...

Thank you very much. I'll have to give some thought to doing it that way. I got so caught up in the difficulty of the bending that I...

It's to make a new frame on which the pots sit on top of my cooker. The original was made of mild steel, painted, and has rusted...

How do you bend 5mm stainless wire, please? I would like to bend some into a sort of ____⋂______⋂______ shape - I thought about...

It seems like an eccentric design choice, but it shouldn't be the thing that affects your choice of boat. There were many boats for...

I've edited post #7 to include the image of the replacement too.

Is this any clearer?

The batteries are knackeed because you've run them absolutely flat - down to 11.12V on 2nd October and 10.71V according to the shunt's...

Super White epoxy pigment 00E55

Perhaps that's why I found mine to be rubbish. 🤦‍♂️

It's a little expensive to buy a Victron SmartShunt to address only one problem, but if this is the house bank of your boat and you plan...