Recent content by Mike2309

No but seriously, it's dead easy . Here's all you need to know !

Could that mysterious centre turn be a spliced grommet which is used to adjust the size of the bight then held in place by the 2 hitches?

If my 45 year old O Level Chem serves me right , and on the amended formula - 116g Butane burned will produce 180g (cc) Water (is that about 3 eggcupsfull ?) The spec of the OP's heater says that's a bit over an hour's worth of gas at full bore, so the 20 minute blasts of heating that other...

Me too - and you can retrieve the weight with your float, though you might need 2 or 3 tides to get it ashore. Can I add that those air weights assume that you are using just concrete (Obviously a ton of balsa wood in a bag would not make a very good clump) it's the weight in water that matters...

Thanks Cliff. I don't have thread gauges, so thanks for your help.Question asked and answered before breakfast. Now to find a centre to fix up the lathe to turn up a mallet and have a crack at carving the name boards.... for the boat! There we are, just 5 degrees of separation from boatiness so...

I'm trying to equip my little Picador lathe (wood) with a new live centre but can't figure out the thread size of the tailstock. It has a male and female thread the larger(male) is 0.6186" OD and has 7 threads in 7/16ths " (0.0729166" pitch?) The smaller, internal tapping takes a small drill...

And another.. ..vote of thanks.

I've been there with the micro-woodburner idea. Joined an evening class at a Tech College for access to Engineering workshop machinery (and the expertise of the "regulars" who were all retired engineers making Steam Locos ) I made a huge folding anchor and a tiny stove for my 20' Dauntless. The...

I have a Pandora 23 and 4HP in the well is enough. But what a real PITA the well itself is though! The noise and (presumably) the drag of water swirling around in it if you don't take the outboard out and plug it (underway at that). The Pandora came with it's well plug bolted in and adapted for...

" With regards (sic) (but that isn't the real problem) - to how close you can travel to a turbine, the RYA calls for a minimum underwater clearance of 4m below chart datum" - Offshore windfarm article in Yachting Monthly, June 2012. I can't quite fathom what this means. Can anyone help?

Oh come on people !! It's a workaday runabout with a history of a variety of uses and abuses, patchings (and bodgings!) misadventures and possibly adventures. I don't intend to get too precious about it. I shall put it back into usable order, fit it out with a lugsail I made some years ago for...

Moving the transom forward was already part of the plan . I think I'll go with that, screws, mastic and the extra frame copper-riveted both ways. (plus West Epoxy into the edge of the ply) . As for "get a bit of Mahogany" - heresy it may be to use plywood, but I really cannot justify shipping a...

12' Clinker built dinghy: original transom was mahogany, replacement will be 1" ply. Fixings are square copper boat nails. I have some, but I'm not sure they will be as effective edgewise into ply. So, ring-shank nails, screws? Perhaps an additional frame made up to fit in the angle and fixed...

proposed amendment to Lakeregs d) The 9d rule: It is possible to slam-dunk win an argument about Lakeregs: someone else has to mention the word “Lakeregs” (in that exact format, - if they say “the rules” or other stuff then you can’t leap in with this killer ) - and then after that WHOEVER...

Ah - you've really played an ace there ! (you did say a cup of tea and a cake didn't you?)