Recent content by penfold

The photo is not clear but it looks rather like the end of a stiff nut.

Stop encouraging the OP to fill his inflatable with water!?! They need to unscrew the valve and either wash the grit out of it or fit a new valve.

There's no evidence in the video and the keel missing from the hulk washed ashore means nothing.

Sounds like it's inadvisable unless you use an outboard for power or have a stripper or similar on the prop shaft. :(

Exposed to sea water they will turn that colour pretty quickly; they would have been shiny when the boat was new.

The fruitier districts of north Glasgow can have lively wildlife, I recommend Royal Navy pattern cutlasses to repel potential boarders. 😁 It should just fit through but you'll be sniffing the bottom as you'll be slightly over the maximum recommended draft, reduce this by running with as much...

Loads of videos on valve maintenance available.

I have a brand new VP valve with the round plastic handle that I acquired in a box of jumble, make me an offer.

Someone detailed it on one of the marathon gas bottle threads.

It is against the letter of the law but unless you immolate yourself and a bus full of nuns and kittens there's less chance of you suffering legal consequences than winning the lottery while identifying Jack the Ripper.

No idea, but LSA that needs serviced or is out of date is returned to the supplier; my employer has dozens of ships so it's probably a multiyear contract, we file a work order on the maintenance system, someone in the office approves it and sends it to the contractor and a van appears on the...

That's approximately double what you'll need to do your boat going by the info supplied(13.4x4, 12mm thick and all horizontal surfaces.) I have assumed no wastage, which is a ridiculous assumption but I'm not a joiner nor a sawyer and have no idea what wastage would be appropriate.

With the refillable you can do both? If the poster has a nearby autogas outlet or plans on cruising near such outlets they can do that. Not having a rusty steel bottle on board has intangible benefits too.

It doesn't matter on the Ardic as it's a crossflow heat exchanger, I'd be surprised if it is different with any replacement. Could you post the diagram for the replacement? What's wrong with the Ardic units, there's not much to them, just a heat exchanger and a fan?

Not for boaty oddments; if you were selling a Scrip Thribbly left-handed Hoojimaflip and I wanted one, provided you wrote the description in literate english and photographed the item adequately I'd ignore the absence of feedback as between paypal and ebay I'm quite well protected against...