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Thanks all, i did search but struggled a bit, the links are great, have ordered one of the kits as it would be handy for those non planned jobs and saves me sourcing all the bits separately ! Stay safe! Cheers Stu

Afternoon Everyone If I'm doing any maintenance on the boat I tend to lug the big tool box down to her, but find tend to find I only use a few of the tools out from the there. Normally I have a couple screwdrivers, pliers, leathermans knife, adjustable wrench and a cable cutter kept on the...

Sorry for bring up an old post, finally managed to get down to purchase the HX300E yesterday, really happy with it. Thanks for the advice. Cheers Stu

Thanks all for the responses, defiantly pause for thought on the Horizon. I have some Force 4 gift vouchers so will need to have a chat with SWMBO aka the Bank Manager to see what additional funds I can have ! Thanks again Cheers Stu

Evening Just a quick one, looking to get a handheld VHF to backup my fixed VHF on my Hanse 301. On a very tight budget (sub £90)so looking at the Cobra HH125 or the Radio Ocean 2400 VHF. Limited reviews, any suggestions on which is best... Cheers Stu

Thanks both, sorry RichardS, too many acronyms, yes, not use the OAT type. VicS - not sure on the water type, I think its medium so will play safe and get ready mixed. Along the lines, would this be the one...

Morning Just a quick one, I've got a Volvo Penta MD2020D, looking to change the coolant out, I know not to use IAT coolant but which one is suitable if I was in Halfords! They have a silicate based one .. blue in colour, would this be the right one ? Cheers Stu

SWMBO has given me a pass for Tuesday eves next year, just need to juggle all the other things on but could be interesting with two 301's !!!!

Mine was a donor boat for my 25ft cruiser, all I wanted was the engine and leg so it was surplus .. didn't have the time or funds to restore that one.

My 16ft speed boat hull, failed to give it away so 3 days before moving house - 2 angle grinders and a saw, 3 trips to the tip with 3 x 3 ft pieces ! Cheers Stu

+1 for the sales, my issue is they took payment but failed to supply the jacket, because of this i missed out on other jackets with different suppliers - when your talking about 50 to 60% off the RRP and your offered 15% off the RRP ... need i say more ! I agree it was the stock levels /...

Evening I would like to say how good Musto kit is but due to their online ordering system I missed out any jacket in the sale.... I registered to received notification when one of the jackets became back into stock, received an email at 23:30, by midnight all ordered and the money taken via...

I sorted the sim900 by uping the ampage to 2 amps (via a 9v 2amp into the mega), as its a breakout board, ground, VCC into the 5v and RX TX into the relevant Serial2 pins. At the moment its been up for 2 days - not tweaked my code yet!!!, occasionally it does fail to run the url the script but...

I'm using a sim900 breakout board with a Sainsbury mobile sim card, 4 pence per text for the sms response side of the code and via HTTP Action to one of my websites, all passed in a single url then using PHP to send to a MySQL database. Cheers Stu

Hi Martin Which temp / hum sensor do you use, I've got a couple DHT11 units which side by side are out by a few degrees against each other and against a DS18S20. Cheers Stu