Recent content by tobble

Tighten stern gland -easy peasy. suggest you search for threads on the subject here, and if that doesn't produce a result, take a photo or two and start a new thread. Interior refurb - how long is a piece of string? also depends a lot on what sort of boat you have, but this could be simple...

Sikaflex 291 Spread all over the plate - evenly. squirt it on with the mastic gun then spread it out with a scraper or whatever, such as to avoid air pockets. assemble it, but don't crank the nuts/bolts right up for 24 hrs, so you don't squeeze out all the sealant... but being trim tabs that...

but unless you can drive one car up your mast and keep the other on the foredeck, in a F7+ that won't help. You need to be able to apply tension in situ, and you can't get around that. I looked into this and there isn't a bodge you can rely on - and if you need a storm job, you want to be sure...

I concur 25mm diameter is way over the top - however most cable is rated in terms of cross sectional area, and 25mm2 is about right. It of course depends on how long the run is, and how much voltage drop you can tolerate (which is not a lot for engine starting...). I installed 35mm2 throughout...

That is amazing - three tools to build an entire house (and I bet he could have used the only the axe if he felt like it)

doesn't look like it would go to windward very well. slightly more seriously, has modern art dissapeared so far up its own backside that a mildly ammusing pub idea gets picked up and run with, with some tricky engineering, presumably not done by the 'artist' himself (although I may be...

+1 If for some odd reason you don't win, you could offer to build them a better webiste than the godawful thing they have now, for the price of, say, one windane...

right, this thread looks like it's overdue some complication and confusion. Prob doesn't have the posh hard drive thing, but have you seen these: http://fit-pc.co.uk/Fit_PC/Fit_PC_2.html barely sips the power (10 or 12W), keeping your batteries happy, and removing cooling issues, it's compact...

I had the same problem and the only source of a replacement Arrow I could find was marine megastore. However, the cost of the replacement arrow is almost as much as the whole unit, and if yor chandler stocks them it'll be cheaper by the time you've paid postage, especially to forn parts. you...

power supply sounds like a great product, but for 60 quid I could buy a complete set of bedazzled bulbs if pasarell's report is accurate, and don't have to faf with power supplies...

apologies if i'm hijacking the thread, but on the radio interference issue - We've replaced some of our buls with Searolf LED's, which render FM reception unlistenable. not actually tried MW band, but cd playing is unaffected. at the mo we just revert to the lights we didn't swap bulbs in when...

Thanks for the replies so far. The cruiser forum thread has some possible options, but I'm still trawling through that. Spyro is quite right, although lots of monitors I've seen have internal transformers. It might be a case of going down that sort of route, but I was keen to find something...

can anyone recommend a PC monitor that can be run straight of 12V, in the order or 15 - 17" display, and draws as little power as possible? LED screens (not just LED backlit) seem to be claiming to be more efficient than LCD but can't seem to substnatiate this, or for that matter find anything...

Small cast iron stove, perhaps a Suffolk Orford model, with distinct pattern cast into the side plates - a ship with an anchor design in the sail. Flue also taken, but nothing else at all, so suspect this was 'to order'. Stolen from boat at lower Foxhangers, Devizes, Wiltshire, on 27th-28th...

Pin prick in gaffers would work, at the mo it's masking tape with no hole, but that seems to have a well calibrated leak already! Stu, as soon as I read Vic's post I realised what I'd done, but you're quite right. Unfortuneately, it's not a simple matter of swaping th hoses round, as some wise...