Robin
Well-Known Member
Keep mending it until it\'s broken
I did a temporary fix the the fridge thermostat capilliary 5 years ago, attached it to the cooling plate with a cable tie when the fixing clip vanished. Saturday, I found a suitable clip from an unused nav light housing and decided to do a proper job. Unfortunately the capilliary tube didn't like being disturbed and snapped, leaving us on a 3 day weekend with a full but non working fridge.
Well we kept the food cool with bags of ice from Waitrose on day one but on day 2 decided to get 2 more bags and some heavy 2 core cable (I'll get to that) from LYH marina (ice) and chandlery (cable). Now to avoid carrying bags of melting ice too far and too long we decided to put the Honda 2hp on the dinghy and motor there rather than row ashore at Lymington Quay and walk. The outboard had not been run since last August and, despite the anti-gumming fuel additive decided a) to leak fuel as soon as the tap was 'on' and b) not to run on open throttle because it was gummed up again. OK, so plan b) row ashore at Berthon and buy ice there, whilst there to walk up to the chandlers at LYH for the cable.
The cable was required to replace a section of wiring from our fixed solar panel, which we had discovered was defective. After several hours of replacing the wiring with new and sitting with a coffee and a multitester, I decided to test the old cables I had removed - perfect! The break which caused the problem was in the first 3", where it exited the terminal box and water had got in via a chafed cut. Now had I reakised where the break was I could have simply snipped off 3" and reconnected the existing wires in about 3 minutes.
Don't you just love boats?
I did a temporary fix the the fridge thermostat capilliary 5 years ago, attached it to the cooling plate with a cable tie when the fixing clip vanished. Saturday, I found a suitable clip from an unused nav light housing and decided to do a proper job. Unfortunately the capilliary tube didn't like being disturbed and snapped, leaving us on a 3 day weekend with a full but non working fridge.
Well we kept the food cool with bags of ice from Waitrose on day one but on day 2 decided to get 2 more bags and some heavy 2 core cable (I'll get to that) from LYH marina (ice) and chandlery (cable). Now to avoid carrying bags of melting ice too far and too long we decided to put the Honda 2hp on the dinghy and motor there rather than row ashore at Lymington Quay and walk. The outboard had not been run since last August and, despite the anti-gumming fuel additive decided a) to leak fuel as soon as the tap was 'on' and b) not to run on open throttle because it was gummed up again. OK, so plan b) row ashore at Berthon and buy ice there, whilst there to walk up to the chandlers at LYH for the cable.
The cable was required to replace a section of wiring from our fixed solar panel, which we had discovered was defective. After several hours of replacing the wiring with new and sitting with a coffee and a multitester, I decided to test the old cables I had removed - perfect! The break which caused the problem was in the first 3", where it exited the terminal box and water had got in via a chafed cut. Now had I reakised where the break was I could have simply snipped off 3" and reconnected the existing wires in about 3 minutes.
Don't you just love boats?
