Judders
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Are their any issues with corosion? (I know the tin will rust, but beyond that). The boat is GRP with an iron keel.
Keeping a quality street tin in the bilges
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awol
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The sweeties will go all mushy when the tin corrodes. Go to a tupperware party and enjoy yourself!
Poignard
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Anyone who can keep a tin of Quality Street long enough for it to go rusty must have tremendous self-control. In this household the lid never goes back on /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
Judders
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Can I clarify that this is a Quality Street tin. It is no longer a tin of Quality Street. However @ was only musing the other day that I had too much stuff in the toolbag and needed to decant spare parts to another container and then sealants and glues to yet another, when the time came to throw out the finished tins in the office.
Poignard
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I see.
If it helps - a similar sized plastic box of Fox's chocolate biscuits will be emptied here within the next few hours. You are welcome to have it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
If it helps - a similar sized plastic box of Fox's chocolate biscuits will be emptied here within the next few hours. You are welcome to have it. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
smeaks
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wait till there are only the big yellow toffee ones left and keep them for emregancy hull repairs.
AIDY
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alternatively an empty box of roses would keep the bilge smelling nice !
So which of the QS sweets get left at the bottom of the tin in your house ? it's always the blue coconut one's here ! toffee one's seem to disappear first.
So which of the QS sweets get left at the bottom of the tin in your house ? it's always the blue coconut one's here ! toffee one's seem to disappear first.
AIDY
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their the one's that go first !
matelot
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grp boat - there should be nothing but dust in the bilge so no problem except rattles etc.
there are better tool containers.
there are better tool containers.
planteater
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I use the plastic boxes from Jacobs crackers. Very useful and they come in a boaty hi-vis orange colour.
nimbusgb
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A metal tin with metal tools will rot in the blink of an eye!
Shiver Metimbers
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Go to a tupperware party and enjoy yourself!
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Do these things still exist? thought it was all Ann Summers now? Anyone for a pee and pie supper.
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Go to a tupperware party and enjoy yourself!
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Do these things still exist? thought it was all Ann Summers now? Anyone for a pee and pie supper.
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Some chocolates have a plastic "tin". What do you prioritise?????
webcraft
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The only advantage of a tin is that you can put your hh electronics in it in a thunderstorm if you don't have an oven. Otherwise plastic boxes are infinitely better.
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john_morris_uk
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grp boat - there should be nothing but dust in the bilge so no problem except rattles etc.
there are better tool containers.
[/ QUOTE ]I often wonder how people manage to have dry bilges.
Our anchor chain locker doesn't drain over board and together with the odd bit of condensation there is always a bit of water in our GRP bilge.
I am not aware of any leaks - in fact the boat is remarkably dry and sweet smelling.
grp boat - there should be nothing but dust in the bilge so no problem except rattles etc.
there are better tool containers.
[/ QUOTE ]I often wonder how people manage to have dry bilges.
Our anchor chain locker doesn't drain over board and together with the odd bit of condensation there is always a bit of water in our GRP bilge.
I am not aware of any leaks - in fact the boat is remarkably dry and sweet smelling.
matelot
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I sometimes wonder why grp boats have wet bilges. bit surprised the anchor locker drains into the bilges - in a longish passage ion rough weather, sometimes dipping the bow, you could get a serious amount of water inboard.
I dont get any in my bilges at all - but annoyingly I do get a drop in my chart table. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Leaky window not yet mended
I dont get any in my bilges at all - but annoyingly I do get a drop in my chart table. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Leaky window not yet mended
john_morris_uk
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I sometimes wonder why grp boats have wet bilges. bit surprised the anchor locker drains into the bilges - in a longish passage ion rough weather, sometimes dipping the bow, you could get a serious amount of water inboard.
I dont get any in my bilges at all - but annoyingly I do get a drop in my chart table. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Leaky window not yet mended
[/ QUOTE ]Hmm,
Wet bilges are quite easy to achieve
Little drip from the stern gland? (ours doesn't drip by the way)
Bit of condensation?
Dripping oilies?
Its quite hard to get green water across our bow and even if you do there's a cover over the hawse pipe. The cover isn't 100% water proof (its got the chain going down it after all) but the cover sheds green water coming across the deck. When you raise the anchor, the dripping chain drains back into the bilge. Its not an unusual arrangement.
Ou wet store for the oilies are hooks under the companionway ladder. They drip onto the cabin sole underneath which has holes in it which drain into the bilge.
When I remove the log to clean it, I get a few pints into the bilge. I can mop most of it up, but some invariably gets through the limber holes and into the bilge under the saloon table and eventually gets into the deep bilge where the pump is just aft of this at the bottom of the companionway.
I sponge the deep bilge out every now and again,but there's usually a bit of water in there and frankly I've given up worrying about it. My feeling is that life is too short to worry about such things.
I sometimes wonder why grp boats have wet bilges. bit surprised the anchor locker drains into the bilges - in a longish passage ion rough weather, sometimes dipping the bow, you could get a serious amount of water inboard.
I dont get any in my bilges at all - but annoyingly I do get a drop in my chart table. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif Leaky window not yet mended
[/ QUOTE ]Hmm,
Wet bilges are quite easy to achieve
Little drip from the stern gland? (ours doesn't drip by the way)
Bit of condensation?
Dripping oilies?
Its quite hard to get green water across our bow and even if you do there's a cover over the hawse pipe. The cover isn't 100% water proof (its got the chain going down it after all) but the cover sheds green water coming across the deck. When you raise the anchor, the dripping chain drains back into the bilge. Its not an unusual arrangement.
Ou wet store for the oilies are hooks under the companionway ladder. They drip onto the cabin sole underneath which has holes in it which drain into the bilge.
When I remove the log to clean it, I get a few pints into the bilge. I can mop most of it up, but some invariably gets through the limber holes and into the bilge under the saloon table and eventually gets into the deep bilge where the pump is just aft of this at the bottom of the companionway.
I sponge the deep bilge out every now and again,but there's usually a bit of water in there and frankly I've given up worrying about it. My feeling is that life is too short to worry about such things.