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It's what I use, 600 grit. The Nikasil is only 0.4mm thick so once the aluminium pick up is dissolved you shouldn't need to do much.

In my post I should have made it clear you must have a new ring. You can use a broken bit of the old ring to cut the ring grove by turning it around and rolling it into the groove so it cuts the smeared aluminium. This is by no means an ideal fix. The ring not only seals against the cylinder wall but also between the top and bottom of the groove so it will never be as good as a new ring in a new piston.

It has seized, maybe from running on neat petrol, it looks near new so not as likely to be an air leak. Don't try and do any more with that coarse scratching paper, it needs something much finer but only after any aluminium from the piston that has friction welded itself to the bore is removed by chemical means. Some use acid but I use repeated applications of a gel type caustic oven cleaner applied with a cotton but. I keep doing it and leaving for an hour or so until there is no white residue from the chemical. Then wash off thoroughly. If you cannot find a new piston I'd risk cleaning up the ring lands and smoothing the piston skirt and re using it, it will never be as good as new and will need considerate use. The bit you have tried to clean is not as important as the bit above the exhaust port.

Does the top bit come off? This is essential on a narrowboat where the freeboard is sometimes only a couple of inches above the deck, indeed with Isabella we have had to shift bags of coal to the front to get an even keel to pass under a bridge. Is the Morso S11 one that could be used on boats, you recommended it to me for a small room

I mentioned this low draught problem earlier in the thread, as the top couple of feet of stack has to be easily removable and stowable it tends to be single skinned with a simple terminating cover, so only the bottom 4 ft can be a well insulated Poujoulat twin wall. The only way round the low draught problem I can see would be a simple induced draught arrangement using a small 12V centrifugal fan of a couple of Watts in an ejector configuration. In practice we avoided burning wood near residential areas

I haven't got off the first page yet but it's a bit telling that the value of housing is 51% of the country'e net worth compared to 26% in Germany. One of the more bullish brexiteers here pointed out to me that there was a lot of inward investment from abroad, I imagine a lot of that is in housing thus increasing the demand and what is the elasticity of demand for property? I can't see right to roam getting far as from personal experience other than in the popular walking areas PROWs are getting used less and currently under threat from wealthy householders diverting or closing them largely unopposed ( I do not object to paths being diverted away from houses in general but there should be a consideration for the public).

Yes it didn't go unnoticed but... ...a well known rule of the internet... ...is that if one comments on grammar or spelling there will inevitably a typo or mistake in your own post. Having commented recently on ill judged use of English in another thread I'll get me coat

Did you read it Noel? I'm way behind on reading things and I really don't want to waste time on this if it is absolute cloud cuckoo land.

Yes but it's younger than the Dosko chipper and both still in use see it on the Post your stump grinding photos thread

When the boss first bought the Dosko it didn't have a clutch for the cutting wheel so moving it about was a bit disconcerting, I never risked putting it on the truck for fear of graunching the aluminium body. Much later he had the magnetic clutch fitted which made it a lot more civilised.

bird cherry and if I'm right that is one of the commonest trees people ask an ID for on here

Yup Isabella has one then, although it is plumbed for the propane boiler that's never used but the engine coolant does heat it.

calorifier much the same as a buffer tank isn't it?

Get a CO alarm whatever you burn Propane leaks are a big danger in a boat as it initially stays at the bottom and then deflagrates when it reaches a flame. Also remember to remove the stack before low bridges I wonder if it is the short chimney on the Morso Squirrel that makes it difficult to burn wood as cleanly as my s11 at home. As keeping a fire in is essential on the boat in winter it runs mostly on smokeless coal

Y I luv it

...And Cain didn't get along with his brother long ago

NGK do solid terminals, a quick search shows the equivalent seems to be https://www.ngk.com/product.aspx?zpid=9432 Click the "specs" tab finding one in UK may be a problem though

I'm sure your quote would have been reasonable but given the distance you would have needed to travel it may well have not been competitive, to say another quote would be fairer one could infer you were not going to be fair about something.

very poor choice of words boss

I wonder if a dealer like @GardenKit can advise if there is a solid tip equivalent for that BPM7A?

How hard are you doing the screw top? When you replace it with a new plug ask for the NGK equivalent with a solid top.

Are you sure the screw on piece at the top of the plug is not retained on the spring in the cap and you just need a new plug and screw top?

Ash seems to attract boring insects very soon after felling, more so than any other timber in my log pile, and I suppose with that goes quick entry for saprophytic fungi that weaken it.

Looks like a wild service tree, Sorbus torminalis, although the bark looks a bit smooth so may be one of the hybrids.

A teflon coated manager caused one of our subbies to do something he shouldn't have, because the subby failed to indicate when he joined a dual carriageway the copper pulled him. Then he realised there was more than one contravention and started seeing what else the lad could be charged with. An interesting one was driving with a trailer with defective brakes, there was nothing wrong with the brakes but the subby had failed to connect the breakaway cable (as he was only intending to drive to the next layby a few hundred yards further on). He then decided to go for the company with the O licence requirement (we had one but obviously not displayed in the window of the transit). I took the unladen trailer to the council weighbridge, photographed it and had the manager sign the weigh ticket with all the trailer details. It went to court and our barrister submitted the proof and the case against the company was dismissed, the book was thrown at the subby and I never saw him again.