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geoffbeaumont

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  1. Low end or high end - it's only really mid range boats (like ours) that use bladders inside an outer shell. Though the high end ones use much tougher materials, or increasingly drop stitched panels like paddle boards.
  2. Rigid hull is always going to be better in the water - for us easier transport means the inflatable gets used far more than a rigid kayak would (we've usually got bikes on the roof). Never had any problems with the dogs in ours:
  3. Our kayak was supplied with a separate (manual) pump and manometer, but I've ended up using the one from our caravan awning instead as that has a manometer built in - it's not as accurate but it's good enough. I'll throw in another vote for a manual pump for the kayak. It's not a lot of effort, quicker, quieter and as eightpot says you can take it with you. Top hint, especially on hot days - if you can, put the boat in the water for a few minutes and the recheck the pressure before you set off. The change in temperature can drop it quite a bit and make the boat overly flexible. The flip side to this is you need to watch out for excessive pressure if you haul out and leave the boat in the sun. Have fun - our kayak has been one of our best purchases of recent years.
  4. That's the first time I've seen a demonstration of VR tech that I've thought I'd actually have a use for.
  5. Appears to have been pulled by the moderators. How on earth do you get something banned on Reddit?!!
  6. Totally - teach them to use it before they decide to have a go anyway! I didn't teach my son how to plug the bandsaw in and fit the safety key, so he couldn't use it unsupervised. He figured it out anyway... He was quite right, though, he did know how to use it safely!
  7. I've swopped from R380 to LT77 in a Discovery without any issues (other than the markings on the gear knob being incorrect), so I don't think you'll have a problem.
  8. He's mostly positive about it, other than the ergonomics.
  9. That would be impressive - there aren't many four berth caravans under 1400kg, and everything is fairly flimsy to achieve that. Our Bailey Ranger is a whisker under 1300kg gross, and not much of that is available payload (it's very easy to overload it). It definitely wouldn't survive anything that remotely qualifies as "off road". Even driving across camp sites shakes it about.
  10. True, but I don't think we've seen him in ages, so he's kind of hard to wind up πŸ˜‰
  11. I'm disappointed - after the intro to that video I was expecting something like the Eagle 1...
  12. I'd agree - though the back end of that pickup is going to need to look a lot better... Square light clusters would help a lot, but that tailgate somehow looks a bit weird too.
  13. That's because the HETAS certification takes care of that - it doesn't mean you aren't required to comply with the building regs. Flue must be above the ridge (and any windows in the vicinity - possibly other roofs too, but not sure about that). ...but this is the reality. When we bought our current house the stove was HETAS installed but didn't comply with regs (inadequate heat shielding to wooden beam, flue top too low, hearth too small). It was dangerous and didn't draught. We couldn't find anyone prepared to touch an existing installation and had to have the whole installation replaced with new.
  14. Could always run it off a 110V portable transformer like tradesmen use for 110V power tools. Bit bulky if you travel with it, but fine if you only use it at home.
  15. Therefore definitely not a successor to the defender then? πŸ˜„
  16. That's at least a tenth of a second off your lap time πŸ˜‰
  17. So the question is - can Nige remember what he ended up using that time...? And, I guess, did it last?
  18. Will gripfill or CT1 handle the temperature?
  19. Given what you've achieved, that seems a bargain!
  20. Lumens are way more useful when buying LED lights anyway - as far as I'm aware there's no legislation governing how "equivalent wattage" is calculated, it's up to the manufacturers. So there can be quite significant differences in the light levels from two bulbs or fittings that claim the same equivalence. Whereas lumens is an actual measure of those light levels.
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