Projecting Bolts

[Chris Deuchar]

On 20 Aug 98 at 6:14, David....@sb.com wrote:

> At the back end of last year I took my fender, which by then was
> trailing a few bits cut rope, to Pete Flockhart, the fender man,
> at Braunston. He commented that I was not the first person who
> had complained to him about projecting bolts ripping fenders. He
> made a damn good repair for me by putting a turks head round it.
> He also commented (with tongue in cheek) that the projecting
> bolts were good for business and hire boats would get through a
> fender per season.
>
> Should representations be made to BW that they should revert to
> countersunk bolts?

I would be inclined to send them a bill - yes seriously!

It's only the financial pressures that will make them change.

OTOH they might just pay and do nothing (as happened with a 100ukp
bill for propellor damage due to some submerged concrete on the
Regents Canal...)

Chris D

[David....@sb.com]

I wrote:

> At the back end of last year I took my fender, which by then was
> trailing a few bits cut rope, to Pete Flockhart, the fender man,
> at Braunston. He commented that I was not the first person who
> had complained to him about projecting bolts ripping fenders. He
> made a damn good repair for me by putting a turks head round it.
> He also commented (with tongue in cheek) that the projecting
> bolts were good for business and hire boats would get through a
> fender per season.
>
> Should representations be made to BW that they should revert to
> countersunk bolts?

Chris Deuchar responded:

>I would be inclined to send them a bill - yes seriously!

>It's only the financial pressures that will make them change.

>OTOH they might just pay and do nothing (as happened with a 100ukp
>bill for propellor damage due to some submerged concrete on the
>Regents Canal...)

Thanks for the tip about sending them the bill. I'm afraid in
this case it won't work as Pete Flockhart, being the nice bloke
he is and we being mooring neighbours, did the repair free of
charge.

Perhaps BW are unaware that projecting bolts do cause a problem.
Am I right in thinking that there are only two or three BW yards
that make gates? Would a word in two or three ears do the trick?

Regards,

Dave 'Bolthead' Hearmon

[sull...@axxia.com]

>Perhaps BW are unaware that projecting bolts do cause a problem.=20
>Am I right in thinking that there are only two or three BW yards=20

>that make gates? Would a word in two or three ears do the trick?
>Regards,
>Dave 'Bolthead' Hearmon

They're not stick-on boltheads, are they? :-)

Dave Sullivan

[Billyboy]

On 20 Aug 1998 11:31:16 -0000, in uk.rec.waterways you
wrote:

> On 20 Aug 98 at 6:14, David....@sb.com wrote:

> > Should representations be made to BW that they should revert to
> > countersunk bolts?

To which Chris D replied:

> I would be inclined to send them a Bill ...

Er .... Which one? And if this one, what do you expect me
to do?

Toodle pip!!

Bill