Ballast dam floods cement & new 296 fuel filters for Bukh. Expedition lifeboat conversion Ep121 [4K]
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EPISODE 121
Weather has limited outside work, so I'm prepping for the travel season by swapping out fuel filters, and improving the ballast underneath the battery box. I've also finally received three new batteries to bolster our power storage aboard.
Company of the day to avoid:
offgridinstaller.com/ Off-Grid Installer aka Leigh Naylor
Products mentioned:
Unbrako socket bolts M12 50mm - 1.75 pitch (incorrect for Bukh) 1.5 pitch (correct for Bukh)
1.5mm stainless steel mirror sheet
Delphi 296 fuel filter cartridge
Bostik Cementone cement
Leoch 12V 210Ah Pure Lead Carbon battery
Leoch 12V 180A Deep Cycle battery
Feel free to ask any questions in the comments!
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Love that he's watching the Martian in the background while filming! keep up the good work, have watched your progress from the beginning and enjoying the adventure with you.
Remember, it was in the comedy genre!
I hate those businesses. Awful companies with awful service but still pushed on search engines and by some shill sites. Thank You for sharing your experience.
Great work and progress as always.
Alex struggling to not laugh while wobbling that board was a treat 😆
It's banned apparently 🤫
Here in Sweden, it used to be easy to get everything from bolts to gaskets, filters, ball bearings, etc. quick and at a good price. That is no longer the case. The fact that more and more sellers on the web are pure crooks, is of course one of the reasons for that. I understand your frustration. Great video as always!👍
Another great video man. I look forward to them every week.
Remember if a brand has filters you are not paying for a higher quality filter you are just paying for their name to be on it. For storing the filters do a light spray of WD40 on the bare metal out and inside then cover. That will prolong the storage time and will not hurt the engine later on when you use it. Just some advice from an old Marine engineer.
Cheers
You are highlighting a problem we are all wrestling with when ordering online. Cheap, easy and quick to have a slick, professional website with invites to treat. Could be something behind the website or just an utter sham organisation. The old principle of caveat emptor applies but difficult to apply in all cases - the con men are cleverer and oilier than us.
Nice. Thank you for sharing your experience with these companies, whether positive or, as in this case, extremely negative.
I will try to offer more positive customer service examples!
The 1970s era gas pumps at my work have decals advising one to only use genuine Baldwin filters and parts.
Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge. Gives room for expansion 😂
Abigail, Bellatrix, Carla, Dolores...... Fiona, Gertrude 😂
Ann-Marie, Beatrice, Claudine, Dominique, Eliane, and Francoise.
A local machine shop should be able to pop a few bolts out in the thread you need in a pinch
They need to be super high spec with flawless QC, but yes for less important jobs 👍
Bingo, Bango, Bongo, Irving, & Clide for battery Names. The Mosquitoes from Gilligan's Island.
We have a heavy equipment repair shop in town and they can always source my weird spec bolts😂
I've used Baldwin filters for many years on my tractor trailer over here in the US, and I never had a problem with them. If you are worried about particulates that much consider placing a small magnet at the bottom of your filter to catch and trap metal and rust shavings inside of the filter.
We use Baldwin filters on locomotives in the US as well. Along with the ground equipment at an airport I worked at a long time ago. They are decent filters
Cheers
Once the Alan adventure finishes, you could just order stuff and review the experience. This is great fun each time.
Ha! I thought these reviews might start annoying people (not the businesses, who I'm happy to annoy)
Names:
Beginning and ending with the same letter:
ApneA
BaobaB
CognaC
DeaD
EarachE
FuckofF
GoinG
Girl's names:
Anastasia
Barbara
Claudia
Daria
Ekaterina
Felicia
Galina
To do with batteries:
Ampere
Battery
Cell or capacity or circuit or charge
Discharge
Electrolyte
Failure
Gel
Re your bolt sourcing problems, it might be worth calling your local MAN Truck & Bus dealer. I seem to recall they used fine pitch metric bolts and they were very good quality.
I didn't know there was a 10pm?! I love your 'honest' approach, showing you facing your adversities and dealing with them. Stay positive.
Cheers
Battery names
Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb
As there is two Pughs can use Captain Flack for one 😊
Boanerges. Son of thunder. The name T. E. Lawrence gave to his collection of motorcycles, individually called George I, II, III, etc.
Try smiling 🙂
Alpha , Bravo, Charlie ,Delta
For the Battery names
Ace-ee, Delco, Robert, and Charlie.
'E' for Ernest, of course! The rest should have good polar explorer names... Amundsen, etc. Fram for F! Or Fritjof, of course.
The weather is warming up, so you all know what that means. Alan will soon resume his conquest of Europe, and later the entire Earth! I for one welcome our orange overlord.
Quite. May the gods of TH-cam be with us.
Baldwin filters are good, I have used them on my 135 Hino diesels for years.
Cheers
Off grid battery man is probably operating part time dropship from "company" HQ.......a 1 bed flat above the local chippy.
a 1 bed flat above the *local chippy * Flat = apartment. Cool. Got it. "Local Chippy"? What is that, please?
Fish & chip shop.
as the clocks have changed due to sheer bloody mindedness as opposed to actual usefulness, Bugger the schoolkids No not literally that would be wrong in so many ways, but being kids they have eyes way better for the dark than the average adult, expect your Sun deck to be finished by the next episode & presented in the traditional lime green mankeeny & as yo are a tad north of york u can also have a string vest coz reasons 🙂 gr8 shiz as per cheers.
Those are "GREY" rocks.
I knew I had the brightest corner of TH-cam audiences on my channel.
Love that you watching the Martian with a glass of white wine while doing the voice over.
That company sounds like a right shamble and the guy running sounds like a con artist.
I think I should have started from the first video rather than the latest but at least I have something new on my watch list.
Cheers!
I don't actually do the voice over there. I have an echo-free zone next door with pop filters etc.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I try to learn as much as possible from TH-camrs like your self you are clearly a seasoned film/Video producer judging by the standard of your videos. Are those all your books that pop up at the end of the video?
Oh I'm very amateur at production. Yep! My books at the start and end of many vids :)
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I will take a look at the books, I’ve been looking for some good books to read.
Thanks for continuing to share your victories and trials and tribulations. It must be unending frustration with the online retail cowboys that pretend to be reputable businesses. Hope you get some better luck with that. The stern is looking good with the platform. Keep going and thoroughly enjoying the Alan updates.
Cheers - it's appreciated
Shame to hear that you had an experience like this. Since an incident last year i do check companies for reviews these days. Took them two weeks to ship a blummin' socket! The bastards.
If you ever get the money together for a fancy pants LPF battery system upgrade id suggest MG energy systems. Ive been to their place, they really do make some fancy marine grade stuff.
Earth Rocks
11:48 - Um- most tape won't do anything about the corrosion of metal underneath it? Unless you're using some very special tape I'm not aware of(or I'm completely missing something), I'd suggest vacuum-bagging it with desiccant or filling it with oil of some sort.
The continuing work looks great Alex. Are you billeting aboard ? Would be interesting to have some clips showing / explaining the messing and sleeping setup.
Oh, I shall when it's not embarrassing to do so!
Reading Polar Eskimo now.Just read through the episode with Thor, nearly had to put the book away for a bit.
How do you look back at this episode now that time has passes?
Cheers for giving it a read. Yes, the Thor moment was horrendous. I don't want to spoil how it ends though, so won't comment yet!
@AlexHibbertOriginals Maybe with a big spoiler alert, is there a special mention of what happened to him in the end. I finished the book only the epilogue and appendix left, which I am saving for the weekend.
Maybe I read over it.
Thank you for a great read
if you brave, you could fill in holes with weild, drill and and re-tap the holes for the screws you want. you just have to make sure everything is still in balance
Goodness! Brings me out in a cold sweat.
Al-Excreat, you are welcome 😅
You mentioned additives to your fuel and water dispersant was one of them. You have a fuel filter which does a great job of separation whilst avoiding combining fuel plus water into solution (? the science of dispersion). I am wary of a lot of additives although I do use a diesel performance additive. Perhaps leave the filter to do what it does best rather than disperse water and fuel into the system. As mild corollary the "leak seal" additives marketed to to seal say radiator leaks simply gum up your coolant supply and rarely work. This sort of snake oil is to be wary of. Perhaps buy the ring of immortality spruiked many years ago by an enterprising individual Alex Chiu. Not sure if he is still alive though
Cheers for the input. Agreed on the leak seal stuff being a false economy.
The only additives I've used are water dispersers/bug killer, and some Redex.
Sounds like you need to drill and tap those engine bolt holes.
I'd be far, far too fearful to redesign a functional flywheel.
I hope the slime in the fuel filter isn't diesel bug ?
9:25
Have you considered drilling out the uncommon bolt thread and using helicoils with regular fine thread bolts?
I'd be far, far too fearful to redesign a functional flywheel.
Names for the batteries: Amundsen, Battuta, Cousteau
Ampy McAmpface
Another sad tale of a business which does not deserve to be in business.
Wow, the Bukh parts are incredibly expensive.
It is not just cement which can find small leaks. One of my hobbies is woodturning. Sometimes we need to use epoxy resin to fill cracks and voids. It is amazing how challenging it can be to create a seal on oddly shaped piece of wood to attempt to prevent the resin from going all over the place. Thin CA (superglue) is even more challenging.
Dave.
Looks like you need a new clock 🕑 battery. 🙂
Correct twice per day. Positivity please.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals
I really did not want to come across as a “negative Nancy” by saying that. That’s the reason I put a smiley face at the end.
While listening to you I noticed that the clock was not ticking.
I really enjoy your channel and admire your sense of adventure and dedication.
Apologies, if it came across as a criticism.
It was only a light hearted observation.
When I go extra-dry, it confuses the best of people!
Baron, Baxter, Beacher, Beaman. Old English names.
Hello Alex, noticed you are repalcing your battery but it seems like you will have problems soon with your batteries because you put a new battery into the old battery bank, they have differnet internal resistance meaning the charging capability of the batteries will be different, risks of charging and discharging Issues: Mixing batteries with different states of health and charge/discharge characteristics can lead to issues with balancing, where some batteries may be overcharged while others are undercharged. This can result in reduced overall battery bank performance and lifespan. This is something that your battery seller should advise you. need be careful if the batteries are in high frequency use.
stick with beta and avoid lots of problems, it's a basic Kubota farm tractor motor with a marine heat exchange attached
Right! I'll disconnect and hoik out the Bukh immediately.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Do whatever you like, but the first thing (in that situation) I would have done was buy a die and made my own bolts
The first thing wouldn't have been to buy the correct bolts?
I think i might have opted for unmounting the diesel filter housing before messing with the o-rings etc. The placement of this is really poor.
😁👌
Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf. The US Army isn't horribly inventive.
The phonetic alphabet isn't exclusive to the USA - apart from some quite odd choices that don't make sense internationally.
@@dancarter482 If you're getting an EAM message it's amazing how well you can write those phonetics down.
LiFe batteries off the list because of price and they don't do well in the cold?
Every battery video, another comment on 'batteries in the cold' myths!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I'm confused by this reply. I thought cold performance was the main reason you avoided lithium iron batteries, and the weight of lead carbon was just a bonus considering your need for ballast?
I specifically thought your logic was something like "yes the inside of Alan will be heated, but I don't want problems with the electrical system if something goes wrong with the heat"
Hi Paul.
My reasonings for using Lead Carbons for the housebank are multiple. They are much, much cheaper than lithium per Ah. They do offer 'free' weight for ballast. You can abuse them similarly to lithiums, within reason - fast charge, lots of cycles, deep discharge etc. They are even safer than LiFePO4, even though the latter is in turn a lot safer than LiPo or Li-ion.
In discharge/under load, LiFePO4 (or any lithiums) will broadly outperform any lead battery in terms of capacity, down to -20 or -30 degrees. In fact, many lithium batteries are functional (although not unaffected) down to -40deg. eg for small primary ones: data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf For charging, neither will like being charged below 0 deg C. Both will likely be damaged by cold charging - which is why some expensive batteries have internal heating elements.
Hope that clarifies!
Not sure why batteries need to be named but you asked for suggestions so:
Aaron
Baron
Caron
Daron
Earon
Faron
Garon
First letter identifying battery position
I may use one of those purely to confound you.
Go buy a thread pitch gauge online or from an engineering shop that sells specialist tools, measure the thread & buy alternate bolts that will do the same thing as the brand name bolts that will cost several times as much.
I know the spec, but these bolts need to be tightened to 147nm. That's not something to do with unknown brand socket bolts holding on a 20kg flywheel spinning at 1000s of rpm.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I know what you mean you would be using engineering type hardware that you cant get from the local hardware shop. Something like M6 M8 M10 Fine Thread Allen Bolt Hex Socket Cap Screws High Tensile 12.9 Black.
The Unbrako spec goes beyond usual 12.9. 147nm is only JUST within normal spec for that grade. All you'd need is a slight QC fail, and disaster. The fine thread 'Bukh' Unbrakos are a rip off, but they are the right choice.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Okay, I thought 12.9 was the strongest but oh well, they know how to rip ppl off.
The normal Unbrakos are only £2-3. It's the Bukh supply chain that makes the prices go crazy.
Are you trying to test out the borders of copyright?
Having a full blown movie - but good choice for a movie I must say - run in the background seems like a bold thing to do 😂
I hope we'll survive that speed bump this time!
@@AlexHibbertOriginals _Hard labor in the GULAG_ would work as an Allen supplemental and accompanying book deal - ever the optimist!
Allen is so fiddled over and pampered!
Odd that an engine manufacturer used a non standard thread pitch. Are they possibly Wentworth pitch? As far as the filters, is it not possible to match up with a standardized manufacturer? OEM is not necessarily the best filters available. On small diesels, I had luck in the past matching up with Kubota branded filters. I would also try matching up with CAT.
Arguably the best manufacturer branded filters available, Also Cummins. Nothing would look more handsome on Allen than CAT yellow filters!
Fuel filters, Racor. The initial first filter with a sight-bowl is a little more expensive, but then you can just buy the cartridge bit from then on. I would though, purchase an extra full set, filter and lower sight-bowl, because the sight bowls can crack for no apparent reason, usually over tightening by some gorilla, but if you’re careful, I suppose one will suffice, in the cold, frozen, vastness of the great white bitter cold🥶.
Batteries, you’re a well established TH-camr, with a well established purpose and are refitting a very robust vessel for an extremely challenging environment. I would think that Victron, or some other major battery manufacturer would be more than anxious to step up as a sponsor with awesome state of the art environmentally paired batteries, and wishful thinking an energy management system. Well worth trying anyway.
Keep up the great refit of Allen, and the videos!
Cheers from Dallas Texas🍸
BTW, my engine and engine related component recommendations are based upon my 30+ years of experience. First turning wrenches, then as a working shop foreman, then as a general manager, then as the working owner (I missed the hands on bit, so I could usually be found in the shop loving on some engine that was being a little cantankerous, so I dove back into the repair side) of a 19k sq.ft. repair and engine rebuilding facility. We specialized in Volvo, and Mercedes on the automobile side, and then on the bus side we serviced and repaired the engines, drivelines, braking and suspension systems on Prevost, MCI, and any other luxury coach. Also the diesel generators for these coaches.
Decades of busted knuckles and, WTF! WHY WONT THIS GO BACK ON!?!? experience rambling on here.
Long retired now, but with mountains of old school squirt, squeeze, bang diesel, gasoline, and general mechanical knowledge to freely share with the deserving.
Cheers - I'll try and be that deserving recipient!
The threads are definitely metric 1.5.
I'll keep a eye out for CAT filters next time I buy.
On Victron - they seem quite ethereal with regards to sponsorship.
Augustine
Bartholomew
Cobb
Desdemona
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Fiona
Gwyneth
So with the bolt threads, this isn't an imperial vs metric thing, is it? Imperial also has a "coarse thread" and "fine thread" standard (I'm not an expert). It just seems odd to me that the thread is COMPLETELY custom, versus an odd standard.
I owned a 1990s Jaguar. Wonderful mix of imperial and metric.
In this case it's a purely metric issue. Unbrako widely sell the normal/coarse 1.75 pitch M12 bolts, but even their own documents show no evidence of a 1.5 pitch bolt. However, there they are in the Bukh spares manual, and you can only order them through the Bukh dealer, at >3x the price. Cheers Paul, and commiserations for the post-Leyland-era Jag! ;)
@@AlexHibbertOriginals tried just searching for hex/umbraco m12 bolts, found plenty of sellers having diff stocks of m12x1.5
You can find Unbrako M12 50mm full socket head bolts in 1.5 pitch thread? You're a better man than me.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals not sure if you're replying to a deleted comment, or meant to reply to someone else - but no I can't find them at all and never tried to say I could!
I was originally thinking you had a bolt you didn't have the dimensions / specifications for, and couldn't find replacements at hardware or marine stores. In that case I was thinking maybe it was an unusual imperial thread.
Since you've got the specifications for the bolt, my entire line of thinking goes out the window!
'Twas a reply to another commenter who replied to you. Still showing in my comments section.
Hope to share positive expensive bolt news soon....
Paininthearse
Dixxie
Wobblybits
Sparks
Katie and demi
Love ya Alex! This is great stuff and not normally what im in to. Now I am. Thanks!
aalan
balan
calan
dalan
falan
galan
Seems like domestic Alex is preparing to science the shit out of something...
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2 weeks for special 1-off bolts? How long for amazon to deliver a drill and tap?
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Aoife, Brigid, Ciara, Deirdre
I'd just go offshore i.e. Chinese, they would just get anything to you as long you bring money
Why not speak to the manufacturers/distributors direct on the batteries too?
This company is the uk distributor
Here we have a similar issue, South Africa has only 1 power producer, Eskom, they are more off than on, so everyone is looking for power, combined with the rampant thefrt, sabotage of the power system, scammers, fakes just about everywhere, sometimes it is impossible to know who is who.
I guess in your case, you could go from the UK to Europe, and buy batteries in Germany, France, any one of 12 or 20 countries. It just might be worth the costs..
Europe does certainly give us options (trickier post Brexit), although Leochs are imported from the Far East.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Yeah, along with 100% of everything, comes from China, but maybe you would find stock and a decent bearded wizard in Germany, than than shyster snake oil saleman lurking in the depths of the web..
Cant you drill out and tap a new thread into the flywheel mount? you get to pick any thread you want. Pity about the battery company being ran by a w⚓. Great update 2x👍
Seems slight (risky) overkill given that the bolts are available, at a cost.
So many of these fake companies living behind a template website and virtual office
Hope you at least got the money back from the off-grid joker. Sorry you've had such a lousy experience with them.
Edit: I should have said him, not them.
I did, yes, having made the consequences clear if he didn't.
Hmm, get your frustration completely, but don't agree with the personal name and shame - the 7 phone calls were enough to point you elsewhere, but, if you want the absolute lowest price, you'll have to deal with some of these issues. Great content, please do keep it up, but don't like the TH-cam card. Take care
The channel has a lot of people who use/want solar setups and so might be attracted to his business after a Google search. It would be wrong to anonymise such an experience. He had multiple chances to act professionally.
You buy from online stores to save a few dollars and this is what o get.
People usually just suck it up.
You have to goo on all the sites and give views on your detailed experience, company name and the names of people you were speaking to.
The reason you got in the situation with your batteries is because people before you didn't do this.
There is no way you are the first one to experience this with that company.
I wish there were bricks and mortar companies to turn to for these sorts of things. Many of them do have premises and trade counters.
I agree that it's customers rolling over and giving in that allows them to continue acting like this.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals Don't really need brick and mortar stores. just got use the volumes of info on what other people are having success with. I see lots of people buying junk from pretty sites. Using lead acid batteries as an example , you have flooded and glass matt. The old flooded deep cycle, like used in golf carts seem to last the longest(6 to 10 years) as long as you keep the water topped up and you don't run the voltage below 11.7 volts. Golf courses can usually get 6 years and they get run hard every day. Another big mistake is charging off the motors alternator. Go into almost any marine store around the world , they usually have lots of filters and alternators in stock. like in your car, alternators are designed to charge your starter battery, and run the electrics in the car . but i think it's great that people keep buying junk Keeps my wifes family busy repairing mistakes
I wish the energy given to the snarkiness of your messages could be applied to good punctuation.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals I wondered when the spelling/grammar/punctuation Nazis would show up. Easy to get a rise out of those. Nothing useful to contribute so pick on how people speak.
You are confusing "cement" and "concrete".
I believe I corrected myself mid-sentence when accidentally saying concrete. I count the addition of rocks as aggregate, so we can call that Alex-crete!
Drop-shipping is garbage.
I wasn't aware it had a name.
@@AlexHibbertOriginals _REALLY?_ It has been the go-to business model of "Entrepreneurs" for many a decade. There were countless guru types peddling courses in how to set up and run an international conglomerate from a bedsit since before the Internet. Most catalogues are fronts for drop-shippers - the idea being you place your order and pay, then they have your order completed by a "Fulfillment House" for a nominal fee, and they pocket the balance. No need to buy and store stock - just pretend to to!
My neighbor back in the 80's had a swimming pool "business" - he took the payment for a pool and passed the work on to a specialist, never dealt with any of it.
_The art of good business is being a good middle man._ ~ Eddy Temple
Boring I know but why not name batteries. Alpha,Bravo, Charlie, Delta etc etc
Abigail
Bertram
Clarice
DeVere
Faragut
Gorlock
Having been a commercial fisherman and marine engineer I believe Baldwin to be a reputable company for pattern part filters.
This!
Another vote for Baldwin
Fixaball Ltd, fastenings.
Brilliant firm stock metric fine and superfine in various high tensile. They stock just about everything.
I buy M10 x 1 ((superfine) (high tensile 12.9)), I cannot find them elsewhere in the UK.
So you'd mean www.fixaball.co.uk/products/m12-x-1-5p-socket-screw-cap-head-high-tensile-12-9-self-colour-din-912?variant=39890175918189. These don't show any enhanced torque performance, so would be damn near the 147nm Bukh needs.