Yes it's like a propeller, but it has deeper, spiral, blade. Archimedes invented one.
It's also easily removable, so you can take it off the boat and thump the handcuff lock in a fit of pique. ;-) DaveD -----Original Message----- From: James Cook <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:05 Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Considerate Boaters guide - lift bridges Screwdrive? or is this some rare piece of kit of which I am not familiar? Paddington David Cragg wrote: Heading up north we have found a screwdrive useful as some handcuff locks tighten the metal piece onto the metal of the paddle casing and you need the screwdrive to prize it off. --- On Mon, 15/2/10, Baz Juniper <[email protected] <mailto:baz%40junipers.co.uk>> wrote: From: Baz Juniper <[email protected] <mailto:baz%40junipers.co.uk>> Subject: Re: [canals-list] Re: Considerate Boaters guide - lift bridges To: [email protected] <mailto:canals-list%40yahoogroups.com> Date: Monday, 15 February, 2010, 11:33 On 13 Feb 2010, at 00:01, Sean Neill wrote: > David's method wouldn't work reliably where the bridges have to be > padlocked since you have to close a BW padlock to release your key > and, like most folk, I am inclined to leave my keys in the padlock > (even when the padlock is on the towpath side and I'm on the off- > side, which I suppose would be risky in some circumstances) . > Baz > > As I have my BW key on a chain, I tend to lock the padlock in mid- > air and come back to it if time and the boiler permit. If BW can't > trust boaters to act responsibly I have no hesitation in putting my > own safety first. I should think that the safety of others might also be at issue if boiler management was unduly neglected :-) Its a fair point, though, Sean. Not even BW seem to put much store by the padlocks on the western end of the K&A. Of the 8 swing bridges between Bath & Foxhangers, I think only one had a useable padlock for most of last summer. Baz [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links Individual Email | Traditional http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
