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Post by jloi on Feb 25, 2020 20:04:41 GMT -5
geez Brent, you're a pro man. looks great. I remember your bathroom patch by the heater/tub . couldn't see a line anywhere. trust me, that's totally unusual from a homeowner/ non professional finisher
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Post by FrankenMech on Feb 27, 2020 22:42:49 GMT -5
I installed a 'suicide' spinner ball on my van steering wheel a few days ago. It will take a bit to get used to. It helps a lot since my right shoulder does not work. The worst problem seems to be that it is difficult to reach out with my fingertips and trip the turn signal lever when my hand is on the ball. I will have to get used to gripping the bottom of the steering wheel with my right hand when I have to let go of the ball to reach the turn signal. I have heard they are illegal some places but I have no idea how to check. I suppose I could ask the police but they might arrest me...
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Post by 90GTVert on Feb 28, 2020 7:11:47 GMT -5
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Post by FrankenMech on Feb 28, 2020 8:10:04 GMT -5
Thank you very much!
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Post by fuzzyruttin on Mar 6, 2020 22:12:55 GMT -5
Worked on breaking in the new bike. Manual says: 1000 km (620 miles). It's ECU controlled, so rev flashes at 6k, fuel shut-off at 7.5k. (Stock is 10k, upcoming ECU mod will push to 12k). Rode 35 miles yesterday, came home to re-review the manual, and forgot the "do not ride open throttle." Well that is going to be one damn boring 620 mile ride. There's so much low-end torque. I've been full-throttle short-shifting, which (of course) breaks the rules not to ride WOT during break-in. Glad I re-reviewed. I told wifey, if it's warm enough Sunday, I will ride her to work to do a 4-5 hour shift, then would i pick her up afterward. Figured I'd hit the streets while she's working and grab a bite to eat somewhere. Jeez, maybe I should arrange a bike-lunch-date as well? Nah! So many miles to go
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Post by milly on Mar 22, 2020 14:35:59 GMT -5
Today it was very warm in Wale's and sunny. I attacked or rather was ordered to attack the pyracantha, what a sod that is to prune back tomorrow I shall dig some of the invasive stuff out if I can. Of course wifey had the hard job of pushing the mower.I am not a gardener type. To me the garden is to dump things you are not using and will not fit in the garage or work on scooters in. My neighbour was so bored she done cleaning her car, her fella's car and even done mine inside, smells all nice and pretty now reckon I will have to take my shoes off whilst I go in it. I did clean or rather tidy the garage up a bit to make more space though and worked on the scooter the ET4 this afternoon.
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Post by FrankenMech on Mar 22, 2020 15:46:48 GMT -5
Watch out for that giant mutated spider above your scoots. Remember all those apocalypse movies with plagues, nuclear bombs, strange meteors, or zombies also come with radiation or chemical induced mutated creatures.
My Ex was a gardener and left my house with all sorts of strange mutant plants around it. I am more of a Roundup, hoe, shovel, machete, weed-eater, mower, 'kill it with fire', type of gardener... Don't get me wrong I like some of the pretty flowers. I just ain't one to kneel down in the hot sun and pull weeds by hand like she was.
I got some of those wire bread-rack type of shelves with wheels to keep the garage and workshop tidy. Being able to move them about makes it easier to sweep the leaves out and find the parts that bounced away.
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Post by 2stroked on Mar 22, 2020 17:35:58 GMT -5
Yesterday, not today, but: changed gear oil in three cultivators, put new tires and rear U joints on the Kubota, changed the engine oil and hydro oil on the Kubota too. Then changed the oil, and did a coolant flush on the diesel Massey tractor, did plugs, leads, button, oil, coolant flush, and carb clean on the old gasoline Perkins powered Massey. New belts, gear oil, engine oil, and plug in the walk behind tiller too. Busy day. I hate the smell of used gear oil, and no matter what we do, one of the cultivators reeks of hot used gear oil every time its used. Its got less than fifty hours total on it, and has been that way since new. Nasty bastard. Hate it.
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Post by FrankenMech on Mar 23, 2020 1:14:25 GMT -5
I would be lucky if I got just ONE of those things done in a day. I am totally screwed.
Vent the gearbox to the intake on the smelly cultivator.
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Post by ThaiGyro on Mar 23, 2020 3:46:27 GMT -5
I am working on fuel injection baseline specs for my outboard engine projects. All 4T carbs, but wanting FI because...well...that is how shit becomes diarrhea. We are building inexpensive surface drive outboards for canal use here. The carbs are OK, but like sex with a condom...in a video. NOPE!
My USA friends are working on the controller systems. (EFI fuel/spark and more) I am building air-boxes and maybe tuned exhausts for Honda GX50/100/120/160's. Might even do GX25/35 for kids race boats.
Haha! My "flow bench"? Is a large balloon in which I pump air through my dumb ass designs. I learn...how long it takes to get XXX amount of volume, given a regulated flow. It helps. It doesn't tell me if my porting sucks. It doesn't tell me if my valves are too small or too big. IT does tell me of they leak. I can kind of "infer" a flow envelope. (We can record pressure at the outlet over time and compare)
I take my raw milk "tuning" and turn it into cheese. Green or white mould...clear and creamy? Sour, salty and limburger smelly? All still cheese! Progress, not perfection.
When we are done? Ass kicking FI small engines! My 4T 50 was 2.1 hp/2.0 lb. ft. torque, OEM stock. (That is efficient!) We have seen 3.4 with top end mods, but that poopy carb. Hoping for near 5.0 hp/4.0 lb. ft. torque with FI and some other goodies. Imagine 5 ponies from a 50cc four stroke?
Yeah..me neither. But, if it don't blow? It wasn't designed proper.
The propellers are top shit though! Cut like butter at near 4800 rpm!
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Post by ryan_ott on Mar 23, 2020 22:35:36 GMT -5
Spent the evening watching the Twistee of the Wristee series. It’s about everything your doing wrong on two wheels. If it wasn’t rainy today I’d put it to pavement.
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Post by 2stroked on Mar 27, 2020 19:39:15 GMT -5
FrankenMech, there is no intake on these. Its just a simple PTO driven seventy two inch cultivator. We have a better unit, called a Multivator. Its basically a cultivator that can be used to till between rows of a crop, without touching the crop. Moveable blocks of tines slide on their driven shaft and lock in. Also PTO driven and much, much heavier. I'd rather use it tbh. Today was a bad day. Started out by inspecting the Boss's personal Kubota RTV900, identical to the farm unit, just a year newer. We were getting a loud screech and some random clanks every so often. I started by pulling the front drive shaft, and driving it that way, to eliminate four universal joints. I would have been able to hear a CV cracking. Took off down the drive way, made it about ten feet and heard the same loud screech and bangs. Raised the dump bed so I could see the rear wheels as I drove it. Noticed the driver side rear was at an odd angle sitting on level ground. Jacked the rear end up, and discovered the only thing holding the wheel on to be the fucking axle nut and pin. Bearing is fucked its not even holding together anymore. I passed on that job. If he let it get that bad, and by the way this thing is 600 hours beyond due for a service, I can't imagine what else is fucked inside the VHT or HT units. I despise hydraulic drive systems, but it does work....
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Post by FrankenMech on Mar 27, 2020 22:16:32 GMT -5
Well I guess one could vent the gear case with a 100' hose dragging behind you... -Or put a fan and a 20' chimney on it.
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Post by milly on Apr 5, 2020 17:07:52 GMT -5
I started to clear my shed in the garden today, wifes stuff in the middle and mine around the outside. I did not know you couold fit so much into a 9' x 10' structure Managed to haul one shelf unit outside shift another round. Then start putting my new lml spares in one box, same with the used parts then move them to one place. Then the same with the chinese stuff. Left wifes camping stuff in middle till she can help me say throw keep. Then shuffle workbench along so can repair floor with the 2 x 4 foot square plyboard I found hiding and then made a new box of bits to sort at some point of all tools I kept finding. So now have overcrowded workbench some stuff to go unit across road which meant by the time I came back from the unit I had loaded the car up with more stuff for the shed from there and the garage where I work on the scoots. I am trying to make the shed my go to place for needed items instead of where have I put it now usual thinking. So when finished I shall have scooter parts chinese in one place lml in another, tools all together in seperate boxes for various uses like school when they open so I aint hunting all over, another space for bicycle stuff I keep finding electric ones and normal and space for event stuff which only goes out a few times a year. My wifes shed is built off mine and will be having doors removed and panels and roof left on and her other shed I picked up which is flat packed and is in my other shed will be erected there. Well thats the plan. I hope you all kept up there and are not confused because I am The shed that started life as a part of a 4 sectional dwelling down Tally Valley but they did not put up all steel fabricated with proper steel and not that flimsy stuff they use now plywood roof and floor with space to put door and windows in . I used an old door from the school as a window and a local chap who 82 made me a door frame which is clad in that corragated plastic for now , where the green ends is where the wife's starts and thats what is being taken off and a 8'x6' shed is being put under. The roof of hers is staying. Less confused now lol
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Post by FrankenMech on Apr 6, 2020 2:18:14 GMT -5
Say what?
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