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WOWZY WOW WOW WOW = a HUGE thank you for the offer brother!! Why ohh why did you and I have to end up with this +40 mile wide pond between us? Thinking of how much fun we could have (and trouble we could into) if we actually lived across the street from each other!!! Thanks Jeff, I REALLY do appreciate the thought!!

My MK1 had NO problem cycling the cheap stuff like Thunderbolts for many thousands of rounds. Then it slowly started demanding the more expensive plated bullets (instead cheap all lead, uncoated). I keep it clean (simple little arm on the back of the grip = pull it down and out, slide the action out and go to town). I found out that by keeping my magazine clean too REALLY helped for a long time. Then I finally ended up buying a new magazine for it and then it went right back to normal.. They (the MK1's) seem to really like the tightness of the a new mag.. Something to consider..

Now THAT is plain pure raw simple antaginisticly wrong = filed under a flyinFOOLishness level of . We are COVERED in a 1/2 inch of ice here. Power dropped off several times during the night as a result of that lop eared evil varmint across the pond tinkering with his +32 chemical mix for high tempt White Wash,, just naught,, pure naughtiness ! Sounds like you southners REALLY got it going on brother:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup: If I was down there I would skip the working and sweating part, grab Maggy the R1 and take er out to her "race track" to see if she can still straighten those curves.. Wont be long now,,, just a few more weeks!!

GOOD ON YA CP!!!! WECOME BACK AND THANK YOU FOR SHARING!! @Freebird,, off to the 1st Gen Tech library with this one? What say you?

NOW WE'RE COOKIN WITH HOT GREASE RADAR!! GORGEOUS!!! :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Feeble is as feeble does my brother!! But not so feeble we don't enjoy the shooting AND making em run!!! Sounds like you got a REALLY good keeper sprouting there Sly! Definitely on the right track as far as I am concerned! What's the gunsmith charging you to cut a new dove tail? THAT sounds AWESOME!! I got a Ruger MK1 22 that I picked up brand new back in the early 70's that has had a couple gazillion rounds run thru it but still a good shooter that I been thinking of have drilled and tapped to toss on a couple little Picatanny strips on so I could put a decent set of mounts on it. See,,, feeble really is as feeble does brother,,, YOU inspired me right back Sly:thumbsup:... I wonder if I am to feeble to take my verniers and scribe a lite center line down the top of a receiver, lay the picatannies on the line and center punch the holes, drill and tap it all on my own

Never was that big on the whole bowling thing,, kinda boring BUT,, I gotta say,, THAT method of bowling Fool - I LIKE:missingtooth:.. YOU is my kinda people @Flyinfool,,, naughty in an ice in the veins sort of way = especially if your of the Bowling Pin breed Just grabbed a stainless 22lr drop in BCG (Bolt Carrier Group) and conversion mags for the Wylde Chambered 556 AR I am building on an Ebay auction = CHEAP (75 bucks)!! Pretty cool looking outfit.. Figured with .22lr and 556/223 being the same diameter the probabilty of seeing some form of accuracy is better than 60%. Here is the one I got coming, take a peek at the design.. Notice the 556 "empty" stuck on the end of the BCG.. INGENIUS you engineers are!!

THAT is absolutely GORGEOUS @Moonshine:thumbsup:!!!! NICE WORK!! Gotta admit though,, I tend to lean (pun intended) more in Jacks direction on this one.. Probably wayyy to old school for our own good that @Condor and I

Yeah,, Tip and I been pretty radical about the whole "get a job and stand on your own two feet" thingy.. Matter of fact,, so bad that once while crossing the country on our 1st first gen my oldest daughter, who was 10 at the was meandering thru the tourist trap shops at Wall Drug where she had been listening to music on one of thier headphones at a CD stand when she handed me the headset and said: Listen to this dad,, its all about you!!. Below is the song she was listening to(makes me tear up everytime I hear it) .. Back to the point I was trying to make to Cha though,, Unfortunately, as Chet told Monty Walsh in one of my favorite cowboy movies: NO ONE GETS TO BE A COWBOY FOREVER.

I am sooo proud of you Cha that I could scream but I gotta tell ya,, if there is one thing life has taught me it's to never say never (I say that in a very positive sense my brother). A short Puc story.. Ever heard or listened to Dave Ramsey? Well, your ol buddy Puc (and his lovely bride Tip) was Dave Ramsey on steroids wayyy before Dave Ramsey ever came on the scene. We successfully lived a life of paying CASH for everything, included houses (left home when I was 15 with a dollar in my pocket and a shirt on my back and by the time I was 23 I owned my first home free and clear - payed 10 grand cash for it and started putting cash into it to prepare it for marriage and a family), cars, bikes and on and on. Neither my wife or I ever had a credit card of any sort, never been in debt. Tippy also has never worked outside of our home (she home schooled our 4 kids though so she worked wayyyy harder in life than I EVER did), by her AVID couponding and frugalness (taught our kids to shop Goodwill and the like,, pretty interesting really cause right now we have a family member who is well above the 6 digit income and that "child" STILL shops Goodwill on a regular basis and makes HUGE $$ donations to assist others in becoming REAL Americans who are self dependent/reliant) and thru living by the simple principle of living within our means and by the grace of God, I remained the sole "bread winner" throughout our married lives. Granted,, there were sometimes when we lived in unfinished homes and had to work on our own used cars, bikes and remodel the homes we lived in and, even the kids at very early ages painted walls, hung drywall, learned to do brake jobs and change oil in their own cars,, I guess if a person leans more toward the left politically my wife and I would be considered evil or something,, we were that horrible in our expectance of our offspring to gradually learn to stand on their own two feet.. You probably dont have to read between the lines here to KNOW that I personally uddered your exact words MANY times over about EVER and NEVER buying a new car:beer:. A new bike? Ohhh heck yeah:big-grin-emoticon:,,, I have bought MANY (for cash) but only a few before we were married and started our family and NEVER borrowed for one:Cartoon_397:. All brand new after we married were business related and part of business inventory. Now,, fast track to these years that Tip and I find us in - I call this "Phase 6".. The mind may always be willing to continue on in entrenched lifes idea's but the body doesnt necessarily always agree with the mind. Being now further down the pipe of Phase 6 of life has taught me somethings about my past ideas.. My house building/oil changing/bike/car/tractor/wash machines/clothes dryer fixing days are pretty thin these days (YOU would have loved Tippies old wash machine Cha - had a Maytag topend and a Whirlpool bottom end - IT WAS BAD TO THE BONE!!) cause my hands/knees/heart/neck/lower back/toes and even teeth all got together and decided to go on an extented vacation and I gotta tell ya,, I really dont think they have any notion of returning to service:fishin:. With that in mind and with a pocket full of cash from living the life style of living within our means,, think of how luring a new car that gets 60 mpg with a 10 year Warranty and lifetime warranty on the battery (Hybrid BUT, the 12 volt battery for starting the engine is even part of the Hybrid "Pac" which carries a lifetime warranty) for 10 thousand dollars less than a new Touring bike would be:detective:. As hard as it was,,, I/we caved.. But,,, and this is HUGE,, at this point (haven't bumped into the taking it in for warranty work YET - GET AWAY FROM ME MURPHY!! I SWEAR I WILL DRILL A HOLE IN A FENDER AND HANG A GREMLIN BELL ON THIS THING IF I HAVE TO!!) this is one "cave in" that we are 100% enjoying everytime we go anywhere! My advice,, work hard, stay FAR away from socialist ideas (for more "Puc thought on this - take a second and watch the video below) and getting hooked on anti-American - family destroying - entitlement living of any form (stand on the two feet the Lord gave us, trust Him - not the Guvment), live within your means but dont forget about the future.. Maybe put some $$ aside, even 10 bucks a week if your just starting out, for Phase 6 cause one never really knows when he/she may have to eat a little crow (I have ate my share in life Cha - Crow is really pretty tasty if ya cook it right:missingtooth:) and cave in to lifes demands.. Something to think about I reckon.. Puc Life in nutshell:

Hearing that brother!! I would say if ol Skidder tucks his blonde pony tails under his hat before he gets his tooken for the card,,, then he holds a higher than average chance at pulling this off!! ALL THE BEST ON THE ELECTION SKID!!! HOPE YOU GET IT!!

NICE TY!! REALLY NICE!!

Indeed, Parts Nation shows the "washer" as a "gasket" and that is still available (pricey,, almost 8 bucks) but the bolt they show as not available. I did a quick cross check to see if the V-Max parts were they same (they made them well into the 2000's, a huge PLUS if looking for parts) and everything but the 3 digit Suffix matches,, I would say it is possible they would interchange. Might be worth checking with a Yamaha dealership and see if you could find one in stock to compare to if someone around here don't have one they could send you off a parts bike and/or you want to go OEM.. Here is where I got my info.. https://www.yamahapartsnation.com/oemparts/a/yam/50043596f8700209bc78be67/front-fork

If I am reading this correctly what you are looking for may be the bolt that screws into the bottom of the fork and can only be removed after you pull the axle? If it's what I am thinking of and it serves the same function as my older MX bikes forks (pre inverted forks), that bolt screws into the internal tube that houses the forks dampening valving/shims where the fork fluid passes to create the damping. As the hydraulic fluid (fork oil) is doing its thing and moving around the internals of the fork tube/fork lower it will pick up metals given off by wear. It is possible that those magnets are to collect those metal particals to help keep the fluid clean,,, possibly,,, maybe.. If what I am thinking holds any merit (again, take this with a grain of salt considering the source), then it is also possible that someone had to use a high speed air gun with an allen bit in it to get the screw to spin out/spin in as, in my experience, there is nothing internally that keeps that tube where the valve stack is from spinning once the screw is loosened. Using a high speed air gun to spin screws out can be hard on screws, especially the heads and threads. It might not be a bad idea to look closely at what you have removed and see if the washer (number 16) is a copper one? If so, it also might not be a bad idea to replace this with another copper crush washer and make sure that what ever bolt you use has a good clean cut shoulder on it where the washer sets as that area may be serving like an oil pan plug on a car. Also make sure the shoulder where the washer contacts the lower leg above the axle is good and clean when you put it all together so your finished job does not leak fork oil... Puc

LOOKS GREAT MY FRIEND !! I just took the picture you have here and showed it to Tweeks - she is setting downstairs waiting for warm weather and got great big on her purdy face and gave you the double !! Hope your other repair job has gone well and you got that purdy scoot of yours all back together @Vickersguy!! SPRING IS COMING and its almost time to let em buck!!

Why,, you are welcome on the encouragement to :mo money:on your shooter Sly!! You didnt mention that you did this but I aint shy Sly,, I will mention it any way.. It's also OK if you told your wife that it was all my fault that you did so,,, as a matter of fact,, the last shooter I bought I think I may have mentioned your name to Tippy in that same context so if you did,, we are square I have owned and operated the 1911's for a good while BUT am an amature when it comes to accurizing and tuning,,, sort of like my relationship with these 1st Gens I been riding for a while,, I just figure out through experimentation what works for me and leave it at that.. That said,, what I do is keep a full set of recoil springs around for my GI 1911 (it's the 5 inch = this DOES make a difference if ordering springs,, if you have a Commander model = they are shorter barreled and take different springs). When I order new springs I like to buy full sets cause they seem to be cheaper and I like having a variety to tune with. I am going to leave a couple links below to show you how/where I get mine. When I ever I get a new set in I always measure them and trim them to length so they are field ready. I do that with set of side cutters and then deburr them with a dremel. It always works best for me to NOT trim on the progressive end of the spring that lays against the barrel stop/slide over the guide rod. I trim them so they dont stack up and bottom out (sort of like can happen on a set of forks) as this can be hard on the gun. The way I "tune" is by watching where my cases are landing = I like a 6' landing. If they are landing wayyyy out there in never land, IMHO it could be not stiff enough spring to handle the load and risking damaging the gun, a heavier spring will bring the case landing closer in.. To close in though (under 6') and it can cause jamming = especially stove piping. Its amazing how easy it is tune to perfecting with a full set of springs. Do you tune differently? I would be THRILLED to hear ANY suggestions you (or anyone for that matter) could suggest if you know of something I am doing wrong,, or could improve on what I have been doing (this old dog can still be taught new tricks and WELCOMES them!!). I like to carry my recoil springs into the field with me cause one never knows what ammo one of my buddies may lay on my at any given time. As you know, if VERY simple to pop in a new spring if shooting +p or going from 150 to 230 grain.. Here what I bought last time I bought springs: https://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-Recoil-Spring-4-pack-for-5-6-Inch-Pistols-Stainless-Steel-Higher-Caliber/263697685140?epid=18019577647&hash=item3d659b5a94:g:HHgAAOSwBSxa~zFM:rk:7:pf:0 https://www.ebay.com/itm/1911-Recoil-Spring-4-pack-for-5-6-Inch-Pistols-Stainless-Steel-Lower-Caliber/263697688002?epid=3019584288&hash=item3d659b65c2:g:FW4AAOSwCXJa~zHX

By the way,,, , glad you found our club!!

I have had those exact symptons two times on my 1st Gens thru the years and both times I ended up having to swap out their TCI's to get em to run right. Others have made some GREAT suggestions here IMHO but it might not be a bad idea to at least clean the pin connector(s) on the TCI while in the process of fulfilling their admonitions. If doing all the above does not help though, do a search on "cooking" or "heating" the TCI (put the TCI in an oven and get it hot to dry it out) and also on opening it up (maybe "TCI Repair" = there may even be something in the tech section on doing what needs to be IF what I am thinking holds any merit = I'm a geezer wanna be fixer ) and cleaning it and replacing diodes if needed. I did have an extra TCI that may have worked on your scoot but already gave it away. If you find out you need one, I would make a post stating that as these are old bikes and there seems to be a few of them around waiting in parts status.. Puc

All depends on whether or not you are wanting to/able to work an them yourself? If you are wanting to tinker with them and try a few things, maybe take a quick look at this video and then take a look at the carbs on your RSV and see if you can locate the drain plug/screws and drain hoses like shown on my 83. I have successfully cleaned carbs that have sat by working thru those drains numerous times (not always, sometimes they do have to come all the way down and jets be cleaned out/replaced and carb rebuilt). The down side is that I have never been exposed to a set of RSV carbs (I'm one of the clubs 1st Gen Mk1 wearer outers and never worked on the RSV) BUT carb is usually a carb so to speak.. Here is the vid, you watch it, look at your bike and see if you can find the drains on yours, then let me know if you would like more thoughts on trying to clean them before taking them down..

Not much in the way of shooters but DEFINITELY some interesting Die Cast Planes!! Give er a peek if your so inclined https://www.proxibid.com/MATTHEW-BULLOCK-AUCTIONEERS/ONLINE-ONLY-Gunsmith-Firearms-Military-Auction/event-catalog/156722

ock :sign Rock On:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Makes me wanna get on that thing, crank the bars hard to the left,, open the throttle, dump the clutch and go round and round and round and round!!! BUT,, heres the rub,, my worn out tired ol geezer body could take it any more either brother!!

INDEED MY FRIEND!! Even though those were some rough years as Home Schooling was not something that was welcomed back in those days (we were Home Schoolers back at the beginning before even the "legal" side of it was questionable) we both felt it was the best thing we could do. Because of my wife and her dedication and seriousness about her role as a Mom/Teacher, out of it we ended up with some VERY good and successful adult children. Our oldest daughter completed her Masters work in Education down in South Carolina and has been teaching in California now for many years (her and her husband also just gave us another Grandson too :banana:). Our second born graduated top of the class in the history of GVSU's Chemistry department in her pre-med and went on to get accepted at Cornell Medical School and has been a Doctor now at a big hospital in Sacramento California for years. Killing Cancer is her life goal. My son, our third born is a Business Manager in Micro Brewering and loving his work - he LOVES dealing with people (the apple dont fall far from the tree). Our youngest daughter ended up falling in love with helping the deaf and sought a 4 year degree in ASL (Sign Language) which she earned. Her involvement with that line of work in both Education and the Ministry landed her in the arms of a fine man who she married and the two of them gave us our very first (I am tearing up) Grandson who we JUST celebrated the 2nd birthday of.. GOOD NITE LIFE IS GRAND!! If Tip and I had it all to do allllll over again,, we would sooner move to some island in the middle of nowhere and raise our kids if we had to before we would change anything.

Early winter was particularly hard one year for my shop so I went looking for supplemental income and excitement (actually, I was bored, lots of folks dont know this about me but I am kinda high strung and setting around in an office with nothing really going on makes me skitterish ) and I noticed that a local school had a "Needed, Substitute Teachers" sign out front. Upon inquiry I found out that I didn't have to have a degree in Education to Sub, any 4 year degree would get ya in.. I passed the background check and went to work teaching in an abandoned (the teacher was off on Maternity Leave) 4th Grade class. WHAT A HOOT!! The only issue I had at all came about due to the current Federal Regs governing the whole classroom computer time that kids are required to have. Short version, the story went like this: The back of the classroom was closed off with blackboards on wheels in an effort to create a Computer Lab for the class. Each student was suppose to get 20 minutes minimal on the keyboard per day. I was sitting on the teachers desk opening an English book when the cutest little 4th grade girl with pony tails you ever did see :680:came bouncing up to my desk and said: Teacher,, Billy (not a real name) is back there looking at dirty pictures on the computer :yikes:.. I said,, what did you say? She repeated herself as I was putting my Book down and heading that way.. When I rounded the corner of the black boards I caught just a quick glimpse of what "Billy" was looking at just before he clicked on another website as though he had been there before. I walked over, asked what he was doing. He calmly said he was "working on his computer project". I calmly said,, sure,, as I was reaching for switch on the UPS that the computers were plugged into.. The announcement that I made to the class as I was rolling the blackboards up against the wall that there would be no more computer time while I was their teacher caused no small stir. A couple of the more nervous types made sure that I knew that I couldn't do that, to which I calmly proclaimed ownership of the class and their well being for as long as I was teaching and we all went back to studying English. About an hour after the computer incident, I voice came from behind me asking me to send one of the children to the office for something. It took a minute for me to realize that the voice was coming from an intercom system that remained on during school hours.. Speaking to the speaker on the wall I said I would send the child down to the office right away. As the student was leaving the room it dawned on me that someone had been listening in on the whole episode about the computer .. Figured I was out the door for sure:buttkick:. I thought wrong.. About a month later, during my last day teaching, the Principle approached me, shook my hand and said: I just want you to know that YOU have a job here ANYTIME you want one!! I REALLY appreciate having a "Man Teacher" in these lower grades and the kids REALLY responded well to you, GOOD JOB!! He also mentioned the Computer ordeal and let me know that, while his full time faculty could never have gotten away with what I did (Regs), because I was a Sub, I fell under a totally different set of rules and he was VERY PROUD of me for handling the entire situation like I did! I went away from that once in a lifetime opportunity to access the Public School system as a teacher like I did with a real internal feel of fulfillment = VERY REWARDING!! Part of me though left there feeling sorry for those kids that are not getting what they really need from on Educational System that - above all else - is suppose to be protecting and guiding them toward becoming good people. I also felt sorry for the administrators and faculty who's hand's were obviously tied in deciding what could and could not be done in administrating/teaching for that hopeful outcome.. What a mess Prayers Up for for this land of the free

Not me brother, I prefer riden necked when I am out there in that dry heat:biker::biker: Can't believe I said necked with it being -25 wind chill right now ,, must been the cabin fever thats been goin around finally caught up with me