Flyinfool

Well since the lights do not dim at all then it is not the battery connections. It still could be the connections to the solenoid or the starter, but odds are it is the contacts in the solenoid.

When you say "no start", do you mean it cranks but does not start, or does it not crank at all.

This thread is good timing. I was just stating to look for a new laptop to give my 15 YO laptop a much needed rest. I was going to get a win 10 machine, but have now decided that I will get a Win 7 pro machine. I still need to keep my old laptop running because it has very expensive software on it that will not run on anything newer than the XP Pro SP 2 that I currently have. To run this software on a newer machine it would take $20K in software upgrades. That aint happening. So my old laptop will hang around for those times I need to use that old software. Now, what to get??????

Like in all of the other versions, does Win 10 have an option to turn off auto update? Every puter I have had I turned off auto update just so that it would not reboot at a bad time.

Oh great, now I just spent a whole night researching laser cutters.....................

I have not tried it. My nuts have never gotten rusty, or stuck, they have always been off regularly. It is just the engineer in me leaking out. I am not negative about everything but when the explanation does not agree with the result, my poor little brain thinks something is not right. Just one of the curses of being an engineer and trying to always look at things logically. But now you made me go and do a test. I took a lighter to a lug nut on my truck for the same 20 seconds as shown in the video. Using a digital thermometer the the temperature of the lug nut went up 23.3°F. (Starting temp of nut 72.3°F ending temp 95.6°F) I did not have a candle to handy to work with but I just can not see how this would have made a difference with that little of a temp change and I do not think it was hot enough to melt a stick candle. In watching the video over a few times, when he shows that the nut is tight and he can not get it off, he does in fact accidentally loosen it a bit, watching it full screen on my big monitor I can clearly see a slight movement. The nut does not get hot enough to melt the wax it is the flame of the lighter that is touching the wax that is melting the wax which then drips onto the threads and solidifies instantly with contact. In the interest of science I tried it again with the flame on the lighter turned up as high as it would go (Initial was a 1 inch flame) with the test rerun using a 4 inch flame, much bigger than the video. Starting temp was 72.8°F ending temp after 20 seconds, 101.6, a gain of 28.8°F. Still not hot enough to melt candle wax. Per info from a candle making supply companies website, Candle wax begins to soften at 130°F and is fully liquid for pouring at 190°F, depending on the additives used. I'm sorry, But through some logical testing and measurement, I believe this actually works even less than I did before. But now my curiosity has been peaked, I have to see if I can find some lug nuts (or any nuts) that are rusted on. Melted wax does have a fairly low viscosity and it is slippery so if the nut was actually up to the melting point of the wax it may possibly penetrate and make it come off easier. Just not as easy as this staged video represents.

I found the thread with the pics. http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?1521-83-Broken-frame

So its been a little over a month. Did you try one of the suggested methods or come up with another one of your own? Curious minds need to know.

There is a thread showing pics of exactly what was done.

To me riding once every 3/4 weeks is not stored. Run some Seafoam in the gas. Use ethanol free gas if possible. Keep tank full to avoid condensation. IF everything is working correctly you do not need to turn off the fuel petcock, but turning it off and on is no big deal for peace of mind. If you are storing it for more than a month, then you need to look at more of the proper storage options.

Sounds like a problem of old age and lack of use. It did not look like he ever got the nut hot enough to melt the wax. The heat traveling around the nut from the flame was enough to melt the wax that then dripped onto the threads and solidified almost instantly. Just the fact that he mentions that he broke his torque wrench trying to loosen the nut tells me he is not a wise mechanic, AND if he did actually break a breaker bar trying to loosen that nut, then he was doing something wrong, a 1/2 inch breaker bar should have easily snapped off that little stud long before the wrench broke. I have snapped 3/4 inch grade 5 bolts that had welded into the hole using a 1/2 drive breaker bar (and some pipe).

TMI!!! Pics?

Oh I so love a challenge...........................

I found a grommet close enough at the hardware store. I never looked at what size it was.

Why did Cowpuc duck when I launched SNOW balls at him? Why did they go so far and land out east?

Still guessing this might be pretty close. http://www.mcmaster.com/#9512k98/=14s5idm I made my own out of aluminum.

Because WHY?

Yellow SNOW!

Yes WHY are you wasting time on this thread when there is a Wasting Time thread for that purpose.

Well it is on a full 360° turret with a full 90° of elevation adjustment. So there is not telling where it might get pointed.................... Sooooooo When I go to the chat room and there is no one there to chat with, I could easily get bored and have to go outside and play.................

Since it is an 83 with the known possible frame issues, it might be a great time to weld in the braces to prevent future cracking of the frame.

I might have kind of over shot ol @cowpuc just a tad. It might take a bit to get the new elevations dialed in to get the proper range. I have a lot of new POWER on tap.

Not only did I hear that a lot as a kid, but I also said it a lot as a parent. My kids knew better that to try to see if it was a bluff or not.

This is also true and is the reason I have a mosfet style on my bike. I just hate the whole concept of always running the electrical at 100% capacity till the magic blue smoke comes out. But Mosfet is also not how the system is designed, and most people still have the stock system still in place.

I found a new way to waste time. I ripped out a perfectly good sidewalk and replaced it with a new sidewalk and blew out my back in the process. Now I get to sit around wasting more time while this old bag of bones tries to heal.