Flyinfool

Is this post going to catch up to WHY?

But it would be OK if you had a needle nose......

I will even bring some of my nice shiny polished stainless steel side stand plates to hand out for free to anyone that asks for 1 or 3. Looking forward to it.

Well chips have been flying for a couple of days now. I got the first 2 tools done. The rest will happen much more quickly now. The last couple of steps take about a half hour each tool. I started with a 9 lb bar of steel and it is down to about 2 lbs left. The rest is a big pile of chips in my shop vac. Just about ready to start shipping. The first batch will ship Monday. FYI Canada add $5 for First Class International Mail (no tracking or insurance, unknown delivery time), or $15 for Priority International Mail (tracking, insurance, 6-8 days). Either way I will need your phone and email for the customs papers.

I could threaten to send snow or other bad weather to the next poster in this thread. Ask ol Cowpuc how that works........

From the pics it looks like the rubber boot covers most of the heatsink on the bulb. Even with the fan will there be enough airflow over the heat sink? Those Crees do get toasty.

Bite all of us. :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: :moon: I told ya......... Don't believe me when I tells ya stuff .........

Here in Milwaukee they have a lot of bicycle patrols. They seem unable to figure out why flat black bicycles ridden by people wearing black keep getting run over at night.

I think I would be so confused...... I have heard of such a thing but never saw one in real life. So is it left foot clutch? Right foot rear brake? right hand throttle and front brake? left hand shifter on tank? So coming to a stop on gravel you would be braking with the right foot and clutching with the left foot and balancing ????? I guess you would have to shift into neutral before you were stopped so you could plan to land on your left foot. then after your stopped shift weight to right foot so you can use the clutch to get going. Just my poor little frozen brain babbling on here. I have no clue what I am talking about.

Well then head over to the Scavenger Hunt thread, they have been looking for a clown for a long time.......

Why is Bob spelled backwards not boB?

We'll see...... I'm don't want to know how your bones feel..... When you say it sounds loose on the center stand are you talking about running it in gear while on the center stand or just moving it by hand?

I guess it all depends on the threads being killed. Option 1: If it a fun thread that you are killing then that would be a bad thing, it could make you part of the fun police. Option 2: On the other hand if it is a technical thread that you are "killing", it could just mean that you have throughly answered the question and nothing more needs to be said on the issue at hand. This could be a good thing. Option 3: But then it could also mean that you are that last pursuer of a topic that everyone else has lost interest in. Whether I am or not I like to consider that I am in option 2 all the time..... Thats my story and I'm sticking to it.

All of the shims that I have looked at looked like the marking was etched. If the marking is gone, some bozo probably installed the shim with the marking up instead of down. But this is just a WAG on my part.

Just to explore another avenue. How are you mounting the RR? Is it mounted to something to act as a heat sink? Is it mounted where it will get good cool air flow? The stock RR on the 1st gen is mounted to flat spot on the frame that gives additional heat sink capacity.

I sure wish I could hear that noise again........ But it is going to snow here tonight, I'll ship some right over for you......

The shims out of a salvaged bike will give you a start on a kit, but probably not a good start. I have an engine from an 85, there were only 3 different sizes in that engine and they were all close together, and most were all the same size. But now that I have added a surface grinder to my basement I can have any in between sizes that I want or feel I need.

I tried to warn ya...

Yes you can still get onto the list. I sure wish I could play with a belt fed 50..... My redesign is finished and seems to work just as good as the original version, and is also a bit stronger so it is less likely to snap in half. I just ordered the material to make the real ones. Next week the fun and flying chips begins.

At least it was not a real hard fix. Glad you got it. Now get out and

Now we both know that that old thing ain't gonna catch a 1st gen until I stop for ice cream......

There is a round cover on the left side held on with 2 screws. Take that off and the end of the crankshaft is rite there. The cover has O-rings so no gaskets required.

Nice find. I have a surprise coming for you wise guy........

I wonder if putting the bike in gear and turning the crankshaft backwards a bit may dislodge the jam.

Just for that I have more snow to send you this week ........