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The tag-a-long has a narrower wheel base so it ends up with the proper tongue to axle ratio.
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seeking a comprehensive explanation--cm'on ladies chime in
Flyinfool replied to Mel's topic in Watering Hole
Me thinks you gots it down........ -
seeking a comprehensive explanation--cm'on ladies chime in
Flyinfool replied to Mel's topic in Watering Hole
Tom you sure seem to have a lot of HATES lately........ Now you hate the look of Taters lovely smiling face??????? I'm tellin................... -
This is correct. BUT, you must make sure of the polarity of the connections to the time delay relay. The original relay does not care about polarity the time delay relay does. If they did not build in polarity protection it will be fried by reverse polarity. If they did build in polarity protection it simply will not work with reverse polarity. From their description it sounds like they are NOT protected.
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These trailers were not made for pulling behind a bike, period. With the stock tongue you would never notice the slight sway behind even a small car. Even behind a bike the sway is very slight, some do not even notice it or it is just not enough to worry about. I built mine stock first and while it was drivable, I did not like it, the tongue stretch made the difference.
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I'll try to answer some questions. The title is partly because I still had sticker shock and contractors always seem to come in over budget. I'm not saying the the work is sub par or was unnecessary just more expensive than budgeted for. The roof has a 12 / 12 pitch the dormers have a 3 / 12 pitch. The boards on the roof are not spaced for wood shingles, they are tight. I was also concerned about sealing in the winter, The contractor assured me IN WRITING that the shingles will not blow off before it gets warm enough for them to seal. He does roof in the winter all the time on new construction and has never had a problem. This is one of the higher rated contractors in the area, NOT the cheapest quote. I am assuming that they know enough to turn down the pressure in their air nailers. On many of the nails they pull out their hammer to finish setting them. I went with the option of replacing boards as needed. putting OSB or ply over perfectly good wood is just overkill, boards have held up fine for over 100 years, I am not convinced that ply or OSB will ever live that long.
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Thats OK Tom, you'll get that SNOW freshened up on Saturday...... But you have a little car.......
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Well they beat the sun and got the whole roof done on the first side. The crew chief said that there was 2 layers of shingles and 2 layers of roll roof under that. As for why the roof is getting done now. It was the roofs decision, not mine. The last storm peeled some shingles and created an unauthorized waterfall thru the ceiling plaster. The shingles are Owens Corning Oakridge. The number of spots that needed repair is not that bad on this first side, I expect the other side to be worse just because the roof looks to be in worse shape on that side. I'll have to try to get a pic of the house. It aint nuttin fancy just a little old house. But you will have to PM me your email cuz we can not do attachments to a PM.
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First side wood is done. Looks like around 75' used. First row of shingles are up. They have about an hour and a half till dark. With the snow tomorrow and holidays coming they will not be back to start the second side till Wednesday next week, weather permitting.
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I did the same as you except I used the trailer with the 8" wheels. I used a pressure treated ply deck. My topper is attached with 4 Eye bolts with a nut that is run up tight then a thick flat washer then a fender washer. this is run through a piece of scrap ply that is about 6" square. then thru the topper from the inside and finally thru the deck. I have a fender washer, thick flat washer and a nylon lock nut to finish on the bottom. the 4 eye bolts on the inside come in handy to tie things down when it is not packed solid with stuff. On my topper there is a channel that was for the original mounting system that is about 4" wide and 1/2 deep, I used another piece of ply scrap to fill that in so that the bottom would be fully supported. I am going to put in a piece of rubber backed outdoor carpet to also help stuff from sliding around.
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I am having a new roof put on. They started today. Now that they have half of the roof off It is totally apparent that the builder of the house back in 1890 was a pinhead. The roof deck boards just end where they end, the next board butted up and on they went. The joints between boards are not centered on the rafters. When they got to the end of the roof they took whatever the cutoff was and butted it up against the next board. Even if the cut off was not long enough to reach 2 rafters, there are many spots where both ends of a board are floating and it is just nailed to ONE rafter in the middle of the board, it tips when pressure is applied to either end.:doh: Of course as to be expected the bottom 2 boards are rotten. But I had expected that with a 120 yo house that had 3 layers of roof on it. The contractor gave me 3 choices. 1. Tear off all the wood and redeck. $5,000 2. Cover the whole roof with 1/4 OSB to give a flat solid nailing surface. $2,500 3. Repair all of the loose ends with new boards at $5.00 per foot installed. Estimate of 100-300 feet. How many total repairs will be needed will not be known till the other half of the roof is torn off. $500 - $1,500. The budget is tight on this job so I went with option 3. I hope I did the right thing, or at least not to bad of a thing.
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The schematic shown above is for a 1st Gen MKII, using the connector left by removing the RLU. The hand drawn diagram above will work for a 2nd gen. The LED used is a Radio Shack P/N 276-312
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Oh yippie Gas just went from $3.03 to $3.40 overnight.
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We'll save some snow for when you get here.......
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Replacing brake lines per maintance schedule recomendations.
Flyinfool replied to dingy's topic in Watering Hole
Heck the line above that one says to replace the seals in the master and slave cylinders every 2 years. I'll bet no one does that either. I guess it is time to call Earl.... -
If you are blinding people that bad then your light is adjusted to high. Most people that cheap out and not get the Bi-xenon, set the beam to high to compensate for not having a hi beam. You are then effectively running hi beam all the time and blinding oncoming traffic. Just get the correct bulb so that you can keep a hi and lo beam both aimed correctly like the bike was designed for.
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The 6K will probably match the color of your LEDs the best. As for lighting up the road, either the 5K or 6k will be best. You loose some light with either a higher or lower temperature color. You definatly want to get a BI-Xenon setup. You do not want to give up Hi beam. You will want to add a relay and a switch to be able to have the light off for starting the bike. The HID has a protection circuit that will shut off the light if the voltage drops to 9V or lower while cranking. You then have to turn the light off to reset it.
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Is your tach working? IIRC the tach is driven from the #2 coil.
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Some guys just have all the luck............ :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2: :snow2:
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Just go to the blur bar at the top of this thread and click on "Thread Tools" and then "Subscribe to this thread" There will be a list of all of the threads that You subscribe to in the "User CP"
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I think Santa left Big Tom some nice pretty SNOW for Christmas. I seem to remember him asking for it......... Santa has not made it here yet..... I must have been a bad boy with all of my , and , and . Maybe he is just running a little late
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But the time stamp is 2 hours fast compared to central time. Not a big deal, have a great Christmas.
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Works for me now. Thanks
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I am very happy that I have seen no mention of the wbc loonies on the news. Maybe if they get zero media time they will just go away. After all it is the attention they are after, and to see if they can get someone to tweak their "rights" so they can file a big lawsuit, that is how they fund themselves. GOD forbid they should go out and get an honest job.
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These might help