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  1. Flyinfool
    Are you trying to fill that garage at the top of the hill full of 1st gens???
  2. Flyinfool
    I may not need the tank but I might still want the tank. I need to lift a surface grinder. My best guess is around 2200 lbs. It is almost 7 feet tall so the boom must reach higher than that. I need to lift it up off of a pallet and then set it down on a dolly. Then once it is in my basement I need to pick it up again to remove the dolly and set it in place on the floor. I ended up buying a 4,000 lb folding hoist at HF today. It was on sale and I used a 20% off coupon and took the floor model at an additional discount. Ended up with it for $135. I will end up modifying it to fold up even smaller than designed and then I will have one for when I convert my mill to CNC.
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    I almost always wear a helmet, the only time I don't is to move the bike from the front yard to the back to put it in the shed, and I feel naked doing it. After seeing what my father is going thru from a fall in the house and the brain injury that basically left him with the reasoning power of a 2 year old. AND what that fall is doing to the rest of the family for the rest of his life, I went out and bought a top of the line full face helmet to better my chances of NOT ending up like Dad. It is not just your own freedom that you are risking by not wearing a helmet, it is the rest of your life that your loved ones may have to spend taking care of you, changing your diaper, wiping your butt while you drool all over the place because you were cool for a day. Your family will never be able to go on a trip or vacation because they will have to be home to take care of you. Think about those who love you as part of the decision whether or not to wear a helmet. They are the ones that will suffer the most from your decision. Even if you are LUCKY enough to die and not be a vegetable, your loved ones are still going have to live with your decision forever.
  4. Flyinfool
    You can get the o-rings from McMaster-Carr P/N 9263K286 You want the Viton ones, $4.59 for a pack of 25.
  5. Flyinfool
    :sign yeah that: I had a malware that would not even allow the computer to boot up. Was down to just the blue screen of death at boot. Bleeping computers was able to talk me thru step by step, holding my hand the whole way to get everything back up and running. They are a bunch of big time computer geeks and used software that they wrote to fix things that there is no commercial fix for. I ran all of the major brands of antivirus software and none of then could find whatever it was that I had. Some of the software that they had me use even found malware hiding on other computers on the network that the commercial AV software was perfectly happy to leave there. Some of the steps took over 24 hours to run but did finally win the war.
  6. Flyinfool
    Most likely yes. But it can't hurt to ask.
  7. Flyinfool
    Is this on the new bike you just bought? If it is I would call the dealer and see if you can get anything out of them for your trouble and expenses.
  8. Flyinfool
    Yup, I can buy a new one at Harbor Freight for less than the rental. The only local rental I can find is $25 + $10 per day. I will need it at least 2 weeks. The HF is on sale $144 and thee are some coupons around for $99
  9. Flyinfool
    There not that heavy,,,,,,,,,I'm that old...........
  10. Flyinfool
    I need to borrow/rent an engine hoist / shop crane for a couple of weeks. I was looking at buying one from Harbor freight (on sale now for $180 - 20% coupon + $144) but I really do not have room to store it when I am done with it. I just bought a surface grinder to put in my basement shop and need the hoist to disassemble it, load it, unload it, and then again to reassemble it in my basement. Anyone have one within 100 or so miles of Milwaukee? I have a full size P/U to come get it and return it home in a few weeks when I am done. I have also been watching Craigslist and ebay to find a good cheap one that I can use and then resell when I am done with it.
  11. Flyinfool
    You can also go to a local auto parts store and get a resettable circuit breaker that will fit the fuse clips. This way you just keep pushing the button till you find the problem. once it is fixed, put a fuse back in.
  12. Flyinfool
    I would like to see how they decided to do this. It was an option that I was considering but got lazy and did not put in the effort into figuring it out.
  13. Flyinfool
    I have no problem with posting links to what I wrote. Save me frome typing all of that over again. If there is someone that really wants me to, I can figure out how to set the same thing up on a second gen. the circuit is the same, just the wire colors and locations will be different.
  14. Flyinfool
    Dang Now I have placed an order for more work to do.........
  15. Flyinfool
    So can you give us a shopping list of which LEDs worked best in the dash??? Turn and brake LEDs are working their way high up on my wish list....
  16. Flyinfool
    You do not want to use Gorrila glue on a large flat area, the mentioned expansion will cause your sheet metal to endup uneven with ripples, and since it is an air cure it will take months to fully harden. For what you want, I would go with contact cement, there are a lot of good ones out there.
  17. Flyinfool
    A relay is nothing more than a remotely activated switch. Relays can get dirty or corroded contacts also. I even carry a spare relay for when something acts up.
  18. Flyinfool
    AND don't forget the mower.........
  19. Flyinfool
    More common is dirty contacts in the hi-lo switch on the handlebars. There is a thread here somewhere on how to clean the switch. I have also seen bad brand new bulbs.
  20. Flyinfool
    Darn now you tell me it wont work, and here I have been dimming LEDs with just resistors for over 20 years........ If you look at a set of dual intensity LED tail lights, IE running and brake/turn, there is nothing more than a resistor in line with the wire that connects to the running lights. Yes you can use PWM if you want to spend more money, The tail lights on a Cadillac, and a few other high end cars, use PWM, I hate those because I can see the flash frequency and it drives me nuts. I do not know what resistance the pot is for the in dash dimmer to know if it would be to sensitive or not. RGB LEDs are called RGB because they have 3 elements in the same package. There is a Red, a Green, and a Blue LED in each package. A red and a blue turned on at the same time will give a purple light. Red and green on at the same time gives a yellow light. green and blue at the same time is cyan light. all three at the same time makes white light. by varying the intensities of each color you can get any color you want. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/AdditiveColor.svg/400px-AdditiveColor.svg.png
  21. Flyinfool
    SEAFOAM......... It will help to get any residual crud out of the carbs.
  22. Flyinfool
    Maybe she just wants to sit on something clean once in a while........
  23. Flyinfool
    I was just gonna go there......... I have mine set up with a push button switch and a flashing red LED hooked up thru a RELAY, to remind me that I forgot to turn on the light........
  24. Flyinfool
    I have had that exact setup for 3 years now, I love it and will never go back to incandescent. I do carry the old halogen bulb as an emergency spare.
  25. Flyinfool
    I would say gear. Don't think it is a sprocket, the valley radius is to small.
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