Flyinfool
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No question. A nice big dead deer steak, baked potato and corn on the cob, all on a charcoal grill. A big glass of milk with the meal and a lemon meringue pie for desert. Then Hot Sex on the rocks to relax after the feast.
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It is a lot safer to be a self righteous anti speeder in a cage. I have never seen or heard of a bike win an altercation with a truck. I've seen this done with cars plenty of times, but this is the first time I have seen bikes do this. The truck in front of me finally decided he was going through whether the bikes were there or not, the bikes did finally get the hint, and most of the column of vehicles got past them. I think that the driver in front of me fully intended to hit them if they did not get out of the way. I saw the puff of smoke as he accelerated and his brake lights never flashed at all.
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LED strip for front turn signals?
Flyinfool replied to geep's topic in Royal Star and Royal Star Tour Deluxe Tech Talk
Here is where I have been getting LED strips from. You can select a background color so that you do not have all of the circuitry and markings showing, you can also select if you want water proof or not. You want the IP68 for water proof. this gets you a 5 meter roll of the strip with 300 LEDs on it. You can cut it at every 3rd led. You need patience when ordering from them, they literally ship on a slow boat from China, expect at least 4 weeks for delivery. But their prices are really great. I used the red ones to add 168 LEDs to the rear of my trunk, they are wired for running brake and turn. for your fronts all you need is two rectifier diodes 1N5402, one 270-300 ohm, 1 or 2 watt resistor to make it work as you wanted. With the LEDs dim for running lights and flash bright for turn. OR Just hook it up with the positive wire of the LEDs to the running light positive and the LED ground lead hooked to the turn signal positive. This way if the running lights are on the LEDs will ground thru the filament of the turn signal bulbs. This will only work if you still have incandescent turn signal bulbs. When you turn on the turn signal, there will be +12V on both leads of the LED strip so they will go off. The effect will be that the LED strip will be the opposite of whatever the turn signal bulb is. Unless you really have a lot of LEDs the bulb filaments will not glow from the LED power running thru them. -
The best telemarketers are the ones that their company policy says they can not hang up on anyone for any reason. Some telemarketing places to not even give their callers the ability to hang up. I had one woman that was trying to sell me a refi on my mortgage and I had her in tears after about a half hour of verbal abuse. And yes I felt good about it afterwards. My phone number is very dangerous when I am bored.
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On my way home from a trip yesterday there was a pair of bikers that were getting real close to getting run over on purpose. These 2 were driving on a state highway doing 45-50 in a posted 55. They were riding side by side in the same lane. When ever we came to a designated passing area they split so that there was one of them in each lane to make it impossible for anyone to pass. When ever the center line went from solid yellow to dashed yellow one of them would ride on the wrong side of the road till there was oncoming traffic or the passing zone ended, again preventing anyone from passing. I am normally not one prone to road rage, but it was very obvious that these two were just trying to cause trouble. They finally got the hint when they noticed a big chrome bumper just a foot behind them in a designated passing area and closing (not mine but I wanted to). They had over a mile of cars backed up behind them. There was a good long string of vehicles that went by them bumper to bumper and did not allow them to get back in line at the end of the passing area.
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Yup 18'x40'x4" = 8.8 yds
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What did your caller ID say? It was most likely a scam or even just a computer hunting for phone numbers that are answered by a human. Once they know a human will answer then the scammers know who to call every day. It is real bad for a scammer to call me when I am bored with absolutely nothing better to do than to see how long I can keep them on the line and how messed up I can get them.
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Here is your mix info. 9 yards would be a lot for even a pro working alone. It sounds like time for a M & B & E. On second thought it might be cheaper to hire someone vs feeding all of us.......
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I hope everything goes well with the doc. With winter coming it might make it easier to behave and not jump back on the bike to soon. You will just have to cage it to any local M & Es, since you'll have nothing else to be doing.
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Take a close look at the fuel, If there are any kind of chunks of anything in it then it has gone bad. I have seen fuel go bad in under a year and I have seen 10 year old fuel that was just fine. Your chances are better if it was never opened.
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2006 Venture electrical problem
Flyinfool replied to Sylvester's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
I think you are mixing up tests or I am misunderstanding your post. 1. Pull all of the wires off of the positive battery terminal. 2. Connect one lead of your ammeter to the battery positive and connect the other to ALL of the wires that cam off of the positive battery terminal. 3. you should be seeing the 0.0677A that you measured before. 4. If there was more than one wire connected to the battery positive, then, while watching the meter, disconnect the wires that were grouped on the bat pos one by one. you will get to one of them that will cause the meter reading to drop. 5. The wire that caused to meter change is the one that has the draw. 6. Once you have identified the wire that is causing the draw. hook it back up to the meter, you should be seeing the draw on the meter once again. 7. IF that wire is for an added accessory, then you have your culprit. 8. IF that wire is the wire that feeds the bike electrical systems, then go through each fuse panel and pull out the fuses one by one watching the meter. When the meter drops you have identified the circuit that is causing the problem. Let us know which fuse caused the meter to drop and we can then troubleshoot from there. -
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The kicked up stone punctured the plastic elbow that goes from the water pump to the thermostat. The chin will protect against that.
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If it really fully scaleable, When will Yami come out with a Venture WTF???
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Is it to late to put a stop payment on the checks that the Warden gave him?
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As far as the chin goes, I have not noticed any difference whether it is on or off as far as cooling goes. What I did notice was the hole in the cooling system that was made by a stone that would have been stopped by the chin had it been there.
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I went thru all of my boxes of Cox stuff and did not find an .010 head. Sorry. But I did find some treasures that had been MIA for many years.
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2006 Venture electrical problem
Flyinfool replied to Sylvester's topic in Royal Star Venture Tech Talk ('99 - '13)
A draw of .0667A or .0244A is not going to pull a MC battery down over night. The bike battery should be able to sustain a .0677A load for almost 2 weeks and a .0244A load for a month. You have something else going on if the battery is dying over night. -
My mother in law is Irene. Yes I have been calling her a blow hard.....:duck: I may need to head into the eye of the storm for a little calm.
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Also look up Ramapo fault line since this is most likely the fault line that just moved. So much learning foe one day, I'll crawl back in my hole now......
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That wasn't an earthquake. A caster on my chair broke and I fell over............
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You can still buy Aero-Gloss Dope at most hobby shops. A 5 oz bottle at the hobby shop will be less than the cost of shipping it. I noticed that you had a Jet-X motor too. the fuel pellets may not be good anymore since they are just in a blister pack on paper. but that fairly clean unopened package may have collector value even with the price of $0.60 written with a magic marker.
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Yup, 6 volts to a glow plug will make it act more like a flash bulb. If the plug was on the engine when you did this, make sure none of the pieces of the plug element are still in the engine. Depending on where the piston was the debris can fall all of the way into the crank case. There is no room for wear on that little .010 engine, the piston to bore fit has a tolerance of only .000006 (6 millionths) of an inch. That cute little engine runs at around 30,000 rpm. Yes the number means that the engine has a displacment of 0.010 cubic inches (0.16 cc). The larger engine with the prop is a Cox .049. The rod for the rocket launcher is a 1/8 inch Dia x 36 inches long music wire available at any hobby shop, or you can still but the "real" launch rod that has a joint in the middle so that it breaks down into two 18" pieces. The other parts of the launcher are more decoration. Ah Yes, tissue and Dope. Brings back some foggy memories from a long long time ago. Some of those engines in the pics may have some good collector value. I'm still looking thru some old boxes for an 010 plug. I know that I do not have the whole engine anymore. I sold that with the airplane it was mounted on.
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This is all just a nightmare. We all know that if there are no pics, it didn't really happen....... So just what work did he get for?
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Eat another gallon of ice cream and the seat will stay on just fine.........