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  1. Bob Myers
    2 days are what we have planned. Wife has bad knees and walking gets her pretty quickly so I am hoping we can do the ride paas thing at Greenfield. As I understand it you purchase a $10.00 pass(per person) and can ride all over the village in the A's and T model cars all day, as much or as little as you wish, pretty much like a taxi, except you can't tell them to wait while tyou run in the next building.
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    So, who's been to the Ford Museum? Greenfield Village? WIfe and I are going to ride up on Friday and come home on Monday, should be plenty of time to see most of each of them, right? What's a absolute don't miss part of this trip?
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    Well, being the cantankerous old cuss I am it just is my natural tendency to do things the hard way the first half dozen times.
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    Dave, I keep coming back and staring at the aluminum carving. If he had to program that by hand, like most of the stuff I do, there would likely be in excess of 5 thousand lines of code, and take weeks to write! That is just awesome, no two ways about it! Ah, the wonders of CAD-CAM. I'm learning to do it the easy way with cad program but I regress and get impatient trying to draw and just go write the program.
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    Talk to Adam, he quoted me $250. That is with them doing 100% of the polish work and chroming the aluminum wheel Kentucky Cycles 4124 Simpson Lane Richmond Ky 40475 859-536-0261 http://www.kycyclesalvage.co We offer bright chrome, black chrome, 24k gold and candy chrome
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    Bob Myers replied to mraf's topic in Watering Hole

    Not to hijack this but,, have you been to these? What can you tell us about them?
  7. Bob Myers
    Very nice Dave! Having the people around you with above average abilities makes you equally as blessed as they are! Say hi to the fam for me, wish I could come visit again soon.
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    My best friend and riding companion will do the same as yours, once in while she will even lead a ride or two. We've been riding and playing follow the leader since 1993 when I taught her to ride. We'll be married 27 years week after next.
  9. Bob Myers
    Exactly my point, a story that good had to be true. No way a person could just make it up as they went along. Sp where is she from?
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    After splitting them I would surmise they both work better? AM doesn't like the loaded whip, FM reception is quite diminished too, and Cb is at a loss before you even turn it on with all the splitters/combiners and loops and coils. 2 antennas are the best for ultimate reception. The CB does however like the center loaded coil for transmitting, It effectively makes it a "no groundplane" antenna.
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    That has to be true story, even Don couldn't make that up!
  12. Bob Myers
    I can see where this could lead to more tools for other projects too. Maybe someone could chat up Freebird and have a "loaner tool sub forum or sticky or whatever so tools needed can be acquired from those who have them. I 'spose one for 1st gen bikes would have a life here too? Straycatt: thats the way I used to do it too, works just dandy!
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    Man you are manicuring an excellent riding partner there, no doubt. Just don't mess up and allow her to take advantage of you. Nothing ruins a friendship quicker than some romantic interlude.
  14. Bob Myers
    I too concur that you have done a great job. You may even consider doing the old forks too and offering them for sale on an exchange basis. You do nice work
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    My first gen does the same thing one up, two up its around 60-65. I guess the extra wind drag could be the reason. My best, riding with a friend(actually I was slowing him down) 1734 miles in 31 hours with 5 hours in a motel just after the 1370 mark. If we hadn't been cold we could have done the whole 1734 straight up in about 27
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    Do you have it already? Someone needs to start a thread on where it is needed next so we'll know where it was last.
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    With all the good wrenches we have here I am quite surprised that no one has made mention that the Philips screwdriver you buy at the hardware or Sears or even Snap-On are not 100% compatible with the screw heads found on Japanese bikes. The philips head is wrong angle on the tapered sections. You know how lots of the Philips head screws deform and "raise up" around the slots when a lot of torque is needed? That is proof in the pudding that the wrong tool is being used. So, you may ask smarty just what is the right tool? JIS compliant screwdriver is the ticket. It is the same angle as the Japanese standard Philips head. I bought a set from McMaster Carr upon the recommendation of one of my customers( a Japanese Gentleman) while working on his bike. Dang big difference when the right tool is used. No more deforming the screw heads, no more rasied edges of slots and best of all most screws that a standard #2 or #3 would walk out of can be twisted easily with the JIS screwdrivers. Your results may vary. Yea, I know, I'd never heard such BS either, figured it would make no difference, until I actually put one in my hands and saw it work
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    It is a 2 piece slide hammer basically. I had not put the counterbore in the top side to drive the dust seal in, Forrest started to tap the seal in and held the tool up to bump it. He looked at the tool and at me and we both knew instantly what it needed to be a truly universal too. As Forrest and I discussed, who ever has it will pay shipping to send it to who ever needs it, just like the ride like a pro video. Using USPS flat rate most it should cost is around $6 or 7. Forrest, thanks for the good words.
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    I have to attend a meeting in Cincinnati tomorrow at 11:30am, when I leave there I'll call you at the number you called me from today
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    Ah, I see, it was made to the size given for the seal, not the leg. I can open it up 1mm easily
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    But it was made to the sizes given. What size does the inner leg measure? Looks like the 42mm given is not the size of the leg? Can you measure it?
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    What is this a picture of?
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    Yes, that is what I had measured also.
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    My tool appears to be in my truck, it's not here at home. If it won't work I'll whip one out for you tomorrow. 2 chunks of aluminum , 25 minutes on the lathe and it'll be almost too shiney to use. When will you be in Lex to pick it up? So to work, it needs to be 43.5 x 53.5, and about 250 long
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    I made the tool for a Vulcan, they are 41mm, my VR appears to be 40mm. Can yo measure the outside diameter of your new seal? If my driver is small enough to clear the OD it'll work
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