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Title: How I shot my bike... Post by Serowbot on 09/03/12 at 12:39:29 :-?... Long story... I have a slow leak in the front tire,.. so, I roll into the shop to air it up... ... but my old Monkey Wards compressor has a leaky hose... (just bought that sucky hose a year ago, Harbor Freight)... so,.. I take the old one off, and in the process of tightening the new one on,.. the pot metal connection box cracked... Buhh!... air leaking eberywhere... I hunted around and found a quick-connect with a longer thread, so I tried that.. It solved 3/4 of the leak... ... but still leaking... So,... I tried getting the connection box off... No way... So,.. I got this tube of epoxy putty,...(the kind you mush about to activate)... and I mold it all around the box,.. and then, just to be sure, I tighten a hose clamp into the putty... .. and then,... I mush a little extra putty in the threaded hole before I attach the quick-connect... Great!... .. but it occurs to me that I might have blocked the air hole now with the putty... ...and sure enough,.. barely any air is passing... And with a stroke of genius, I decide to shut off the output and let some pressure build in the tank to blow out the blocked epoxy before it dries... Now, it's a race... can I build up the pressure before the epoxy hardens?... It's one of those old chugalug compressors that sounds like toy tractor... chugga, chugga, chugga... I get it up past 100psi and without thinking open the valve... It takes about 2 seconds,.. and Whoomph!... I forgot to aim... and shot my bike... I been looking for while,.. and can't find where the epoxy slug hit... Maybe it ricocheted off somewhere... Anywho.. it's too dang hot to look anymore... I'll search again tomorrow,.. by then the epoxy will be dried and I can test the compressor too... :-?... PS.. update... just found the epoxy slug.. it ricocheted and hit me about an inch from the bottom of my pants... ...looks to be about 222 calibre... ;D... |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/03/12 at 13:06:36 Thats a good story! Thanks,, Teflon tape is your friend. |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by ToesNose on 09/03/12 at 13:22:04 Too funny :D |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by gerald.hughes on 09/03/12 at 14:53:39 See why I didn't want you working on my bike in this weather? |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by Boofer on 09/03/12 at 16:50:37 You work at a dealership, don't you? ;D |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by gerald.hughes on 09/03/12 at 19:05:23 Boofer, I don't think that you should insult the Bot like that. He is a great wrench, and probably knows as much about our beloved bikes as anyone on this site. |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by verslagen1 on 09/03/12 at 20:20:58 He also knows how to clear an air line :o |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/03/12 at 22:51:33 123F3F363522500 wrote:
Well,, Ill be danged,, I never even considered that! What do you do, Rowboat? I doubt seriously there is a single Suzuki dealership wrench who rides one of these. If there are any, I would be proud of them for appreciating the bike in the face of what I would expect to be a good deal of peer pressure,. |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by Serowbot on 09/03/12 at 22:59:18 1835353C3F285A0 wrote:
Naa,.. I'm not that stupid... ...if I worked at a dealership, I'd have shot someone else's bike... :-?... |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by justin_o_guy2 on 09/03/12 at 23:28:45 & if he was a REpublican, he woulda shot himself in the foot.. |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by LANCER on 09/04/12 at 08:01:56 565443505D551F594456595442310 wrote:
;D |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by LANCER on 09/04/12 at 08:03:45 405F595E43447545754D5F53182A0 wrote:
You're bad ... yep ... ::) ;D |
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Title: Re: How I shot my bike... Post by elitemunkeycrew on 09/05/12 at 09:02:20 :) :D ;D :o ::) What's the emoticon for D'oh!? |
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