Hay

I'm with you fellers !



What do those "Weather" people know anyway  

Half the time they doin't know which way the wind is going to blow !  and the half they get it right they are only guessing ?

Odd's are most of us need a bath anyway !  

Mabby I'll bring " TWO " decks of cards  ,,, just incase one deck get wet !  

Besides I've got three rain suits and none of them ever get used !  

Dave, I called the Blue Ridge Campground people and locked our cabin for Weds-Saturday night.  

We is committed .....      

You tent people need to call the Blue Ridge Campground at 828-235-8350 and ask them about cabin cancellations -- with all the crazy weather forecasting we have been tracking lately I bet they got some cancellations and if you are quick you can capitalize on somebody else's short term misfortunes of weatherish judgement.

Dave wrote on 05/30/13 at 11:59:04:


Sure she has...and she's cryin cause she remembers the smell.....something akin to a wet dog

Old-Rider.  Bring whatever you want to ride.  The Savage will probably be fine, and there will be a lot of people there to help fix it.....but ride what you feel comfortable with.

I got my bike "officially ready".  I have the carb where it should be and took the oxygen sensor off and put the chrome pipe on.  On Saturday I rode around a lot.....and fueled up.  I went 136 miles and the bike took 2.4 gallons, which is 57 mpg.

I also added some artwork that I bought on the Dragon Run last year.
 

Added the power plug adapter, works fine, put it with fuse inline, then switch, adapter then grounded it to the frame at the forward rightside reflector, then put a ten amp fuse on it and wondering if I should go to five, the gps only needs 1amp. The switch and adapter are rated at 20amps on sixteen guage wire so I should be good to go, came off the battery post so I wouldn't be in the bike harness.
I'm thinking on tackling the valves because they are rattling louder than the speedo, well least I think they are, I might try a video see how it works and link it up so ya'll can hear them and fill me in on how loud they should or should not sound.
Got a vid uploaded, but the sounds kinda muffles at 1:20, camera does that don't know how to change it, but you can still hear the valves at first.
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Well, I did it.   Cleaned out the tool box that is.

Stripped all the stuff out of the drawers and pulled the drawers and sprayed all the sawdust out of all the the little cracks and crevices with the garden hose.

..... my tool box sits next to the miter saw, so there is a lot of sawdust .....

All the tools are wiped down and ready to go back in and I have had a thought, a brand new thought.

(for me, anyway)

I have not owned an American based car at any time in the last 25 years.   I buy Nissans and Acuras .....  

Why am I cluttering up my main tool box with inch based sockets and wrenches?

I took them out and put them in a separate basket.   My metric stuff fits a lot better now and I can actually can pick up and carry all the tools I will actually really ever use again.

Next, I started another storage basket for the "speciality tools".   This includes all the modified one off things you did over the years that ruined that particular set of pliers (except for popping off radiator wire curl clamps, which it does very well indeed except they don't use the things any more).

These two changes have cut the carry weight of my tool box in half, easily.

Weight loss is good, being able to find stuff easily is good.  I really didn't toss anything, but am I really going to need all those diamond grit ignition point files ever again?

Specialty tool basket, along with the rest of the obsolete car technology stuff.



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Change is something I notice, me, I like watching the stuff roll on along.   Cleaning my tool box was fun because I was able to see the generational effect in a short condensed fashion.

I was raised in post WWII America, and we had the best stuff of anybody.  It was 100% inch based.  

We put Japan back together after the war and sent them our best instructors, like Deming to teach them the theoretical best way to do things.  We couldn't be bothered using SPC ourselves, but the Japanese didn't know any better so they used SPC and continuous improvement and all the other American invented stuff that Americans were too durn lazy to use.   The Japanese started building really good cars, in metric.

America didn't go metric intentionally, we just quit making competitive stuff here in America so we had to buy it from Japan and Mexico and Taiwan and now China (in metric).

I was there, working as a Supplier Quality Engineer when we had to teach the Taiwanese how to build a quality power tool.   At that point in time the Chinese were hopeless, not even Hong Kong attempted to export Chinese power tools to anywhere as the quality was "hammer and file" crude.

Then we NAFTA'd everything America based down to Mexico but we sent the tooling and some of the people with it and it ran as good as it ever did in the USA.    But Mexico then passed a law that all parts had to be metric and all parts had to be produced on tooling that was no older than 5 years old .....  

(get the stupid Gringos to pay for modernizing their manufacturing infastructure is what they were doing)

oopsie .... time to move to Taiwan/India/China.

Inch still exists in furniture and in a very few items intentionally built expressly to the inch standard.   My Harbor Freight bike trailer is a good example of a Chinese good that was built completely to the inch standard.   Every fastener is inch as well.   This has to do with the old DOT requlations on trailer bolt sizes which don't mention any metric anything.   Trailers are heavily regulated, BTW --- try to get a home built trailer jobbie licensed in North Carolina sometimes.

I thought on this a bit as I scrambled to locate my inch sockets and wrenches to fit the bolts the kit is put together with -- the tools hadn't been used in over 20 years.

old_rider wrote on 06/03/13 at 07:34:40:


I didn't know it was a video.....I thought it was a photograph.  When I clicked on the photo then it linked me to the video.  I didn't hear anything weird....but then I don't hear high pitched sounds, squeaks or rattles very well anymore.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/us/canton-nc/28716/june-weather/12122_pc?monyr=...


Huston, we are T-9 days out and counting, with BIG GIGANTIC ENORMOUS sunshine yellow balls visible on each & every single day of the forecast and we are continuing counting down to launch day   ----    T-10, T-9, .....