GoldWing breakdown update.

There's an especially good company here in Leeds if you get stuck.

Apollo Electrics in Kirkstall. Recommende for alternator rebuilds.

If it's a coil rewinding job, there's a firm in Sheffield who are brill,
but slow.

 

Christmas is coming.

 

Long lasting energy efficient LEDs?

 

muck@_TEETH_rulex.net (Muck) wrote in message

*ding* I've done this to several bikes and cars. My B&D dremel clone
has paid for itself doing this alone (by avoiding buying ridiculously
expensive regulator/brush units).

 

Not being scared of mechanical stuff, and having some imagination does
help sometimes. I've been selling old computer kit and useless stuff to
buy these tools that'll help me do this sort of stuff. It's going to be
a hard 4 years at Uni and I'll be skint for all of them.

 

muck@_TEETH_rulex.net (Muck) wrote in muck@_TEETH_rulex.net:

Hell no, lamps which dry the road in front.

 

Arc lamps it is then.. heh..

 

muck@_TEETH_rulex.net (Muck) wrote in message

You can never have enough tools.

Some **** almost broke into my garage about a year ago. The thought of
losing my tools was not a nice one at all. I've still got some tools I
can remember using when I changed the clutch on my Puch Grand Prix, or
replaced the cranks on my GT250 and RD350B and the barrels and pistons
on my KH400 (all of which were almost 25 years ago...).

I've got a couple of screwdrivers I remember buying with my first,
proper, wage packet. Electronic cutters I remember fiddling from my
first catalogue order from RS, a socket set I remember finding on top of
a wardrobe when I moved to London to study etc. etc. etc.

Losing those tools would be like losing old friends.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Yup. There used to be a place in Tidy's Yard, Ditchling, that'd do a
MkII Escrote alternator[1] for eleven quid

[1] In 1988

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Vacuum cleaner motor brushes work just as well

 

This, I'm finding out. Makes you always keep an eye out for that next
tool.

I can totally understand that. I've had a lot of tools nicked, or I've
loaned them out, only to have them broken or never returned.

This land lord thinks it's ok for me to have so many tools, but the last
one or two saw it as a real problem. Even my mum thought I was strange
for choosing tools over nice clothes sometimes. Nice clothes aren't
going to get your bike going when it's broke.

Aside from that, when you have to buy everything again, I'd bet that you
would forget that one tool you really need at 5mp on a Sunday.

 

Here's where knowing what you're looking at, is as important as knowing
what you're looking for.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, steve auvache amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

It's fucking shit and no mistake.

I saved myself the indignity well beyond/before this point and bought a
new fucking battery.

Cunts.

 

The fatty is getting goosed.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, tallbloke amazed us all with this pearl of
wisdom:

The goose is getting fat.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

<shrugs>

Look, I heard it as a just as know nothing **** then as what I do know
now ****, so if it's all the same to you, Ithink I'll go and have
apiss....

 

Got to watch for diferrent hardnesses.

 

Whinging Courier wrote:

"It's English Jim, but not as we know it"

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R (Going)
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X (Patio Ornament)
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), X-FOT#000, DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

Yeh. I'm not sure what WC thought I said either.

 

Yes, I'd forgotten about that. Should have remembered that, as I used to
mess about with R/C electric off road buggies.