On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 06:40:24 -0700 (PDT), Andrew VK3BFA
wrote:
On Apr 28, 4:32*am, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010 06:15:55 -0700 (PDT), Andrew VK3BFA
wrote:
On Apr 26, 10:51*pm, "AIOE"
Jon
Hey, that was a good score - AND you were really lucky NOT to get the
teenage daughter as well, if you havent had one yourself, mm, ah,
yes, ..............you are blessed!!! (hopefully, they grow up to be
Human, rather than something just visiting from their home planet..)
Nice to have tools with a bit of grunt in them.
BTW - the car? - well, you know what a bull**** artist Gunner is,
wouldn't believe that bit. OK with the teenage daughter bit - anyone
want mine? *- shes semi-house trained. (A lie well known to all
parents)
Andrew VK3BFA.
http://picasaweb.google.com/gunnerasch
G
Gunner
Do you know how long it takes to cut out those huge, meaninglessly
verbose tag lines Gunner - bloody hell! (get some new, shorter ones,
ok?)
Tag lines? Which ones are you refering to?
Browsed through your album too - thanks, you got a LOTTA
interesting stuff. Your Honda XL350 - if its the wear of the head
where the cam sat, you can line bore it out and fit needle bearings -
just Google it - maybe you got a mill and tooling and setup plates to
do it....would be a bugger to set up, ...you would be up for a pair of
bearings, maybe cam rebuilding, but you would have a good, honest
bike at the end of it.
Indeed. The points were spinning in a rather wierd angle when I checked
them, so indeed the head (aluminum casting "bearings") are toast and Ill
need to bore and set it up for bearings. As you can tell..I may...may
have the gear to do it with in my home shop. One of these days Ill get
Around Tuit.
The Enfield - who the hell got to it, what were they trying to do, its
bloody awful. (Typical English crap too - worn out tooling, poor
castings, archaic work practices, leaked from brand new, poor choice
and use of materials..no technical (or managerial) advances since the
Great War, no wonder the Japs devastated them...) Do the Honda first,
lot easier. Dont be slack - just do it!
I got the enfield in 1971. 2 weeks before I went into the service..and
it sat in my Dads garage some 2500 miles away until last year. A friend
was coming out to California, so we managed to get it all arrainged and
get it out here. That pesky heart surgery, the stroke and the
recovery..and now the lack of income as a result of the Great Depression
Part 2 have all prevented me from doing much with it. However..I did get
it started G..and it runs pretty well. Its a 1961..so the guy before
me did what you see to it in the 10 yrs it was in the US before I got
it. The tractor headlight always fascinated me...blink blink. Finding
actual replacement stuff..head lamp, proper seat etc etc..is
spendy...very very spendy for that scooter, here in the States. And it
being 6vt Postive Ground electrical also makes things a bit more
interesting. But its on my List of Things to do when I get some money.
If you ever have access to a proper headlamp/gages, please keep me in
mind, along with a seat etc. Its one of the last 10 Royal Engfields
imported into the US as an Indian Motorcycle..I have the original
registration papers G. Id love to put it on the street, but original
parts for a 700 Meteor (which it is) are rare and very expensive here in
the States.
My BMW..thats right at the top of the list. Cheap transportation is very
important. at this point. But...it needs a a couple hundred bucks to get
it running as well, tires mostly, battery etc etc. So it too will have
to wait for a while.
As for having interesting Stuff...you didnt think I was kidding when I
mentioned this and that did you?
Gunner
Andrew VK3BFA.
"First Law of Leftist Debate
The more you present a leftist with factual evidence
that is counter to his preconceived world view and the
more difficult it becomes for him to refute it without
losing face the chance of him calling you a racist, bigot,
homophobe approaches infinity.
This is despite the thread you are in having not mentioned
race or sexual preference in any way that is relevant to
the subject." Grey Ghost