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Working in Northern Michigan

It's working here in windy Kentucky. Warm enough to go riding, wind blowing hard enough to take you off the bike.

works in nothern il

Works in Wisconsin!

@Woody You know the saying...Family first before anything else. You did the right thing. Many more opportunities to enjoy rides coming your way. Ride safe.

It was eighty degrees here today and I wanted to ride but kids and honey dues got in the way.

Working!

It's Broke just like me 😁

It was 74 Sunday and 78 Monday here in Omaha. I got the bike put back together and put 240 miles on Sunday and fought the wind, but still had a good time. Monday I put 35-40 miles on the bike on the way home from work (I live about 6 miles from work lol) and rode to work yesterday. Woke up to over an inch of snow on the ground this morning lol Ride Safe!

Good morning to all. Yesterday, I was able to ride to and from work and it felt great! Temperature was in the mid 70's and it marked my first ride of the year. My RSV fired right away and she was ready to go. Ride safe everyone.

It is working here.

it's working boss 😁

Just making sure it’s working

80 degrees today so we got our chores done and took a ride, about 2 hours of back roads.

Good evening to All! We are having rain and a very unstable weather pattern over the course of 10 days...but I see some 70 degree temps coming up.

I 'think' he is saying that he just might buy a new ride.

Are you saying you are done riding now?

No more snow in our area, but winter might just put another round of snow next week and hopefully that would be it for the season. I am so ready for Spring and also thinking that time springs forward on March 8.

Been blowing and plowing snow this last week! Also repairing units as things went south! Roads were clear for a few days then Bam snow again! -19cel this morning when I picked up son from work! Got oil and filter the other day now just have to change it!

So looking through Mcmasters, they offer carbon steel and alloy steel rods. The alloy is about twice the strength of the carbon, the alloy is more expensive, which is not a problem, but the next question is will I be able to weld the alloy with a simple 6011 rod, ....final pass with a 7018? I don't know if alloy means a different type of weld than the farmer / junkyard welding I typically do for structural fab.

So, I talked to a fella with a small shop who will repair it for $600. Not gonna do that. I'll try to talk to another fella tomorrow and if his price is similar I think I'll take Dawsons' advice and drop down from 1 1/8" to 7/8" and replace the rod and the nut. We'll see how it goes.

I was thinking the same thing, but the cost of the rod / nut may cost as much as to have a threaded sleeve made up. Better yet would be to have the original part bored and a new threaded sleeve inserted and welded in place. There's a little machine shop nearby. I'll keep the assembly in my work van and stop by and see what they say. I'm guessing a couple hundred $$$...Still worth it for such a beast of a vise.

Thinking outside the box here John. I googled 1-1/4 ACME rod and found places to get rods and coupling nuts. Maybe replace the original rod and weld in a coupling nut. Make both sides new instead of matching the old. Or drop down a size if needed and sleeve it.

Yup, It's a big-un. That's why I grabbed it but the repair's looking like it may be a problem. I could take it to a machine shop that's capable of cutting an Acme thread, but the expected cost may be worth more than the vise. I'm still exploring options. Thanks for thinkin' of me. 🙂