Flyinfool

Asking weather or not one is needed, is just as volatile as politics, guns or oil.

That sure does look like someone we know from Illinois.

You can get those from Digi-Key.

I have this one. I have not flipped over the trailer or dumped the the bike to try it out, but so far it has been no issue.

Dang I missed the juicy stuff again........

Glad it worked out and was not a lot of trouble. Yes there are still some honest people left in this world.

The lithium polymer batteries do not like cold. They loose a lot of power fast when they get cold and also do not charge well when cold. I would be concerned about brightness and duration in the winter. If you already have some power in the garage, a couple of lights does not sound like it should push anything over the edge where you need a complete rewire, unless of course you were just looking for an excuse to rewire anyhow.

I hope they aint headed here. It was 63 today but is headed for zero and lots of snow tomorrow.

http://www.venturerider.org/forum/showthread.php?t=75634

Looks like fun. To watch from shore.......

See I just knew that you were gonna wake someone up. Now look what you did. ALL THAT YELLING DONE WENT AND WOKE UP ROCKINROBIN!!

I have the HF trailer. I made some brackets that attach to the back of the trailer so that I can stand it up on its back bumper and there are wheels on the brackets that let me roll it sideways to slip it in and out of the space between the shed and the house. It is stored standing up leaning against the wall.

I didn't really mean to yell so loud, but there is story after story of disintegrated fairings and other plastic parts due to loctite, on this and other forums.

A lot also depends on where you live. There are some neighborhoods where it does not matter how many locks you have. It will be gone. Other neighborhoods people don't even know if the key can be removed from the ignition, because they never tried. As for me, where I live, I just lock the trunk and bags and keep the key with me. At night it is stuffed into a small storage shed along with all of the yard tools.

A few points to touch on. Loctite Loctite is a specific thread locker brand name. Not all brands are equal or even use the same colors for the same strength. It is best to use the actual P/N of loctite since there are over 50 Loctite products and only 7 colors to go around. What is normally used in our applications is; Blue - Loctite 242 (Can be disassembled with hand tools) Red - Loctite 262 (Requires 400° heat for disassembly) Green - Loctite 290 (thread locker for already assembled fasteners) Green - Loctite 620 (Bearing retainer) (some use this as a permanent thread locker) It was only mentioned once but is extremely important. DO NOT GET ANY THREAD LOCKER ANYWHERE NEAR PLASTIC. Thread lockers will destroy plastic, it does not even have to touch the plastic, just the nearby fumes will do damage. Oil; Any brand will work if you change oil regularly. VERY IMPORTANT - The oil must be made for a motorcycle wet clutch. If it does not say for use with a motorcycle wet clutch, do not use it. Filter; I use the OEM filter. Tires; I carry a patch kit and an air pump. I get a new kit every year because they dry out and don't work as well when they get old.

The fuel sender is not very accurate for trying to calculate MPG. If you get a flow meter to put in the gas line you can get very accurate results. From the speedo and the flow meter you can do instantaneous and/or average MPG.

With a "regulated" speed in the city of 12.5 MPH Max. Panic stops may not be an issue, but you may get run over by not being able to get out of the way. It also has a max speed of 25MPH for "off road" use. Production starts January 2013!

To say the same thing another way. Since the ring gear is connected directly to the rear wheel it will turn at the same rpm regardless of gear ratio. since the pinion is meshed directly with the ring gear its speed will be directly proportional to the wheel speed. So the speedometer sensor needs to see 33 teeth go by to know that the rear wheel has made one complete revolution. If you have the stock gears with the 10 tooth pinion, the pinion will make 3.33 revolutions for every complete revolution of the rear wheel. in this same time and distance there are 33 gear teeth that went past the sensor. If you change to the vmax gears with a 9 tooth pinion then the pinion will make 3.66 revolutions in the same time and distance and there will still have been 33 teeth go past the sensor. If the sensor was reading drive shaft rpm then there would be a calibration issue, but it is not reading rpm, it is reading teeth, so there is no issue. I know that gear ratios are hard to wrap your head around sometimes. I hope this helps.

I figured that at some point this thread would head down this road......

I am kind of leaning that it was home made also. There are a lot of rough machining marks and there is no protective finish on the bare steel. It looks to be fully machined where I would expect something commercial to possibly be die or investment cast and have some kind of protective finish on it. I have not yet given up hope on finding something similar, Especially since DotCo does make similar tools.

Don't forget to drain the torque converter, it holds a lot of fluid. The quicker that you can get any water out of the trany the better. Any water in there is rusting away at all of the steel parts. This rusting can do serious damage in just a couple of days.

No such thing as to many pics.

Jeff; Dotco does have something like this but is specific to their own tools. The one I have fits all brands of die grinders that I have. Still researching fiberglass tools. Sling; I have sent them an email. Eck; It does look similar to that attachment but a drill press chuck is a lot bigger than a die grinder collet.

Their website is still there at http://www.sprayonchrome.com/index2.html. It sure looks like they are still in business, they list a 2012 DVD.

This is an attachment that clamps to the head of an angle die grinder so that you have a guide to use it like a router and follow a pattern. I have been Googleing everything I can think of with no luck. I have a sneaking suspicion that this was made up as a one off special item in some shop. If it is a purchased item then I would love find a source to buy a couple more.