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  1. Flyinfool
    You have to order it and pay for it online, but you do not have it shipped, you have to go to the store to pick it up. They offer this so that you can be sure they have what you are looking for before you drive to the store. I have had a case where I checked online to be sure they had stock, tore a part out of my truck to bring with to compare, got to the store and the guy in front of me in line bought the part I needed. Had I used the buy online with store pickup, i would have got the part and the other guy would have had to begin "the search".
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    Get some quotes. Sometimes the big guys are less money, and you know they will show up to work, and never ask to be paid up front. Progress payments yes, but not prepayment. After all they did not get to be big by making unhappy customers or ripping people off.
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    I have the Harbor Freight 5W on my RV. The Rv gets used once or twice a year and that panel is enough to keep the battery happy. I just have the panel laying flat on the roof, so in winter yes it can get covered with snow but the dark color of the panel warms it up as soon as the sun comes out to help clear the snow. This little 5W panel will charge the battery back up if you have a month to wait, I do. I keep the panel hooked up year round.
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    I have a fried that had his bike fall with the trailer attached and it twisted the tong of the trailer and broke the hitch on the bike. He now uses a swivel. I have a swivel on mine for the same reasons and if I should have the trailer try to flip while going down the road, It can go over and leave me upright. There are pros and cons to this just like anything. You have to decide what your priorities are. I did find a source for a swivel that is made to fit the oddball size of the Harbor Freight tongue. You do have to let me know how your helies and other equipment fair after a ride in the trailer. The other question is, did that bolt breaking save the bike and or trailer from further damage? My guess is that when the bike went down the trailer and bike tried to move vertically till the ball bound in the coupler and that is what snapped the bolt rather than bend the tongue or hitch. Something has to give in that situation.
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    A whole $28? My last water bill was for over $300 (for 3 months). I can ignore all of the water bills till September before they start asking about it. Any water bills not paid by the end of September get put on your tax bill. So of course if you don't pay your tax bill they take the whole house. I would start by explaining to them the situation. If that does not get results then go to the local media, they love to make bureaucrats look bad.
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    Oh, Oh!!!!! Now you done it. Just wait till Dan sees this.......... You'll be sorry when you find out that you can not keep up with the "wooden wheels" unless the "wooden wheels" let you.
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    I put a very powerful neodymium magnet on the bottom of my bike to help trigger some of the older traffic signals. I have pulled at least a dozen screws and nails off of that magnet that I can only assume were looking for my back tire. While knocking on wood I can say I have never had a MC flat. But then on my truck, every tire has multiple plugs and I have never had a plug fail.
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    It has been about 25 years since I have had a passenger on the bike. Way back then my wife never said much of anything to me about the driving. I think I would welcome if someone were to let me know about something that I might have missed like a deer or car coming from the side. Fortunately I do not miss much of anything in front of me. It may be part of why I never really got into long distance rides, I tend to be fully focused on the road at all times and do not see much scenery at all, just pavement.
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    Yep, Pull it out and fix it right or you will end up undoing your quick fix and then doing it right anyhow.
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    Or at least more practice....
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    Lets start at the beginning. What is the brand and model of the 5 to 4 that you are using? If we know what you have it is easier to figure out.
  12. Flyinfool
    Are you doing this FOR him or TO him? I really need to get a passport one of these days.
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    That is one of the main reasons they invented shotguns.
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    If it was already like that, it makes you wonder if someone else has been in there for something once upon a time and stretched it out. I have never seen rings fail like that on their own.
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    That pic is of a retaining ring that has been over spread and stretched out. Those tabs at the top should be almost touching. This most often happens when someone gets carried away with the snap ring pliers and over extends the ring or uses a screwdriver to pry the ring out of the groove. You want to open it just barely enough to get it over the shaft. With some luck you might even find the right ring at an auto parts store or even a good hardware store. I think I see another all niter coming.....
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    Here's wishing you a purdy white toy and a garage to hide it in.
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    Unfortunately I agree, cash payments never happened.
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    No question. A nice big dead deer steak, baked potato and corn on the cob, all on a charcoal grill. A big glass of milk with the meal and a lemon meringue pie for desert. Then Hot Sex on the rocks to relax after the feast.
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    It is a lot safer to be a self righteous anti speeder in a cage. I have never seen or heard of a bike win an altercation with a truck. I've seen this done with cars plenty of times, but this is the first time I have seen bikes do this. The truck in front of me finally decided he was going through whether the bikes were there or not, the bikes did finally get the hint, and most of the column of vehicles got past them. I think that the driver in front of me fully intended to hit them if they did not get out of the way. I saw the puff of smoke as he accelerated and his brake lights never flashed at all.
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    Here is where I have been getting LED strips from. You can select a background color so that you do not have all of the circuitry and markings showing, you can also select if you want water proof or not. You want the IP68 for water proof. this gets you a 5 meter roll of the strip with 300 LEDs on it. You can cut it at every 3rd led. You need patience when ordering from them, they literally ship on a slow boat from China, expect at least 4 weeks for delivery. But their prices are really great. I used the red ones to add 168 LEDs to the rear of my trunk, they are wired for running brake and turn. for your fronts all you need is two rectifier diodes 1N5402, one 270-300 ohm, 1 or 2 watt resistor to make it work as you wanted. With the LEDs dim for running lights and flash bright for turn. OR Just hook it up with the positive wire of the LEDs to the running light positive and the LED ground lead hooked to the turn signal positive. This way if the running lights are on the LEDs will ground thru the filament of the turn signal bulbs. This will only work if you still have incandescent turn signal bulbs. When you turn on the turn signal, there will be +12V on both leads of the LED strip so they will go off. The effect will be that the LED strip will be the opposite of whatever the turn signal bulb is. Unless you really have a lot of LEDs the bulb filaments will not glow from the LED power running thru them.
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    The best telemarketers are the ones that their company policy says they can not hang up on anyone for any reason. Some telemarketing places to not even give their callers the ability to hang up. I had one woman that was trying to sell me a refi on my mortgage and I had her in tears after about a half hour of verbal abuse. And yes I felt good about it afterwards. My phone number is very dangerous when I am bored.
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    On my way home from a trip yesterday there was a pair of bikers that were getting real close to getting run over on purpose. These 2 were driving on a state highway doing 45-50 in a posted 55. They were riding side by side in the same lane. When ever we came to a designated passing area they split so that there was one of them in each lane to make it impossible for anyone to pass. When ever the center line went from solid yellow to dashed yellow one of them would ride on the wrong side of the road till there was oncoming traffic or the passing zone ended, again preventing anyone from passing. I am normally not one prone to road rage, but it was very obvious that these two were just trying to cause trouble. They finally got the hint when they noticed a big chrome bumper just a foot behind them in a designated passing area and closing (not mine but I wanted to). They had over a mile of cars backed up behind them. There was a good long string of vehicles that went by them bumper to bumper and did not allow them to get back in line at the end of the passing area.
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    Yup 18'x40'x4" = 8.8 yds
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    What did your caller ID say? It was most likely a scam or even just a computer hunting for phone numbers that are answered by a human. Once they know a human will answer then the scammers know who to call every day. It is real bad for a scammer to call me when I am bored with absolutely nothing better to do than to see how long I can keep them on the line and how messed up I can get them.
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