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    i Book

    dingy replied to kevin-vic-b.c.'s topic in Watering Hole

    I am leaning towards the Kindle Fire. Ones like the Nook use an e-Ink process that is not backlighted. Somewhat akin to actually reading a book though I guess. I like the Kindle Fire color version which is very similar to an LCD computer screen. $199 at most retailers. 7" screen, so it is smaller than the Apple IBook, but more convienent for wife to put in purse and not have to carry an extra bag. Very nice graphics on the one a coworker has just gotten also. It also acts like a web browser when it is within a WIFI signal. screen will switch from portrait mode to landscape depending on how it is being held. Gary
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    With all due respect to Squeezes insight, from what I am seeing on the Vmaxforum.net is that the 6 pot calipers are the prefered way to go. http://www.vmaxforum.net/showthread.php?p=228105#post228105 Post #22 is from a guy that knows these bikes as well as anyone. And since I have a setnow, I will find out how good they are this spring. R1's are on bike now so I have a good feel about their braking power. It also appears that a 14mm master is the way to go, which is what is on bike now. Along with S.S. lines. Still looking two sets of HH pads. Gary
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    That was sort of obvious when one of the 1st questions had you select your age group and oldest option was 50 & above. Gary
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    its done. Being a mechanical design engineer, at times I really hate marketing. Somewhat like throwing darts at a board on the side of a 1st gen speeding past. Gary
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    Couldn't find a 64 bit version for this. Trying ispell, but don't like it because it is not dynamic like Firefox, requires seperate action to initiate. Gary
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    So that you guys don't start to contribute to global warming with all this thinking, Lets review. This bike is so far south of stock it thinks summer is approaching. Rear brake was converted about 2 years ago from MKI to a complete MKII setup. This included 320mm floating rotor, quad piston MKII caliper & caliper mount & a 17.5 mm MKII rear master. The brakes were delinked at same time. This year, rear wheel was changed from a stock 16" to a VMax 15". This required the use of a VMax dual piston caliper & modified caliper mount arm, which as been mounted under the swingarm. A 280mm rotor from MKII front was used in place of a VMax rotor to match the front rotors on bike. The rear master was not swapped out at this time and is still the 17.5mm MKII. This combination of master & caliper is not optimal. I have a brand new 15mm MKI rear caliper that I may try, or I have a 12.7mm VMax master I may use. VMax would be ideal, but its mounting configuration is less than optimal. Two ways to fix this, really three but I am not returning it to complete stock. 1st is to increase caliper bore area and 2nd is to reduce master bore area. Not sure which way to go. On this I may go both ways and see which one I like. Gary
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    I am running Avast. I could try scaling it back and see if that helps. I like FF much better. But I am stuck with IE at work, and I use it a lot there for work related stuff. Gary
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    What is the spell checker app for this site that works in IE8. I prefer Firefox, but even with a new install of Windows 7 and a new download of firefox, it keeps crashing on me so I'm using IE full time now. I can't type worth shirt, so I missplell a lot and don't get them highlited in IE8. Gary
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    At some point I will, possibly not until spring when I get a chance to try these out. I may use one of them on rear brake. If they are as good as the R1's I'll be happy, the bling factor will be worth it. New pads aren't cheap for these. Bike wasn't sold much if any in US, so prices are higher. I looked at the numbers in a brake excel work sheet I have and based on caliper diameters and my need to stick with a 9/16" master they should perform as well as the R1's. There's about 27% more piston area than the R1's have. Probaby will be at the point where more is not better with the 6 pots on. Next project is to get a mount so I can put a better caliper on the rear VMax wheel/brake I have on now. It is only a 2 piston unit. Caliper mount arm is an 80mm spacing so that will need to be replaced with a custom unit. Stock Venture arm is impossible to mount with VMax due to offset differences. There is a seller on ebay that makes a billet mount for a VMax that I can tweak to get to work. It will hold a 100mm spacing caliper. Not cheap, but it does need more rear brake. I have a brand new master cylinder for it that is smaller diameter, which will help some. Gary
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    1st you sign up as a full member, PM me an address & I will send you one. That cheap enough??? You mean the one behind the main diaphram?? about 3/4: dia x 6" long give or take. Gary
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    Got a good set of 6 piston Sumitoma calipers for the VenMax today. Came off a 1997 YZF750R Yamaha. 100mm bolt spacing on mounts will match up to the MKII forks on it. Rotors are right diameter, calipers may need shimmed in slightly when I put the VMax front rim on this winter. They were going to need that with the R1's, about 1/4". Off with the R1's, didn't match well with that blue dot !! Gary
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    All the easier then. Idle adjust screw is on left side of bike. Between front and rear carb there is a bar tying the two carbs together on lower side. On the bottom side of this bar there is a large head, thumb type screw, oriented up and down- adjust head to bottom. This is the idle adjust screw. Carb sync screws are in between front and rear carbs and aligned horizontally, 1 one left side & two on right side. They look a lot like idle adjust screws on other carb equid motors, but they serve a different function on this bike. Gary
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    You may have turned one of the carb sync screws and upset the carb balances. Not very familiar with the RSV's but the 1st gens have a thumb type screw for idle adjust. If you had to use a screwdriver, you may need a carb sync. It would have the effect of raising the idle speed, but only on 1 or 2 cylinders. There are 3 of these screws, 1 on left side & 2 on right. Somewhat sensitive to setting, a 1/8 of a turn will upset bike. One of the guys more familiar with the 2nd gen will be by shortly to help. Gary
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    B4 and After

    dingy replied to Condor's topic in Watering Hole

    Someday I am going to buy one of those and take it to an Amish guy in area that does that kind of work and see what he would charge me for a bunch of them. He ussally is dirt cheap & does great work. Gary
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    Does anyone that has the Iphone 4S know how to change the time before the screen locks down. I know this saves battery, but I generally have it on a USB cradle. Doesn't do it when playing music. Gary
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    Trying not to replace whole system and haveing to get everything new. The most demanding stuff I do is CAD 3d sometimes and what I have is capable of doing that. Actually 4 - 5 & 6 are just done. I had a real tall tower, that I replaced with a mid size tower, trying to reduce from the 10 drives I had in the old case to the 2 Tb drive, and a few 160 gb satas. Still have an external 1tb WD drive for backups. Its on a firewire. Have dual LCD monitors, a 21 widescreen and a 19 square. Just got a new desk & chair, I had a high oak drafting desk I have had for ages, but I went to a standard desk and good chair to help my back. Just replaced mouse & keyboard with a Logitech wireless combo. The wireless combo is somewhat frustrating as well. It seems the way I have it hooked up, the keyboard is not initialised at the very begining of the boot process, thus I can't hit Delete key to get into setup, well I can hit the key, just doesn't do anything. I have an old wired PS2 keyboard attached for that. Actually use 1 standard type mouse with right hand & a 3Dconnexion spaceball left handed to rotate and manipulate 3D CAD models. Picture attached is my work setup, home is similar. This pc is a dual - hex core, 24 gig ram with 3 TB raid setup, mid range dual head graphics, Dell 5500. Some of the CAD I get into here and the Computational Flow Dynamic software will make this thing stagger. Gary
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    1017 version Would the 1018 be better? If disk management sees drive and I was able to partition & format a 950 gig section (half of usable space) am I alright as far as MB & bios, etc. Drive does not like quick format option, it fails very quickly with message somewhat like 'Windows cannot perform quick format on this volume' Gary
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    I got one half the drive to format last night. I used WD Acronis boot software to get 1st partition done. I was able to write to drive, so it is good. Thanks to GAWildkat & Stormraven, they got me pointed in this direction. I have other half trying to format today, I couldn't figure out how to get boot up Acronis to do 2nd partition, so I booted into windows 7 & am trying it with standard version of Acronis. Gary
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    I have a new WD 2Tb caviar green sata drive that I can not get to format. I am running a clean new install of Windows 7 on a SATA drive using a slightly old MB, ASUS AV8 deluxe, 2.5 g ram AMD processor, 9800 ATI AGP video. 64 bit I have tried Windows format with no discernable progress. I have used Acronis which goes to 3 of 3 - Creating partition then has no progress. Any suggestions. I do see the drive in Windows Manage - Disk Management screen Also having issue getting VIA SATA driver to run on 7. MB has 3 IDE inputs & 4 SATA. Also have an add in card with 2 more SATA & 1 more IDE input. Gary
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    Verizon had the 16gig for $199. Ebay price for same phone is about $600. I won't be storing a lot on it other than my music files which took up about 6 gigs. Somewhat of a pain transfering files to the Iphone. The directory structure seems to be read only. I had to transfer music through ITunes. That leaves about 9 gig for pictures and apps I guess. 1 gig for operating system, give or take. Pictures I download to my PC, so there should always be free room. My Blackberry only had 4 gig I think. Somewhat of an adventure swapping our old numbers over, due to my Iphone was shipped to me about 3 days after we signed up for service at Verizon. They also were not in our name. We had a Family plan with daughter & phones were in her name. But they did get swapped Gary
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    The metadata can be turned off in the settings menu in the Iphone 4S for those that are concerned about the ability to locate them from the info encoded in the picture. The camera also does 1080 HD movies, haven't tried that yet. Very easy to upload photos to PC, when usb cable is attached to phone it will ask if you want to upload pictures, as well as charge phone. The usb cable also attaches to the wall charger unit which is about 1" square. It will also take pictures about 1 second apart which is fairly fast. Gary
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    How did you attached 30 deg shroud? TIG weld it? Gary
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    This is the set I was trying to get. Bid over $120 and it didn't get them. I sent seller a message, still trying to get them. Cost will be offset by my selling my R1 calipers. Gary
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    Here is a picture of a set of Wally World units mounted to the fairing. I think they were around $25. They light up the sides of the road better than the projector lights do. Gary
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    I just got an Iphone 4S with a 2 gig data package. Nice thing about the 4S is it will hook into WIFI hot spots, or home / work wireless networks. Then there is no charge for data usage. Siri voice commands & help are really cool. Though fat fingers & touch screen typing is a challenge. This phone takes pictures better than most digital cameras. Attached photo was taken in garage with flourescent lighting. It was 3264 x 3264 from phone, I reduced it to 2000 x 2000, then VR site reduced to 1024 x 768. Gary http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af193/gdingy101/IMG_0099.jpg
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