For WB, GARY .. DO NOT LOOK AT THIS!
Jim Taylor
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 10:29 (2930 days ago)
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I'm not an engineer, but every time I use one of those
WB
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 10:48 (2930 days ago) @ Jim Taylor
I badmouth the designers children to the third generation, for making it spin in a direction to precisely throw stuff into your face. I figure the real reason is the designer was one of those odd southpaw types and was getting back at the world.
That little cut off wheel spinning 30,000 rpm, just waiting to blow apart if you flex it just right. That would leave a mark.
But they are like Crack Cocaine...
Huey
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 10:51 (2930 days ago) @ WB
You use it once and you're hooked for life. Rare a day goes by that I don't use one of my three.
Yep, I keep two handy by the workbench
Rsim
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 11:25 (2930 days ago) @ Huey
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I installed a new #525 chain on my motorcycle
WB
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 14:34 (2930 days ago) @ Huey
it's an O-ring with all those little rubber rings. I used to grind a rivet flush and beat the pin out to achieve the links needed. Too easy to just cut a link in half with the Dremel and a cut off wheel, zzzzzzzip, you are done in 15 seconds what used to take 15-20 minutes of beating with a hammer and punch. Great risk of a purple thumbnail or bloodshed.
Purposeful destruction is quite pleasing with them.
Or you could just buy a chain tool. I think cycle gear will
Blake
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 15:56 (2930 days ago) @ WB
Loan you one. You own enough motorcycles to justify the $35 for a really good one. Just saying
Yeah but I'd have to find it to use it. lol
WB
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 17:07 (2930 days ago) @ Blake
The job went smooth. I re-geared it from 17/42T to 18/40T final ratio, so I had to custom cut to length. It lowered RPM by about 400/500 in top cog. (It was on the 2006 Triumph Speedmaster).
Thankfully motorcycles are more forgiving to work on than Guns or modern cars for that matter. At least they respond to "Monkey Rigging" better.
I'm so put out with all the complicated electrical gizmos and sensors on late vehicles and MC. That's why I sought out an air-cooled, carb'd model.
Not me. You can't beat fuel injection
Blake
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 18:14 (2930 days ago) @ WB
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my Bronco is carbed and it is a bitch trying to get someone
Gary Reeder
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 19:11 (2930 days ago) @ Blake
to work on a carbed vehicle. When I tell them it is carbed they have this blank look on their faces like "what the hell is that??"
Work of the devil! Dremel and chronograph.....instruments
Drdougrx
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 20:14 (2930 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
Of destruction!!!!
I remember being so pleased with an antique Colt
WB
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 06:59 (2929 days ago) @ Drdougrx
.32-20 hitting POA and so accurate with 115 gr. FN. Then I chrono'd them 525 fps! Pellet gun speed.
A carb is ineficient with all the overlap
WB
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 06:57 (2929 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
of the stair stepping circuits spraying too much fuel as it transitions from iddle, slow, mid-range and full throttle. But it is "mechanical" and there is no electronic brain to go haywire that depends on sensors that can also go awry.
BUT, they have some great bolt on "fuel injection" systems for your Bronco that are easy to install and get running that replaces your carb. If you ever decide to do it they claim much greater fuel efficiency (due to a remedy of what I mentioned) as well as an increase in performance.
Blake or some other REAL mechanic types would have a better perspective on it but fuel injection on a more simplified platform can be really handy. As long as it is just the fueling, and not interfaced with 100 other ECM functions on the main computer. FWIW
Carbs are fine for most applications
Blake
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 09:36 (2929 days ago) @ WB
But off-road is not one of them. They are only good for about 5000 feet of elevation change and don’t do well at extreme angles and really bumpy roads. That is a generalization, some carbs are specialized and do better than others. When I started turning wrenches most cars still had carbs and points. Anyone remember setting point gap using a match book for a subsatute for a feeler gauge in a pinch?
yeah, up here at 8000 feet it probably wouldn't
Gary Reeder
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 10:24 (2929 days ago) @ Blake
be the best way to go.
Wow, I'm 400' ASL
WB
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 17:37 (2929 days ago) @ Gary Reeder
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I use a business card on my BMW.lol
WB
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Friday, August 31, 2018, 17:35 (2929 days ago) @ Blake
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Not to brag, but....
BigRed
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Thursday, August 30, 2018, 15:16 (2930 days ago) @ Huey
My Niece was on an R&D team for Bosch (owners of Dremel) and they came up with some pretty nifty “experimental” wheels and such for the Dremel. She knows I’m a “tinkerer” and would always send me samples to field test. Some actually made it to the market! Yep, she’s my favorite niece!