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Thank you, 5T but I went with the molybdenum disulfide grease in my products cupboard. Used a judicious amount on the pivot pins only...

well the swap meet wasn’t a total bust. As suspected it was just about all HD stuff. One guy had a few Japanese bikes for sale. An...

Decent bearings last for 60K miles and more, from direct experience. In the past 30 years I've had to replace about two sets that felt...

Just got my last Z1900 up and running and put some miles on it with friends

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Get rid of that fat front tyre. It caused horrible understeer, which might have contributed to your off.

Put on your sun glasses Spitzer vs JWST in infrared The team behind NASA’s JWST mission has released a teaser image of just how...

Karma.... :smoke: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-dies-burying-woman-strangled-south-carolina-authorities-say-rcna28459

Hi Raymond, when I was at BAC we had a Canberra that was used as a flying test bed for several different Bristol jet engines. When it...

Not much to talk about really... took the frame outside and degreased it. I'm not big on any particular degreaser... I generally jus'...

Ya gotta see this one.... 19-foot Ukrainian Antonov Myria This aircraft weighs more than 200 lbs and has two gas turbine engines and...

Many thanks guys. I think a Dullsville master cylinder will be the way I shall go. Few on E bay. Fork tubes to change this weekend...

careful what you say about Vespas ;) , you may offend mine. Afterall it is the "ultimate cool machine" that has stood the test of time.

Mine, with twin discs in Euro-spec, had the original 11/16" m/c which I replaced with a 14mm m/c after rebuilding the calipers. Brakes...

at a meatworks processing feral goats in back blocks of australia , being wild they had a lot of deaths in the holding paddocks due to...

Shitters..... :cautious: After my short stint making computer chips, I went to work for Tramco up in Everett wash. doing heavy...

Man y'all got me beat on dangerous wworst jobs..My worst job(above) was not the most dangerous job I ever did...During the summer of...

Blimey, I thought all the Phantoms had long gone. One story I read a few years ago was that one avionics upgrade had a console sticking...

Selling my bikes was something I had been thinking about for some time now. There’s no getting around the fact that I’m getting older...

But the eyeballers on the pavement do.

10ga is only 5.26sq mm, which seems light to me. I'd use 10sq mm or even 16 if I had some around, which I do. That comes from hating...

I made one of those. You'll notice there are NO hand-held probes. Also the power supply is well away from the work (and hence the...

Utter stupidity.

Armoured tail light wiring: Miss November quite miffed at being upstaged. Now, lets's see, next issues to deal with. Seat...

Bugger all down here

Have replaced the grommet with an XS650 head breather tube I happened to have lying around. Tough and has a right angle. Warmed the end...

I've worked on boiler systems controls and piping systems. They are nothing to trifle with. Plant I worked at had 3 900hp boilers each...

I see Enfield went to the trouble and sheer expense / ruinous extravagance of fitting a grommet, but it looks as though the loom has...

I finished this little engine last night! My first real machining project, had a blast with it. Even better, it actually runs!

Hi 46th, seems that sometime in 1942 an RAF liason officer landed his Mossie at a recently established US bomber base is Southern...