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An interactive WTF picture, sort of...

Frankly you wouldn't understand it and you would also automatically say it was wrong. I can take one or the other but not both at the...

The port at ancient Carthage, then and now.

I was going to show mathematically why the yellow wire stays at 1/2 the peak to peak voltage, but I see we've moved on...

^The voltage at the center connection is the sum of all voltages. Not the sum but rather the peak to peak average. If the voltages are...

Is the output of the generator three sine waves 120 degrees apart?

Yellow is the center of the three equally distributed phases, nothing to make it move.

4G why do you say AC relay? The yellow wire should be more or less steady, and a fractional part of the peak output (halved I think at...

^Could be.

That's a good point. I always thought it's main purpose was to help disengage the starter as soon as the motor started, and it's...

If you want to keep the starter from being engaged if the motor is running, get an automotive relay and run the starter button through...

Will the bulb holder turn to lock it in place by any chance? So much vibration there it's weird it would only be glued.

The "Sisters of Victory" nurses.

Can't blame you steering it to motorcycles after all...

Tell me there's no damn conspiracy.

If you could get by with a jet substantially smaller than before, it would increase your mileage a lot

James Dean before Hollywood.

More politician WTFs. NRA members may recognize the first. Nuclear power nerds will recognize the second.

^I think you're exactly right, from what I remember. Here's another "all in the family" shot. VAB in the foreground, Artemis I on the...

He's got those those unmistakable dixiecrat lips. Srsly

OMG no. That's Wallace on the end, the thing that makes the picture.

I was impressed by how long they lasted. Much longer than they last on an XS650...

^Know your presidents?

^Haha. Adds another dimension WTF-ness. BTW, it's a Mercury capsule and countless phillps screws holding the hull on made it a WTF for me.

I collect WTF pictures, actually; a lot of them screenshots.

Correct, it was Coleman's name for additive-free gasoline that they sold in a gallon can for about $10 :) I always used gasoline from...

^Yes -- you can buy a stator on ebay that has the pickup still attached. I've gotten a couple that way. Here's one for example...

^I've had mine off several times and I reused whatever washers were there, probably factory. The whole idea of rebuilding these...

It keeps 14-something volts on the battery. The bike might could use a battery with higher CCA than spec'd; I don't know if that would...

Almighty Farmer, we humbly ask you to bestow heat on your unworthy servants

I agree. The crank pulls the cam with the front of the chain and the adjuster is to dampen slop in the rear. Too tight, no movement...

Shorty Phillips slipped it in his pocket.

If it can wait until next time you have your rear wheel off, it's very easy. If original, can be tight. Shorty Phillips can help.

Crisp temperature, sky mostly jet exhaust.

^And the store manager is a disgrace to his name tag :)

I don't get what your plan is in the picture and what you want to achieve. I didn't remember who had the sissy bar. Very gracious of...

That looks like a Special II grab bar, which will just bolt on an '81. I thought there was plenty of space around it for tying things...