Recent content by legdelimber

Keep in mind that I have no idea if these vendors are trust worthy or have accurate listings. I never tried to order anything from them either. I was considering a backpack type trimmer setup and the shaft end shapes were a question for me. Health issues have made me put that dream aside for...

We had a supply house here that mostly dealt in metric fasteners. Amazingly they always priced out within a few pennies of our common SAE stuff. The area is now a designated "economic opportunity zone" and all of the old businesses there have been bulldozed or gentrified into things like tattoo...

It's just that every entity who handles our card info has a so-called user agreement that lets them sell us into another 7~10 companies, including their "social" media affiliates. I needed to hire a lawyer this year. The online credit card processor was a third party "affiliate". I took a...

Yeah, having to pay the delivery driver was one thing I wondered about. Seeing as a lot of times (mid-day deliverys) we might not be there to pay. Other issue is danged robberies, if the drivers have to handle cash. If we have to start setting up accounts with every deliver service that...

Seemed like most of the kart crowd was pretty tight lipped about the internals, back then. Thnks for the images. Nice to see some things when these kart motors show up. On Yamaha dirt bikes, which had a reed valve (70's era), we would ad a couple of holes in the intake side of the piston and...

Trick with watering the dirt for digging or driving, is if you can wait a few hours, the water gets deeper. and helps even more! Red clay with random quartz chunks all in it, where I grew up. We used to sometimes set a jug or bucket of water, with a small hole in the bottom, wherever you...

Oh and are we gonna get to see the innards of the twin carb motor? Any deflectors or puttied or otherwise filled corners and such? Little radius's and etc.. :icon_popcorn: It's just a heck of a thing when you're reduced to livin' vicariously through web pics!

My 4 a.m. (local time) brain starts wanting to know about what happens in the crankcase with those two intakes and any mathematics and resonances and mass and inertia and turbulence and interference possibilities? Don't dismiss it. Back in the 70's~80's, I think it was Morbidelli who was said...

Nylon knee-highs or a leg cut off of panty hose, makes for a usable, loose trash pre-filter. You can usually just pull one around the entire carb and filter housing on a string-trimmer. I've also stretched the leg of panty-hose over car speakers,(before mounting) to keep dead bugs out. Also...

Gripe of the moment. Answering machines without a skip forward button. I still have a landline. So still use a machine with it. Got a cellphone this year, when they said I could transfer the old family home number over to it. But every time I use the cellphone, I'm always pissed off at it when...

Many years ago, I lost the dipstick for my truck. To this day, I don't remember why the F-word I even laid it down, instead of just slipping it back into the tube. 🤨 A few years later I was replacing the radiator and found the dipstick. It was laying in the lower support bracket for the...

Was in the grocery store earlier tonight. I noticed the buggies have gotten a lot smaller than they were, oh say ten years ago or so. Bad knee days, so I was riding the electric buggy. I've noticed the baskets on them have gotten larger. I had $145 of stuff in the E-buggy basket and yet...

1978 xt500e sitting at the home place. I'm original owner. Other parts of life took over and the bike was left with corn-gas in it. Pin holes in the bottom of that gorgeous aluminum tank. Supertrap exhaust on it and I left the stock exhaust in the shed and damn mice nested in the muffler and...

I had a Matco guy that never answered calls or Registered letters (sent to Matco office) after I had a burglary. We (insurance co and I) couldn't read his hand writing on most of the receipts and Insurance co needed that info to make a payout. The ins co spent a little over a year on things...

With those type "Knocker", I always hand tightened it firmly against the flywheel first. Now back it off about an eighth of a turn. You basically just want to feel the threads have some free play in them again. Now I preferred a smaller hammer, say 8oz or so. What your after is a fast sharp...