Greg_L wrote:I really enjoy following your build. I'm impressed with the way you just make things and make things work. Keep it up.
Lookin' good!
Scott
Thanks Guys I appreciate the encouragement. Sorry I haven't made any progress updates in a while, I have had to deal with an Avalanche of "Issues lately"
Warning! If you don't like to listen to people whine about their trials and tribulations please skip over the next few paragraphs.For those following my posts you are probably aware that I own a pretty crappy car that tends to bread down and leave me stranded quite frequently. Well it finally gave up the ghost last Wednesday. I went to see Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend and just as I came off the expressway onto an 8 lane highway, when the distinct aroma of burning oil and all things unholy started to offend my nostrils. The car almost made the turning light but not quite. I sat there for about 6 or 7 minutes with irritated Mall-goers driving around me until a kind gentleman with a young boy helped me push my smoking hulk into a nearby parking lot. The car had been suffering from a mysterious oil leak, which I could not pinpoint the source. I guess filling the engine every two weeks with oil was not enough because the old heart had run dry, there were metal shavings in my oil pan... Now I need a new car. (preferably a reliable one)
So I got the old trashed Motorcycle back out of the garage. Which had been sitting there since March when I broke my hand in two places on it, and went about getting it ready for work (my job was resuming again after a summer recess and I needed SOMETHING). It had a slight oil leak of which I tried to repair by tightening up the copper crush washers on the oil pipe. Took it for a test ride to my buddy's house in the country side. Got on the off ramp of the expressway and slowed for the stop light. The bike stalled. No prob, Ill just restart it..... Nothing, the bike wouldn't turn over, I was getting nothing from the starter, everything else had power so it wasn't the battery and the fuses were fine. So after about 10 minutes of trying to push start the thing and looking it over, I decided to push the lump of iron to my friends house, he is a Mechanic and I would be able to fix my bike properly once I got to his garage. Unfortunately that required pushing a 500 pound motorcycle about 1/2 mile up and down hill on a country back road, with only 2 lanes and no shoulder with a fractured left hand in 90 degree heat.
Well, to make a long story short I left my bike over my friends house, got a ride home. Took my starter home because I needed the bike for work the day. Spent about 6 hours working through the night to rig the worn out brushes on the positive leads to work. Atleast until I could get a proper starter repair kit with new brushes trough the mail. I used some 22 gauge eyelets and sandwiched a couple of ill-fitting spare brushes from a hand grinder into my starter. Fortunately it has lasted me the workweek. My starter repair kit came through the mail today so I will be taking the thing back off the bike and properly fixing it this weekend.
The culprit. Worn out brushes on the positive terminals.
Last night someone broke into my Garage and my what's left car, and stole my Mother's bicycle but left my tools. This leaves me very confused.
I hope they weren't "scouting" and intend to return. Any way we have to reinforce to window the thieves pried open. And I'm going to put my router and other valuable tools in the house. This neighborhood has gone to the dogs in the past 10 years.
I Would leave if I had the scratch.
When it rains it pours
Anyway hope to be working on my guitar again soon. Now that work is back in swing maybe I can save for a car before winter sets in an I have a repeat of last winter. I dont want to break my other hand before this one is healed yet!
Thanks for the encouragement everyone.
