Chuck

Thanks, but no need for beer money, Tom. All the running is figured into the price. If all I had to do was *make* them, they wouldn't cost much. Here's what happens. Order stock. An hour and a half round trip to the water jet shop to take material and a CAD file to them. Twiddle my thumbs a while. Another hour and a half round trip to pick up blanks. Set up the fixture on the cnc. Find the program and remember what tools are used. Do the machine work. File and deburr. Run them through the 20 Ton press in the little die set I made to form them. Degrease from the forming operation. Bead blast. Wipe down with solvent. Paint. Package and address. Off to the post office. Beer o'clock.

Forgot this is a holiday. With all this hovering around the house, every day is like the last one. For some reason, I thought it was Saturday last Wednesday.. needless to say, the Post Office is closed..but.. I did get the Mighty Scura out and roared around a bit.

I'm just sayin..

Here's the last and no doubt highly collectable run of Lucky Phil Shifter Extenders (tm) I had some thin paint on one, and googled to see if you could recoat. Naturally, some said yes, others no. I'm now in the no camp. Ended up with some roughness and a couple of spots. Thought, Oh, no problem, I'll just bead blast it and recoat.. That's some pretty tenacious stuff.. I'll go to the post office after lunch and pick up some customs declarations which I have to fill out in triplicate, then the post office lady has to fill them out in triplicate.. what's up with that? My packaging lady is off today, too..so it will probably be Wednesday when I start shipping them. If you haven't sent me an email or PM with your shipping address, you had better get on the stick.

I'm going to deliver them in order. Sorry, you are the last that asked for one. You get the one off the MIghty Scura. I bead blasted and powder coated it. It is not new, and not "perfect" so I will sell it to you for half price if that is ok with you.

Whoa, stop the presses. When I first ordered material, I had 12 orders. I told the water jet shop to just use up the material. They cut out 24 blanks. During the production run this weekend, my operator (me) didn't get two fully seated in the pocket before clamping them down. Those two are .020" off, and don't meet the rigorous AeroMotive inspection methods. So. I have orders for 23 this morning. (!) I'll take one off the Mighty Scura, and put one of the out of spec parts on her. That's it. No more..

I already tole ya. 03 and later are the best sorted from the factory. Ohlins bikes make a difference in the twisties if you care about that kind of stuff. If you like red, get a Rosso Corsa. Simples.

Whew! Thanks for the update. Nasty stuff for sure.

Woops, I missed this one. Crap. I may be out of parts. Send me an email (or PM) with your shipping address.

Send me an email or PM with your shipping address. When I send it, I will let you know the exact shipping (no fondling) charge.

03, on. Any of the Ohlins bikes. Rosso and Neros are my pick of the "best." Well sorted from the factory. Of course, the "best" is mine.

If the valves are tightening up, yes. The only other thing I know of is the valves are stretching. That isn't common on the big blocks as far as I know. I just never imagined that the base circle wouldn't be on the money. Grinders are very accurate machines by design. Maybe a case of a little knowledge getting me in trouble? Forget everything I said last night.. Set them at TDC and forget them, Onibaka.. don't worry, be happy.

Not necessarily true. You are setting them on base circle of the cam. If the cam is wearing, the next time you check it, the valves will be tight.

Alrighty now.. I'm beginning to count parts. Here's what I have: Kelly White Paul Beingessner Brian McReynolds (2) Kevin Trapp Tommy Allison Phillip Larsen (2) Ian Griswold (2) gene stallons Tom Christiansen Kosta Suli Dave Swanson Nick Looijen Brian Boles Tim Scudder Jamin Horner Randy Minton James Ferrell

You are on the list. No money yet.. I'll email with exact charge including shipping.

Have you sent me an email with your mailing address?

Ok, you are doing it right. Unfortunately, if the clearance keeps closing up.. it sounds to me that the cam may be wearing. I don't know of any other cause for that to happen. Maybe someone else will come up with a reason I haven't thought of..

Are you sure you are on the compression stroke of the engine at TDC?

Hmmm, I was thinking flat black.. but I *do* have some of this..

Yeah, the Mighty Scura's tank is scratched up from the inside the leg zippers of my old Motoport suit I have in SoCal. Now that I have the Scura in flyover country..I really don't need tank protectors any more..

I just push fluid into the reservoir from the caliper with a big syringe. When I have *some* pedal or lever, zip tie the lever down overnight, and the brakes are magically bled.

Austin finished up the nozzle order today, so I'm a go for the weekend. Shirley I will have them done early next week. Does anyone mind if I powder coat them instead of chromate? I'm low on chromate..

Me, either.

One day I weighed the Monza, AeroLario, and Mighty Scura on some aircraft scales that we use for weight and balance calculations. Naturally, I *forgot* to write them down. I posted them on WG, and now can't find that thread. I *was* surprised at how little more the Lario weighed than the Monza, and how little more the Scura weighed than the Lario, though. *From failing memory,* the Mighty Scura was 495 lbs with an empty fuel tank, though. I thought it would be more.

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