Chuck

Yeah, I have a dollar that sez the spare I picked up off a Quota will work on the Mighty Scura if necessary. Uhh, it's just power, signal and ground.

The natural history museum in Chicago is wonderful, too.. but.. if you are a motorcycle guy, Barber's is beyond amazing.

The last time we were there, they were building another building (!) across the track. I'm assuming the foot bridge goes to it.

Barber's is imaginably kool..

Yeah, I'm afraid of the RPTASDS goes out, those snorkels will have to be awfully long. Btw, just watched the SpaceX heavy launch and the simultaneous landing of the boosters..

The last time I was out at the step Kid's place in California, we were helping him clean out the garage/workshop/serious junk storage area. He was rolling a big chuck of something on his dolly, and said, "Hey, Chuck.. do you have any idea of what this is? It's *really* heavy." I took one look at it and thought, "Horry Carp. It's a granite surface plate. A *nice* one, too." The previous owner of the house used to restore Indians, and must have been a pretty serious mechanic to have that. I told Jim what it was, and *somebody* wants it and will pay good money for it. Don't throw it in the dumpster..

That survived word is good.. it's really nothing to take for granted when a mechanical failure occurs on a motor bike. Trust me on this..

I still have your drawing on how to do that if the time comes. Let me say that at the Oregon nationals when we briefly met, I fully intended to get back, shoot the breeze, and thank you for all you've done for my and *our* electrical education over the years. For whatever reason, the rally got in the way, but *thanks, Roy* I and *we* really do appreciate it.

A way to keep MEK from attacking your paint is to put 3 heavy coats of paste wax on the tank before sloshing. Don't rub it off until done.

My old LeBlonde lathe won't even cut those sissy metric threads. I agree, though, that metric is a better system. However..it's a different language. All my measuring tools are 'Merican. Worse yet, I *think* in inches. Classes of fit, tolerances, etc. are all in thousandths of an inch. I learned this stuff as a kid, and I'm not about to change now. When thinking press fit, I think, ".002".. not .051mm for instance. That's probably why we never changed in the 70s, when we were "supposed" to. Blueprints started coming into the shop in metric, but they were weird metric dimensions because the old farts that drew them just converted inch dimensions to metric. At one time in the 70s, fasteners on GM cars were a mix of metric and inch.

I just sent a .jpg to Scud yesterday.. problem solved.

You should be able to export your CAD drawing, if not a PDF then at least a DXF. If ya'll need any help with file conversions just holler. Oh, sure, it'll export a DXF file, but unless a guy has a cad system that will read it, what's the point? Am I missing something? (not unexpected)

Scud.. I'm a Luddite and can't figure out a way to turn this drawing into a PDF. I'll take a picture with my fone and send it to you.

Thanks Phil. I/we appreciate that. I was going to post last night, but was kind of upset about what I found when I started seriously checking the spring as delivered. The wire diameter is correct. Just kidding.. there is more that is correct. The location of the bend on the long arm is good. I decided to wind another 15 degrees on one.. 2018-01-31_02-35-10 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr You can see how much longer the short arm is than the sample I gave them.. no matter that I screwed up and tagged the wrong place when dimensioning. Installed it on the shifter gizmo, and measured. 2018-02-01_10-28-20 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr You can see that even if they went to the center of the spring, it's at least .100" longer than spec. How about that bend radius? .11" minimum was specified.. 2018-02-01_10-52-54 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr They no doubt just wound it around a commonly available 3/16" pin. This is a 3/32 radius gauge. Let's talk about standard manufacturing tolerances. Angular is normally plus or minus 1/2 degree. 15 degrees?? Hello. Earth calling. Single place decimals, plus or minus 1/32". Two place decimals plus or minus 1/64" inch. Almost every manufacturing job has things that matter and things that don't. Now, what really "matters" on this job? Wire diameter. Check Inside diameter of the spring. .660 to .670 was specified.. it is .682. It's not rocket science to get it right. The angle. It could be plus or minus a couple of degrees. That's easy enough to do. 15-16 degrees out? No Length of the long arm to the bend. Check. That puts it in the right location to ride properly on the boss on the pawl. Length of the short arm. Not really as important, although it is off from what was specified, too. Minimum bend radius. I called for .11" .11-.015 tolerance.. .094. (3/16") Ok, close enough. Picking the fly shi stuff out of the pepper the long arm is crooked as a dawg's hind laig.. 2018-02-01_10-53-41 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr My personal feeling is they just didn't take any pains to get it right on such a small job. Even an amateur spring maker like me can and *will* if they can't. I took the time to make a proper engineering drawing to send to Scud with my phone number if the manufacturer wants to talk to me. I'll get it out today or tomorrow.

The two most common problems back in the day were the counterweight and a bad ground. As far as I know, all the white face Veglias are the same. When the one in my Centauro started going bad, it kept reading higher and higher. I'm assuming that it was a spring problem. Where have I heard of that? At any rate, Mark at MGC gave me one from a crashed bike, and I opened it up and put the guts from it into mine, changed the mileage, and it was fine for the rest of the time I had it.

Along with the crazy people Chuck Ciao Some times, the difference between crazy and genius is simply a matter of time..

No, I said .660/.670" on the marked up original drawing.

Oh, yeah. The material is essentially free. All the money is in the time to make them. I should have just stepped up and made them in the first place. They would have been done and forgotten about by now. It just reminded me entirely too much of work.. and.. a place that does this commercially should be tooled up and be able to make them for considerably less than I can.

Ok, I see the problem. Scud sent me some springs to check. See the red line on the cad drawing and the box at the top left saying length .7? 2018-01-30_10-23-08 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr My bad. I intended to tag the end of the line when dimensioning it, not the center of the spring. That's why when I scaled the spring I'd made for the last time before sending the whole works back to Scud I marked out the .62 dimension and said .7 There is no excuse for that. Sorry. Just the same, it would work ok. It just sits there and doesn't move through the full travel and more. Here is the assembly at coil bind. 2018-01-30_10-25-42 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr However, the angle is way out of spec. We asked for 15 degrees, and you can see it is 31. 2018-01-30_10-24-55 by Charles Stottlemyer, on Flickr That is unacceptable because it will drive the spring past it's "safe travel." My gut feeling is if the manufacturer could wind another 15 degrees on it, they would be ok. Just the same, I'd like to make another run and make everything *right* including the ID of the spring. I asked for .660/.670" and it is .682. Again, that shouldn't hurt anything.. but it's out of the spec that was calculated. It will apply a (very) little less torque. Maybe they will give us a break on another run because of one of the most important specs being out of tolerance? There's a reason for that swing set cartoon..

No no no, the Aero Lario gaiters are beautifuler. All through time, great artists are never understood..

You suck, Scud..

You can tell by pulling the "timing inspection" plug and having a look up her skirt. I don't have the pix right now, but an internet search should show the difference. Congrats on having one of the prettiest Guzzis built, and welcome to the best forum in the world on them.

Ahh, a fuel additive thread. Almost as good as an oil thread. I read a review of the then current fuel additives a few years ago, and Techron won hands down. When I'm out in California, I run Chevron because I can get it. The Mighty Scura has been run on it for years, and sat for as much as 10 months at a time without a fuel issue, ever. That's my story, and I'm stickin with it. Can't get Chevron around here. I suppose I should get some Techron and but it in the bike's tanks once in a while.

Just a FYI. I recently bought an Odyssey charger. I figured why not, I have 4 Odyssey batteries.. if it saves one it just paid for itself. Certainly does work well.