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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: pete roper on April 08, 2019, 12:58:06 AM
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So I've just sold all of my old pre 2000 dross and today I begin stripping the gearbox out of my Hydro Cali. It's having a chair put on it so I thought I'd do the gearbox and shout it a new clutch before the hack was attached because if I didn't it would invariably need one immediately!
While pulling it apart I find some goon has busted off the clutch cable spigot off the gearbox case and replaced it with some sort of horrid, Heath Robinson, home made bracket. Grrrr!
I had half a dozen gearbox cases is my old munt pile. Never mind. The hideous bracket seems to work OK. It just offends my sense of mechanical purity! :boozing:
Pete
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There's a lesson here. Never sell your "junk" or "worn parts"
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I turned mine into $7,000. It's all good. I can get in my shed again!
Pete
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I see your point! :thumb:
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My grandfather was a real hoarder of tools and all manner of old machinery bits and pieces. He always said " It'll come in handy one day, even if I never use it. "
I hang onto useless bits too. By the time I need something I've either forgotten Ive got one somewhere or I know I've got it but no idea where I put it so I go and buy new stuff anyway. Oh well
Glenn
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Two years ago I received a specific cable pinch bolt, smaller than a penny, for my Moto Demm...
Yesterday, I found it...bizarrely I had cleared a 4" square amongst a huge pile of munt....(I like munt, I start to sweep it into decorative piles)....it was still there. It just took two years to get a round Toit instead of the square Toit............. :popcorn:
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The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.
Pete
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I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it. Now not so much, I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips. Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.
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I remember how pleased I was after selling all my loop frame stuff to one guy who appreciated having it. Now not so much, I remember how much I enjoyed those old loops and with a parts base, I usually had one or two operable, capable of long trips. Maybe it was the long trips that make them a good memory.
Yeah, long trips are where you "bind" with a bike.
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I would have used the word bond.
Not sure how one binds with a bike...
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I would have used the word bond.
Not sure how one binds with a bike...
Maybe Chuck has some German roots? :-)
"binden" = to tie or bond.
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The definition of junk is something you keep for twenty years and toss it two weeks before you need it.
Pete
Been there, done that. :rolleyes:
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Yes, German roots.. but.. bind is the correct term, because when you try to sell it, you quickly find your are tied to it. :evil: :grin: