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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: rodekyll on March 08, 2015, 02:22:03 PM
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. . . I received a new, brass temperature sensor lug for my EV. $50. It's supposed to be better than the broken plastic OEM one. At that price it better be. It's a simple lug -- male threads on one side to fit the head. Female on the other for the sensor. About 30mm of length -- a round barrel cut with deep grooves. I could turn one out in an hour with no skills and a 3" hobby lathe (didn't know what it looked like till I bought it, and my broken one was no help imagining it). If someone could beat that price by $10 it would be a seller.
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Ah, the joys of owning a Guzzi. Where Carillo rods where less expensive than stock ones (Tonti framed big blocks), a VW Bosch regulator was $15 and the same Guzzi part was $45. I remember when the little plastic toggle on the 36mm Del Orto's enrichment lever snapped and a machinist where I worked had one in aluminum before lunch that day in his spare time.
But the rest of the bike lasts. :bow
And I watched My Classic Car (the guy with the big handlebar mustache) in Jay Leno's garage where Leno had a 3D printer and did a plastic replica of a unique 1915 water pump that he sent to a casting company and got a bronze piece that needed a little machining. But we can't all be rich.
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And to that end I just made a run from Nebraska down to St. Jo Missouri to pick up an 2300 lb, ENCO vertical milling machine to put in my brother's garage. (he's a machinist by trade). He's already got an old atlas lathe in there, that we're currently looking to upgrade. With the mill and a good lathe should be about unstoppable as long as we can figure out what we're trying to build "should" look like.
TDF
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I made about 5 of those for Randy to give out at a rally if anyone ever needed one. I know people need to make money but it's a nice gesture to make things people need.