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Wise words before assembling.
« on: December 12, 2019, 03:13:08 PM »
From an early manual

Assembly of Japanese Motorcycle requires great peace of mind.

How true.
« Last Edit: December 12, 2019, 03:38:55 PM by masonmart »
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2019, 07:23:19 PM »
Another very important thing is that we have an adequate supply of gumption. Without that you may as well wrap up all other tools and pack in. Be careful though, there are gumption traps that can drain you of gumption and then there's no way the bike can be done. Gumption is the psychic gasoline that keeps the whole thing going.
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2019, 12:52:46 AM »
Way more important is patience

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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #3 on: December 18, 2019, 10:47:55 AM »
Way more important is patience

Bryanj, patience is very much peace of mind or perhaps the whole of peace of mind but gumption is what drives you within those parameters. They form the quality that people like yourself have and others, even so called experienced shop mechanics don't have. I don't have it and perhaps never will. I have a couple of projects to do and am going to develop the patience. I have gumption but am very vulnerable to gumption traps that always knock me off course like damaging a key component, not being able to do what I need or buying the wrong parts.
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #4 on: December 18, 2019, 11:57:54 PM »
Just to show my age i used to go out with my dad selling parraffin and stuff from a van and i can remember a cleaning paste called Gumption

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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2019, 06:29:06 AM »
That is where the phrase comes from Bryan.

It was a white (?) paste and was around in the 60s. I can remember being one of the bad boys at primary school who had to scrub the black marks off the floor caused by us swinging our black-soles shoes under the tables.

That would have been about 1967.


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« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2019, 08:09:03 AM »
That would be about right Steve, i was out with dad63/4 ish, nothing to sell 400 gall parraffin on a Saturday.
Remember Chemico along with Omo powder?

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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2019, 12:00:56 PM »
.... I can often remember helping my dad out (as a small kid) and ending up with grimy oily hands. He’d make me hold ‘em out, sprinkle VIM (a white coarse Kitchen scouring powder) and then petrol - to make it a paste. Dear god it cleaned well, probably because it removed a few layers of skin...
Oddly I’ve never had ‘girly hands’ - can think why 🤔.

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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2019, 12:29:52 PM »
VIM and OMO in out house when I was small (early to mid 60's). Mum saved up the coupons from the OMO packets and got me my first 2 wheel scooter. It was dark blue, with a foot plate brake for the rear wheel and had OMO stamped on the metal foot plate 😊😊😊
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2019, 01:41:43 PM »
.... I can often remember helping my dad out (as a small kid) and ending up with grimy oily hands. He’d make me hold ‘em out, sprinkle VIM (a white coarse Kitchen scouring powder) and then petrol - to make it a paste. Dear god it cleaned well, probably because it removed a few layers of skin...
Oddly I’ve never had ‘girly hands’ - can think why 🤔.

Vim and washing up liquid, always used that when the Swarfega ran out. ☺
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2019, 01:54:11 PM »
.... I can often remember helping my dad out (as a small kid) and ending up with grimy oily hands. He’d make me hold ‘em out, sprinkle VIM (a white coarse Kitchen scouring powder) and then petrol - to make it a paste. Dear god it cleaned well, probably because it removed a few layers of skin...
Oddly I’ve never had ‘girly hands’ - can think why 🤔.

Vim and washing up liquid, always used that when the Swarfega ran out. ☺

Only rich people had Swarfega. Vim = Instant dermatitis. I remember it well  :-[
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Re: Wise words before assembling.
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2019, 02:13:26 PM »
You lot were posh! Whats wrong bith a bit of grease with sand in it then just soap to get the grease off?

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