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Messages - Yamahawk
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« on: December 05, 2017, 04:28:41 PM »
Jim, my cable guy at Homer's Cycle in Toledo, uses silver solder, and a small butane torch in the vise, and he has built me many cable, cheap. I go to him for all my stuff. Flux, heat, and solder your cable and nipple with silver solder, it has a higher tensile strength than regular 50/50 or lead free solder.
Charlie
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« on: November 22, 2017, 12:54:47 PM »
Mr._Sheene, that's a nice looking Honda CB750! I am sure that you will enjoy it once it is sorted out. As far as the worst head known to man comment... well, practice makes perfect  ... Just kidding!  On another note, sometimes questions and instructions can be misinterpreted, as per my Space Quest IV game, where the hero Roger Wilco finds a hint book in a Space Mall software store... The question was, "My game came on 3.5" disks, but I have a 5.25" disk drive... how do I get a bigger disk?" The answer read... "First of all, don't be misled by ads depicting hormone injections, pumps, or enlargement tools... and, try to remember, it's not the size that counts! Oh... did you say, 'disk'?" Charlie
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« on: November 17, 2017, 03:01:16 AM »
yamahawk, i'm also a committed christian but everyone has a vice so mine is speeding!! i work as a site manager in a residential behavioural school which is quite challenging, such as being punched, kicked and spat on regularly. but it's a fun job and it funds my riding habit...
Hehe I like speed also, and that's why I race! It is a passion, and it's safer than speeding on the street... which as you probably know, gets us in trouble lol.
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« on: November 15, 2017, 08:16:40 PM »
Qualified Nurse since 1981. Last 'proper' job before retirement was a Senior Clinical Specialist Orthopaedic Nurse specialising in complex joint replacement surgery.
Nursing has always paid the bills but was never my real passion. I have led a double life......as a Car Dealer. I have worked at New and Used car dealerships, I have been a self employed used car trader and have been a co-owner of a Franchised Land Rover dealership employing over 50 staff. Cars and motorbikes have always been my real passion in life and although I would call myself an extremely competent nurse, I would say I am s**t hot at buying and selling anything on 2 or 4 wheels.
Julie, I was curious as to whether you have seen the movie 'Flywheel', it is pretty good, and being this is a little bit of your passion, you might like it. I recommend it! Charlie
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« on: November 15, 2017, 03:09:51 PM »
Ah yes, where do we start... I was born dead in Seatle at the Catholic hospital there, and they need a name on the birth certificate, before you are pronounced dead for the death certificate. My folks didn't know what to name me, so the doc said, 'put down junior' and so, I have my father's name! Then I guess I started back up, and perhaps that was God's purpose for me.
I grew up in Seattle, went to India for 13 months, when I was 11, and then at age 12 ended up in central Minnesota for 1 1/2 years. We moved to York co. Pa. in 1970, and I almost graduated from Susquehannock H.S. when, 1 month into my senior year, dad decided to move us to E. Washington, and I was the 1st. graduating class out of Hanford H.S. in 1974. Then I moved to Port Huron, Mi. in September of that year. Spent 1 semester in a community college, and there were classes I forgot I even had lol... Dad said College may not have been my Forte!
Fast forward, to welding school in Cleveland, and my 1st job as a pipe welder in Standard Oil refinery in Richmond, Ca. in 1975. I ended up moving to Toledo, Oh. in 1978 for work, and have been in Ohio ever since, and am a retired Pipewelder out of Monroe, Mi. local 671. I have been diagnosed with Welder's Disease (Manganese poisoning) as a result of the 40 years of welding.
I am an avid motorcyclist, it is a passion for me. My first bike was a 1967 Norton Atlas 750, purchased in 1979. Then, a 1968 BSA 650 Thunderbolt, and then I went Japanese with my 1982 Yamaha Vision XZ550, 1981 XV920RH, (still have it) bought new in the crate in 1985. Currently, I have many bikes, (too many, the wife says), but I have a 2006 Kawasaki Concours (retirement bike), a 1981 Yamaha XV920RH, 1996 Royal Enfield Bullet 500 (therapy bike), and the 1971 Honda CB750K1. Also have a 1985 Honda Elite 250, and a few race bikes: 1975 Yamaha RD350, 1989 Honda VTR250 Interceptor, building a 1986 Kawasaki Ex250 Ninja. I have owned quite a few other bikes, including a 1984 Honda V65 Sabre (fast!), Yamaha DT360(basket case in shed) and DT250, 1973 Yamaha GT1(back of garage still), two 1982 Yamaha Visions that I have sold in the past two years, and that's about it... I think.
My passion for motorcycles has worked out as a way to spread my other Passion for Jesus Christ. I am a Chaplain (that's right, Charlie the Chaplain) through the Central Labor Council of Michigan, also to a racing group in Eastern Ohio (at Nelson Ledges Race Course), and am a Deacon of a Biker church here, Kingdom Run Biker Church and Outreach, and am Ordained to preach the gospel (good news)... He has shown me that I didn't have to give up bikes, just to use them for His glory, not mine... so I do. I hope to make your acquaintance some day!
Charlie
the Chaplain
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« on: November 15, 2017, 02:20:17 PM »
Thanks, Ash for the info, I have it downloaded from your Dropbox!
Charlie
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« on: November 14, 2017, 09:22:26 AM »
... a Bookwright...! Liike a shipwright! Crafty... Charlie
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« on: November 12, 2017, 01:13:02 PM »
Thanks, Bryan!
Charlie
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« on: November 09, 2017, 11:12:59 AM »
Hi Mark,
This link to the dual disk conversion isn't valid anymore, is there another way to get the info for the conversion? Thanks!
Charlie
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« on: November 09, 2017, 10:59:26 AM »
Hi Frank,
Nice bike! You should enjoy riding the wheels off of it. Welcome to the forum!
Charlie
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« on: November 04, 2017, 02:29:21 PM »
I see!. This would either due to the weights being lighter with the same strength springs, or stiffer springs, or both. Would it advance sooner if we swapped the stock springs back into the 333 advance bit? I used to swap lighter springs into the distributor of my '66 Chevelle's 283 to get it to run stronger off the line lol.
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« on: November 04, 2017, 01:07:30 PM »
Thanks, Brian and Ashimoto!
I guess it was the advance plate that had the 333 on it, would there be an issue running that advance plate? Is it just the springs that may be a different stiffness, or do the weights have a different mass to them also? We used the CB750A advance mechanism because they had removed the cam from the other one to run the Dyna rotor. Not sure if the CB750A advance comes in sooner or later than the CB750K model.
I believe the stock coils run 5 ohm, so yeah the points will pass more current, and arc out sooner with the 3 ohm Dyna coils. Bit, it may give a healthier spark, too!
Charlie
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« on: November 04, 2017, 11:42:08 AM »
Hi again,
I helped a friend of mine replace a burnt up Dyna ignition with points on a 1973 CB750K, and we robbed a 1976 CB750A model of its advance mechanism, and points plate. I noticed a different number on the CB750A plate, 333 vs. 300 on a CB750K model plate. We used the 'A' model as the cam was still on the advance mechanism, and the parts were all from the same bike. The CB750A is a 1976, and the bike is a 1973 that we installed it into. I static timed the points, and we didn't have time to fire it up last night. We also kept the green Dyna 3 ohm coils. Is there any incompatibility here? Thanks!
Charlie
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« on: November 03, 2017, 11:45:27 PM »
This was part of the extended loom to the ignition switch:
OMGoodness! He was a butcher for sure lol. But, a little wire, a little TLC, and a few OEM bullet connectors, and you should be OK. I found my local shop stocks the OEM style connectors, in most configurations, and I purchased a set of PICO crimp pliers for the pins inside the 2-4-6 pin connector blocks on most Japanese wiring harnesses. Along with the occasional spade connector, and bullets, I am able to repair with a good amount of success, most previous owner faux pas wiring. It beats going to the local auto parts store and buying those connectors... BTW, the 550 looks good! Charlie
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« on: November 03, 2017, 11:38:20 PM »
Hi Charlie,
I've just purchased a 74 CB550, that came from Holgate Ohio.
Hi Steve, that's pretty cool, there are a lot of survivors here in Ohio! Charlie
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