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Johnny4428:
This project is fairly taking shape. Looking forward to more! Speaking of losing something, I lost one of the small rivets off the VIN plate when I was putting it back on to frame, after being so chuffed to have salvaged them in the first place. But amazingly after the third day of looking I found it and thankfully it is now fitted where it should be. I have lost much bigger things and still not found them.😂

Oddjob:
I've lost a bag of around 100 mixed crankshaft shells for the 500/550. Put it down around 20 odd years ago and no idea where they are now, the wife might have thrown them out, as wifes do.

andy120t:
What goes in the little box at the back? My guess is sandwiches?

Oddjob:

--- Quote from: andy120t on March 09, 2022, 05:16:13 PM ---What goes in the little box at the back? My guess is sandwiches?

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An extremely small Japanese mechanic for when the bike breaks down or needs a service, unfortunately he died whilst in there and James hasn't been able to source a NOS one yet.

JamesH:

--- Quote from: Oddjob on March 09, 2022, 05:24:27 PM ---
--- Quote from: andy120t on March 09, 2022, 05:16:13 PM ---What goes in the little box at the back? My guess is sandwiches?

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An extremely small Japanese mechanic for when the bike breaks down or needs a service, unfortunately he died whilst in there and James hasn't been able to source a NOS one yet.

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. I once worked on a project with Toyota, developing one of the last commercial IDI (indirect Diesel Injection engines) for production. I was responsible for the design of the pre-combustion chamber, the last iteration of the Ricardo ‘comet’ chamber design.

The project team in Japan sent us a Fax, in response to my request for an EEPROM programmer to re-flash a new engine calibration onto the development ECU - and it literally had one line that I’ve never forgotten: “We are dispatching Inoue-San”.

My equivalent counterpart in Japan was called Mr Matsudo Inoue (hence Inoue-San) and based on the fax I was expecting him to arrive in a box shipped by DHL .

2 days later he arrived at 9am promptly, spent 1hr reprogramming the ECU with the supplied calibration data-sheet, left us the EEPROM programmer unit so we could do it ourselves, and then buggered off back to Japan.

Possibly one of the most bizarre (but quite efficient) business exchanges I’ve had .

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