What's the best way to weld this up?  I won't even consider doing it myself, but when I take it in to my friendly local machine shop I want to make sure they know what they are doing.  They haven't in the past.

Welding cast iron is tricky. That is a simple part to make from scratch.

Doug; you say you get 800km to 50L of diesel. Must be a VW jetta.  The last tank got me 58.25 MPG commuting from home to work at the Petro Canada Refinery(I JUST WORK THERE,OK!)

My jetta is an '02. When I first got it it was hard to sqeeze in $28 worth of diesel. The other day I put in $60 worth! And that was before the recent price increase!

I have found that driving for mileage makes a huge difference in your mileage. My pickup went from 18 to 26 MPG and my motor cycle went from 56 to 71.

Keep tires inflated properly
avoid fast starts
accelerate slowly
accelerate on down side of a hill
don't accelerate on up side of a hill unless necessary
coast downhill
shut off engine at long stop lights
drive at or below speed limit
when coming up to a stop light, shift into nutral
use cruise control if you have it

As soon as I whipped out the plasma torch and an old propane bottle, he suddenly realized that HE had other things to do and quickly disappeared. 

Of course if you wanted to have some fun you could have brought out a full bottle, cracked the valve for a few seconds and said "AHHH heck, well, there isn't much in there"

I had a stack fire off the Kuril Islands (sailing great circle from japan to attu) At the time it was the Soviet Union - excellent motivation to extinguish the fire - in those days I dont think the Soviets would answer a mayday.

Hey Bob, check out this link in youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=rD4roXEY8hk  "the German Coastguard" I think you'll enjoy it

Cheers Fred

LOL glad I never had to deal with the German coast guard. I always figured that if I was stupid enough to make long trips in small boats single handed, I wasn't going to ask somebody else to risk their life saving my ass if I got into trouble.

When I used to do long trips single handed,  and I ran across a ship going slow killing time I used to holler at them and bum some groceries and water from them. Many times I got where I was going with more than I left with. Once I made the mistake of calling a Russian ship. besides the usual stuff they also sent over a nice hot pot of something or other. Man that stuff was bad. I felt that if they had to eat that stuff, I should have been giving them food. i have seen cooks disappear overboard in the middle of the night for serving better stuff that that LOL.

  I was at a website a few days ago that sells a product that will keep your tires balanced automatically throughout the life of the tire.
  They were ceramic beads that are installed inside the tire. When the tire is spinning,centrifugal force sends them out to the outside of the tire and the beads go where they are needed.

  Would it be possible to mount two tires,one on each side,onto a listeroid,using these ceramic beads?

  What about filing a tire with the appropriate amount of glycol (freezing conditions in Canada). Would this not work in the same way as the ceramic beads.

  I would really like to take the 'hit or miss' out of this operation!

  I seen a post on this forum,I think it was this forum ,where somebody is trying steel balls in3/4 aquarium tubing to find where to put permanent wieghts.  I cant find the post!

 

You remember back in the old days when they used to balance your tires on your car? I always wondered what was inside that thing the placed on your tire like a hub cap with the adjusters to adjust it toll it ran true and told you how much and where to put the weight.

There must be somebody on here that could duplicate that and find a way to adapt it to a roid. Obviously you would have to get your investment back, but you could rent it out.  I don't need one but if I did, I would be glad to pay 50 bucks plus shipping to have a nice easy sure thing like that, maybe more.

Quote from: rbodell on May 15, 2008, 05:18:10 PM

Well, with the third, leave the wife at home.
If it comes the time when you have to worry about number four or five, it's time to convert it to a single seater anyhow.

Hey now! I actually like my wife... ;-)

I liked mine too as long as she did as she was told.

never could understand why she left me.

. Also need some sort of relay to disconnect the power output from the st head in the event of auto shutdown.
Cheers, Fred

If you are only worried about loosing magnetism, I once forgot to shut off the power before shutting down the engine and nothing happened so I tried it again with several different loads including a heater. When I fired it back up again, it produced power just fine and didn't loose it's magnetism. Now I don't even bother to shut it off. If I am not using AC power I just remove the belt. I wish I could tell you who produced my ST head but there is no name on it. At least not all st heads are suceptible to loosing magnetism.

Kids and coal.

Best laid plans eh...

When my kids were smaller they were always fighting each other (still do) so to teach them a lesson I took a few pieces of coal one Christmas, washed them up and dried them so they wouldn't get too grubby and put a couple of pieces in each stocking along with a generic Santa warning letter that they should really try and get along because Santa doesn't like to see them fighting.  If the fighting keeps up, they can look forward to getting more coal and nothing else next year.

Pretty shrewd eh?   

Well, it turns out that one of the bits of coal looked somewhat like an arrowhead if you held it one way, and another bit looked like something else.. so guess what!  the little buggers were then fighting over the bits of coal.

I can't win.

RC

You mean it was you and not Santa Claus?

WOW, I wonder who put the scorpion in my stocking when I was a kid.