Good morning!!!!

[RedNeckGeek]

RNG, glad you got the bike started, now just a few fine tuning steps. My '69 and '71 bugs both had points/condensers, used to drive me nuts trying to adjust. Always seemed like after a few rotations, the gaps wouldn't be right...do it again...and again... Finally did electronic distributor, worked like a dream! Was the unit you tried just bad?

According to the manufacturer of the solid state system I installed, it does not work on machines like mine that have altered, lightened, flywheels. This wasn't disclosed to me when I talked to their US rep prior to the sale, and even if it was, I'm not sure I'd have recalled the previous owner telling me about him lightening the flywheel. I found out when a google search turned up a page on the manufacturer's web site. When I went through the receipts that came with the bike, I found one from a reputable shop that listed lots of R69S parts along with "lighten flywheel", so I think I've found the source of the problem. Apparently the electronics make an estimate of crankshaft speed based on the time it takes for a raised portion of the magnetic alternator rotor to pass under a sensor. From that measurement it calculates the amount of advance or ****** for firing the spark plug. Since the flywheel doesn't accelerate or decelerate at the same rate as the factory flywheel they used to calibrate the calculation, the amount of advance/****** is off, especially during kick starting. The calculation isn't adjustable (I think it's done with discrete analog components, capacitors, inductors, and resistors). So I'm working with another fella that says he'll swap me his factory flywheel for mine, straight across. The wrinkle there is that two weights of flywheel were used in the R69S, and his is the lighter one. That means it may not be as heavy as the one upon which the calculation is based, and I'll still have problems. But maybe they won't be bad enough to worry about; I'll just have to try it and see. Regardless, I'll need to make up some tooling to prevent the flywheel from moving while I apply approximately 200 lb. ft. of torque to break the bolt that holds it in place loose, and another tool that will actually pull the flywheel off the crank taper. That 3/4" impact wrench is gonna get a workout on this job!

 

[Bird]

I don't know about you guys who took so long to marry your gal.:laughing: I met my wife one night in July, then didn't see her again until October or November, and married her the next April; so about 9 months from first meeting until marriage. Of course, the night when we first met, when we left that house, I told my partner, "I think I"ll just marry that girl." And I did.

 

[ronjhall]

I don't know about you guys who took so long to marry your gal.:laughing: I met my wife one night in July, then didn't see her again until October or November, and married her the next April; so about 9 months from first meeting until marriage. Of course, the night when we first met, when we left that house, I told my partner, "I think I"ll just marry that girl." And I did.

Ok now the rest of the story. My wife’s parents took her out of school when she was 16. Sent her to Italy with her Aunt to marry a man in an arranged marriage. A civil marriage was done in Italy. But an Italian marriage does not happen until it is celebrated in the Catholic Church. She returned to USA waiting for Groom to arrive for the wedding. He never arrived. Something about be a undesirable. Could not get a visa. After she left home we had to hire a lawyer to get the civil marriage annulled. That took about 6 months. Otherwise we would have been married within weeks after she left home.
There are more stories about us getting married in the Catholic Church and our honeymoon. Today they are Good memories.

 

[daugen]

lots of pics.
got smart and got out the rolling seat and it worked surprisingly well doing down hill/garden while I hoed. Boy is that easier if you get
off your feet. This was after picking up four nice big knockout roses and planting them this morning.
Little problem with my tray of fun beans. They have erupted! Now I know why you plant them in the ground, but it's fascinating to see the six different
kinds of beans and see how they develop. The lima beans are amazing, but they all put down a strong tap root, then lift the bean up in the air, shed the outer layer
just like a snake sheds its skin, the bean splits in half and out come the leaves. Two days ago the surface was not broken in this tray. In two days they are up three inches in the air.
Magic beans?

I need to get these beans in the ground, really don't want to repot the silly things, but not sure 56 degrees is warm enough. I know they need heat to germinate, but
these have already gotten that done for sure. I bet the foot long beans from Thailand don't like the cold at all.
Probably would have to put on a LL Bean sweater.
:dance1:

Now I'm being challenged in a potato contest I clearly cannot win. Mine are plain field potatoes. Not those fancy shmancy organic pampered stress free potatoes someone else is lavishing care on, probably has a stereo system playing music for his potatoes. It's rigged!

fascinating touch up pen came today for Ram, fix a small paint chip, cool little gizmo, turn it three different ways to get an abrasive tip, the base dark green, and lastly the clear coat top.

 

[hawkeye08]

Married after less than 4 months of seeing each other (not really dates, it was always with a group), that was almost 36 years ago..

 

[LouNY]

lots of pics.
got smart and got out the rolling seat and it worked surprisingly well doing down hill/garden while I hoed. Boy is that easier if you get
off your feet. This was after picking up four nice big knockout roses and planting them this morning.
Little problem with my tray of fun beans. They have erupted! Now I know why you plant them in the ground, but it's fascinating to see the six different
kinds of beans and see how they develop. The lima beans are amazing, but they all put down a strong tap root, then lift the bean up in the air, shed the outer layer
just like a snake sheds its skin, the bean splits in half and out come the leaves. Two days ago the surface was not broken in this tray. In two days they are up three inches in the air.
Magic beans?

I need to get these beans in the ground, really don't want to repot the silly things, but not sure 56 degrees is warm enough. I know they need heat to germinate, but
these have already gotten that done for sure. I bet the foot long beans from Thailand don't like the cold at all.
Probably would have to put on a LL Bean sweater.
:dance1:

Now I'm being challenged in a potato contest I clearly cannot win. Mine are plain field potatoes. Not those fancy shmancy organic pampered stress free potatoes someone else is lavishing care on, probably has a stereo system playing music for his potatoes. It's rigged!

fascinating touch up pen came today for Ram, fix a small paint chip, cool little gizmo, turn it three different ways to get an abrasive tip, the base dark green, and lastly the clear coat top.

Some hoops and clear plastic, make a tunnel for your outside sprouts, it'll be a mini hot house.

 

[txdon]

I don't know about you guys who took so long to marry your gal.:laughing: I met my wife one night in July, then didn't see her again until October or November, and married her the next April; so about 9 months from first meeting until marriage. Of course, the night when we first met, when we left that house, I told my partner, "I think I"ll just marry that girl." And I did.

We had to wait till we were both old enough. State law.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

With all those beans going crazy like that, Drew, better change your name to Jack!:laughing:

 

[Ed of all trades]

A lady from church called and asked if I could help with her car. Asked if she was there and had her name wrong. Lined up a "new" car for her from a friend. A couple years later she called again, her "new" car was having trouble and she needed help. I helped her buy an old pizza delivery car and started working on it to get it to pass inspection. She would fix supper and I would eat with her and the kids. I started bringing groceries because she was broke. The day before I was going to finish the car I realized I did not want to be finished. That night we both prayed against it but the next day we knew and were talking about freezers. That was a friday and wednesday I bought the rings and I asked her on saturday. We had to wait 6 mounts for her to be a free woman, she had been sepperated for 7 years. Almost 20 years later we are still going strong.

Have a great night. Ed

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Some good stories.

Ive told about meeting my wife while visiting a friend 150 miles away. She already went 2 yrs at local community college. We dated long distance, then that fall she was already signed up to go to college in nashville. A lot of long distance calls. The next summer more long distance dating, and she switched to a local colleges to her. Got married after she graduated in 1987. Big snowstorm the day before, my family almost didnt make it from ohio.

A lot of our dates those 2 summers were hiking in shenandoah nat park along the skyline drive. 31st anniv coming up in a couple weeks. We always seem to get a snow the first week of april.

Brought work home, still working..only half done, think i will stop for the night, been 12 hrs.

 

[farmer2009]

Drew. I believe you are a little ahead of the soil temperature. That’s pretty cool for beans. Good luck. And you learned the difference between monocots and dicots. Beans are dicots and don’t like crust. For the simple reason “they’ll break their necks.” Corn is a monocot and can muscle it’s way through some pretty thick crust. What’s easier to push through soil a straight straw or a bendy straw without breaking.

If done carefully you can split a dicots seed and see the plant inside the seed.

What still amazes me is how a seed, irregardless of how it lands, always gets the roots down and the green side up.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

According to the manufacturer of the solid state system I installed, it does not work on machines like mine that have altered, lightened, flywheels. This wasn't disclosed to me when I talked to their US rep prior to the sale, and even if it was, I'm not sure I'd have recalled the previous owner telling me about him lightening the flywheel. I found out when a google search turned up a page on the manufacturer's web site. When I went through the receipts that came with the bike, I found one from a reputable shop that listed lots of R69S parts along with "lighten flywheel", so I think I've found the source of the problem. Apparently the electronics make an estimate of crankshaft speed based on the time it takes for a raised portion of the magnetic alternator rotor to pass under a sensor. From that measurement it calculates the amount of advance or ****** for firing the spark plug. Since the flywheel doesn't accelerate or decelerate at the same rate as the factory flywheel they used to calibrate the calculation, the amount of advance/****** is off, especially during kick starting. The calculation isn't adjustable (I think it's done with discrete analog components, capacitors, inductors, and resistors). So I'm working with another fella that says he'll swap me his factory flywheel for mine, straight across. The wrinkle there is that two weights of flywheel were used in the R69S, and his is the lighter one. That means it may not be as heavy as the one upon which the calculation is based, and I'll still have problems. But maybe they won't be bad enough to worry about; I'll just have to try it and see. Regardless, I'll need to make up some tooling to prevent the flywheel from moving while I apply approximately 200 lb. ft. of torque to break the bolt that holds it in place loose, and another tool that will actually pull the flywheel off the crank taper. That 3/4" impact wrench is gonna get a workout on this job!

Good luck with that.. Better eat your Wheaties....for a couple of days!

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Well speaking of knowing when you know, I was a paramedic outside of Philadelphia in May '83. Ran a call on a man having chest pain. Took him into the hospital. Next day, I was able to check up on him. When I entered the room, I saw this cute foxy looking babe sitting next to him. He introduced his daughter to me. After I got off duty, went back and talked to her for about 2 hours. Made a date for Saturday, went to the beach on the New Jersey coast. August 19th we got married at the Willow Grove Naval Air Station, just over 3 months after we met. It will be 35 years this August. When you know, you know.

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

"Now I'm being challenged in a potato contest I clearly cannot win. Mine are plain field potatoes. Not those fancy shmancy organic pampered stress free potatoes someone else is lavishing care on, probably has a stereo system playing music for his potatoes. It's rigged!"-----Drew

Yea, your gonna have to step up your game... Outside speakers or maybe you can sing to them... Wifey is trying an experiment. We have planted "Yukon gold" potatoes in large planters. They are inside a sunroom, humidity and temp controlled. They have a radio playing country music 24/7, lights on 14 hrs/day. They have been planted a week. I'll take a pic and post in a few minutes.

 

[Buppies]

Great stories LS mt125 owner and Ed thanks for sharing

 

[LS Tractor Owner]

Here are the pics of the potatoes. As they grow, we'll add more soil, probably a couple times. Don't know how it will work out. The other pic is 2 of the 4 citrus trees we have in the room. Have a lemon, key lime, grapefruit, and an orange. Got fruit from all of them this year.

 

[mostly_gas]

Good evening all. 66F this morning, overcast, erratic wind speed. No rain overnight, came close today but still dry. High temp was 81F, few peaks of sunlight, wind was up and down, depending how close thunderstorms were to us. Choir practice this morning, followed by bike ride and nap. after nap worked on flower beds, deweeding and took out some crepe myrtle and another small tree too close to house.

 

[txdon]

Now I'm being challenged in a potato contest I clearly cannot win. Mine are plain field potatoes. Not those fancy shmancy organic pampered stress free potatoes someone else is lavishing care on, probably has a stereo system playing music for his potatoes. It's rigged!

All is fair in the vegetable competition.
PJS, what music do you have to stimulate potato growth?

 

[txdon]

Question 1. Why were some flags at half staff or half mast today? 3/26
Question 2. Do you say half staff or half mast.

 

[lostcreekranch]

Question 1. Why were some flags at half staff or half mast today? 3/26
Question 2. Do you say half staff or half mast.

Don, I was wondering the same. Had a treadmill cardiac stress test (passed it well) at Austin Heart in La Grange today. The St. Marks flags (US and Texas) were at half staff there.