That is one large crack!
Really sucks, but hopefully it's weldable.
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And the hits just keep on coming.
QAScooter sent me a couple of VBB top ends and the box arrived empty. It'd been ripped open on one end and taped back up with an apology from the USPS. #FML |
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SoCalGuy wrote: A talented welder can fix the case. Pretty sure it's curtains for the phone though. |
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chandlerman wrote: And the hits just keep on coming. QAScooter sent me a couple of VBB top ends and the box arrived empty. It'd been ripped open on one end and taped back up with an apology from the USPS. #FML Six months ago I had an aluminum track, 8' long, medical track for a lift, which means ten times more expensive than normal, disappear via UPS. The driver hands me an empty box and says "Boy, that box sure is light". Good thing I was there to have it handed to me, so I could refuse the package. Such a shame.... |
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No need to worry about getting me back on the shipping. it's not your fault some asshole felt the need to steal it, then (I'm sure) trash the contents.
I'd have been digging those stickers, too CM2, your letter got here just fine, so it's not all doom n' gloom at Casa Chandlerman. |
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I really think every-single-MV'r is hurting for you right now! I had a literal out loud "oh no" moment...
But EVERTYTHING can be fixed, one way or another. Even if it means full replacement Give Gickspeed a shot. Seen him repair some pretty far gone stuff. |
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Christmas 2019 I had a 1955 MotoBi Ardizio engine heading to me from Italy, after searching for ~3 years. The shipping alone was $350, but it's not like I could find one closer.
Post office made one delivery attempt and then put it on a flight back to Italy. contact the seller, provide the info, wait for it to arrive in Italy, claim filed... Covid! About June things were ok enough to try and ship again. tracking, has left Italy, wait, wait, wait, wait, still not received by USPS, wait, Delivered! (but still does not show as even received by USPS) Unpack it and it's been dropped at least 4 times. Fins on head are broken on both sides, motor mounts are busted off the bottom, flywheel cover shattered. Put it on the shelf and called it a sucky year. Sometimes I think I was put on this earth to watch my good intentions destroy nice things. |
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Scooting to work this morning in a light rain. Coming down a hill on a main road that curves left and need to turn right - the corner sucks as the bank and island are all against the turn. Moved into the turning lane and as I was slowing found my rear sliding out... then the front was sliding. Put both feet down and was sliding on all four points - pretty sure I went from one side to the other like I was on ice. I could feel how slippery the tarmac was through my shoes. Fortunately I wasn't going fast at all and came to a stop avoiding the down (and before sliding into oncoming traffic - I was getting ready to drop). Reckon I hit oil or similar. Crazy experience. Bike was skittish for a few 100m like the tyres (and shoes) were coated - then all good. Unfortunately think my helmet cam was out of battery - was rushing and hadn't checked. Did phone it into the police to check cause that corner is evil without being lubed up.
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Dang! Glad to hear you're ok! Great job and swift reacting to save yourself in that slide. Scary I'm sure! Thankfully it was just that, only scary. Good thinking to call it in, possibly someone else will be saved from a wipe out.
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oopsclunkthud wrote: Christmas 2019 I had a 1955 MotoBi Ardizio engine heading to me from Italy, after searching for ~3 years. The shipping alone was $350, but it's not like I could find one closer. Post office made one delivery attempt and then put it on a flight back to Italy. contact the seller, provide the info, wait for it to arrive in Italy, claim filed... Covid! About June things were ok enough to try and ship again. tracking, has left Italy, wait, wait, wait, wait, still not received by USPS, wait, Delivered! (but still does not show as even received by USPS) Unpack it and it's been dropped at least 4 times. Fins on head are broken on both sides, motor mounts are busted off the bottom, flywheel cover shattered. Put it on the shelf and called it a sucky year. Sometimes I think I was put on this earth to watch my good intentions destroy nice things. |
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pheasant plucker wrote: Scooting to work this morning in a light rain. Coming down a hill on a main road that curves left and need to turn right - the corner sucks as the bank and island are all against the turn. Moved into the turning lane and as I was slowing found my rear sliding out... then the front was sliding. Put both feet down and was sliding on all four points - pretty sure I went from one side to the other like I was on ice. I could feel how slippery the tarmac was through my shoes. Fortunately I wasn't going fast at all and came to a stop avoiding the down (and before sliding into oncoming traffic - I was getting ready to drop). Reckon I hit oil or similar. Crazy experience. Bike was skittish for a few 100m like the tyres (and shoes) were coated - then all good. Unfortunately think my helmet cam was out of battery - was rushing and hadn't checked. Did phone it into the police to check cause that corner is evil without being lubed up. |
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CM - glad you got the envelope.
Shame there is no running motor to use it wtih. Cases - those can absolutely be welded. Ideally they would clean, then clean again, then clamp & weld. Looks like they might eb able to access at least a portion from both sides - so quality of weld penetration will be visible. The challenge with cast aluminum is - its shitty to weld. All sorts of contaminants and porosity. But a local guy who welds cases would make short work of that - and I am guessing its a $100 cash job - especially if you bring 'em cleaned up. Best to bring all covers and both halves - less chance of warpage if they are bolted together and torqued down. Pheas' - I have experienced Heidenaus on slick blacktop with oil/rain. It's behind slippery! Good think you were able to keep it upright - and they have a shower at work. |
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charlieman22 wrote: ... The challenge with cast aluminum is - it CAN BE shitty to weld. All sorts of contaminants and porosity ARE POSSIBLE. shrinkage porosity tends to occur in heavy section thicknesses gas porosity tends to occur as small rounded cavities |
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chandlerman wrote: And these are LML cases, so who the hell knows what the casting quality is... Two things come to mind seeing those cracks (I see two bad-boys): Even after heating the case, clamping and bolting it, will the case be true? Also, the weld will not have the same viscosity/porosity as the rest of the case. It won't expand/contract the same. |
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Back in September, I ordered some custom Crimaz bits from Sip. A month later, they got to Sip, and they shipped them out to me, using, for reasons unknown, the German Postal System (I always ship UPS or FedEx from Sip). Covid has pretty much screwed the post from Europe to Australia, so the package sat at Frankfurt airport till early January. At that point it apparently appeared briefly at Sydney airport, which is where the tracking trail died.
Kudos to Ana at Sip, she organized for a new set to be built, and had them shipped UPS free of charge. Unfortunately, someone missed some paperwork (probably not used to free bits/shipping leaving!), and they got RTS by German customs. One more lap of the world later, my custom bits landed on my desk today. Thanks to Ana at Sip, I highly recommend contacting her if you're looking for parts. |
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Somehow i always get my SIP parts lighting fast. I order all my SIP stuff through a friend who has an account with them. I ordered a fancy Lambretta Casa Cooler last Monday at 11:30 am, and my friend text me that my parts showed up Thursday at about 2pm. No idea how that is even possible.
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Shipping times have been all over the map for me. I ordered from SIP and Scooter-Center at the same time, shipped them both via FedEx, and one arrived in three days, the other took almost a month.
Now if I could just find a set of LML Reed cases. At this point, I'm coming up empty anywhere, or the seller wants so much for them I might as well just buy some Malossi cases. |
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German Post was passed to DHL a few years back. Thanks to COVID and the mess that pushed to the limits all postal / courier services worldwide, DHL decided to put limits on package sizes for certain countries. Maybe that was the case for you too. On January I had two packages I bought on eBay returned to the sender, cause they were bigger than 40cm at one side. They were only accepting packages that were 40x40x40 or smaller. Thanks to the seller, we came to an arrangement and he unsealed, repackaged and sent the items to different boxes so as to pass the restriction. I got them a week later...
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Glad it's baseball season.
Had a great ride today and included a quick stop at the home town team mural. |
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Birdsnest wrote: Glad it's baseball season. Had a great ride today and included a quick stop at the home town team mural. |
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Stopped by So-Cal-Weld-Guy's den of scoots for a quick few beads on my Cowl tab, which has been worn down over the years. Easy stuff for da man and practice for my cracked mudguard. Thanks as always to So Cal Bro.
I really want him to start doing Indo-Enhancement work. Weld like horns, multiple wheels, and military gear and stuff onto scoots. cheers peeps |
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The float needle in my stella had been needing replacement, so I finally got around to that. Also, the float bowl was FULL of rust flakes. It looked like coffee grounds.
Anyways... Swap the needle, or it back together, flip on the fuel tap to check is not dripping and flooding... And fuel starts streaming off the back of the motor. I clearly didn't get something tight. Check everything, it all seems tight. I run through a few more iterations of "look for leak, though I fixed it, find it's still leaking, drop a bunch of F-bombs" before I pull the carb off the bike so I can hook it up to an external supply and at what's going on. Finally, I find the source. It's leaking out the overflow from the float bowl. Open it up again and look at the new needle. Find the old needle to compare...and there it is... Wrong. Friggin. Needle. So re-installed the old needle, which now doesn't seem to be leaking, but at least the float bowl is clean. It looked like a coffee maker in there
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Got some copper sheets in various thicknesses to make spacers ... stay tuned, we're going to see how a Pinasco 177 goes with a BGM head...
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hard laugh... isn't one of the universal rules of tuning to keep poking the bear? When one of my scoots runs really nicely it usually means I haven't been tinkering with it enough.
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SoCalGuy wrote: hard laugh... isn't one of the universal rules of tuning to keep poking the bear? When one of my scoots runs really nicely it usually means I haven't been tinkering with it enough. |
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Got a used sidecar and start thingking what to do and where should i attach it, maybe u guys can help me choose between the pink nor the red vespa
Until thrb have a nice summer and cheer Its here
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Right on.
Will enjoy watching what you do with it Ebeth! --- I am a bit stuck on the SS180 until the horncast arrives from Denmark. So with lots of rain outside and a day off I headed up to the storage facility to grab the rims and hubs off the VBC. Rust removal and getting them cleaned up is the order of the day. Found a wee issue... god I hope no one rode it around like that! (On my phone so excuse the single photo per post) ⚠️ Last edited by Birdsnest on UTC; edited 1 time
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Mounted some Pirelli Angels on a friend's brand new SIP tubeless rims. Extra protection and the right tools make for no scratches or markings...
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Safis - you should post a tutorial on that one.
How many dinged up installs have we seen? Very nice. Ebeth - my brother in sidecar! Yes! Birdsnest - hahaha - love the note to self on the tray.
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charlieman22 wrote: Safis - you should post a tutorial on that one. How many dinged up installs have we seen? Very nice. Ebeth - my brother in sidecar! Yes! Birdsnest - hahaha - love the note to self on the tray.
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Christopher_55934 wrote: charlieman22 wrote: Safis - you should post a tutorial on that one. How many dinged up installs have we seen? Very nice. Ebeth - my brother in sidecar! Yes! Birdsnest - hahaha - love the note to self on the tray. Wait... Are you calling Greasy my scooter wife? G-man sent that over in a Christmas care package to stop me from getting in dutch with the misses. I am known to commandeer tuperware and other items without permission. It never ends well... and I am slow learner. He's saving me from myself.
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Wait a minute... that looks like my hand writing!
99-cent store tray to the rescue for the birbs! Currently assembling next care package. Will include additional parts holding items so you don't get in trouble. |
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SaFiS wrote: Mounted some Pirelli Angels on a friend's brand new SIP tubeless rims. Extra protection and the right tools make for no scratches or markings... |
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charlieman22 wrote: Safis - you should post a tutorial on that one. How many dinged up installs have we seen? Very nice. Ebeth - my brother in sidecar! Yes! Birdsnest - hahaha - love the note to self on the tray. CM22, the guy who mounted mine f'ed them up seriously. 3 tires. 1 holds air fine.. one has a slow leak... 1 holds air fine but tire did not seat evenly, so when I swapped it on to do my 120 mile round trip the front tire was rattling and bouncing like the front end was f'ed up. Nope... it was just the tire which didn't seat evenly on the rim from that guy. I broke the beads on the two trouble tires today and the slow leak one has bead damage/tear, the one not seated properly has a bead that is bent slightly so it can't re-seat back on rim with air. That one guy ruined about $400 in tires and rims. |
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