ReconRat

Sounded like Japanese to me, including a curse on one's ancestors there, heh....

Not all of them. Germans who came to America were fleeing what they didn't like in Germany. Same in my family. Certainly those from Bavaria weren't all that excited about German empiricism. Funny story... Germans way back didn't have last names. In order to accurately collect taxes, the Emperor Maximilian had them all adopt last names. They liked their emperor so much (*cough*), they all named themselves "Max" for a last name.

Lineage traced back to England and Germany. Makes me a Son of the American Revolution. (SAR) And my Sister a DAR. Young British Leftenant got off the ship in Williamsburg, either the 2nd or 4th ship arriving. Nobody knows for sure, the records were destroyed in Sherman's march through Virginia. He was the son of an English soldier in an Irish occupation, who married an Irish girl. Some migrated to Kentucky, some to Georgia, some stayed in Virginia. Ancestors fought on both sides of the civil war. One ancestor was commander of Fort Pitt. One in England was granted the Knight's Cross, those don't come easy. It's like our Medal of Honor only rather rare. Mom was one of the first women in Ohio to fly an airplane. Dad trained astronauts in how to fly the Apollo CSM & LEM. Got a cousin in Germany that won the Berlin half distance Marathon one year. I hear Amelia Earhart is a 6th cousin, but any family in the USA for at least 6 generations, has half of the population as a 6th cousin. My uncle invented a potato chip process, that was grabbed up by all when the patent expired. They all use it now. His real claim to fame was inventing shuffle board wax. It made him rich. Another uncle developed the vidicon. That's the "eyeball" tv unit on the front of an air-to-surface weapon carried by most every military aircraft everywhere. Fun stuff... way more than you wanted to know... I edited out stuff I've invented, boring, but ask me sometime who invented the "Jaws of Life". I was there. Very cool.

Did you know... that most visible light astronomy is now done by backyard amateurs? Big telescopes rent out time to various studies in wavelengths other than visible. This is made possible by digital cameras, taking multiple photos. Free NASA software takes those and enhances the result. The result from an enhanced backyard 8 inch telescope is better than the 200 inch Mt Polomar Observatory of the 1950s-1970s.

One more item...pay them only if they actually show up for work...

The world is full of free cars that DON'T run... Trailers are interesting, they are dirt cheap now and you can move them. But somebody needs to invent how to weld them to the ground so they stay put.

ground, taillight, brake light, left turn signal, right turn signal. Touch the wires to a 12v battery. Start by trying ground to the black, and power to the red, and see which one lights up. Mark it or write it down. Repeat power on the rest until each is identified. You will then have to match them up to the existing wiring harness. Try to keep your stock connectors by buying matching connectors and crimping them on the wires. Fun stuff.

And there's one more choice, some huggers are available in carbon fiber. Costs even more. I like carbon fiber, it's so techie (or rad).

The ABS is typical automotive material, plus it "might" be one of the fiber reinforced ABS, like the stuff TCP(French) sells. Fiberglass is cheaper, and can break in a spectacular fashion. ABS "might" survive a bit longer than fiberglass. Fiberglass works fine on Corvettes, but it seems everybody else uses an ABS plastic. Years ago we bobbed a fiberglass fender, and put in on the front of a Norton Commando. It was cheaper than the stock part, and we put it real close to the tire, it looked great. The owner hit a pop can dead square with the front wheel. It wrapped up and clamped onto the tire, and went immediately through the fiberglass fender, leaving it in shreds. Boom. We bought another one and started over...

fate is a monster companion in your travels time is not a friend Morbid, heh?

Quote: No, that's what HE said....

They have windows on submarines??? had to do it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwXxcxyrEwc&eurl and Hover Bacon... very weird... http://www.rathergood.com/bacon

I didn't know that. I wonder if it was a window for taking turns, or a thermocline window. I suspect the latter. I've never heard of separate two way travel lanes either.

holy crap, never heard of a torque wrench malfunction (unless it's used for batting rocks). I hope people aren't using the newton-meter marks to set ft-lbs...

Nobody wants to go below the yellow line, once there, the banking is so shallow, it throws you right back into traffic. Which is ok if you're talented and taking a risk, but it's dicey. It only works on a straight stretch. Btw, that was a vicious block taken late and at risk. Both were trying to maintain control, any collision was probably unavoidable. Fault is both (takes two to tango), passing too early in the race, and blocking too aggressively. Guess they best buddies, huh?

yay, I want one... would you have a subgroup of moto guzzis?

Here's the point... to enter the Mediterranean Sea, subs must travel a narrow specific course to avoid detection as well as simply getting there through a deep channel. Chances are both subs were doing that, which increased the odds of a collision. There's only a few places in the world where something like that might happen under water, and that's one of them. Even if both France and England claim they were somewhere else when it happened. They wouldn't want to give away important exact locations. Expensive error.

playing games is war game maneuvers. Learning to avoid detection, or to break off and slip away if found. Conversely, Learning to detect, and keep the contact. And now that I think about it, it's unlikely they were playing games. Both were boomer missile subs, dedicated to silence and stealth, not attack. Attack subs would be hunting them. They wouldn't be hunting each other, unless... they were playing games, lol....

That worked till he crossed that railroad track, which caused a sudden left turn, and he's somewhere in Kansas City now, heading West...

These boomers use passive sonar, they listen only. And both were super quiet. I doubt if either one could be heard at low throttle. combined with the thermoclines (layers of hot and cold water) around the Mediterranean outflow, they just never heard a thing. Or they were playing games with each other, trying to follow and/or get away. Nuclear stuff, the reactor is safe unless it is physically breached. Very hard to do. The weapons are just dangerous hot rocks in a can until armed. If they are in shallow water, you have to go get them or some one else will.

ok, just checked a 636 manual, and it appears that the tank will come off. The factory service manual is too retarded to give any idea how long or even how.

Have to be easy or comfortable or both in lifting/shifting the tank first. Then attacking the plugs. Some people find the tool clearances under the tank to be difficult. So it's going to be hard to say. Less than an hour for the plugs. Who knows for the tank and clearances. I don't know your bike well enough to say. Fuel injected tanks are a pain to remove. Do not turn the front forks with the tank out of place, it can hit the tank and damage the paint.

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Motorcycle-Repair-837/1983-Honda-V45-Magna-2.htm A good example of a voltage drop test on a Magna V45 on this webpage.

:lol:less than 2 minutes on a vertical twin, BMW boxer, or moto guzzi...