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Curious, I have an SAE connector for hooking up a battery tender. I might check and see for sure but if the negative end of the battery tender is there instead of the terminal on the battery could that do it? Not sure why that area would get hot otherwise since I don't put many miles on the bike...

Recently took my 2012 Ducati Monster 1100 EVO out of storage for the season. About 3 weeks ago it took a few seconds to start up for the first time since November, not unexpected, rode it for about 5 minutes to the gas station to fill up and brought it back home. Fired it up a few days ago and got some white smoke from the area of the lower cylinder after turning over for about 3-4 seconds without it starting. Gave it a few minutes, tried to start it up again and got a spark from what seemed like the starter, didn't start. Freaked me out. Assumed maybe the starter was toast. Today I gave it one more shot and got a spark from behind a panel near the frame. Took it off and found that the wiring to the starter and to the kickstand sensor had some serious erosion/burn right where they touch where the battery is grounded to the crankcase (see pictures). The wires looked like they had some imprints from a ziptie right where the insulation was cooked off that makes me wonder if it rubbed against the motor enough to wear a small enough hole through that the wiring allowed some electric arc to pass to the ground wire burning the insulation. There's a touch of corrosion on the screw holding the ground wire in place and a tiny bit of char on the crankcase a few millimeters away. I threw a few layers of electrical tape over each of the damaged wires and then over the whole wire bundle. Bike started up flawlessly multiple times. I'm curious if this set up is safe to ride as is or if I must replace the wiring? Is there anything else I should be considering in terms of why this happened or that I might still need to inspect?

This is really all that matters. If the guy was 30 feet away and unarmed and shot, nothing he did previously can justify it. Even if he allegedly tried to grab the officer's gun beforehand, that situation was over. The potential robbery beforehand has nothing to do with it and any discussion of things before is just a distraction. If he was unarmed and not CURRENTLY a direct threat to the officer when shot to death, it was murder.

Agreed, sadly. Dude almost got hit by the blue/white car and doesn't use that as his sign. Plus, if you look when the blue/white car misses him, there's maybe 1.5 car widths worth of track below the kid and no one can go above him, not a lot of room to avoid. The fact that the blue/white car almost hit him as well should be enough to show that he was hard to see and difficult to avoid and there was no intent here.

^^^ That was just uncalled for...

Fantastic shape as I just never ended up wearing it all that much. Few very faint spots on the shoulders, otherwise virtually new. CE shoulder/elbow/forearm armor, foam back pad. Zip in/out insulated liner. This is the non-mesh version aka: mostly solid textile with mesh vents on front and back of shoulders. Never been down. Red/black are darker than they appear Size M. Figured I'd see if anyone on here was interested before hitting eBay. Asking $85 shipped. $75 locally, delivered on the back of my trusty steed.

Hey from Beavercreek

I guess what I'm curious of is should he have noted the pipe with the softener drain?

I've learned they're pretty worthless

Well new update: we had another HVAC contractor come through to get a second opinion on whether the system needed replaced, family friend this time. He actually checked the freon level, which our first contractor DID NOT and the system was bone dry, not a single PSI of pressure in the freon line. Vacuum checked it and there was a leak somewhere. Put a small freon charge in and heard it whizzing out two gaskets where the house lines join the outside unit. Tightened them down, refilled the system, and the house is cooling. Compressor is working fine (contrary to what the first contractor told me) and 56 degree air coming out the registers. Fuck that first company for doing a half-assed job. Do I have any recourse to recoup the service call and labor fees they charged me? BBB complaint or something similar? Also, we were told with the size of the leak on the vacuum test that there was no way this system was working when the inspector tested it and we've got a potentially system ruining code violation with the way the water softener is hooked into the AC drain line: This drains to the surface outside the house, which means in the winter the water from the softener could freeze in the PVC and back up into the coils in the AC unit. Our inspector DID NOT note this problem. Big SNAFU on the inspectors part? Any recourse I should be pursuing with him?

This is true. Wine I notice differences in brands more than cost. I've bought $20-$30 bottles and honestly wasn't any more impressed than my favorite $10-12 bottles. Though, I think the difference in liquor quality as you step up from low-end to mid-range is big but from the moderately priced to high price is marginal. AKA: JD/Beam/etc is a big step down from some of the mid-range bourbons like Willet, Blanton's, etc but there's not a lot more to gain by going highball on them. Same with scotch: cheap scotch is a big step down from mid-range stuff like Aberlour, Laphroaig, Ardbeg while the really expensive, super old stuff just doesn't seem like a big change, IMO. But then again, the reason I notice the difference is because I drink a lot more whisky than I smoke cigars ;-)

There's a small gauge PVC pipe going into the ground and runs out the side of the house into the garden. Probably about 1" in diameter.

Yes, problem is he is insisting that it seemed to be working when he tested it, but he's got no documentation of temps coming out the vents and just babbles on about how the thermostat was hard to work. It's a Honeywell programmable that my parents had in their house when i was like 13, it's not that hard to work.

Yeah, right now we're really looking at minimal stuff (as you can probably tell by the brands quoted), I dont need a ton of features. We can't up the furnace beyond 80% since the utilities room doesn't have a floor drain apparently. At least, so I've been told.