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After all the controversy, him spending millions to hide his records, his leading role in spending billions of our dollars, I just do not believe in him. Not one iota. I have no faith in him as a leader. The world laughs at us like at no other time in history.

Like the situation with Tressel at Ohio State, eventually all the truth's will unfold. Right now we need someone in the office who knows and will use fiscal restraint, who knows and can handle the 'business' of the economy leading it to the creation of jobs on a large scale, not an increase of a fraction of a pct.

Jesus was not necessarily arab, but probably had olive skin.

"In more recent times the fact that the Middle East was a meeting point of cultures and races has led to suggestions that Jesus may have been African or Arabian. The ancient Near East was the primary means of access for traders and travelers seeking to access Africa via the adjoining Levant. Hence, the bordering Roman provinces of Judea and Galilee (Jesus' home region)[7] witnessed multiple waves of immigrants passing through those primarily Semitic lands. As such, it is conceivable that Jesus' lineage could have borne traces of Arab, Aramean, Berber, Roman, Greek, Black African, Persian or Indian ancestry. The aggressive policy of territorial expansion and forced conversion to Judaism practiced by John Hyrcanus a century before Jesus' birth may also have affected the ethnic make-up of the local Jewish populations.

It is most commonly argued that Jesus was probably of Middle Eastern descent because of the geographic location of the events described in the Gospels, and, among some modern Christian scholars, the genealogy ascribed to him. For this reason, he has been portrayed as an olive-skinned individual typical of the Levant region."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_of_Jesus

Yep, and finally Barry answered. Too bad it took Trump to force his hand, but at least its over.

Each store sells what goes in their area. If it is a slow mover, it's not on the shelf. Where I came from I worked with fastenal all the time. They didn't carry any hardened bolts other than generic sizes, and nothing in metric to speak of. But that stuff never moved. I went in looking for bolts for my old jap bikes. Had to shop elsewhere because they would not sell anything more than large quantities when they had to special order.

Online might be different. And if you order online why is it you cannot have it shipped to your place instead of having it shipped to their store?

I'm not so sure Barry has the black vote all sealed up....

Umm, under Bush is where it started, and it was in massive decline for a full year; from Oct 07 to it's largest drop in recorded history on December 2008.

Uhhhh, go back further. Freddie and Fannie got a huge boost from the Clinton administration because they thought everyone should be able to buy a house. Offering lending to people who had no business getting a loan, loans that began to balloon a few years after they were took out, ballooning so high the lender could not afford the payments.

I'm not defending Shrub, but right is right.

Like Nafta....everyone blames ol Clinton for that. Wrong. When he took office, the bill was a done deal, sitting on his desk waiting to be signed. He had no choice. And it was even Bush Sr's doing but more like Reagan who actually got the ball rolling.

Well its still a mess, Obama has done little to nothing to make it any better. Of course that statement would apply to nearly every aspect of his 3 years in office.

I heard today Ron Paul was going to run again. I would have voted for him last time if big money hadn't isolated him the way they did. Yet he is still just another politician. We need to bring common sense back into the Oval Office, someone who understands business, how to create jobs while telling the status quo to screw off, someone who will also tell the rest of the world to blow us, we're done supporting everyone else while at the same time being cast as the evil enemy. Its time for real change instead of Kenyan lipservice.

not girly at all.......are they throwing in a skirt with it???

I'm doubtful that aluminum fixtures can stretch a grade8 fastener to the breaking point, more than likely you'd pull the threads from the caliper before the bolt stretched to where it would shear - think most OE bolts are a grade 5? I may be wrong but they seemed softer than the 8's I upraded to back then

::edit:: Now that I think about it, did it shear at the head of the bolt? Or somewhere on the shank? It would make sense it could break at the head if over-torqued enough times but you're racing the bike right? Thats quite a bit of extra force against those bolts, may need to upgrade them all

Good point. It makes me wonder how much the number of threads and their pitch might add to the strength of the threads holding, even in aluminum. I'm sure the grade of aluminum they use is a much higher grade, don't you? I mean, for example, billet aluminum is stronger than some other aluminums. Another point of interest-oxidation. If the calipers are a true aluminum and the bolts are steel, then oxidation (of some sort) will occur and that can cause problems with the metals (degradation) as well.

Cool, thats the only way you can get an accurate quote.

Are those gr 8 bolts?

I would imagine that after being torque'd a certain amount of times they may stretch especially if they've ever been over torque'd.

What are the dimensions?

Are these quotes being given after he runs your mvr's? Just wondering....

Welcome and Happy Easter.

Some of your metrics really don't weigh all that much do they? My glide is like near 700# and I wouldn't trust anything hanging off a trailer hitch other than a trailer for my bike.

Thanks Recon.....been doin wiring for 20 years now, or at least out of the past 25 yrs as a Journeyman electrician.

I would buy one if I owned a 2003 fjr 1300 , or a 2002 R1 but certainly would not haul a bike I like with that thing

fixed it for ya......

Lol

What you have is not a high voltage deal, just basically running a 220 v circuit. For not much more money you can just run a 220v line our to a small sub panel in the garage and not only feed your proposed oven outlet, but have the ability to safely add other recepts or lights in the future. If possible running it underground is best, and utilizing pipe underground makes it even better. Depending on your situation,location and layout its not areal difficult if you know what you're doing.

Construct everything from the house out to the garage including everything inside the garage before terminating anything inside the house to your power source.

Piece of cake

LOL....watch a western, old or new, and count the shots with no re loads. Or a cops show. Never saw a magazine that held 20 or 30 shells on a tv show.

A Red Dawn invasion? We can only hope that those who might fight back are a little smarter than Hollywood thinks we are...

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to get in on this....

I had State Farm a while back. I wrecked my Mustang. Only accident I've ever had that was my fault, and only claim I've ever filed with an insurance company. It was just me an a light pole, so no other driver and/or car to worry about. They wrote me a check for the car, and told me they'd canceled my policy. I couldn't believe it. When shopping around, I don't even bother calling them. Not much they could do to get my business back.

I can't say as I blame you one bit.

I feel one important point is having a physical agent instead of having to deal with everything over the internet. So that eliminates several companies right there. Trouble with that is a bad agent, just like a bad experience with a claim can be a deal stopper for most. Many times (not saying this is the case with your situation) is 'insureds' just don't know what their coverage is and don't know the language of their contract.

Case in point, my oldest son refuses to ask for any advice...but thats another story...lol...but his wife got in a wreck and totaled a vehicle which had a huge balance against it with the credit union. Well when he originally signed the contract for his policy he didn't answer the question correctly (trying to keep his payments as low as possible) so ultimately his coverage didn't take care of his loss as it should have if he had just answered the questions correctly. Sure his payments would have a little more, but in the end, when he needed coverage, it wasn't there. This left him with a large debt, no car, long story short.

There's a lot to insuring yourself. Most important is understanding what you are getting for your money as well as the rep of the company insuring you.

In the 30 + years I've been around the wife listening to all the in's and out's of coverage, cost, rating.......holy crap, it's like another language. But bottomline is that an insurance company is just another business out there to make a buck. Each company is bound to legal requirements in order to write policies within each state, and each state has its own requirements. Alot of the times certain things an insurance company does in a certain state is because of state requirements, nothing else, good or bad. Each year, profit and loss of each ins company is looked at by each state, and ins co's cannot make more and more or else they have to cut rates or do something so they don't make more and more. The insurance companies for homeowners policies that we deal with have to be re insured with re insurer insurance companies for amounts equal to the total amount of coverage they have with their insureds having homeowners policies with their companies.

And this all is just a drop in the bucket as to the cause and effect of insurance rates. My wife is a systems analyst with an insurance company and is a tester for all the software development before implementation of the software into the companies mainframe. I cannot believe how often they have to upgrade and how costly each one is to an insurance company. Most of these upgrades are because of system requirements due to simple things like new Window's versions coming out, or new Internet versions coming out, and how neither will be 'friendly and play well' with current software packages. It reminds me of buying a new pc. You go out looking for the newest cutting edge unit out there and by the time you have it paid for its already outdated.

Anyway, my long rambling on just means to say ...well I ferget....lol..no just that there is a lot more to it all than just how much you're paying for your insurance. So, not only know your coverages, but also know what the contract you are signing says.

Man I need some coffee.....lol

Scratch remover products that contain alcohol or petrol chemicals, will fog Lexan (polycarbonate) or turn it white. Effectively ruining it. Test a small spot first. Most do not have petrols, I think, since that would be stupid.

I've used the Novus on my clear Lexan helmet shields. No problem so far. Like I said, any coatings on the plastic will sooner or later get removed by abrasives. Only mild polishes with no petrol chemicals, or just mild soap and water, should be used on coated plastics of any type. I think Honda even had a warning on my flyshield that nothing should be used, other than mild soap and water. Because of the coatings, I suppose. I do not think the Honda flyscreen is Lexan, I think it's an acrylic plastic.

But I have restored aircraft Lexan windshields using the correct supplies, so it can be done. Coatings generally will be removed and gone, unless separately restored.

edit: checked the Novus website. for undamaged plastics that have coatings, the #2 and #3 are not recommended. Only the #1 polish because of the coatings. Novus is a Lexan scratch remover. Also works on acrylics, plexiglas and fiberglass.

Personally I would go by what the manufacturer of the shield says.....but definitely try whichever on an obscure part of the shield beforehand.

I Have a National Cycle shield, and it is a lexan polycarb, coated shield. I have always used Novus 1 on it to clean bugs and road grime off successfully.

I also have some of the #2 & #3 Novus which worked great on some older shields I had with scratches.

Recently I had my bike fall over and the shield actually kept the bike from crashing over all the way by wedging itself up against something standing closeby. But even though the bike itself is unscathed, the shield took some deep scratches across the top edge. I had cut the shield down some time back and had hung onto the top pieces that were cut off. So I tried using the 2 & 3 Novus on those scraps after digging some likewise deep scratches in them. LOL, screwed it up even worse than the scratches did. Completely fogged over, scratches still there. Luckily I can live with the scratches where they are as they are below my line of vision. I cut the shield down so the top is about even with the bottom of my nose like they're supposed to be, heightwise. I'm going to check with NC and see if they will sell me another shield minus all the hardware at some sort of discounted price since they are warranteed for 3 years against breakage even if its caused by your bike falling over. Will they? With my luck, probably not....lol.

Anyway, be careful , hope you can figure it out and get it fixed.

I have a Slipstreamer windshield that's kinda scratched and foggy in spots. Do you think those headlight renewal kits would work on this? It's just clear lexan so why not, right?

Lemme know whatchu think.

Jim

First off, you need to make sure what the shield is made of. Each type of material has certain do's and don'ts, and doing the wrong procedure to, or using the wrong chemical on the wrong type of material can make it worse, maybe unusable. I would go to the website for the type of shield you have and do some checking before assuming anything.

I have ruined shields by not checking myself.

Btw, I think a Slipstream is an acrylic and not a polycarbonite lexan-

"SCRATCH REMOVER

An exclusive non-scratching formulation which effectively cleans acrylic without the usual harsh abrasives. Quickly removes minor scratches and scuffs with very little effort. Use before Cleaner/Polish for cleaning of plastics which have scratches, extra dirt or dull surfaces."This is something Slipstream recommends for their shields. But it also says this after-"DO NOT USE SCRATCH REMOVER ON LEXAN OR POLY CARBONATE PLASTICS. THIS INCLUDES ALL OEM SHIELDS"

http://www.slipstreamer.com/Product/Misc/misc.html

How much you pay is important, but you are paying for that time when you have to make a claim. At least I am. We have, over the years, tried many different ins companies and found State Farm to be the best when it comes time to needing them to be there. Sometimes they are the chaepst, sometimes not, but the old adage, 'like a good neighbor.....' is true. Car accidents, homeowner claims, they have taken care of our needs. Hight winds blew half our roof off a few years back. We had a check, in our hands, the next day. Of course it helps to have a wife who's been in the insurance industry for nearly 35 years too. We have the correct coverage, have eliminated the crap, and understand the lingo, which is usually most of the problem. I wish you all well with All State. They sure do make good commercials.....