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1st update on the poor, burdened, and over-extended ten-yer-old PC545 after this latest recovery: It took nearly eight hours to drop back to a temperature corrected 100% state of charge. I'm calling that "good news". Next metric: How long until it statically discharges to the 85% (12.65v) charge threshold...

Been looking forward to the Emergence Event from that tidy space . . .

Aw, man. As always, happy to hear the rider is up. ATGATT You're in the right place to source parts. Stand by . . .

Probably a great time for many of us to pay attention to our Odyssey PC545s. On the cusp of spring in the northern hemisphere and lots of our precious V11 have languished for other reasons keeping us home. Last night during a severe storm watch, I decided to bring an Anker PowerCore battery pack up about 20% using the ten year old PC545 in my test bed, Swampee the Cub Cadet. This battery was in the Sport almost five years, then stepped down into the tractor nearly five more. At some point in the last couple years, I found it under 8 volts and brought it back using these methods. After the Anker charged, I was surprised to find the PC545 at 12.43volts . . . ("That's ded, Jim.") A little research and I discover the PC545 is 13Ah capacity and the Anker (6 x 18650 Li battery pack) is 20.1 Ah! Woops . . . Seems I used the old PC545 to statically charge a battery with 50% more capacity. The EnerSys charger would not set a deep charge after two discharge cycles. I've seen this before: a rather deeply discharged PC545 (below the 12.65v charging threshold) quickly (under a couple minutes) switches to "float" charge on the EnerSys and then stays below the AGM float voltage (13.5-13.8v). Then, as soon as load is applied, the battery would drop back to it's pre-charge state. i.e. - Not taking a charge. Recovery method: applied 6 amp charge, manual/constant, until 15.0 volts was reached (35 minutes). Now to monitor how long it takes to statically discharge to the 12.65v charge threshold. If it takes less than 24-48 hours, I'll repeat the discharge/charge to 15.0v until it either holds for days to weeks, or have to declare the ten year old PC545 "done" at which point the Sport gets a fresh one. Once again, the PC545 is awesome using the correct methods.

One more thing my Sport knows more about than I do . . .

Couldn't find this live, but love this soulful Bonnie Raitt cover of INXS . . .

I was chatting with friends about this amazing chronicle and stumbled across start-to-finish imges that are fun to juxtapose and ponder . . . Thanks, again, LuckyPhil!

I just learned from a friend with a V7 Sport that all Guzzi (big block?) cranks have a sludge trap. I've never heard them discussed. Just a non-issue with motors that have an oil filter?

Pretty sure my entire existence should be in a glass case. Oh, wait . . . that should read, "rusty cage" . . .

Winner! (stamped: "1/2 - PROTO® - mfg U.S.A.") Made bumping the timing on the 351 Cleveland Ford motor a breeze. Was given to me by a friend who ran a Grand Spaulding Dodge/Mr. Norm's supercharged Demon with Mickey Thompson wrinkle wall street tires. That was a squirrely beast!

That's one . . . "Ring spanner": definitely,. We say "box end wrench." . . . "mount nut(s)", yes. But, WTH is a CFM-56 Fuel Control Unit???

Okay, in my defense, it is a "soft" key fob and performs a polishing action instead of *scraping*, like too many fobs do. It also came to me from a friend who brought it directly from Alice Agostini's dealership in Mandello del lario. Pretty sure it "belongs." (I totally agree that *jangly* key fobs that eat at the top of of the triple are horrid. ) And, yes, the Speedhut speedo window can be "toggled" to the time. Yet, I am rather more of an analogue guy and mounting a sawed-off wristwatch came to me from my late, dear friend Bruce Heath. The challenge is to find a watch/"dash clock" that matches your faces and bezels . . .

Pretty sure I don't have anything like LuckyPhil's Grandfather's Tachymeter. In a purple, velvet-lined box, no less. Yet, it really has been fun digging through some old kit. And playing, "WTH ya think this is?" . . .

"The" cork!

That would make a nice "dash clock" for the triple tree . . .

And my trusty Wenger fell off my wrist just an hour ago . . .

“Rosso” even!

I-am-so-busted . . .

Somehow, I thought Jackals had a single front rotor(?)

What size are they ? And what happens with the brakes? Rotors are "part" of the wheels . . . .

How about a little "Show Us Your Tool Boxes?"

And they managed to pull that off in movie theaters, what, 1965?