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1 hour ago, audiomick said:

Is that a blue heeler? Looks a lot like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Cattle_Dog

 

PS: the bike looks lot better with wheels on. :P

He is. Gone 95% blind at age 10, as they often do. He seems to care less than I do. Loves cows and children. 
Wheels= I can call it a motorcycle now. 

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Small progress. 
Everything I touched needed cleaning, new fasteners, repairs, bulbs...

Tomorrow, fix the per-usual detached tach stud. 

 

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I recall reinforcing those attachment points with JB Weld.

edit: I looked for an image, but settled for pulling my instruments out of the cabinet to look. Yep, JB Weld to secure the mounting posts to the cans, plus JB Weld to reinforce the fragile plastic collar beneath the light connectors.

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23 minutes ago, docc said:

I recall reinforcing those attachment points with JB Weld.

edit: I looked for an image, but settled for pulling my instruments out of the cabinet to look. Yep, JB Weld to secure the mounting posts to the cans, plus JB Weld to reinforce the fragile plastic collar beneath the light connectors.

That was my plan. 'Light connectors'- do you mean the tach connectors? The lamp connectors are on the sockets. 
BTW who has the cross number for the bulbs?

Posted
1 minute ago, Pressureangle said:

That was my plan. 'Light connectors'- do you mean the tach connectors? The lamp connectors are on the sockets. 
BTW who has the cross number for the bulbs?

The fragile white plastic collar between the male spade connector and the bulb socket.

Bulbs are 3 watt T9

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On 10/25/2025 at 12:44 PM, Pressureangle said:

He is. Gone 95% blind at age 10, as they often do. He seems to care less than I do. Loves cows and children. 
Wheels= I can call it a motorcycle now. 

He still looks in good heath, you can get his cataracts fixed.

Phil 

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26 minutes ago, Lucky Phil said:

He still looks in good heath, you can get his cataracts fixed.

Phil 

He's been to the doggo opthomologist. Heelers get a genetic deterioration of the retina, and the toxins from debris actually cause the cataracts. He was completely night blind and couldn't catch a frisbee anymore in the daytime before the cataracts showed up. She said we could remove them, but she was not optimistic that it would improve anything. 

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...aaand the new front tire is flat. Hadn't rolled it around any... thought it was the o-ring at the base of the valve stem but actually turned out to be that the stem itself, these lightweight aluminum marvels of ancient Roman wisdom, had split vertically up the side. Difficult to see, but the bubbles prove. I had a set of 90* valve stems that were too short to fit into the '85 LM rims, but was a nice fit here. Rear rim at next tire change, or first flat. 

 

 

 

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SOON ready. Nice, EVERYTHING sorted. Shoud be cleared for some km  :luigi:.

Cheers Tom.

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2 hours ago, Tomchri said:

SOON ready. Nice, EVERYTHING sorted. Shoud be cleared for some km  :luigi:.

Cheers Tom.

I have a feeling I'll be waiting on paint a lot longer than I want to...we'll see.

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