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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1150 on: December 09, 2016, 09:30:44 PM »
Sign looks great.  So, she bequeathed it to you and your workspace/man cave.  Women just aren't big on beer signs apparently, unless a beer co family...
Nice clutch lever/perch assembly, good to have buddies with spares like that.
Nice crimper results and crimp.  Did you get all the wire colors you needed. What source did you go with for the crimper?  That doesn't look like a barrel connector, appears to be a narrow version of the Amp quick disconnect female terminal.

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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1151 on: December 09, 2016, 10:03:01 PM »
Thanks David. Actually, she would have been fine with it in the house but it's pretty large and we just don't have a spot for it. Our house is small.

I did get all the colors I need and I bought the wire from McMaster. I got the crimp tool and terminals from Cycle Terminal. Forgive me but I don't know the difference between a barrel and an amp.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1152 on: December 10, 2016, 12:55:38 AM »
AmP is actually a terminal manufacturer so pervalent that it is almost like kleannex.  The quick disconnect being a std go to these days.  32 years ago when I worked for TRW Resistive Products Division we used Amp terminals to crimp the wire leads to the power wirewound resistors.  They were a brass terminal that would cut the wire to length after the wirewound resistor core material, a fiberglass braided cord,  was fed into the termination machine.  It would cut the core material to length and crimp the wire leads to the resistive wire wound around the fiberglass braid.  Using Amp's terminals that were joined together with thin bridge of material left between each terminal that was sheered from its adjacent terminal in the strip fed terminals.  The dies would cut the core to a setup length that was tuned by the line mechanics to get the resistors within tolerances (aiming towards the specified value of course). The wire for the leads cut and fed into their positions on the terminal segments held in the die, core dropped in place, then the die would crimp the terminals on both ends tight before ejecting the completed core resistor into the receptical for the next step in the manufacturing process wher the resistor was placed in its ceramic shell and filled with a thermally conductive material encapsulating the resistor into its final package.

Sorry for the segue, sidetrack... Amp make a ton of specialized and common terminals used in all kinds of electrical/ electronic connectors and terminals.

Amp also makes tubular pin and socket terminals as well...Our bike's stock bullet connectors are a type of connector making a physical locking connection by the terminals ( male and female) rather than a connector housing.  The terminals in the connector blocks are often an Amp product as is the connector body.  There are more makers than Amp but they are one of if not the largest out there worldwide.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1153 on: December 22, 2016, 09:59:56 AM »
Santa Cal is watching, indeed.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1154 on: December 22, 2016, 10:25:41 AM »
Lazy Bastage, Santa is watching you!

I'm almost certain that fargin icehole, Santa Cal, is a fan of Johnny Dangerously.


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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1155 on: December 22, 2016, 10:37:22 AM »
You Sir. Are. A. Jerk.







It's not like I'm down in Florida looking at twenty-somethings in bikinis. 




Dude, why don't you stop playing at the river and get your bike done? Certainly school is out and with all the wiring and electrics you have in front of you, there's no shortage of work to complete  >:( Lazy Bastage, Santa is watching you!
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1156 on: December 22, 2016, 10:49:35 AM »
And...I wasn't sure that I should mention this but...actually...I've been kicking around selling the bike.
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« Reply #1157 on: December 22, 2016, 10:50:55 AM »
And...I wasn't sure that I should mention this but...actually...I've been kicking around selling the bike.

Everybody play dead. This wreaks of internet trolling to me.


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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1158 on: December 22, 2016, 10:52:23 AM »
When is the last time you caught a fish in a net?  That my friend takes practice and skill...
she's a pretty one, or is it a the given birds and similar animals the male is the colorful one?
Speckles and rainbow...vivid color.

Yeah, don't spend all your break in the water, get some stuff done on the bike...we hope spring will be here soon!
Besides, you can't fish when it is dark out...

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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1159 on: December 22, 2016, 11:22:05 AM »
And...I wasn't sure that I should mention this but...actually...I've been kicking around selling the bike.
WTF?!!!!

I got dibs.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1160 on: December 22, 2016, 11:55:54 AM »
I know where that rod, tacklebox, wadiers and net are gonna end up once Cal reads this nonesense of selling...better call your doctor and have him order you some muscle relaxers, very heavy narcotic pain killers, and ask them to give you that twilight medication you won't remember how they got all that stuff out of your backside.

Provided he does not just empty a chamber on you...
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« Reply #1161 on: December 22, 2016, 12:48:17 PM »
Heck, if he sold it I'd have enough time to finish my own damn bikes;D

Hahahaha!!! It was killing me to wait it out for you to walk in.  ;D I figured he'd be in favor.

Cal's been nice enough to help with a few pieces that needed to be fabricated and I believe they are now done but he had to go on the road so I won't see them for a bit longer. As usual, he was being a smarta$$ with that previous comment. I've done all I can with the bike until those items arrive so I've been spending some time out on the water.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1162 on: December 22, 2016, 01:32:57 PM »
And...I wasn't sure that I should mention this but...actually...I've been kicking around selling the bike.

Everybody play dead. This wreaks of internet trolling to me.


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"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1163 on: December 22, 2016, 01:42:44 PM »
Man. That was from the top rope Don. Did you get dizzy up there?
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1164 on: December 22, 2016, 03:49:25 PM »
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It's not like I'm down in Florida looking at twenty-somethings in bikinis

Ahhhh, that was my excuse.  Anything wrong with it?!
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« Reply #1165 on: December 22, 2016, 04:27:17 PM »
Man. That was from the top rope Don. Did you get dizzy up there?

That was revenge for inferring you might jettison this bike.  Check out those Home Depot deerskin "riding" gloves though!
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2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

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1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1166 on: December 22, 2016, 05:18:22 PM »
Man. That was from the top rope Don. Did you get dizzy up there?

That was revenge for inferring you might jettison this bike.  Check out those Home Depot deerskin "riding" gloves though!

Sorry man I figured you were seeing some red and preparing your opening remarks. I'm really eager to get started. As soon as Cal gets done with his David Hasselhoff impersonation down on the beach.
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« Reply #1167 on: December 22, 2016, 05:25:29 PM »
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It's not like I'm down in Florida looking at twenty-somethings in bikinis

Ahhhh, that was my excuse.  Anything wrong with it?!
Thats the sound of jealousy as he freezes his nut sack off in -10* snow.  :P :-*

That could be true. Even my wife is leaving for a trip to warmer climates. Without me.
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1168 on: December 22, 2016, 05:29:27 PM »
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It's not like I'm down in Florida looking at twenty-somethings in bikinis

Ahhhh, that was my excuse.  Anything wrong with it?!
Thats the sound of jealousy as he freezes his nut sack off in -10* snow.  :P :-*

That could be true. Even my wife is leaving for a trip to warmer climates. Without me.

Now that's cold......literally! 
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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1169 on: December 22, 2016, 05:37:09 PM »
He forgot to add it was his idea to stay home and go fishing while he still could...

Aerostich makes a riding glove in deerskin and elkskin...they are not what you would see at Home Depot or Lowes...
Elkskin is durable but deerskin is not so much...
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« Reply #1170 on: December 22, 2016, 05:58:53 PM »
Quite honestly, it's not the deerskin gloves that look completely ridiculous in that picture.
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« Reply #1171 on: December 22, 2016, 06:08:20 PM »
Please do not start listing them, don't want to hear the rundown, as there are fewer things right than wrong.  Wasn't this the same dweeb that bought a nice stock bike and distressed the great paint job to make it appear hip and trendy and outfit jt with all the farkles a true hipster would have on their ride?  He deserves a good case of road rash for his insolence and attitude and arrogance.
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« Reply #1172 on: December 22, 2016, 06:23:29 PM »
Please do not start listing them, don't want to hear the rundown, as there are fewer things right than wrong.  Wasn't this the same dweeb that bought a nice stock bike and distressed the great paint job to make it appear hip and trendy and outfit jt with all the farkles a true hipster would have on their ride?  He deserves a good case of road rash for his insolence and attitude and arrogance.

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Re: 1976 CB500/550 Project
« Reply #1173 on: December 22, 2016, 06:38:37 PM »
Haha!! I love adding the suffix -ness to words. Irritates folks I work with though but that's just an added bonus. As in...right now I've got some serious elkness on my plate and it's going down.
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« Reply #1174 on: December 22, 2016, 10:53:37 PM »
Please do not start listing them, don't want to hear the rundown, as there are fewer things right than wrong.  Wasn't this the same dweeb that bought a nice stock bike and distressed the great paint job to make it appear hip and trendy and outfit jt with all the farkles a true hipster would have on their ride?  He deserves a good case of road rash for his insolence and attitude and arrogance.

Same guy who bragged of doing 80 mph in 3rd gear on his CB350F.  Same guy who took oxidized hubs and laced them to brand shiny new rims and stainless spokes.
1975 CB550K1 "Blue" Stockish Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=135005.0)
1975 CB550F1 frame/CB650 engine hybrid "The Hot Mess" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,150220.0.html)
2008 Triumph Thruxton (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,190956.0.html)
2014 MV Agusta Brutale Dragster 800
2015 Yamaha FZ-09 (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,186861.0.html)

"There are some things nobody needs in this world, and a bright-red, hunch-back, warp-speed 900cc cafe racer is one of them — but I want one anyway, and on some days I actually believe I need one.... Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba." Hunter S. Thompson, Song of the Sausage Creature, Cycle World, March 1995.  (http://www.latexnet.org/~csmith/sausage.html and https://magazine.cycleworld.com/article/1995/3/1/song-of-the-sausage-creature)

Sold/Emeritus
1973 CB750K2 "Bionic Mongrel" (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=132734.0) - Sold
1977 CB750K7 "Nine Lives" Restomod (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php?topic=50490.0) - Sold
2005 RVT1000RR RC51-SP2 "El Diablo" - Sold
2016+ Triumph Thruxton 1200 R (http://forums.sohc4.net/index.php/topic,170198.0.html) - Sold