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Offline gregwaits

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Venting
« on: May 13, 2007, 03:59:47 PM »
A few months ago I started to take parts of the CB500 in order to rebuild it (my first attempt). And now that I need the wiring harness, regulator, rectifier, speedo and tach, they are nowhere to be found. I am so pissed off at myself. I have looked everywhere! Grrrrr, I hate it when #$%* like this happens.

The sad thing is, all that gear was in good shape too. I just know that when I get the bike finished (and having to buy these aforementioned parts), the parts will show up. That's my luck! Sometimes I feel jinxed!

Tell me I am not the only one who has misplaced removed parts.
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Re: Venting
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2007, 04:04:58 PM »
Your not the only one, I misplaced the long engine mounting bolts and the two spacers.  Found them 2 weeks later.

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« Reply #2 on: May 13, 2007, 04:05:10 PM »
have another look around...surely those parts do not just disappear into thin air.............

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Re: Venting
« Reply #3 on: May 13, 2007, 04:14:18 PM »
Lost a whole rack of carbs for 6 months, and mind
you I have 1 car garage!!
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Re: Venting
« Reply #4 on: May 13, 2007, 05:24:34 PM »
Unfortunatelly, I always find mine after I buy replacements. :'( :'(
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Re: Venting
« Reply #5 on: May 13, 2007, 05:27:23 PM »
Lost a whole rack of carbs for 6 months, and mind
you I have 1 car garage!!

Did you check in the Hair ;)

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Re: Venting
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2007, 05:45:58 PM »
;D
I spent 2 hours yesterday looking for 4 triple tree ball bearings from the 185 I'm working on. Found 3 and ran out of patience.
Went to a Buddy's who has a 650 parts bike in the yard and reefed off the triples.......someone had replaced with tapered bearings! Fu&%!!!!   Back to the house. Last look was under the foam the dog sleeps on in the shop....imagine my surprise when I spot a shinny ball bearing!......... Ha! triple trees installed.

Today I went to put on the front signals. I was using a pair of aftermarket triumph sigs from my 750 and one of the nuts was missing.  This is the last thing I need to put all the wires back in the bucket and no where to be found. Went to another friends shop and got the matching nut.   ;D

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Re: Venting
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2007, 06:26:48 PM »
hey seaweb,

I spent about two or three hours searching for those same ball bearings from my 750f, when I loosened up the steering the little "Ba$%^^&*ds" fell all over a dirty concrete floor...well I swept up a few times, and did not find them all ( I was missing about 5 or 6) so I taped a magnet onto a broom head and waved it over the floor for an hour, and found another three.....never found the rest...when I took the trees off the races were that notchy I had to replace with tapered bearings any way,,, thats when I said "FU$%IT"....

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Re: Venting
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2007, 07:39:01 PM »
Tell me I am not the only one who has misplaced removed parts.

You're not the only one.  I'm actually very good at putting things where they won't get lost, and then not being able find them when I need them 'cause I forgot where that safe place was.  Usually while searching, I'll rediscover all the those safe places for other things I hadn't been able to locate when I wanted them and mentally note their position.  Then, of course, I lose the mental notes as there doesn't seem to be any safe place for those.

But, I never lose parts.  I find, they're in the garage, or the shed, the workshop, or maybe the other garage, or other workshop...somewhere.

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Re: Venting
« Reply #9 on: May 13, 2007, 08:17:32 PM »
The thing I hate even more is when your brain will not let you stop looking for something you lost years ago.  I lost a roll of film 35  years ago and I swear every time I find a roll of film my brain says "AH HA here it is" and it's not.  I know everyone out there is secretly looking for something they lost long ago.  Of course Viraga has help some of you all find it. HAHA
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« Reply #10 on: May 13, 2007, 08:32:26 PM »
The thing I hate is when your wife thinks it's trash and throws it away >:(
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« Reply #11 on: May 13, 2007, 09:55:39 PM »
I can't even begin to count the amount of times that I have misplaced parts (some never to be seen again).  Also I have a problem with enjoying working on my back deck when cleaning/polishing/painting parts and all I can say is that if it wasnt for my old cheap metal detector, most of the parts that fell out of my hand and throught the boards in my deck would still be down there. 
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« Reply #12 on: May 14, 2007, 03:23:38 AM »
The thing I hate is when your wife thinks it's trash and throws it away >:(

  Had a girlfriend a while ago, Chronic house cleaner.No exaggeration she was so bad, if I was working in the garage, and came in and fixed a cup of coffee, set it on the table, walked back out to the garage because I forgot my smokes on the workbench, by the time I got back in the house that cup would be dumped out, washed dried and put away.
 
 There's one thing I've always wondered about, she and I were at Meijers (supermarket) and we bought a lottery ticket, a few days later we're there and they have a sign up saying they'd sold the winning ticket for that weeks lotto. When we got home I thought I'd check out the ticket numbers, started looking, never found it, and for a year the ticket sold at that meijers was on the michigan lottery sites top unclaimed prize list then it expired and they didn't list it any more. Still wonder about that ten years later whenever I have to come up with an unexpected grand or so.

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Re: Venting
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2007, 07:09:48 PM »
Let me get this straight, you HAD a girlfriend, you may have purchaced a winning lotto ticket, but could not find it, Now no tickit no girlfriend.  HUMMMMMM.
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Re: Venting
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2007, 07:18:57 PM »
;D ;D Again today with trying to get the exhaust back on the 185.....where are those bolt flanges..... another 1 1/2 hours I will never get back.  There on now. ;D

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Re: Venting
« Reply #15 on: May 17, 2007, 07:54:01 PM »
Big white board on the shop/shed/garage wall. Take part off bike. Baggie/bin/box it. Write on white board where you will put said baggie/bin/box. Put part where you wrote you would put it.

The last part is the most important part, so no distractions!! ::) ::)
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Re: Venting
« Reply #16 on: May 17, 2007, 07:54:36 PM »
Let me get this straight, you HAD a girlfriend, you may have purchaced a winning lotto ticket, but could not find it, Now no tickit no girlfriend.  HUMMMMMM.

  Actually she's an ex-girlfriend because of a mint condition '67 cougar.

 this cougar was sweet, every option you could get, throw-away steering wheel, swivel leather buckets  (shut the key off, put it in park, open the door and the steering wheel slipped over to the middle of the dash, and the seat spun around so you were facing out the door)  289 4v, auto, posi, an all original first year cougar with the sequential tail lights, and all the goodies, very sweet car no rust dents or scratches, perfect paint. it was an investment that I picked up very cheap, and had turned down people waving up to $5000 in my face trying to get me to sell it.
 
 Anyway a few of the guys got together and planned a 3 day fishing trip, and she wanted to go, I told her none of the other guys were bringing thier girls because Cal had just got a divorce and it was to help him over it, so there was no way I was bringing a girlfriend, (she took it personal)  we went had a good time drank a lot of beer, and caught a lot of fish,
  long story short, when I got home the cougar wasn't in the garage, took a day but she finally told me she'd signed my name on the title and sold it to rabbit river junk yard, for $75. grabbed her, jumped in the truck went to rabbit river,  pretty much the only thing left of that car was the floorboard and firewall.
 
 That's why she's an ex. I'm not a money freak, it's nice to have, but not the end point to existance.

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Re: Venting
« Reply #17 on: May 17, 2007, 08:29:33 PM »
long story short, when I got home the cougar wasn't in the garage, took a day but she finally told me she'd signed my name on the title and sold it to rabbit river junk yard, for $75. grabbed her, jumped in the truck went to rabbit river,  pretty much the only thing left of that car was the floorboard and firewall.

That's the saddest story I've heard in a long time. Please don't tell us that she actually thought that behaviour was acceptable and that you would love her all the more.......

If it was me (yes, even big ol' softy me) she would have ended up going for a swim in Rabbit River.
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Re: Venting
« Reply #18 on: May 17, 2007, 09:31:41 PM »

  I've learned to never try to understand why a woman does anything, about the only thing men are capable of understanding is why they sit to pee.

 With me, things are over and done shortly after they happen, I'm totally willing to forget about stupid crap.

 With her, the first thing she thinks about is vengeance, and forgive and forget is a title to some movie she never could understand.
  She was sweet 98% of the time, but that last 2% cancelled out everything else.

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« Reply #19 on: May 17, 2007, 10:25:21 PM »


If it was me (yes, even big ol' softy me) she would have ended up going for a swim in Rabbit River.
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with a dirty great big fcuk off lead weight, very tightley fastened around her neck  >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(

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« Reply #20 on: May 17, 2007, 10:39:25 PM »
That is so wrong.........in so may ways............

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« Reply #21 on: May 17, 2007, 10:52:17 PM »
Derek, if I told you what my wife did to me, you would have me shot for not commiting suicide. ;D

That's why I have lived on my own for 25 years.

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« Reply #22 on: May 18, 2007, 12:31:11 AM »
No...Sam. IT WAS what she did that was so wrong....Not your solution ;D

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Re: Venting
« Reply #23 on: May 18, 2007, 07:33:39 AM »

           I have that problem of not being able to find parts that I put up too. ::)  It's gets especially bad when I put things in a special place so that they won't get lost and then "Bingo", I can't find then (unless I start looking for something else). I misplaced a Snap-On hand impact once. Couldn't find it for anything! I looked everywhere at least 3 or 4 times. Finally went to Sears and bought a replacement. Came home and within a couple of hours, I found it! ::) Fortunately I hadn't used the Sears one yet, so I put it away for a Christmas present for my Dad. ;D Nice save, don't ya  think?  ???   

         Ken,
            I try to get over things too and not hold on to bad feelings and such but, that one would be hard to let go of. :(  I have to agree with Nick, that gal would have gone swimming. >:(  Some things might not hit so hard but a bike or a classic car like that, whoa! >:(  I know I'm a Mopar fan but, always thought those Cougars were sharp. ;) Too bad about the car. :-\ You're better at getting past things than I am. ;)
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« Reply #24 on: May 18, 2007, 10:31:14 AM »
this thread makes me feel a whole lot better.
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