The rehabilitation of Sir Gustave Sabastian (‘Gus’)

[advNZer?]

Originally Posted by Padmei

Yes well as you my remember this electrician went thru many nites of non sleep working out the resistance for mine. parallel values, series values, distortion & harmonics, salami & feta - there was no end to it.

there obviously was...you talimg past tense

[Box'a'bits]

Originally Posted by advNZer?

there obviously was...you talk in past tense

Basically he gave up & threw the baby out with the bathwater. He went all KLR on us with his switchgear (because he had some), stripped a huge amount of now surplus wiring out, & used a much simpler flasher unit.

[Padmei]

Originally Posted by Box'a'bits

Basically he gave up & threw the baby out with the bathwater. He went all KLR on us with his switchgear (because he had some), stripped a huge amount of now surplus wiring out, & used a much simpler flasher unit.

That pretty much sums it up. I never liked the BMW indicator switches either. I'm not great fan of the peripheral BMW wiring - pretty much overkill for such a basic bike.
It's a similar story how things get changed on my bike. I ended up replacing the brake lever & master cylinder, throttle & starter switch etc cos the original master cylinder was weeping & the replacement piston etc that 'may' have fixed it was pretty expensive. Once again I used some KLR parts hanging around.
I'm thinking of replacing one of the cylinders with a spare 650 barrel I have lying around. Just gotta get the grinder out to cut some cooling fins unless I can use a stock oil cooler as a radiator for it.
It'll be a Schmidtenrock 1050

Heyyyy i think I have a spare KLr side stand lying around - that may solve my missing LHS crash bar problem.

[Box'a'bits]

This morning I went across to Ocean Beach again with EddieB. I'll let the photos do the talking

[Dino3310]

Nice one mate, nice photos.
Good to see EddieB back in the game

[Mark_S]

aaaaahhhhhhhh.......

that feels better

so what exactly where you planning for the air head ride?

[Box'a'bits]

Originally Posted by Mark_S

So what exactly where you planning for the air head ride?

I feel deeply honoured that you have dumped your load (1000th post) in the Gus thread.

Depends on who goes. Any way it runs I'll be leaving Friday, & have leave until Anzac day (Wed).

If no one else goes with me I'll take the camping gear, & I may catch up with Clint & Rosie Friday night (cutting across Waipunga - assuming that Clint has adequate directions).

Otherwise it depends on who wants to go. Got to get the Motu, East Cape, Waikaremoana in there somewhere.

I thought your other Demon Spawn was back from Dunedin that weekend...

[guzzitony]

wow, lucky i didn't know you were going to ocean beach as i wouldn't have been able to paint the front and rear steps/ ten foot of wall and redo some other weather boards............doh.

did some one else say they were doing their house up too?

[Kokopelli]

All I'll say is that Ocean beach should be up here....

[Box'a'bits]

I have committed to painting the house for the last 5 years. I recently noticed the bits I started on are starting to deteriorate again. I have made limited progress because I am easily distracted when it comes time to doing this stuff. If I leave it any longer I may have to ...gasp... pay someone to do it. Boo hiss.

[Eddieb]

Originally Posted by guzzitony

wow, lucky i didn't know you were going to ocean beach as i wouldn't have been able to paint the front and rear steps/ ten foot of wall and redo some other weather boards............doh.

did some one else say they were doing their house up too?

Yeah me too, had double cover plates installed on the corners today. Ran some cat 5 wiring up through the floor and picked up some ball valves over the weekend, plus stripped out some old unneeded aerial cable.

[advNZer?]

bloody nice pics too mate

[gsd4me]

Originally Posted by Box'a'bits

Top photo.

[Padmei]

Originally Posted by Eddieb

Yeah me too, had double cover plates installed on the corners today. Ran some cat 5 wiring up through the floor and picked up some ball valves over the weekend, plus stripped out some old unneeded aerial cable.

Oh stop talking dirty you silver tounged devil.

Good pics Nutso. You get a G10?

[Box'a'bits]

Originally Posted by Padmei

Good pics Nutso. You get a G10?

No not yet, but am being sorely tempted...