What did you do with whatever else you've got?

[fazersharp]

I will do it but I have had too much beer right now ---------- I could still do it - who know s what will happen - could be fun.

[tommyardin]

Had a stone fly up from another vehicle the other night and it broke the wing mirror indicator/blinker lamp lens, luckily it did no other damage just the plastic lens, paintwork unmarked. Mercedes wanted silly money for a replacement unit, I found a brand new Mercedes genuine part from a Mercedes dealer on eBay for £29.99, believe me that is a brilliant price I replaced the blinker light this morning, took about 1.5 hours and a bit of a faff doing it, removing the mirror glass was a bit of a problem as I did not want to end up breaking it, but good old YouTube to the rescue, its a doodle when you know how, if I ever have to do one again I will be able to do it in half the time now.


But and there is always a BUT, Merc say that the indicator is LED and if one of the LED's blow the whole unit needs to be changed (MOT Failure) the word that comes to mind is BULLSHIT. Before I fitted the new unit I thought I would connect it to a spare 12 volt motorcycle battery to ensure all LED's were working and of course they were, the funny thing was that they were working which ever polarity I connected them, LED's can only be conneted one way round to work as they are effectively a one way gate.
Anyhoo new unit fitted and all works a treat, indicator and heated mirror, Top job.

On the old broken unit I removed the non replaceable LED's only to find they are replaceable and in fact they are small orange standard type incandescent bulbs as show below where you can see the standard element inside the bulb.
MOT failure yes! replacement unit fitted by garage about £150, fit new bulb yourself 90 pence a a little time and help from YouTube.
 

[tommyardin]

Oy who called my Merc a fooking Christmas Tree with them bulbs :eek

[red98]

visiting the classic bike show in stafford yesterday has renewed my interest in restoring my suzuki gt 250 x7 , when I bought the bike many many years ago the seat lock and bracket had been cut off , so todays day off was put to good use cleaning up the frame where the old bracket was welded on , fabricating a new bracket for the new lock bought on ebay and welding it to the frame , not factory perfect but iam happy with it.....

[dazza]

Cleared out a bit of shelf space to store some homemade fruit wine.
Pear and BlackBerry  in the demijons  and bottles and 60 litres of plum in the barrel.
Got some more indoors waiting to clear and going to do another batch this week with some over ripe pears.
What with the sloe gin on the go, it's going to be a merry Xmas.   Hic

[fatbloke62]

dazza, I've also got sloe gin and sloe vodka on the go along with some blueberry vodka can't wait for xmas to get stuck in

[dazza]

I've never tried sloe gin. I hate the taste of gin and sloes just suck the juice from your mouth where they are so sharp but it will be interesting to see how it transforms. We shall see.

[tommyardin]

I've never tried sloe gin. I hate the taste of gin and sloes just suck the juice from your mouth where there are so sharp but it will be interesting to see how it transforms. We shall see.

Dazza you just gotta try slow gin, it is absolutely delicious, I have some on the go with sloes from the Isle of Wight, grown on very chalky ground, just like others in here I can hardly wait to try it.

Shhhh! Don't tell but I have already tried it and it is wonderful. :lol

[tommyardin]

visiting the classic bike show in stafford yesterday has renewed my interest in restoring my suzuki gt 250 x7 , when I bought the bike many many years ago the seat lock and bracket had been cut off , so todays day off was put to good use cleaning up the frame where the old bracket was welded on , fabricating a new bracket for the new lock bought on ebay and welding it to the frame , not factory perfect but iam happy with it.....

Well done Red looks like a sound job matey  :thumbup

[dazza]

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I've never tried sloe gin. I hate the taste of gin and sloes just suck the juice from your mouth where there are so sharp but it will be interesting to see how it transforms. We shall see.

[size=1.35em]Dazza you just gotta try slow gin, it is absolutely delicious, I have some on the go with sloes from the Isle of Wight, grown on very chalky ground, just like others in here I can hardly wait to try it. [/size]

Shhhh! Don't tell but I have already tried it and it is wonderful. :lol
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Yep, looking forward to trying it out. It just amazes me how two unpalatable things like gin and sloes can be transformed by adding sugar and a little patience.

[dazza]

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[maddog04]

polished me bike to within an inch of its life as I was taking it down for a potential part ex


got up the next day and it hammered it down all the way to the dealers.......bike was f*****g rotten when I got to the there :lol

the upside was that I discovered the dealership was wank, as was the bike I'd gone to see

[fazersharp]

Here you are - sorry for the delay, I did not forget - its just that I forgot ------------- What !
One with and one without the sticker
 

[riedrider]

Installed a rev counter and a voltmeter on the RE.



Voltage drops significantly with light switched on

[tommyardin]

Here you are - sorry for the delay, I did not forget - its just that I forgot ------------- What !
One with and one without the sticker

Cheers Sharpie, Now set as desktop wallpaper on my PC  :thumbup

[tommyardin]

Installed a rev counter and a voltmeter on the RE.



Voltage drops significantly with light switched on

Very smart, the meter pods look really good, Love the colour of the Enfield, is it the carbed or injected one? A mate has an older carb model (500 Bullet) with a Swallow Jet on the side.

[riedrider]

The pods are made of aluminum. First Intention was to use stainless steel but with my DIY possibilities it is hard to finish.
But the aluminium is stiff and stable enough. It is a fuel injected one from 2010.

[tommyardin]

The pods are made of aluminum. First Intention was to use stainless steel but with my DIY possibilities it is hard to finish.
But the aluminium is stiff and stable enough. It is a fuel injected one from 2010.

Looks good did you make the pods yourself? nice bit of turning.

[riedrider]

I made only the brackets to fit the gauges to the fork plugs. Normal mounting is with a clamp to the handle bar. But I did not like that.
Here are the gauges:
https://www.mmb-messtechnik.de/index.php...85&lang=en
And here is a picture of the standard brackets and my cardboard templates:

[tommyardin]

Well worth the effort of make the brackets, they looks really sharp either side of the headlamp shell, neat job  :thumbup