From: dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX (The dc-cycles list administrator) To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: dc-cycles digest for 08/30/08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ __ /-----\ __ 'dc-cycles' is an unmoderated email discussion list (__\/ _____ \/__) about motorcycling in the Washington D.C. area. =( \___/ )= \ ___ / An archive of the dc-cycles list is available at: | / _ \ | http://www.dc-cycles.org/ \ || || / \|| ||/ Subscribe/unsubscribe requests should be sent to: \| |/ dc-cycles-digest-request@XXXXXX |_| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=uMKOESmpiZFdCy6OcvwA:9 a=nBMt2z7-k5INCwaOuRIPqt73LHkA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=KUJAPYlYduUA:10 From: PenguinBiker@XXXXXX To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX (B-DC cycles) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:22:41 +0000 X-Authenticated-Sender: UGVuZ3VpbkJpa2VyQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Chain Tool -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: skip > soon as we started pressing the pin, the tool broke. A closer > inspection of the pin that broke indicated that it was *seriously* > inferior metal. On my chain tool I could and have replaced the pin with a lenth of the proper size drill bit shank, much better metal. -- John W. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=MXzMYCDggtrywfOEM3sA:9 a=SutU5IImMVbmx6xuNO-hjSOQG6gA:4 a=nu8u5PpaTKsA:10 a=KUJAPYlYduUA:10 From: PenguinBiker@XXXXXX To: dc-cycles@XXXXXX (B-DC cycles) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:35:18 +0000 X-Authenticated-Sender: UGVuZ3VpbkJpa2VyQGNvbWNhc3QubmV0 Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Machine shop? -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Mike B." > P.S. I believe "heli-arc" is also known these days as "TIG" welding. Night and day my man, night and day. Heli arc is automatic wire and inert gas feed with the wire itself electrified. (It is very _very_ easy.) Tig is more like acetylene welding with the arc (and inert gas) coming from a separate handle and the wire fed in by hand like acetylene welding. (Not so easy.) -- John W. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:15:34 -0400 From: "Mike B." To: B-DC cycles Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Machine shop? PenguinBiker@XXXXXX wrote: > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Mike B." > = >> P.S. I believe "heli-arc" is also known these days as "TIG" welding. > = > = > Night and day my man, night and day. > Heli arc is automatic wire and inert gas feed with the wire itself electr= ified. (It is very _very_ easy.) > Tig is more like acetylene welding with the arc (and inert gas) coming fr= om a separate handle and the wire fed in by hand like acetylene welding. (N= ot so easy.) MIG and TIG are very different, as you say, but you have MIG and TIG = reversed with respect to Heliarc (no dash apparently). Check here: http://www.daytonamig.com/faq.htm "What is TIG Welding? TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas welding. Also = called GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) and Heliarc=AE which was Linde's = trade name for the TIG process when it was introduced many years ago." That matches what I've read in books too. MIG is the one with the wire feed (I have one of these), and TIG is, as = you say, a bit harder to do and more like O/A gas welding (with a foot = pedal thrown in to up the difficulty level...and to control the arc = current). -- Mike B. -- = '04 FLSTCI (H-D Softail Heritage Classic with EFI for the non-Harley folks) Learning from your mistakes is good. Learning from someone else's mistakes is better. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:56:35 -0400 From: "Mike B." To: B-DC cycles Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Machine shop? PenguinBiker@XXXXXX wrote: > -------------- Original message ---------------------- > From: "Mike B." > = >> P.S. I believe "heli-arc" is also known these days as "TIG" welding. > = > = > Night and day my man, night and day. > Heli arc is automatic wire and inert gas feed with the wire itself electr= ified. (It is very _very_ easy.) > Tig is more like acetylene welding with the arc (and inert gas) coming fr= om a separate handle and the wire fed in by hand like acetylene welding. (N= ot so easy.) MIG and TIG are very different, as you say, but you have MIG and TIG reversed with respect to Heliarc (no dash apparently). Check here: http://www.daytonamig.com/faq.htm "What is TIG Welding? TIG stands for Tungsten Inert Gas welding. Also called GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) and Heliarc=AE which was Linde's trade name for the TIG process when it was introduced many years ago." That matches what I've read in books too. MIG is the one with the wire feed (I have one of these), and TIG is, as you say, a bit harder to do and more like O/A gas welding (with a foot pedal thrown in to up the difficulty level...and to control the arc current). -- Mike B. -- = '04 FLSTCI (H-D Softail Heritage Classic with EFI for the non-Harley folks) Learning from your mistakes is good. Learning from someone else's mistakes is better. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 07:52:42 -0400 From: "Danny Motorcycle" To: DCCycles X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9 Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] DC Perpendicular to the curb parking ticket well since we are discussing parking tickets unrelated to parallel parking, a friend of mine works in old town, she parks at a meter. The sign reads "two hour parking" and she parks all day, but feeds the meter on time. She saw a PEO and inquired if with her if there was any problem and got ignored. The PEO ticketed her car for being over the limit, and she found hte ticket. So she wrote a letter in fighting it, saying how the PEO was rude and ignored her and the sign says 2 HR parking and not 2 HR maximum parking, and her case was won and the woman PEO (maybe LEO?) was no longer on that route. She says the woman (must be LEO) has been seen in the area directing traffic actually causing problems vs relieving it. My friend continued to park at the meter all day for a while, but eventually her knew job gave her garage parking or something. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles _ _ _ _ .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. .-.-.=\-. (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) (_)=='(_) Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:01:45 -0400 From: "Danny Motorcycle" To: "Patrick MacRoy" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.9 Cc: dc-cycles@XXXXXX Subject: Re: [dc-cycles] Parking in DC I have to wonder if this parking law was 1> because of front wheels sticking out too far, getting hit and causing accidents or 2> the reverse evolution of man, where the stupid people filter down to the less desirable jobs, and they lack common sense and stick to the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit of the law, and write tickets, not caring about wha'ts right or decent but "i'm just doing my job". If your job found some old idiotic law on the books would you enforce that too? like one of those weird laws "no eating ice cream while reading a newspaper in a parked car". I'm guessing # 2. _______________________________________________ dc-cycles mailing list dc-cycles@XXXXXX http://dc-cycles.org/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/dc-cycles