Saturday, November 7, 2020

Evie: Semi Permanent Setup

Wanted to add a kill switch to Evie for easy startup.  Got the spare handlebar switch, which had tested fine, hooked up only to find I'd screwed it on off kilter and had actually ended up melting the contacts.

So ended up just hooking it up to the big box switch.

Ran and fired up nicely.  So now she's at least got a nice semi-permanent fuel and switch setup for garage starts.

 




 

Tuesday, November 3, 2020

Red: New Breather Valve!

Made up a new breather valve for Red so I wouldn't have to keep swapping Roxy's back and forth.

Drilled a pilot hole, then went in with the step bit.

Was kind of winging the whole thing given how I wasn't quite sure how the whole thing was even going to play out with the nozzle.  But after drilling the hole out to the step bit's maximum diameter, I found that the threads of the nozzle were perfectly snug in the hole.

With some force, was able to get the nozzle to bite into the valve and then just secured it with a few turns.  

Only thing was that the nozzle ended up being a bit skewed (not perfectly straight up and down).  But good result for being almost an accidental success.