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Post by Jet⚡Black on Oct 9, 2012 18:04:52 GMT -6
I dusted off Internet Explorer to see what you guys are talking about, since I run Comodo Dragon which is built on top of Chrome. It auto adjusts to any pages style sheets etc. with text and photo...so all pages appear fine to me. The photo size is 800x600, which is a large format web photo but should fit fine in all browsers. I wish all the major browsers would get their act together, or at least agree on a universal HTML style sheet. Its a pain to design a website around at least 5 browsers, but user friendliness demands it. I'm not going to switch to IE, that's out of the question...but I will be happy to drop the image size down from now on for those that do use it. TIP: Pressing ctrl and + or - increases or decreases the size of web pages if needed and ctrl and 0 resets to original.
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Post by mradam on Oct 10, 2012 9:49:59 GMT -6
it works now, if you just do a return after each pic, it generally makes everyone happy.
I agree that IE is a terrible program and Bing is a joke, i use Waterfox, a firefox variant and it still did not display right.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Oct 11, 2012 15:52:20 GMT -6
I decided to go into my photo hosting account and re-size every single photo, the exact same size...so hopefully the thread looks good and works for everyone now. I also added a picture of the day I brought; the beast home on the first page...sorta forgot to add that one. Finally got most finishing parts in, just waiting on exhaust seals and fork seals; I figured I better just go ahead and do the forks anyway, to be safe. Did some more work, I have to take photos and re size so perhaps a picture update tomorrow. Too tired right now, I just want a shower and food Adam there's a version of Firefox called Comodo IceDragon, I dunno how Water is working for you; but if you like firefox... I'm not a fan just because the two times I used to and finally got it all customized it kept crashing out...so I gave up on it. Tried a few others; like Opera etc; liked Chrome, but not the spying they do on you, so I found Comodo built off of Chrome without the bloat and spying, going on 3 years and I'm happy with it...every page loads in less than a second on my wireless laptop...except large java game sites.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Oct 12, 2012 22:41:36 GMT -6
I figured I'd save the last photos for a final reveal post; because it gives too much away and won't end with a bang...but I said I'd up some photos so here is another solution to a common problem tutorial. If you've ever taken the exhaust pipes apart; you know that can be difficult, without half destroying them...and getting them back together usually, makes people just cut them off before the cross pipe. I was sitting around; putting mental muscle to work to make it easier, and here's what a came up with... So you use a ratcheting tie down strap; clamp it tight at the cross pipe. Get a rubber mallet or put something soft between a regular hammer to save the pipe, and give it some taps...then tighten strap tap tap, until... It's together. No wrestling, no frustration, easy peasy, in less than 2 minutes...from strap securing to done. p.s. don't forget to put the cross pipe clamp on first.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Oct 13, 2012 23:28:43 GMT -6
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Post by wanchesenative on Oct 14, 2012 15:21:46 GMT -6
Hard to believe that's the same bike. Looking good brotha.
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Post by mradam on Oct 15, 2012 15:58:17 GMT -6
hard to believe it is a 454 LOL, she has style.
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Post by zekkfett on Oct 20, 2012 18:12:24 GMT -6
I dusted off Internet Explorer.... I laughed my @$$ off at that! I wish all the major browsers would get their act together, or at least agree on a universal HTML style sheet. Its a pain to design a website around at least 5 browsers, but user friendliness demands it. Since I'm in the IT and HTML business, I WHOLEheartedly agree/believe that... I'm not going to switch to IE, that's out of the question... I completely agree with that. IE is JUNK. Period. Plain and Simple. It's a shame some users don't even know about any other browsers..... If IE wasn't required to update Windows, it would have been off my desktops YEARS ago. But then again, if more developers supported Ubuntu, that would be my primary OS. It's a shame we can't access the 454 Manual without using IE....
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Post by zekkfett on Oct 20, 2012 18:15:24 GMT -6
Jetblack, nice lookin ride.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Oct 21, 2012 0:44:26 GMT -6
Thanks guys; with measurements and tracking down parts, it basically becomes just a bolt on project...I have an extra triple tree; out of bad measurement, but I might use it on a future build project so no loss.
The new triple is off of a EN500 and not only does it fit our little 39mm forks; it takes a one inch bar too...you have no idea how much that rocked to find out, reaming can be a real pain.
I'm stalled out and burned out...I'm stalled on whether I should go internal and dump the controls; the bars are slammed full when everything is mated up. They just get lost with all the junk, when I like to see the shape. So I'm changing that stuff out to clean the bars...pushing my finish date back further.
I also have been too physically and mentally spent, to build lately. I just walk into the shop to try and do something and am like uggh, then turn around and walk back out.
On a side note; I found a much easier way to do the fork seals...
Drain the oil lift up both dust shields remove dust seal retainer rings grab a compressor or tire pump and start pumping...at around 100 PSI the old seals will blow themselves out of the forks.
Zekkfett, speaking of burned out; I was going to college for computer engineering when Windows first came out, 45 minutes to load, hogged the whole hard drive, and strained the 66k state of the art memory at the time...and it was just graphics on top of DOS commands.
I was like can't say that! is this junk? It made the degree I was about to get virtually useless...It was so irritating I dropped out with one class left, and went into construction as an assistant project manager. After spending all those years fascinated and studying computers, learning basic and writing programs...I got burnt out on them thanks to Windows...it just turned into a big giant slow mess I didn't want to deal with, I mean you could write a shell program to execute programs and have them running in 3 seconds.
It was retarded here it is over 20 years later; and computer speed has finally caught back up...haha. I'm not a fan of Linux, it's ok but any of the really good builds have to be paid for or pirated. I've looked into BSD as an OS option...the biggest downfall they have as you know is driver, display, flash and java issues...everyone writes for either MS or Apple products.
My GF has a Chromebook that has a stripped down Linux OS through her job, and it is the biggest hunk of junk. Google was/is in litigation with Sun so they don't support Java at all...and it has either no Delete or Backspace button, I can't remember which but it's annoying, and it isn't hers so she can't mod it...so everything has to be cloud based.
I told her I'd put windows 7 portable on a 1TB sdxc jump card, if she wanted to have more flexibility and her own portable computer to plug into any computer...but she just scratched her head, not knowing what I was talking about; one of those things I'd just have to do; and show her so she'd grasp the concept.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 7, 2012 15:32:07 GMT -6
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Post by eaglerider on Nov 7, 2012 17:06:48 GMT -6
;)Weeeeell....the yellow seat is more "streamlined"... kinda makes the "topside" look a little skinny, to me. Might look better "molded-in" as you said......but, ya know, that larger seat looks so much more comfy...and being an "ole guy", I'm startin to appreciate "comfy" a lot more. LOL ;D
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Post by wanchesenative on Nov 7, 2012 21:10:07 GMT -6
I agree with Eagle. I think I like the bigger seat. Of course, I weigh 300 pounds and I want as much comfort as I can get. But I also have a buddy who has a similar seat on his custom chopper and it looks real good. He did what you are talking about (I think) with molding the tank to rear fender encapsulating the seat to give it a "complete" look. Either one will look good, but personally, the little one is a lot of work.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 7, 2012 21:40:53 GMT -6
I had the same thoughts when I bought the first one; I weigh about 211 on a good bowel moving day...silliness aside though; the black seat looks comfy and is when my feet are on the pegs, but it is stock foam and really wide at the front...which puts my hip bone thigh connection in a lot of stress; I have bad lower back and sciatic nerve pain and the way it feels feet off the pegs is far from comfortable. Even though captain sparkle, is thin and doesn't look padded; it is more comfortable in every way. It's thin in the front, lowers seat height by about 2 more inches making my feet superbly planted; and it's made from a a really high quality closed cell medium/high density sculpted memory foam; same as the orthopedic kind used in wheel chairs. I've spent a lot of time looking at it and getting used to it, glassing in the tank and rear fender isn't all that bad a job; i'll write up a tut here on the process when I do it. I had my doubts when I pulled it out of the box; and set it up in various mock positions; but sitting on it changed all of the doubts. Especially knowing; it's only going to get even better, when things are molded for it to fit like it was made for the bike. Thanks for the input guys; even though it may not seem like I take suggestion well that I ask for, I really do appreciate any and all input no matter what it is...I rarely ask but when I do; it's a sounding board to solidify or cancel certain issues or doubts I have about whatever that may be...thanks
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Post by wanchesenative on Nov 8, 2012 22:37:55 GMT -6
It's all good. Whatever fits YOU is what should be on the bike.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 10, 2012 1:47:33 GMT -6
Yep, always. My computer went down. It's seems like every other update; windows crashes something; else out, and for some reason the video card company Nvida, makes a shadow user account on Windows machines; that makes it super vulnerable to attacks...which unfortunately, despite me encrypting my whole hard drive; got hacked. Usually, hackers don't bother go so far as locking out DOS...so it's easy to undo their damage, and recover without backing up all your stuff, and doing a clean install. Apparently; whomever attacked my machine, wanted to test their hacker skills, used Nvida's hidden profile as a back door; managed to crack my encryption, create another admin account; using Nvida's access and then shut my profile out; and then backwards encrypt it on me go one further, and lock my file system; to see if I could undo it I guess...as some dumb game. Well, they will be happy to know I did. I also back tracked their IP spoof, through several proxies and injected some fun and bombs on them...so P.S. to the hacker; good luck with that. So anyway's; now that things are back up with minimal damage(they did delete my cycle folders...the only thing I couldn't recover) before locking the folders up. I will be working on the seat molding process soon, I have a few more parts coming in...so I can get to work on the electrical and tie that up...and also a gas gauge experiment to come soon also. I'm not going to be finished as soon as I wanted to be; but I see the end of it coming soon. ;D
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Post by eaglerider on Nov 10, 2012 6:37:33 GMT -6
Some people just seem to thrive on causing other people pain, suffering, and misery...sorry that happened to you. At least you have the skills to correct it.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 10, 2012 9:16:01 GMT -6
No worries Eagle; a ticked off a small hacker group several years ago, they wanted me to join into their black hatting and I gave them ridicule instead. Apparently, it's not a good idea to suggest that, if they put even half the energy they do into; cracking an hacking systems into something actually legit and worth while...they'd have it made.
So when they get a new recruit; their process of getting jumped into the group is to track me down, and bomb my system...just to see if their personal system can evade my retaliation. If they can't dodge my attack back; I don't think they make it in.
But since, I've gotten lazy and don't sew everything up tight after Windows and driver updates; I become vulnerable. It would be nice if they got the message; that I don't care. The last few attacks, I just ignored and fresh installed; and stitched up the system to keep mid level hackers out...the better ones usually have larger fish to fry than bothering with me. But deleting my Cycle folder into any unrecoverable status, with magnetic read/write pulses to bad sector that spot on my drive?...That was a low blow.
I know some random hackers have previously wiped out this site; and that really irritates me...Eagle if you'd like, I can see if it has vulnerabilities so it doesn't happen again, and notify you of them. But it will be up to GWK to fix what I find...
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Post by eaglerider on Nov 10, 2012 20:45:32 GMT -6
I know GWK has had some pretty strong "shields" installed, don't know what measures he has in effect now. I might just holler at him and see what he says, Thanks.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 13, 2012 4:56:21 GMT -6
If he's confident with them no worries Too much off topic sorry everyone; ok lets get back to building...Finally got the last piece of electrical in so I can knock out the wiring ;D Valve stem caps; stock are pretty ugly so customize? Of course... Binkers S.C. doesn't require them; but other states do so the best way to avoid hassle when touring, is to put some on... Remember the last piece of electrical I mentioned? You just saw it; the Indian guide light. It works too... You know the headlight, well can't recall if I mentioned it...but I had two. In earlier pictures, the light was just in a mock up; until I figured out what I wanted to do. So here they are in final form. I suppose you noticed the bracket for the bottom light; it is where my touring crap is going to be mounted: Tent etc., when not touring a tool carrier will be mounted there. And finally, a step back to take it all in.
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Post by Blaine on Nov 13, 2012 6:51:53 GMT -6
Awesome job,Jet.Looks awesome!!
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Post by eaglerider on Nov 13, 2012 8:12:24 GMT -6
;D Whooweee.....like it! the dual headlight setup reminds me of those that the 60 & 70s choppers sometimes used. I had a set on my buke for awhile.......until they were demolished in a wreck with a chevy suburban.
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 13, 2012 19:34:00 GMT -6
Thanks fella's, I took elements I liked from a lot of different little things, and randomly figured out some others, to fit what I wanted, I am glad you're still with us Eagle, a Suburban is like a metal wall in your path not good, add the 40 kids that could fit into that thing; and a distracted mom on a cell phone...and it's a nightmare to even think about. One piece beats losing some replaceable lights etc. Not a whole lot left, wire things up, mold the seat, recheck all the bolts, a little touch up for anything little over looked...that reminds me; I need to put a choke on it , and then fire the starter button and see what happens.
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Post by zekkfett on Nov 15, 2012 13:03:58 GMT -6
My computer went down. It's seems like every other update; windows crashes something; else out, and for some reason the video card company Nvida, makes a shadow user account on Windows machines; that makes it super vulnerable to attacks...which unfortunately, despite me encrypting my whole hard drive; got hacked. Usually, hackers don't bother go so far as locking out DOS...so it's easy to undo their damage, and recover without backing up all your stuff, and doing a clean install. Apparently; whomever attacked my machine, wanted to test their hacker skills, used Nvida's hidden profile as a back door; managed to crack my encryption, create another admin account; using Nvida's access and then shut my profile out; and then backwards encrypt it on me go one further, and lock my file system; to see if I could undo it I guess...as some dumb game. Well, they will be happy to know I did. I also back tracked their IP spoof, through several proxies and injected some fun and bombs on them...so P.S. to the hacker; good luck with that. Sorry to hear about that... Just another reason I don't like Nvidia's products. I'm an ATI/AMD man myself. IMO, Nvidia is H.D. and ATI/AMD is Honda. Why would you ever buy anything but Honda?? Nvidia (& Intel) is WAY overpriced for the level of performance you ACTUALLY get, but that's just my opinion. You might wanna check into Cloning, if you don't already do it. Buy yourself the exact same size external hard drive that you have in your computer, then get a program called Casper. Casper makes an EXACT working, bootable copy (Clone) of your hard drive. You should clone your drive at least once a week, then completely disconnect the external drive when you are not using it. (Power and USB/SATA/Firewire Cables) This will save from data being erased, overwritten, or from a power surge. Working in IT, I'd recommend cloning only once a week, but be sure your computer is running in tip-top shape before cloning (Defrag, Virus and Malware scan, etc.). If you clone more often, you take the chance of making a clone of a trojan, or virus, then you'd really be SOL. Cloning has saved me MANY times, HIGHLY recommended. What I do, is I will clone my hard drive, then make a second clone. The first clone gets updated once a week, then the second gets updated about once a month. That way if one clone happens to catch a virus, the other you should still be able to work from. Losing a month's worth of work is better than completely losing everything. Casper is recommended over all other cloning programs because it make an EXACT and bootable copy, most other Cloning software only makes a backup that you have to reinstall windows and manually restore. Also, most cloning programs will not allow you to boot directly from your clone. If you use Casper, and something happens to your main hard drive; all you do is plug in your external drive, boot from it, then clone from the external backup, back to your internal hard drive and you're set. If correctly done, it literally can take 15 minutes to be back up and running. Casper also performs best when hard drive sizes are matched up (750GB internal, 750GB external), it will work with other sized drives, but you will have to manually set up partition sizes on your Clone drive. If you have a 750GB internal drive that only has 210GB of data, you CAN clone to a 250GB drive. It really is fantastic software, and WELL worth the cost. As a note, Casper works with multi-boot systems, (My computer is dual boot Windows XP and Windows 7. Will NOT work with a stand-alone version of Ubuntu/Linux, but if you install Ubuntu from within Windows, it WILL work that way). Another tip, for probably everyone here. Don't EVER let Windows update your graphics drivers. If your drivers need updating, manually download the newest drivers from ATI/AMD or Nvidia, uninstall the old drivers. Restart; once restarted, install new drivers, then restart again. Should be peachy after that. If you allow Windows to update you graphics drivers, it will install files from the new drivers right beside files from the old drivers (Which are not compatible with one another), and you will have nothing but issues with it. Jetblack, PM me with your email address and I can send you a little "present".
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 15, 2012 18:49:23 GMT -6
Zekk, I'm going to PM you. I don't really want to any clues to how my current system is set up; on an public view forum. But it is tighter than a deer tick on a hound dog
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 18, 2012 15:43:21 GMT -6
For those that like to know what is going on with their bikes; such as coolant temp, oil temp etc. probably the most desired gauge not present on many bikes is the fuel gauge... There are some ways to get around not having one; some as simple as keeping an eye on the mileage, and some a bit more complex such as welding tank bungs with a tube between them. To the simplest waiting until you get a sputter, and then using the reserve tank to get to the nearest gas station. So; the point of this update; is yet another option. I sat down and thought about it, walked around thought about it, thought about it while I was working on other things. Then I recalled a Sears tractor I used for chores when I was younger...it had a fuel gauge in the gas cap, with a cork, that slid up and down a narrow strip of metal, showing the level of gas on needle based on the cork position. When I was little I found things like this awesome; and wondered how everything worked, I got into a lot of trouble taking things apart. So I learned to take things apart, figure it out then put them back together and leave no trace. I figured the ol sliding cork technology must still be around; so I started looking. I found plenty of gas caps; like the one I remembered. I also found one specifically designed for motorcycles...of course those are an option if you feel like spending 100 bucks or more on a gas cap. I couldn't justify that; so I kept looking. What I found belongs to the 4x4 world; specifically a Honda four wheeler. I picked it up for 8 bucks buy it now, w/free shipping. I made a 1inch diameter hole in the tank Here's the gauge; I trimmed it down flattened and retwisted the spline to go from F to E with the new height. If anyone else decides to do this mod; you don't have to shorten the gauge like I did; just drill the hole higher up on the tank. I wanted my gauge to hit empty at the same height as my reserve tank needs to be switched; that's why I re-fabricated mine shorter. In place with the bracket ready to be fastened down to complete the seal. From a distance More updates coming soon..
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Post by Blaine on Nov 18, 2012 18:04:09 GMT -6
That's a great idea.I just might borrow that!!!!!! ;D
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 20, 2012 1:41:17 GMT -6
Feel free, I'm still bouncing ideas on how to fasten it down and keep it serviceable; and leak free at the same time...there's not much that can go wrong with it, So I might just spot weld the holes to the tank. Instead of put more holes in it...less to possibly leak that way; but concerned the weld may melt the plastic. So still brain storming it.
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Post by Blaine on Nov 20, 2012 6:54:10 GMT -6
Feel free, I'm still bouncing ideas on how to fasten it down and keep it serviceable; and leak free at the same time...there's not much that can go wrong with it, So I might just spot weld the holes to the tank. Instead of put more holes in it...less to possibly leak that way; but concerned the weld may melt the plastic. So still brain storming it. What about epoxy weld???
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Post by Jet⚡Black on Nov 20, 2012 9:55:47 GMT -6
That's the other possibility that's been on my mind; for some reason JB weld has failed me the last couple of times I've used it for projects, and quicksteel crumbled the one time I used it. I believe I am going to try Marine Tex; it's a general boating epoxy, I used it on a surf board once and it was great stuff and fuel resistant too. I believe if I prep the area, mix some of that up apply, then tap through with sheet metal bolts as a leave in clamp during and after it cures, it won't go anywhere. It won't be serviceable but it's just a plastic cork sliding on a metal strip...The one on the tractor I used as a kid is still going strong 30 years later.
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