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I used Q20 last winter and although expensive, I think it was the dogs dangly bits! I know I've posted this before but just check out this sales video!!!....... although don't try it at home!

Glad to have been of service.

OR If you go to ebay and type in microfiche scanner there is a service there which can convert you fiches to CD, won't be free ok course! Done my bit!

Yes the ol USB microscope is amazing, you can see all sorts of things close up and on the big screen, not expensive under £20 a few years ago. Also got a USB Endoscope which you can put under the floorboards to see where things are prior to lifting the boards, plus comes in handy checking in accesible parts on the bikes and cars!

http://howtoscan.ca/natural-negative-scan.html I've played around with my scanner settings this morning but the maximum I can get is 1200dpi whereas the link above shows his software capable of up to 4000dpi. I tried at 300,600, and 1200 and each scan it got better and better with more detail but i can't go any higher. I'm sure if you can you would solve your problem.

There is a couple of ways which may help. You could try scanning the microfiche with your PC scanner I found my DTMX microfiche and did this with my canon MP610 (Printer/Scanner all in one) its quite old now, but it has the ability to scan at 1200 dpi, more modern scanners can probably do better, i cropped the scan, I know you cant read it but its nearly there, Like i say a newer scanner might do better. Alternatively, you could try a usb microscope,....................... good old ebay! here it is on my DTMX microfiche and the result below filled the screen it was in focus before I pressed the capture button!! Plus a closer pic held about a 1mm above the fiche. This picture below filled the entire screen in this clarity If you go down this route it took me half an hour just to produce one photo!! too bloody fiddly! but it worked.

I do recall a few years ago having been cut up, pulling along side someone (possibly in a BMW!) and politlely saying: "Excuse me, mate, your indicators don't work" He duly, flicked the stalk up and on went the indicator tell-tale on the dash, saying ...yeah they do! " Well FUCKING use them!!!" was my reply. As i drove off into the distance!!! TWAT!

I might be pissing in the wind here, but as they say its far better to be on the train pissing out, than it is to be on the platform trying to piss in! Fortunately the number of yamahas upto 1967 was finite!, there's not a lot of choice. U prefix may have been the U5 scooter 1966 to 1968 or yamaha Newport 80cc Available in the US. This shows a nicely restored blue one in the USA http://www.flickr.co...in/photostream/ These video shows a close up of the engine casing number on this 1967 model as something then 26 and numbers not disimilar to 26-four numbers. if the bike was wrecked the engine casing may have been where they got the number from??

I had a quick look on ebay-uk folks and DT's PERMATEX is readily available here in black as he suggests. No DT, I got a feeling I didn't, I know I was thinking about it, but for whatever reason I never did, paid for it in the end as it's leaked oil in the same place for years, just a dribble but more recently on a long run it gave up the ghost and started pissing out! which is where "blown a gasket" comes from!!! Not something i'm going to miss doing this time though! Initially I'm going to reuse the old rocker cover gasket, then after a few miles re-torque the head and then replace the old gasket with the new one.

I did a search through the forum, nobody seems to have asked this question before, or if they did, they put it in title with a cryptic heading like "help" or "question" or "need help" that sort of thing, I must confess these simple titles get my goat up!!! why can't they be more concise? Anyway back to the question in hand......... I'm just in the process of doing an engine rebulid on my Honda CB400/4 , I did the DTMX 175 last year!! The base gasket has leaked oil for some years, in fact shortly after i rebuilt the engine a few years ago it started...but recently its got worse and enoughs enough! i decided its time to fix it, so engine out and replace the seals and the gaskets, and whilst I'm in there I'll do the primary and cam chain (£80 for the primary chain!!!!.........'kin hell!!) I didn't replace the primary the first time around just did the shell bearings, rings and cam chain. false economy i know it was probably a lot cheaper then too!.Mind you next to no wear on the shells which i'm pleased with. However, I'm just in the process of putting it all back together, and I thought what do others do when it comes to fitting the gaskets. Back in the 70's and 80's it seemed to be common practice (in my neck of the woods) to smear the new gaskets with a thin layer of instant gasket (except for the head) just for insurance purposes, i.e make sure the bugg'r don't leak!! When i rebuilt the DT175, I must confess I put a thin film of hylomar blue on the crankcase halves along with the gasket, it didn't do it any harm, made a barely visible blue line (there wasn't so much that it made large globules of the stuff inside and out! that could have resulted in foreign matter in the workings). it doesn't leak. I recall back in the 70's and 80's old cortinas and the like with bright orange silicone in big unsightly globules all around the joint faces....they also didn't leak but looked sh*t!! What are your thoughts and recommendations fellas, Put them in dry? Use a thin film of instant gasket? Smear them with oil? smear them with butter, jam......... body fluids! or maybe Leave them out altogether? (that last one was a joke!!)

My advice would be to stop trying to fix it piece meal and simply take the whole engine out, strip and restore it, that way you can renew all the bearings, seals, gaskets etc. its a simple motor, will take you less than 2 hours to strip it down completly (taking digital photos as you go). Its not expensive to do and that way you'll know everything is done and will last for a few more years, i did mine last year and its been perfect since. in the time you've been trying to sort it , you could have put it back together and it's not as if you've been relying on it to go to and fro from work as it doesn't go now!......go on, bite the bullet and take it out!

What makes you think that? Before using original material, you needed to obtain permission...............Having been the editor of a car club magazine for 7 years, there was a bit about copyright which one had to be aware before using it or making it public! Literary, Dramatic or Artistic Works Copyright lasts for 70 years after the year of a known author's death. For unknown authors it expires 70 years from the end of the calendar year in which the work was first made available to the public. If a work is produced by two or more authors then the copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the last of the authors to die. Which manuals are you referring to? The Haynes type manual? then Haynes being the publisher and author will not be giving it up as they still publish the books. If you mean the Yamaha manuals by Yamaha for use by Motorcycle dealers/repairs, even though its no longer published, then the above will still apply from the date it was copyrighted/first published on the inside cover. You'd have to ask Yamaha to make it public, but its highly unlikely to make it to any meeting as an agenda item, it will not be a priority at all......making money will be on the agenda along with performance and the like! Regretfully Copyright is not open to public debate or your own interpretation of it, or your own understanding of it, or how you can justify using it. It's a law, of which if you break it, and a client wants to take it further, you will lose. Lawyers making a living out of this sort of thing!!!..........on behalf of the client who is agrieved of course!!

Would it be part 25 and part 27, scoop air bracket and rubber damper. http://www.cmsnl.com/yamaha-fzr600-rh-1996_model10286/partslist/C-12.html#results Part No OEM number: 3HE-2137W-00 and damper OEM number: 3HE-2139U-00 certainly looks like it to me next time.......do a little intro in the newbie area, and try and mention the bike you want help with in any title

I've no idea either, but i'd wish you had made title a little less cryptic!! Please help identify part on FZR600 instead of just please help!!!

Got sent this, sure some of you have to, however, i thought I'd share it here.......very amusing! Baldrick: "What I want to know, Sir, is, before there was a Euro there were lots of different types of money that different people used. And now there's only one type of money that the foreign people use. And what I want to know is, how did we get from one state of affairs to the other state of affairs." Blackadder: "Baldrick. Do you mean, how did the Euro start?" Baldrick: "Yes, Sir." Blackadder: "Well, you see Baldrick, back in the 1980s there were many different countries all running their own finances and using different types of money. On one side you had the major economies of France , Belgium , Holland and Germany , and on the other, the weaker nations of Spain , Greece , Ireland , Italy and Portugal . They got together and decided that it would be much easier for everyone if they could all use the same money, have one Central Bank, and belong to one large club where everyone would be happy. This meant that there could never be a situation whereby financial meltdown would lead to social unrest, wars and crises." Baldrick: "But this is sort of a crisis, isn't it Sir?" Blackadder: "That's right Baldrick. You see, there was only one slight flaw with the plan." Baldrick: "What was that then, Sir?" Blackadder: "It was BOLLOCKS!."

Hi phil, Rest assured your problem won't be related to the 12v conversion. The conversion is only a means to charge the battery and run the electrics, ie lights and horn. The ignition is NOT effected by the conversion. That said also rest assured if you've got Paul on the case, you can't go wrong, He's a sort of Yamaha demi-god around here!........... Demi?.......no he's the main one!!! Notch up another neo-conversion!

Hi Phil welcome to the YOC hope you enjoy your visits and you'll learn a lot I'm sure. Firstly, the one thing which gets many of the guys backs up here, is not posting an introduction about yourself in the newbie section. Doesn't have to be much:- hi my names so and so , been into bikes for blah blah, riden all sorts of bikes including harleys etc etc, you get the drift? That way , you'll find the guys respond much quicker to posts and we tend to have a bit of a banter, some guys will even bend over backwards to help you....with knowledge that is not in any other context!! That said, you mention one thread which suggests using a 4 wire Cub 90 regulator, if it's my thread, then i think you need to re-read it in full and not speed read it, because you've not wasted your money as you have the right one. You wanted to try the local pool of knowledge first .............well you're in it!

I'm sure this would be fine, but be aware that electric drill armatures spark quite nicely, and if there are any fumes from that tank............. I'm not quoting "Elf & safety" or trying to frighten you............... just the experience of attending to someone in A&E who did just that a few years ago with extensive burns!! ( if you're going to drill it you might want to consider an old hand operated drill.)

I did my MX 175 following Airheads advice and it has its own thread and full detail here might be worth a read?

If its real then, Jimmy is a willing participant, when he goes up the stairs he's wearing a jumper/sweater, ........... which he didn't have getting in the car!! clearly he's been home had a wash and shave and now going off for some fun which is about the only time i think you can use those emoticons!!!

You've done bloody well there mate, pat yourself on the back for a job well done. Good luck with the MOT, now all you have to do is ride it......................and learn how to take pictures in focus; some of those LEDs ones! :lol:!

I've used various methods, drill and stud extractors i use as a last resort. Mole grips ruin most chances of success quite a bit. I tend to use my cam stud extractor if theres any stud on show and providing you can get enough clearance. Use with plenty of penetrating oil. Keep it as flat as possible, any lift will shear the stud. available on ebay I dare say

i thought this would generate a lot more comments ......... afterall its not been photoshopped.

I got to get me one of these gas tanks!

Not a great deal I'm sorry to say!! I assume you're referring to lessening your chances of being taken out by a car turning into your path? Reflectors are of little value and require a light source to reflect off to make them visible to the person looking at them! The reason why your rear reflector works is because the car driver who is looking at you has his headlights on, REFLECTING off your reflector. During the day time you don't see a reflector...unless you happen to have the sun shining on it and that means you got to be riding with the sun on your back...........ALL the time............You'd ride in a 180 degree circle! Flourescent jackets increase your chances of being seen........but contrary to belief .....not by much! I work in A&E and there seems to be just an equal number of cyclist and bikers wearing day glo's to non wearers...but the vast majority are still taken out by car drivers who did'nt see them! However, If Brussels get their way you'll have to have them! but until then. More lights on your bike might help, Scooters in the 60's and the mod revival of the late 70's/80's saw lambrettas with loads of lights, but they still got knocked off. Whilst YOU might be riding with due care and attention, the car driver will have plenty of distractions:- car radio, CD, back seat passengers, kids, eating,you name it, oh and .......mobile phones! the lot!! All of which the car driver will rarely think it's his or her fault!.....its the bikers FAULT for being on the road. Seriously, Riding with ALL your senses fixed on self preservation is the best mod! Headlight on, and with a truck right up your own backside is best! ......They will see the truck first! and rarely does a car pull out into the path of a truck!