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Winter Time Blues..... 24 Jan 2021 14:58 #842322

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hardrockminer wrote: Thank you Ed! Looks like the second port is for the petcock. I didn't realize the petcock wasn't a gravity only feed.


Technically, both styles are gravity feed. The vacuum operated version has an on/off valve operated by engine vacuum. When the engine is running, negative pressure (vacuum) overcomes a spring in the valve and gravity pulls the fuel out of the tank, into the carburetors. When the engine is off, the spring closes the valve and no fuel flows.
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Winter Time Blues..... 24 Jan 2021 17:39 #842326

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MARVELOUS!!!!! They just extended the Winter Storm Watch all the way to Tuesday morning!!!!!!!!!

Its now 11 to 17 INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED!!!!!!!

Glad I don't have to go anywhere. Last big snow here, I didn't see a snowplow come down our street for at least two or three days!!!!

Photo from last big snow that hit here in 2019.

1972 H2 750 Cafe Racer built in 1974.
1976 KH400 Production Road Racer.
1979 Kz1000 MK. II Old AMA/WERA Superbike.
1986 RG500G 2 stroke terror.
1986 GSXR750RG The one with the clutch that rattles!

Up in the hills near Prescott, Az.
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Winter Time Blues..... 25 Jan 2021 13:03 #842388

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This will blow through. :whistle:
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Winter Time Blues..... 25 Jan 2021 17:55 #842400

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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 05:36 #842422

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>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Its now 11 to 17 INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED!!!!!!!
Prescott weather report please !

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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 09:20 #842439

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73z1 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Its now 11 to 17 INCHES OF SNOW EXPECTED!!!!!!!
Prescott weather report please !


In my part of town, I have 13~14 inches on the ground right now. Got real nasty yesterday afternoon. It was coming down 2 to 3 inches an hour with big time wind!!! Plus its that wet heavy snow. Not too much moving up and down my street even today yet. Even the garbage trucks are not picking up today!!!!

I-17 is shut down from Camp Verde to Flagg!!! I-40 down west of Flagg. State route 89 around Sedona shutdown as is parts of State route 260 going toward Pine Strawberry. It even snowed in Scottsdale yesterday!!!!!!!

Got enough food, drink, meds, model paint and glue to keep me busy as long as this s**t lasts!!!! I really like this retired life when the weather gets like this!!!!!

Great time to be building models!!!!!!
1972 H2 750 Cafe Racer built in 1974.
1976 KH400 Production Road Racer.
1979 Kz1000 MK. II Old AMA/WERA Superbike.
1986 RG500G 2 stroke terror.
1986 GSXR750RG The one with the clutch that rattles!

Up in the hills near Prescott, Az.
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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 09:30 #842441

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Where do you get them? I need some good old fashion model glue. The type that comes in a tube or better yet the liquid kind in a bottle with a brush in the cap. B)
No hobby shops around here anymore. :(
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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 10:06 #842442

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SWest wrote: Where do you get them? I need some good old fashion model glue. The type that comes in a tube or better yet the liquid kind in a bottle with a brush in the cap. B)
No hobby shops around here anymore. :(
Steve


Same here!!! Nearest hobby shop to me is down in Phoenix 100 miles away. I buy most of my model supplies from MegaHobby online. Testors is now out of the modelling hobby. No more Model Master paints, and their tube glue is real hard to find anymore. I still use their tube glue for most of my joints on my models.

Tamiya has this great liquid extra thin glue. Plus they have a QUICK SETTING version too. This stuff is great because you don't have to wait hours for a glue joint to harden up. I do think the Testors tube glue gives you a stronger glue joint.


My neighbor bought me the very last of the Testors red tube glue at the local Hobby Lobby!!!!
1972 H2 750 Cafe Racer built in 1974.
1976 KH400 Production Road Racer.
1979 Kz1000 MK. II Old AMA/WERA Superbike.
1986 RG500G 2 stroke terror.
1986 GSXR750RG The one with the clutch that rattles!

Up in the hills near Prescott, Az.
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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 12:04 #842447

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No snow here in the Puget Sound. .. .yet. Well, besides a weird spat on Solstice, but that didn't last long. Just absolutely epic amounts of rain. We've set several new single-day rain records.

They're predicting some snow in the next few days, though, so we'll see what happens. I wouldn't mind a little bit of snow -looks at the snowshoes sitting in the corner-

At least now that my first winter project of getting the engine in my sailboat running again is done, I can focus on the bike!
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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 15:06 #842462

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Early this month, a walk on the beach, Fire Island, and waiting for April, storm going north of us
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Winter Time Blues..... 26 Jan 2021 17:58 #842475

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Nice. I love winter.....
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Winter Time Blues..... 27 Jan 2021 05:17 #842489

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Jwfels, I wouldn't take that boat out in the ocean like that. You're missing a skeg!
I have several restored bikes along with a 2006 Goldwing with a sidecar. My wife has a 2019 Suzuki DR 650 for on and off road.

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