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lloydie wrote: ↑Mon Nov 28, 2022 6:12 pm Hello and welcome . Your doing some good work there .
Where did you get the plugs/connectors from for the reg/rec ?

The originals are Japanese Furukawa, you can sometimes find these, or Chinese copies on eBay.
Search Shindengen FH020AA or Furukawa connectors on eBay.

Think I put a link to some Chinese copy versions I found earlier in this thread, but the seller I bought my Japanese connectors from is out of stock.

The grey one is Furukawa QLW-A-3F-GR
The black is Furukawa QLW-A-B3F-B

Thank you I’ll have a look

sirch345 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:17 pm Good work, well done
Chris.

Hi Chris,
How many posts (or time?) do I need before I can contact members in the For Sale section?
There's a couple of items there I'm interested in buying, but I can't see how to contact the sellers
Thanks, Mark

purgeraptor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:28 pm

sirch345 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:17 pm Good work, well done
Chris.

Hi Chris,
How many posts (or time?) do I need before I can contact members in the For Sale section?
There's a couple of items there I'm interested in buying, but I can't see how to contact the sellers
Thanks, Mark

Ah,,,just found the answer, 50 posts needed

purgeraptor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 3:32 pm

purgeraptor wrote: ↑Tue Nov 29, 2022 12:28 pm

sirch345 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 12:17 pm Good work, well done
Chris.

Hi Chris,
How many posts (or time?) do I need before I can contact members in the For Sale section?
There's a couple of items there I'm interested in buying, but I can't see how to contact the sellers
Thanks, Mark

Ah,,,just found the answer, 50 posts needed

Hi Mark, yes you're right it is 50 posts.

I'm not sure if you found that out from the rules or other members posts.
It's in this link here which is at the top of the Welcome Inn section:
viewtopic.php?t=19054

11. Due to abuse of the Sales and Wants section by some previous new members, it is now mandatory that you have 50 posts before you are allowed to post in that section of the forum. Anybody trying to get around this by posting sales in the wrong place will have their posts deleted, try it a second time and their account will be deleted automatically. No questions asked. Also, posting trivial posts just to reach the 50 will also result in your account being deleted.

You are almost halfway there

Chris.

Yep, found that link after looking harder!

Just bought a cheapish eBay fork brace from China....what can possibly go wrong?!
Says it's made of 6061-T6 aluminum.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384379906868

Also bought some K-Tech stiffer linear springs 0.9kg/mm, as I'm 15 stones rider weight, and will put fresh fork oil in.
Is there any advantage to putting heavier weight oil in to stiffen the damping?

From the details you give, 10wt is the heaviest you need, but I'd still go with 7.5 wt.
If you go with 10, perhaps you might increase the air gap a little. 135mm is about right with 7.5 wt oil.

tony.mon wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 9:25 pm From the details you give, 10wt is the heaviest you need, but I'd still go with 7.5 wt.
If you go with 10, perhaps you might increase the air gap a little. 135mm is about right with 7.5 wt oil.

Thanks for the advice.
I'll go with 7.5 and 135mm gap

purgeraptor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 30, 2022 10:48 am Yep, found that link after looking harder!

Well done

Chris.

Bit more work in progress

Fork legs out for new 0.9kg linear K-Tec springs and fresh 7.5 oil.
Will rub them down and give a coat of aluminium spray paint before re-installing.

K-Tec length is the same as the progressive OEM springs, so that saves having to cut spacers.

Then found that the steering bearings had a bad central notchy feel.

Took the old ball race bearings out and found some strange pitting.
Wasn't expecting that on a 9K mile bike.

Used a small butane pencil torch to heat the stem bearing lower race to tap it off.
The steering head races just tapped out with a long drift.

Bought some Japanese taper bearing replacements to fit.

Also bought a fork brace from China on eBay.
£35 total delivered in 10 days!

Pleasantly surprised at the quality.
Supposed to be 6061-T6 (aerospace) aluminium.

Also waiting for Royal Mail to deliver the stainless exhaust flanges I bought from Mac, to replace the crusty ones.

purgeraptor wrote: ↑Wed Nov 23, 2022 10:28 am I got the plugs from eBay.

Lots for sale there, but previous seller is out of stock.

This seller does them

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/114387667580

Thanks. BTW that wasn't from Fleet/Crookham was it? Oct 2017 I looked at a 9000 mile example in blue with a funky alarm system that had to be switched each time it cranked. Can't be the same machine?