Subject: SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT
Author: Robert Hawkes
Date: Sep 27, 2002, 6:21 PM
Post ID: 1711101587
Hey list!,
Should you leave your battery in your bike over the winter with occasional
charging or should you take it out with occasional charging? Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: William Dudley <du-@casano.com>
To: <Loopfram-@topica.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 10:09 AM
Subject: Ambo Dash lights lens replacement
| Hi, The plastic (plastic?) lens in my oil pressure indicator light just shattered one day recently (well, a few months ago), leaving behind a little ring of red plastic still glued into the aluminum threaded top. I priced replacements from the one vendor at the NY National, but thought $20.00 or whatever he was charging was spendy for a pilot light, and besides, I just needed a lens. Being cheap AND resourceful, I went to Radio Shack and bought a "Jumbo 10mm Red LED", part 276-0214 for $2.49. I used my Dremel to cut off most of the "plastic lens", about 1 mm above the surface of the actual LED. The LED part I threw in my junk box. I polished the bottom of the cut off lens (to remove the cutting marks and improve light transmission) and I had to file off a few thousandths (20? 30?) around the circumference so that it would fit into the aluminum top of the pilot light. (I had to pick out the bits of plastic from the old lens, first, of course). Then I glued my new lens in with Goop (great stuff!). The light from the lens is more of an orange than a red, but since the oil pressure light isn't on much, I don't care. The new lense looks fine on the dash board, though if you look closely you can see that it's shape is more rounded than the other lenses, which have a sort of flat top. I think the labor to make the lens probably was equal or less than the labor of opening up the dash to replace the old idiot light, especially since I have a Bates fairing on my bike that makes working in there a little tight. Say, anybody know the email address of the TIPS editor? Bill Dudley 72 Ambo 71 Norton Commando 77 Honda CB550 Super Sport 90 Honda CBR600F and more athttp://www.casano.com/dudley |