In the jungle

22 hours ago, AllanB said:

Yes all very well....bla bla bla..... so how does it compare with the Wave, we were getting 204-206 mpg when we tested ours when new. We paid 34k baht for that......

 

Different tank that's all....

You have me beat.  I only got 199 point something when I was running my 110i in.  Annoyed me at the time.

Found the spec now.

It's a four pot radial mount caliper at the front with a 300 mm disc.  

At last a Thai bike without a sliding caliper at the front.

I see there is a new Honda 150 up on their website though there was no spec page when I looked.

Some fairly trick stuff on it for a bike that costs just under 100K.

USD forks, radial mount caliper, ABS, LED lights, banana swing arm that looks like it may be aluminium.

Engine is described as an "all new" DOHC single but somehow I have my doubts about that.

How much is the bribe for the "certified price evaluation"?

3 hours ago, AllanB said:

Water or fuel gaskets, yes out of corn flake packets using a small hammer, or a dirty finger, but not head gaskets surely? 

I would not try and make a head gasket but I know an excellent shop in Bangkok that can.  If I ever need one for some of the rarer stuff I have I would trust them to do the job.

For the A100 I am pretty sure a head gasket will be found locally and cheaply.  Which leaves me perplexed as to why anyone would try and make one. 

Correct.  Essentially the same reason why I keep an old bike that used to belong to my late father.  It can never be legally registered here and arrived here by methods I am not going to detail.  I keep it in good working order but I probably have not ridden it in more than a year.

You are right also about most A100 parts being available.  The problem is that most of the readily available stuff is Thai copy.  In some cases that is fine but a fair proportion is either a poor fit or made from substandard materials.  

I am trying to use good used genuine parts for the important stuff but you really need to hunt the stuff down and get hands on with the part to judge condition.  A photo can deceive.  I have had some luck and good deals so far.

I am not much of a 2T fan and I am not trying to present the A100 as some kind of greatest ever classic.  Though even forty years on in pulling down the engine I am impressed by the quality.  Generally though I like my bikes four stroke and from the big H.  But I did think that there might be some cautionary value in showing some of the things Village Bike Shops can and may do to your bike if you give them the chance.  Looking at the state of this old Suzuki reminds me why I do all vehicle maintenance myself. 

It may also be of interest to anyone who happens to own one of these bikes.

5 hours ago, thaiguzzi said:

Sentimental value then. Unnerstan.ateriials

You will be surprised how much stuff is still available for these old 2 strokes at a decent m/c shop. There are two in my local market town that continue to amaze me with their knowledge and parts stock.

Take the old barrel, head and piston in, even the c/cases, i'm sure someone will have gaskets, seals and even a piston kit available.

Crank/con rod rebuild will be no problem too.

3 hours ago, VocalNeal said:

In many industries throughout the world gaskets are hand made on a daily basis. 

 

You do realise that whatever goes wrong next time will be your fault!

I use hand made gaskets and also make them myself.

But the guy who made this one failed to grasp that the hole in the middle has to be circular.

And of course everything will be my fault.  

1 hour ago, thaiguzzi said:

No offence, but why bother?

Can't be sentimental value.

My wife's father took his last ever ride on this bike.  He was hit by a pickup truck and died from his injuries.

She asked me to rebuild it to remember him by.

The start of a repair to the frame.  Quite a lot more work to go into this.

The crankcases will be put back in the frame to get the engine mount holes accurate.

Remnant of the footpegs after removal with an angle grinder.

Part of this mess is from an A100 but most is from, I guess, some Wave/Dream sort of thing.

Probably a worse mechanical crime was that the footrests were kee nok welded onto the frame.  The footrests were not from an A100 and they hadn't even got them level.  To top that they had managed to weld the whole mess to one of the engine mounting bolts so I had to use an angle grinder to remove the engine.

I have already started the frame repair trying to emulate the way suzuki welded it in the first place.  A day's work in that so far.

I will take some photos of the wreckage tomorrow.

In a rash moment I offered to fix up the FIL's forty year old Suzuki A100.

I pulled the cylinder head and discovered this remarkable item serving as a head gasket.

Diagnosing reportedly poor front brake performance was straightforward.  There are no front brake shoes.

Today's job was splitting the crankcases.  That involved removing around a dozen crosshead screws with wrecked heads that were done up to approximately 500 ft lbs of torque.  Having tried less brutal methods I ended up drilling the head off every screw except for one.  To my surprise I managed to do that without putting even one mark on the crankcases.

Doubtless more surprises await.

She has a grasp of some of the basics.

Fishnets and red hooker heels work.

Gonna bust a blood vessel soon.

He's probably on You Tube now jumping from video to video.

Popping blue pills but still it doesn't work.

Call me a pedant.

But I think technically what she does is not twerking.

And I bet secretly the little general loves it.

He's just pissed because he can no longer....

In the BP it is reported that as part of promoting Thai Chinese cooperation the Thais are going to give the Chinese lessons in ethics and safety.

Thinking a bit more, given your description of the land it may be worth contacting Weegee on this forum.

I think he may have something well suited to your application.

11 hours ago, billd766 said:

 

If I could afford a Troy built ride on mower I would certainly expect to pay a delivery charge especially as I live about 400 km from Buriram.

 

In fact before I bought one I would ask for someone from the shop to come up to survey the land where it would be used and it would be at MY expense and not theirs.

 

Until I saw the original post back in September last year I had no idea that ride on mowers were available in Thailand.

 

I have about 3 or 4 rai to cut and at present I use a Honda petrol strimmer, and at 73 years old it is damn hard work.

 

The problem I have is that the area to be cut is not level and areas of it are full of rock and stones of all sizes. I would be concerned how much damage would be done to the mower and at that price I would like somebody to come up from the company to do a survey and give honest advice before laying out a large sum of cash.

One argument in favour of a ride on mower in your situation is that with push mowers the blade is directly connected to the crankshaft.  If you hit a big rock with a push mower so that the engine stops dead it is possible to bend or break the crank.  With a ride on mower cheaper parts such as belts will slip or break in the same situation.

The Honda HRJ216 reduces the likelihood of damaging the crank by the use of swing back blades but the blades are hideously expensive.  For no obvious reason Honda Thailand charge six times the price of a blade in Australia and it is exactly the same part.

I have both a Honda ride on mower and the HRJ216.  The ride on is what I choose every time because of the climate here.  If we have workers around they use the HRJ216.  The HRJ216 is self propelled but it is still hard work to use because it weighs nearly 50kg.

I bought the Honda ride on as a used import from Japan and, IMO, doing that is way better than buying a machine such as the Troy Bilt or MTD machines seen in Thailand.  They are bottom of the range stuff priced at around 1000 bucks in the US whereas Honda ride ons are designed to last decades.

And finally (I think I said it earlier in this thread) avoid any ride on that has a Tuff Torq K46 transmission.  That trans is very common in low end US brand ride ons.  The K46 is very low quality and notorious for failing. 

It must have been obvious that she was likely to face an unpredictable and hostile reception.

I would lay blame primarily with those around her who gave insufficient thought to how to manage the situation and its presentation.

Veering today to the opposite end of the spectrum with a meeting in fortress Downing Street is not a good look either. 

3 hours ago, JamJar said:

 

 

Google still has it cached: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ym6NjHxAJyYJ:wittukgroup.co.uk/grenfell-tower-london-w11-1tq-regeneration-project/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk

From that report:

"The £9.7million investment is a major commitment by the council and the TMO to regenerate the tower, with numerous improvements set to raise the value of the estate significantly"

Now why might a local authority want to do that?

6 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

 

Apparently the sprinklers didn't work inside.

 

There were no sprinklers.

According to the BBC the cladding was "Reynobond" which can be specified either with a polyurethane core or a fire resistant core.

In this case somebody took the decision to go with the cheaper polyurethane core.  

It appears to me that the people responsible for the refurb had no real understanding of the principles that protected this building from fire as originally constructed.

Personally I don't think 'fire resistant' is good enough when the original exterior was fire proof.

Contractor for the refurb that completed in 2016 was Rydon.  It mentions re-cladding the building on their website but does not give detail.

Make sure to leave the plastic on the seat for at least a decade.

It's a local tradition.