->  -> How about Edwards, and Billy Mitchel. Both Canadians if
->  -> memory serves me. 

->  WC> Not as familiar with them but Billy Mitchel's name rings a
->  WC> bell.

-> As in Edwards Air Force Base... Heard of it now? 

Yeah, where the Bell X rocket planes were tested under the previous
name.

-> Mitchel [Might have spelt it wrong.] was court-marshaled for insubordination,
-> for his views on airborne threats. Post WWI, he predicted Japan would attack
-> either Hawaii, or continental N. America. He was highly disgraced for his views
-> on airborne attacks on war ships, and had his hands tied whenever he tried to
-> prove his theories. A real story of injustice toward a visionary. There's a B+W
-> movie out there about him. Historically accurate too, except for a love tryst
-> IIRC.

I'll have to google for it.

->  WC> I'm down to one meal a day due to lack of activity, some days I
->  WC> skip entirely as the pain is so bad it makes me suffer nausea.

-> Been there: Done that! Because of these meds, I have to eat something twice a
-> day. (You just reminded me that I was about to miss a dose.) Not as hard as it
-> used to be to get up, and to keep it down either. 

->  -> We had a local from a town just East of us who seemed to savour the
->  -> fist-ta-cuffs. Last I saw, he was becoming old fast, and
->  -> getting thrown out of a house party.

->  WC> That reminds me of a funny incident.
->  WC> Three commercial fisherman who were non-regulars stopped into

->  WC> Guy says "what."
->  WC> I YELL at him "HIT ME."
->  WC> He backs down and he and the 2 clowns with him left.

-> Thought so!

->  WC> Psychology can work :-)

I used psycholoy more often than anything else, particularly when the
level of mayham that would result would rise to the level
someone would quite likely have been severely injured.

You learn to read people.

->  -> I'm no tea-toddler, but I sure developed
->  -> a distaste for drunk belligerents.

->  WC> I get introverted and quiet when drunk.

-> Ditto. The potential in-laws were perplexed by it. One of the reasons I second
-> guessed her for a wife... Well, that and her character. 

I think it's because our true natures are peaceful where the drunk
troublemakers are suppressing hostilty that explodes when alcohol
releases inhibitions.

->  WC> Strength avails one not against Akaido 

-> I smell a tagline comin' on!          

->  WC> AFAIK the black box in the Yamaha didn't learn parameters it
->  WC> just powered up and off you go.
->  WC> No noticable performance loss at all.

-> Unless in a luxury car where weight is no object... I couldn't see even a PROM
-> burner going into the 3-cylinder. Budget constraints, et al.

->  ->  WC> I was fortunately two blocks from home as once there's not
->  ->  WC> enough juice for the puter to say GO there's no roll starting
->  ->  WC> such a bike as there's no fire to be had.

->  -> I had a chip, or a contact there-of, give on me. No matter how much
->  -> carb-starter my buddy pumped into it... <-;

->  WC> Yeah, no spark, that's what I meant.

-> I was in an underground parking lot. A push-start would have needed a pull-out
-> first. 

-> Spark was there for me, but that and opening up the air-cleaner was the extent
-> of my troubleshooting at the time. Either the timing was so brain-dead without
-> the full logic, or the fuel was flooding the cylinders without regulation... 

-> Mitsubishi uses a magnet-proximity switch for the distributer, so maybe firing
-> the plugs isn't that much a function of the logic. 

More like;y the logic rather than the Hall effect sensor.
Played around with them in non-automotive application.

->  ->  WC> Rewired the entire bike myself making up my own wiring harness
->  ->  WC> too so it'd NEVER fail again.



->  -> Probably saved half a lb. of copper along the way.

->  WC> More like three times that figure.
->  WC> Automotive style bullet connectors and I used some thick wall
->  WC> plastic flexible tubing throughout the harness I made.
->  WC> Weatherproof to the max and simplified to the point
->  WC> no electrical problem would never hassle me again.

->  WC> I like talking about the old days, today as most days
->  WC> will suck :-(

-> I can listen all day to your stories about vehicle repairs, but I can't do much
-> to stimulate conversations. From what I've seen of you on ELECTRONICS, you
-> could make my head swim in that area too. Again, I have some simple
-> troubleshooting skills there, but nothing to write home about.

You just have to dive in.
Got interested in electronics early on and was
building advanced Heathkits at 14.

Then I started building stuff from published schematics and my
own designs.

-> I have to keep my eyes open for a replacement for my ageing ride, and much of
-> what you are saying is a real concern for me. If I find something without all
-> the electronics in it, 
   
This is why I bought most of my motorcycles used, points. kickstarter in 
addition to the electric starter, ect.

-> EVERYTHING with a spring or rubber on it will be due for
-> the scrap heap. With modern machines, unless I'm prepared to disassemble the
-> front end to do a tune up... (They're not ALL that bad, but...)

Hate the new stuff myself.

-> A bike is out of the question, as I doubt I could sit like that for any length
-> of time, 
   
I can't sit either nor could I drive a bike without
falling from a muscle spasm likely in a turn.

-> an because of our weather. Heck, even an electric car would be
-> expensive to replace the batteries on. This disposable society we live in is a
-> bitch. ...And that's an insult to female dogs!

I too hate the disposable society.
I like to fix stuff, even that which is not intended to 
be fixed.
This computer is a salvage someone else tossed out.
I fixed it.
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