- 201. Re: Last post (score: 1)
- Author: Ron Soave <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Fri, 02 Jan 1998 19:32:58 -0500
- Got it the first time - my post came out wrong, as they usually do when the procedure "Ready, fire, aim!" is used. As I said, I am in violent agreement!
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00051.html (7,258 bytes)
- 202. Re: Help (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 17:16:12 -0500
- Deepest sympathies, although I think we all know if anyone will fix it by sundown, it'll be you. With that said, my .02: I've been reserving comment on these Japanese transmission'd Spridgets (proba
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00079.html (8,504 bytes)
- 203. Re: steering shaft bushings II (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 08:30:01 -0500
- Good point. We also use lock wire.
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00098.html (7,377 bytes)
- 204. Re: GASKET SET WARNING (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 08:31:31 -0500
- The gasket set for the 948 came in the mail Friday from VB. We'll see.
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00099.html (7,693 bytes)
- 205. Re: GASKET SET WARNING (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:48:28 -0500
- Thanks for the heads up - doing the job next weekend. Actually plan on lots of permatex. Great stuff - a mild variant is used as fuel tank sealant on jet aircraft. Ron -- 948. rip.
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00115.html (8,981 bytes)
- 206. Re: Baking (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:04:20 -0500
- And if the kitchen is enclosed and you breathe in fumes get lightheaded and dizzy, don't worry - a lot of us used to spend good money in the '60's to feel that way. Ron -- satisfied then 350 wires cr
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00155.html (8,150 bytes)
- 207. Re: originality, part 2, sacrilege (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:23:29 -0500
- Does it come with a "Miata" emblem as well?
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00324.html (7,767 bytes)
- 208. Speed Bleeders note (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 06:27:52 -0500
- Looking through a hydraulics catalog yesterday at work from a company called Crissair in Palmdale, CA, and came across hydraulic ball/spring check valves for aircraft application. I knew the speed b
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00325.html (6,911 bytes)
- 209. Re: originality, part 2, sacrilege (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 13:04:02 -0500
- You can always try. Price and worth can be two different things, though. I sold a Miata to get a Bugeye, my sixth LBC (well, 4 LBC's, 2 not so little BC's). I'll never own another Miata, but there w
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00332.html (7,961 bytes)
- 210. Re: originality, part 2, sacrilege (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:14:04 -0500
- I was only kidding, and meant nothing by it. I certainly don't want to start a thread. Anyone can change whatever thay want. Personally, I bought my Sprite because there's nothing on it or in it mea
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00345.html (9,391 bytes)
- 211. Matchless bike (sorry) (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 23:18:59 -0500
- Sorry - not directly list related, although british. Will the person who asked about a Matchless motorcycle just before the holidays drop me a note? Accidently deleted the note. Thanks, Ron
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00360.html (6,792 bytes)
- 212. Re: speed bleeders torque (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sun, 11 Jan 1998 15:40:22 -0500
- Hi Jeff, The conversion is to multiply ft-lb by 12 (1 ft-lb = 12 in.-lb). You'd want 3 +/- .33 (2.67 to 3.33) ft-lb on your wrench to get the 32-40 in-lbs specified by speedbleeders. I got mine the o
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00376.html (8,581 bytes)
- 213. Re: final drive ratio webpage? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:34:48 -0500
- It was: http://web2.airmail.net/oldwolf/hlycalc.htm Ron --
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00426.html (7,796 bytes)
- 214. Re: galling/neverseize (score: 1)
- Author: Ron Soave <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:29:44 -0500
- You're not a novice - I was on an Air Force base recently where I told a maintenance team on a VERY expensive aircraft to lubricate some threads to prevent galling, and not one knew what it was. It'
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00472.html (7,689 bytes)
- 215. Fasteners (last one from me) (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 08:47:46 -0500
- Although we've exhausted the topic, below are two links someone came across at work defining galling and metallurgy terms in general. http://www.metal-mart.com/dict0006.htm#I2 http://www.sealweld.ca/
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00580.html (6,950 bytes)
- 216. Healey's Healeys (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 19:46:04 -0500
- Nice article in Classic & Sportscar magazine this month (Feb 98 issue) on three of DMH's descendants and their Healeys, including a Bugeye. Available at your bookstore. Ron
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00597.html (6,731 bytes)
- 217. Re: Primer for repainting? (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:08:01 -0500
- Deltron and DuPont Centari (New Racing Green on my Bugeye). Aside from great quality and ease of application, touching up blems with these two paints is incredible. With the Centari, it's like the to
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00649.html (7,375 bytes)
- 218. Re: Bearings - how tight - reply to all (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 20:33:43 -0500
- Agreed - can't resist my .02 - nothing like a micrometer with a vernier scale to the nearest .0001 inch. Plastigage won't do that for you. Also, mics are easier to use and look bitchin' in a felt lin
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00711.html (8,350 bytes)
- 219. Sprite Mk2 Article (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 07:06:03 -0500
- Flipping through my old Road and Tracks, August 1961, "NEW SPRITE 2" on the cover. They report "No one can deny the Sprite 2 is better looking" (I could hear my Bugeye wince from the garage). They sa
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00752.html (7,760 bytes)
- 220. Re: Probable Cause (score: 1)
- Author: "Ron Soave" <redlotus@spacey.net>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 20:13:07 -0500
- I'd bet that hteory is correct. This happened to me on a Lotus (aluminum flywheel - warps if the sun shines at the wrong angle) - ended up trashing the thrust washers on the crankshaft. The resultin
- /html/spridgets/1998-01/msg00785.html (9,209 bytes)
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