alan bechard

Autographed as a matter of fact

Hoping it all works out well, The Storz family are great folks and wishing them all the best and a speedy recovery.

SWMBO = She who must be obeyed I have to limit my activitie because I have grown attached to living in a house and eating food. The kids Whine a lot if you don't feed them for two or three days

Hi John, I am here, kind of in the shadows. Busy as I can be with life, working hard it seems on the Al Bechard Quick road to bankruptcy while working your butt off. I love the trials community, and truly miss it, but between work, SWMBO's business, house, shop, paintball, Kayaking and 20 million other pursuits, Trials has pretty much slid to the back burner, bikes have not been out in a LOOOONG time. But, Tues my BIL is coming in from Germany and wants to ride, so a trip to TTC is in my immediate future. The scary part for me, is that these topics rehash all too often. I must say, the boots and helmet is something I stole from Ed or Doug as well, but I still believe it to be very accurate. Folks who are not exposed to motorsports about fall over when they hear the bottom end costs involved in getting started. In the FWIW I still think the best way is to get folks out on a bike. It is funny, this week, a guy saw me wearing a Trials T shirt and started asking me about it, and wants to try riding, and one guy from work want's to come out and try it as well, so who knows. I am here though if I can ever be of any assistance to folks. Alan Bechard trialsalan AT Gmail dot com

Cope, I know what you mean. Neo, glad you got it sorted out, nothing quite like working on something a whole bunch, to realize you missed something simple, Not that I have ever done it, I think Cope told me about it once I will have to forever Ban SWMBO from seeing this thread, as she will ask your adress and send you our flight # as what better reason to go One day we need to come visit your country though. Glad it is straight.

Why thanks Cope (I think) heehee Just had the top off the fuel control on the backhoe It still runs,,,,,,

To answer last question first, good autmotive supply house should be able to provide you with dye, glasses etc. I usually use Brake cleaner, talcum powder and patience. (Patience is always in short supply at my house) I would look real close at what cope said first, are the bolts tight. I would also look to see if the bolts did not come loose, and you hit the pan hard enough to shift the two cases relative to each other. I have not seen this yet on the sherco, but I have seen it on other older bikes, and I am guessing that your bike has hit the pan a time or two. Have you read the instructions on the web on how to do it? I would have them printed out beside me when I was doing it. It sounded as I read it like you were saying you were going to do it in frame, maybe I am reading wrong, but anyway I do not think it can "PRACTICLY" be done in the frame. Not impossible, just not at all the way I would do it. You will need a 1/2" impact gun or clutch holder. A deadblow rubber mallet / brass mallet is very nice at times. Take your time, watch for shims, washers etc. Touch things and make sure you are not looking at a shim, stuck on a case with oil, that when you later wash the case falls off in the Parts washer and gets lost. I have a square of 2 X 4 lumber about 12" on each side. It is probably my handiest tool to work with the engines. It allows you to set the engine down at about any angle, and have it be stable and firm. A handy thing to do is to have a digital camera handy (and an agreeable kid to take pictures so You don't get the Missus camera oily) Take lots of pictures, especially anytime you say to yourself, oh, I will remember the purple widget goes on the right.............................. You wont. They are very straight forward, and easy to work on. I would say go for it, but all the better if you have someone experienced and confident at your side who knows the difference between stuck, hit it harder, and you forgot and left a bolt in. Oh, and when it comes to putting it back together I like to grease the gaskets. If it does not "slide" together, you have it wrong, when you find yourself saying I will just draw it down into place, you are wrong. Not quite sure how to explain the difference in writing, because you can use the bolts to draw it down, but it has to "feel" right. Again, that is where an experienced hand on your shoulder can really give you some confidence.

Well, you know if Ringo was talking, he was talking crap Just kind of his style I would say. Wish we had some more of Sendero's dissertations, and I cant think of the other guys name with the gunslinger avatar right now. How's the family?

Who woke you up out of a Stupor

We just do green EG standard fully formulated. The newer stuff too me, was to fix a problem, that was not a problem, and then caused some real problems. I just want to look at folks and tell them good greif, pop your hood and have a little maintenance done before 5 years goes by. An ounce of prevention is definetely worth a pound of cure.

Most of the fuel / oil recyclers just go for a lowest common denominator blend such as a bunker fuel type deal, they would like your mixed stuff The most common places that I am aware of it being used is things like cement kilns and asphalt burners, they run some pretty "rough" fuels. Seperating them down in a distillery and recracking etc. is still a bit out there. That said, I think we used about 100 drums of re-refined 15/40 in the last three months. You crushing your filters and hot draining? I would think in Texas you could landfill them. After all, oil came from the ground Yes, most recycling definetely works better on scale. We do about 80,000 gallons a year of used oil. We recycled about 30,000 gallons (I think it was) of Antifreeze last year, we do it in house in a home brew system. One of my pet peeves are all the folks trying to do small batch antifreeze. No quality control, no outside checks, test strip checking at best, then the recycled product gets a bad name and that is very, very hard to overcome. We also in housed refrigerant for a while, but again, economy of scale it is cheaper to send it to the big seperators. Oh, and too the mystery fluid, we literally see it every day and depending on how certain we are of what it is determines our actions. We have had to actually TCLP some of the stuff to figure out what we were dealing with.

Hmmm, shows as the picture itself in my browser. Sometimes I hate computers. Anyway, it is my new processing tank for JP-8 recycling. Cone bottom Swirl / vortex seperation Tall narrow shape

It shows on mine, can anyone else see the picture?

I just had this built and installed to help me with our processes. Can't decide if I am going to call it the coffee pot, or put fins on it so it looks like a rocket Hmmmm, see if this pic works Should help me drop out contaminates. Most the stuff I deal with is not late model enough to worry about the Cat stuff anyway.

Filter well and cycle through at about 10% ratio, (one buddy is centrifuging it to clean it) Some say no harm, others scream of the "stuff" being bad etc. etc. I think I am going to go for an older cab forward Isuzu with simple injection pump so I can experiment more with that and the bio-diesel stuff. Not sure I am ready to feed my 99 stroke on it yet, afraid I cannot afford it if it spits it up. In the FWIW you should be getting paid for it when they haul it off, it is fairly easy to make bunker fuel, or fuel oil out of. I think we are currently getting about 40 cents a gallon. Added on edit http://www.clarustechnologies.com/manufact...lcat/index.html we looked at these and one from Baldwin as well, while it seems logical, with my customer I can see it now, every time something breaks on the truck, it would be because of that "black Fuel" and yes, it does turn it black. We do use their Titan (or tornado, whatever they call it today) and recycle pretty clean JP-8. So far I believe I have the only successful program doing that and bringing it back to full spec. M1A1 runs about 6 gallons to the Mile, when I think my fuel bill is bad, I think of theirs and chuckle

Manage it I would say I don't know that we ever talked about how I actually make a living. http://www.campbell.army.mil/envdiv/PPOC.htm I like the movie.

I have a gallon sitting in my office at the moment, but somehow I doubt that helps you much Here in the US, it would be an industrial supply chemical house. Any big city will have several. I would bet it would be similar in the UK. You will probably need to determine a grade and a strength or concentration, or try and reach an outside sales rep, and discuss your application and hope that person has a familiarity with what you are doing and can make some reccomendations. My 2 cents, or pence or whatever, would be the lowest grade they commonly stock, and the percentage that they stock the most of, which will likely be the least expensive. You will then need to adjust your concentration with water as you go and get some experience. Also, you will probably find things like naval jelly etc. at auto refinishing houses. Good luck, hope it works for you. Are you doing the electrolysis with Soap and a battery charger? If you are stipping paint, there are some new Soy based strippers that show some promise, I have also used some of the Hydrogen peroxide strippers in test configurations that were pretty promising. If it were mine, and my money, I would be looking more towards media blasting, (baking soada, plastic beads, walnut shells etc) and less too chemical stripping methods, but to each his own.

Most folks here in the US have gone away from the acid dip tanks because of the cost of disposal. I would suggest that you determine how you will be rid of the product you are getting ready to mix up, especially after you have added various other unknown chemicals too it, and determine that cost prior to doing it. At least in the US, what you can sneak by with at your house, and still be legal, vs what you can legally do in business is very different. Most industries have gone to other means of stripping for that reason. And as cope said, depending upon what you are stripping, will play a large part in what stripper you use. I can still remember searching for the aluminum casting off the front of the engine in the hot dip tank at trade school. Instructor thought it hilarious. Owner of the car not quite so humorous. Luckily still working close with the Junk yard and was able to find another.

I was thinking that they had a long shank and short threads. I think I have an extra on the shelf, but forgot all about it at the house. Will try and remember too look.

I am guessing your son's bike is a 125. In that year I believe the 250 / 290's went with the in the swingarm style caliper and the 125/200 had the over the swingarm model still. Are you needing the bolt that holds the caliper halves together? I believe that was what you said. Anyway, I will try and look at mine this evening but you may just ask around at a trials gathering, I think they are a custom, not standard bolt.

HAZ or heat affected Zone Crack. If it were mine, I would strip a bit of stuff off. Grind it clean. If I was in a rush it would be MIG, if I had the time and was at the house TIG. Might be inclined to add a little reinforcing, but you always run the risk of making things too strong, and moving the break somwhere else. I would look at the later bikes in that area and verify that the factory has not already done something as mentioned, then plagerize their work. Good luck.

Just let me know. This Sunday is fine if you want (my kids are in Germany though if You / your son want to ride with other kids) Sunday 27th is sketchy but could work if you wanted. The 3rd works for me, but my kids wont be here The 10th is WW Kayaking in Nantahala so that does not work for me. Anything after is open right now, so just pick one. I have a fair variety of stuff, so if desired, we can swap pieces around (black throttles etc) I am an hour north of Nashville I-24 exit 8.

Edited quote, but that too me is the comment that I make to most fathers buying trials bikes for their kids. I made the mistake first time out, and paid for it for years. I have also seen folks that had kids that were familar riding other bikes, and the parents thought they would "step them up" on a trials bike, and usually that is a mistake. All that said and done, if the child is comfortable and wants the bigger bike, it can sure be helpful. Not too be rude or nosy, but have you asked your son what he wants? I would suggest that no matter how much you think one is the "right" bike, you will be facing an uphill battle if your son does not feel the same way. I myself am partial to the Sherco Camp, and have had about one of most, and a couple of some If I was making a guess, I would say a Sherco 125 with full size wheels and tires. Time spent getting comfortable trail riding etc. Just saw you are in Alabama. Drive up sometime, there are two Sherco 125's and a Sherco 200 sitting quietly in the trailer that need to get ridden, I have 9.5 acres and a backhoe so I am sure we can find or make suitable obstacles. Spend a day, and let him see where he wants to go. 931-801-7921

Hope all goes well for the Smage Clan there Craig.

Trade name for an Epoxy manufacturer, I think they are Huntsman now. Kind of like saying a "Crescent Wrench" or I would imagine as most folks use it here like saying I used "loctite, or JB Weld" http://www.gluguru.com/Epoxies.htm#Araldite2000