Glowing header pipes ZX9

That's not new: my TS185 did that years ago.

 

What's his new job then?

--
Veggie Dave
UKRMHRC#2 BOTAFOF#08
IQ 18 FILMS http://www.iq18films.com
Extreme Racing http://www.veggie-dave.co.uk
Toxic Shock Syndrome Gets More Girls Than Me

 

As per the link I posted, yes and no. Castor has a wider margin for
coping with excess heat, unlike synthetics. On the other hand, they're
messy and tend to gum and varnish.

 

That's almost a put down.

I was talking to a Prof at Brighton Uni about engine design, he told me
that there were interesting things happening in the world of spark less
petrol engines.

After I get on my engineering course, I'll know more. Until then, I'll
have to look about with google.

 

I'm surprised nobody has said, smoke and mirrors.

 

Heh, it's like a rampant rabbit, but with an oil leak ;-)

 

Is that Conway Motors, then?

A sort of Ogri Dream Bike.....

I'm surprised they speak to you at all ;-)

Please do me a favour - I need to speak to your old man pronto. Ask him
if you can pass me his phone number (work and/or home/mobile) and take
it to email.

Much, much appreciated.

 

The H1 doesn't, though.

 

No, Vinparts International. They did buy most of Conway's stock after
whatsisname went tree-surfing though.

They have to or I won't keep fixing their computers everytime they
break them...

Emailed.

 

Freelance scribe to Classic Bike I believe.

 

I didn't know that vegetable type oils were used in an automotive context, I
thought they were used for food type purposes.

Oh yes certainly, it just seemed odd that 2 types of 2 stroke oil, which
basically serve the same purpose should have such different characteristics.

--
Dan L (Oldbloke)
My bike 1996 Kawasaki ZR1100 Zephyr
M'boy's bike 2003 Honda NSR125R
Spare Bike 1990 Suzuki TS50X
BOTAFOT #140 (KotL 2005), DIAABTCOD #26, BOMB#18 (slow)

 

The use of veg oils predates mineral oils for lubrication of machinery.
For model engines Castor oil has only recently been replaced (and some
people still refuse to use the synthetic mixes).

Not too unusual - compare Lard and Rape seed oil at room temperature...

 

OOOH, my Uncle[1] used to be a test rider for them

[1] Younger bro's god parents actually.

 

Vacuum taps, so eighties...

 

Simon Atkinson wrote:

Not a case of refuse, synthetics still can't completely replace castor,
many synthetics still have castor blended in. Many competition engines
are designed to use castor for example.

 

Oh yes.

Some years ago I went for a trip on the paddle steamer that plies Loch
Lomond. A press trip, it was.

As we were all machinery freaks, we had a look in the engine room. This
Victorian steam engine was lubed by wicks hanging down from lovely
little glass bowls (they looked hand-made) that were sited in strategic
places.

If you wanted more lube, you adjusted the wick, like on an oil lantern.
And the Jock[1] in charge of the thing had a good old-fashioned oilcan
for manual attention to whatever needed it.

We asked him what they used for lube in the 19th century, when the thing
was built, and he said it was either vegetable or animal oils or fats.
Vegetable for preference.

[1] ISTR reading somewhere that if you opened the engine-room hatch of
just about any steamship between 1950 and 1950 and shouted: "Jock!" a
voice from inside would reply: "Aye?" The tartan buggers got everywhere.

 

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember
(The Older Gentleman) saying
something like:

But only for a very short time, it would appear.

--

Dave

GS 850 x2 / SE 6a
SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#6 FUB#3
FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19 COSOC#10

 

Heh. *1850 and 1950*

 

and seventies <points at KH500>

 

The H1 doesn't, though.[/QUOTE]

Oh, I daresay it would, were the piston crowns coated in enough
carbon.