It Lives Again!!!

For limited values of lives obviously.

My home made variable resistor was fitted, a few basic checks made and
vigorous jumping up and down on the kickstart ensued. A lot of effort
for bugger all result really.

Half an hour later, once the "if you get a pain in the chest have a toke
on this spray" had kicked in and I regained my peripheral vision, I
decided that it was probably more than "it has been standing for a week"
syndrome.

Three seconds of diagnostic looking and I reconnected the four wires
that are the loom to that side of the bike. It started first kick.
Rocking.

The burnt out coil turned out to be a symptom rather than a cause as the
little charging light didn't go out. With the only place to go being
the regulator box the side panel was duly detached. Three bolts, all of
15 seconds each. Good innit?

Moving the wires to gain access to the regulator cover showed the cause
of the troubles. One had fallen off its terminal. I put it back on and
everything worked as it should.

Except... I found another wire. only attached one end and no obvious
place to put it, so I took it off.

Hey Ho, my pot is more than half full. I have a working bike, I didn't
actually die and I have a bit of wire left over.

 

Excellent. "Cut the blue wire, no, the red, no, wait, the blue..."

"If you get a pain in the chest, stop reading ukrm." Oh, me ribs.

 

They're all brown, aren't they?

 

platypus wrote

Brown actually.

 

platypus wrote

Only the ones that aren't green.

It seems to me that when working out the vagaries of MZ wiring that the
ability to accurately judge thickness and bendiness of the wires by
touch alone is essential.

 

Those'll be the ones with moss growing on them.

It's a basic ickle two-smoke that doesn't even have indicators. How hard
can it be?

Do you have a meter of some description?

 

platypus wrote

It may well be a part of your normal life in the slow lane experience
but there is no moss on my fucking bike sonny.

Not very but it would depend on the amount of knowledge you started off
with. Fortunately I start with plenty. Winding coils and shit was just
what I was taught as an apprentice all them years ago. Useful stuff
learning, everybody could benefit from it.

Ho yuss. I couldn't envisage life without it. Every home should have
one.

 

In the film "The Abyss" there was a nail-biting choice of white or
yellow.. viewed under a yellow light.

It would've been more exciting if there had been more than two wires
joining the clocky thing to the bangy thing...

 

The spare brown is an earth lead that I removed when I took the earth
side of the fuse box out of circuit.

That bike has more earths than it left the factory with and TBH MZ didn't
exactly stint on them.

 

sweller wrote

It has one less now. although it is such a nice piece of wire it seems
a shame to waste it. I will have to find a suitable use for it.

 

Might I suggest Sir puts it in a box marked "pieces of wire too short to be
of use".

John

 

"Pacemaker Electrical Spares". Should freak the unwary with a bit of
luck...

 

platypus wrote

I feel an idea forming.

 

Run away! Run away!