Laser Chain alignment tool

sweller wrote

So would one of them ex burglar alarm bar magnets what live in the
drawer in the kitchen on the off chance they will one day be useful
gaffa taped to the illegal laser pointer thing I got when I went to
merkainia a few years back what I have got lying in the back of the same
drawer be any good?

 

I'd guess so but the magnet would have to attached square (Araldited?) to
the pointer. Shouldn't be too difficult if the body isn't tapered.

 

sweller wrote

Kin tape and like it. By the time I had faffed around gluing it
together and finding/going out and buying new batteries I could have
lined the kin thing up by eye. Snot as if it is hard, even Bear could
do it.

 

Overkill.

Many moons ago, I bought a chain alignment thingummy by 'Motion Pro' which
is a horseshoe clamp with an 18" bit of straight stainless steel rod that
fits into the top of the clamp.

Said clamp clamps over the sprocket and you sight down the rod to ensure the
chain run is in line with the rear sprocket. Doddle to use and about 1/3
the price of the laser gizmo.

Still, I can't claim to have aligned the rear wheel with a laser, nor can I
use mine to tease cats, so there are two tangible benefits of the laser
tool.

 

There's loads that can't. Believe me.

 

Does your laser pointer actually draw a beam? I mean can you actually
see the shaft of light or just the dot at the other end?

I almost bought a laser level to made sure my curtain rails were put on
straight but I've still not bought any curtains or rails

 

Whinging Courier wrote

Nah, it's light innit? All you can see is reflection off any dust what
happens through the beam and the stop at the other end, of course.

 

WT*F* is a 'lazer'?
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A good lungful of nature's finest blown along the beam should help.

 

Catman says...

Crash helmet

 

It's an end can, I'd have thought a laser would be of more use.

 

I never bother with all that polava.

 

Oh yeah...

Durr...

 

Oh yes. Got one in wardrobe.
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I honestly wasn't having a "pop" at Dan but as someone who isn't the
greatest mechanically minded person in the world I find it hard to
believe.

I reckon it must be some kind of "it's really technical" fear. I knew
nothing about bike mechanics before racing and whilst I still know
very little it's surprising how much you can get away with using
nothing more than common sense and a HBOL.

I've had the engine out of the gixxer and more importantly put it back
in on my own, once I'd had some help from the brother in law lifting
it into the frame. By the time I put the tank back on I was convinced
I must have forgotten something as it all went far too easily but
bugger me if it didn't fire up first time. Not exactly rocket science
but I was chuffed to bits with myself!

 

A mate of mine refuses to touch _anything_ on his bike, other than
oiling his chain and filling it with petrol (the bike, not the chain).
He's convinced that if he adjusts his chain, or changes his brake pads,
or changes a bulb, he's going to throw it down the road, with the
girlfriend whom he worships to an almost unhealthy degree, on the
pillion.

 

<waves> I'm mechanically useless and I don't mind admitting it.

 

I thought you had an GS1150 ?

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Christ, I'm behind the times.

 

Bridgestone Death^W Trailwings - TBH they were fine in the dry - just not to
sure how they'll be in the wet.

I believe the tyres are the same sizes as those on the 1150 and 1200.

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Thanks.

 

Oh I can adjust it fine - but getting the tension correct/alignment right -
it appears not.

I had one chain on the SV shed it's o-rings, and something similar on the
GSX-R.

At that point I gave up.