"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
03/30/2019 at 21:51 • Filed to: None
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"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
03/30/2019 at 21:51 • Filed to: None | 3
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Got a ton done today on the bike, it should be pretty close to being ready to go back together. I had two sets of hand controls for this bike. One set was on when it was stolen and is totally trashed. Here, on the left side ones, the control side was fine but the side with the plugs was super molested. My new set had good plugs and wires but the controls themselves were trashed. Cut the whole harness in half and re-soldered the whole lot. It was amazingly cathartic.
On the other side the only issue was the killswitch was seized, so I grabbed the killswitch off my old set and tossed it on but it had... this for wires.
Stuck some heatshrink on there to act as insulation and soldered them into the harness. Works great.
I also chopped down my amazon/ebay cheap Cafe seat that was far too wide and not the aesthetic I’m going for then covered it with some cheap vinyl and integrated it with my new tail section. Comfy as hell, doesn’t look great because the vinyl isn’t stretchy AT ALL so I’ll have to fix that sometime in the future but for now... it works.
Tomorrow i go throw all this at the bike! Hopefully I get a startup out of it, if I’m super lucky I’ll be able to ride it around the block a bit. The only other thing it really will need to be ridable is tires.
Future Heap Owner
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/30/2019 at 22:24 |
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A good day’s work!
Something about soldering is so soothing, isn’t it?
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Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> Future Heap Owner
03/30/2019 at 23:02 |
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I definitely need to get myself one of those “Helping Hands” things to hold the wires. Not having one is pretty frustrating.
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Future Heap Owner
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/31/2019 at 00:28 |
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Oh yeah, those things make a huge difference.
MM54
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/31/2019 at 09:55 |
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Yeah, to solder properly you need three arms; the little clippy things are about as close as you can get. I also find forceps (stainless) to be excellent for tight quarters “hold this while I solder it” since, unlike tinned alligator clips, the solder won’t wet to stainless and make it part of the wiring
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oldmxer
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/31/2019 at 22:09 |
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they make a great thing now i have seen advertised where you have a section of clear shrink tubing with a little ring of solder in the middle, you stick your stripped wires in from each end, then you use a micro propane torch to melt the solder and then shrink the tubing, dont know yet if there is only one online source for them but shouldn’t be too hard to find by a search
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oldmxer
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
03/31/2019 at 22:12 |
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it’s called solder seal