"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/29/2019 at 22:49 • Filed to: Two wheels still sorta broken but screw it I'm riding anyways
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"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
08/29/2019 at 22:49 • Filed to: Two wheels still sorta broken but screw it I'm riding anyways | 3
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The weather has been gorgeous this week, but I haven’t been able to ride my scooter, because the stator isn’t charging the battery, and the part is back ordered until mid-September. It’s been driving me completely insane.
Today I realized that I am an idiot. It took me nearly two months to decide to figure out why my battery was being slowly killed, during which I rode hundreds of miles. What, all of the sudden because I know the problem, I can’t still keep riding it?
No, stupid, that’s not how this works. Tonight I threw it back together. And by that I mean I plugged the stator back in, and snapped the lower cover back on. I threw my battery charger on it. Tomorrow I ride to work, like I should have been doing all damn week.
I did have a mini freak out. After I initially put it together, it wouldn’t crank. At all. WTF!?!?!
Oh, I left the kickstand down after putting it on the center stand ... Riiiiiiiiight.
Man, I is stupid sometimes.
MM54
> shop-teacher
08/29/2019 at 23:04 |
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I do this with my tractor. It doesn’t charge the battery, but with the ignition and the PTO clutch the only electric loads, I charge it in the spring and it’s good for the year.
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shop-teacher
> MM54
08/29/2019 at 23:21 |
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Nice!
In hindsight, this started happening in like May.
gettingoldercarguy
> shop-teacher
08/30/2019 at 04:26 |
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All I have to add is Stimpy!
TheRealBicycleBuck
> shop-teacher
08/30/2019 at 11:06 |
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It took me a minute to realize why it wouldn’t start after the battery was charged.....
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shop-teacher
> TheRealBicycleBuck
08/30/2019 at 11:10 |
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I’m planning to disable the kickstand interlock. My last scooter didn’t have one, and I find it super annoying.