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btw, I pulled a bonehead move today. I for some reason decided to go nutzo with my propane torch and anneal the aluminum drain plug washer. All is going well until I see the f*(^3r starting to melt...luckily I caught it in time and I was able to reuse it. If I had another one on hand I would have trashed this one but I wanted to ride!

 

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you must make a mean Creme Brulee

nope. I'm just an idiot pyromaniac! You should see me with a BBQ pit and a bottle of lighter fluid!

 

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Here's a racers tip ......

Next time you change your oil and have the sump plug in your oily hand ... take a 1/16" drill bit and your drill and bore a hole in the edge of the bolt head so that you can thread a length of tie wire through the drain plug and secure it to your frame or elsewhere with the lock wire..

This will prevent the bolt from unscrewing itself from vibration and spewing your engine oil all over your back wheel at an inopportune moment ....... like, just as you are entering Turn One at Phillip Island or some place similar....


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and how often has that actually happened? Seems like a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

 

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Didn't you use the trick my old metalwork teacher taught us at school? When annealing aluminium you rub a bar of soap on it before you heat it and then just torch it until the soap blackens.

I did not know that...that information might have helped me. Thanks!