Whew!
OK on most MC lists this time of year in the northern hemisphere, we
get into flame wars about oil, best tyres or tires, oil, annealed
copper and other banal stuff...
Here we get a treatise on physics and how old technology is still valid!
I just LOVE this list!
Thank you Colin for the delightful read on a dark and stormy November
night.
Denis
In cold and wet Los Angeles
On Nov 20, 2010, at 8:29 PM, golgrin wrote:
> Derek you're on the right track but there's more.
>
> Thanks to all for the input...I sussed it with a combo of what you
> guys were saying and a bit more.
>
> No offence intended to you wise ones but my breakthrough was to look
> at non Duc sources for flat belt alignment info.
>
> I found this gem. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/scenario/crowning.htm
> For those interested, make sure you go to the next page for the
> explanations.
>
> Was a bit hard for a bloke who struggled with maths and physics but
> it slowly made sense.
>
> I have now shimmed under the inner belt cover in a way that was
> counterintuitive to what I had been thinking.
> For now I just want to get enough of the bits back on the bike to
> run it up to its first heat cycle for retightening the heads.
> But after that when I have to pull it all apart again I'll take some
> pics to show you the shimming that straightened everything up and
> has the belt running down the middle of the pulleys.
>
> The pipes are back on, the electrics connected and back on charge
> and I'll connect up the fuel shortly ready for the start up.
>
> Thanks again.
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