56 Terrier Motorcycle

FRS 106, Michael Littman – Spring 2014

Assignment: Chapter 7 in Shop Class as Soul craft

Firefighters and their instinctual knowledge.

“[Practical know how] can’t be downloaded, it can only be lived.” (p 162)

The references to Socrates

Learning through doing/use (p 164) (but as Littman says, some skill and intelligence is needed, thinking and doing combined)

Tacit knowledge and knowing what to do in a situation (p 166 / 168 / 172)

Theoretical vs practical

Ohms law V=IR, R = resistance, there’s always gonna be resistance.

Theres also no universal solution. And that R as a concept is theoretical.

Mechanics is often diagnostic

*Electrical connections need to be tightdry, and clean.

Advanced chess players are better at noticing patterns than beginners

DMM= digital multimeter, The digital had the advantage in that it had a more accurate reading due to its higher amount of sig figs, whereas the analog needle version is less random

Wullying (a sound a motorcycle makes), and lapping (taking the valve and twisting it with the grinding complex to make it fit better).

Top end did this, they ground and matched the valves in their seats.

Page 172 has cylinder honing (Puts scratches on the cylinder so oil can flow). 

Heidigger dude followed Kant’s reasoning.

Knowing how (Guy building the thing) vs knowing that (guy who writes the manual).

It does mention placing the spokes on the wheels.

Tuesday Lab Group Reports:

Bottom End and Clutch:

Continued Assembling the Engine. We had to Glen made a tensioner on the primary chain side, and they’ve gone with a duplex chain, Glen also made a spacer so it could all fit with

Top End:

Made a spacer for push rods and p, top end now bolted on for good…we’ll see,

Frames Forks and Wheels:

Shining the chrome styling badges, and looking for hardware, center stand needs spring  for stand. 

Electrical:

Wiring harness on frame, and wiring on headlamp, found battery online, and speedometer.

Other Notes:

  • Mariana made the gear indicator to be placed in the Nacell, It says Terrier on it.
  • The Chain Guards arrived
  • Oil tank and battery box need to be placed on frame, may need to make brackets for it. Topside of Nacell and headlamp needs to be placed as well.

By MBlanz

Thursday, April 24

Assignment: Chapters 7,8, Concluding Remarks

Class:

Care and Quality- One must understand quality to understand care
Sylvia and Jon rejected technology due to the absence of care.
Technology is the goal of art and science, motorcycle embodies this well.
Stuckness is the best possible state to be in. It means you must grow and cant
simply use previous experiences to guide you. The framework for moving past this you must search for quality to find how to move.

Romantic parallel is ugliness. Ugliness in the form of a lack of quality. Ugliness lies in the relationship between the creation and the creator. The answer to Phaedrus’s quandry is that you can’t overlay style style and quality. Style and Quality should be integrated.

Gumption is the abundance of quality. You are ready for whatever comes. Enthusiasm.

Monkeys and Coconuts: you value your freedom more than the rice.
Lab:

Continued the testing a disassembly of the old motorcycle. Still has issues, tested outside to listen and diagnose.
Put the stator in the housing, and attempting to get rotor in.
Working on attaching headlight to nacelle and finishing up body
finishing up final engine assembly and casing assembly.

-MSG

Tuesday, April 22

Reading Next 3 chapters in Pirsig

Class:

Went over the Crawford book

Responsibility-

Manager of a cubicle – manages quality of life
Manager of a machine – manages quality of work

Writing in the abstract strips the best part of a person away, gets rid of thought.
College-  Human capital thinking

College forces us to be unproductive.

It raises thought in a way that allows us to have a college without janitors

College should not revolve itself around abstract thought. It should be more practical in its
purpose.

College should concern itself with being good at jobs, and skills that apply to the working world, not simply acquiring abstract knowledge.

Teamwork-

Teamwork and interactiion is unstable.

IBM- “I’ve been moved” keepind a dynamic workplace is a successful strategy to manage a team.

But teamwork is inherently unstable.

Lab:

Took apart old motorcycle for Glenn to take to the senior dinner. Took the engine apart after diagnosing it was the head gasket that had failed. This was gathered from extremely loud noises coming from the Gasket. The engine still fails at high RPMs probably due to an electrical or fuel issue. Sealed the two inner covers with gasket compound. Eliza and Emma started the badges, cleaned and painted them. Spray painted silver with black lettering.Nigel and Bear assembled the push robs. The outer tube was too short to fit. To fix this we must restore the old one or extend the new one.

-MSG

Thursday, April 10th

Last time:

Frame, Forks and Wheels

  • Gas tank was primed primed
  • Nacelle was painted, sanded
  • Battery casing was sandblasted, primed
  • Fitted tire, tubing into the rim
  • Front tire is soft and it got pinched, so need to replace inner tube
  • Trued wheels using offset tool
  • Needed to figure out how far offset should be from the rim.
  • Nacelle coming along, could still use some work.  Need to wet sand the lower nacelle.

Bottom end

  • Wet-sanded the engine case
  • Got everything ready for assembly.
  • Did a final clean on all remaining parts.
  • Put the studs in in.

Electrical 

  • Found electrical harness and began labeling it.
  • made sure it was set up right – wire lengths, etc are very important.

Top end

  • Sanded, painted parts with high-heat silver paint.

CH 20/21 in Zen

There wan’t really anything about motorcycles in either chapter.

Ch20:

Rockslide -They were hiking through the mountains.  He had a bad feeling about where they were hiking, and was nervous a rockslide would occur.  This is symbolic to his concern about where his thoughts were taking him, as he was worried that he might go crazy again, just as Phaedrus did.  He was taking a different path through the “high mountains” of thought than Phaedrus.

Romantic Quality – focused entirely on the present

Classic Quality – takes into account the the present, past, and future.

Some notes on Quality form the chapter:

  • Metaphysics only good if improves everyday life.  Otherwise it is useless.
  • Reality is the now – always the moment of vision.  Quality exists in this moment.
  • Quality is the source of everything.

Other philosophers he looks at:

Hagel – the difference between the metaphysical and the mystical.

Tao Che Ching: Quality is all pervading, and cannot be defined.

Ch. 21

-Discusses the connection between Religion, Art, and Science, and how they all relate to quality.

-Science is not “value-free”.

WKR