Day 4- Emily
Introduction
- Different grits of paper bought as well as carborator and silencer
- Cut spokes off wheels and sand blasted the hub of the wheel, rear wheel hub in bad shape, may need to change
- Sand blasting- stream of air and silicon that strips back paint and or the top layer of a material
- Studied electrical diagrams, used voltohmmeter to test resistance in the continuity mode (continuity test for circuits)
- Washed and sand blasted engine covers and started to sand them down
- Took piston off engine and used a c-clamp to push out the wrist pin
- Sandblasted frame paying close attention to parts where there were joins/welds as these are prone to cracking. No cracks found.
- Catalogued all the parts related to the fork
- Took apart transmission and then cleaned up the parts. Got new friction plates and soaked them in transmission fluid (made of cork). Examined sprockets were symmetrical and that there were no chipped teeth.
- WORK: Read Chapters 9 and 10 for Tue
ZAMM Chapter 6,7,8
- Discussion leader- Ricky, Hannah, Eric
- Motorcycle references (6)
o Thread strip, chain adjustment. To strip a thread: a screw has a thread and a nut has a mate to it. He strips the thread by not loosening the axel nut in order to try and tighten the chain. Wheel adjustor helps to move the wheels back and forth but only if the axel nuts are loosened which is why the thread strips. If you don’t have the chain adjustor link can you still adjust the bike? Yes- loosen the axel nut and tap it until the chain slack is right and then re tighten the axel nut.
o Cotter pin (our bike does not have one)- when worried about parts shaking loose, by drilling a hole through axel nut it prevents it from loosening.
o Flywheel- heavy metal disk with large moment of inertia that keeps the engine turning/running as piston goes up and down.
o Rectifier- diode, ours has four diodes that converts the AC signal that comes from the alternator (positive to negative cycle) to charge the DC battery. Full range bridge rectifier is what converts the AC to DC.
o Power train-
- Content (6)
o Phadreus- further exposure to the significance that Phadreus had on his life, but still keeps his identify a mystery.
o Contrast between the classical and the romantic views of looking at the world.
o Classical- analytical breakdown of things
o Romantic- outward appearance
- Motorcycle references (7)
o When chrome overheats it turns a blue colour.
- Content (7)
o Address his ECT therapy and how it changed him as a person
o Is there a significance to the fact that he wants to slow down yet John is picking up speed, can see that there is something to it potentially. Draws a bigger contrast between the two.
o Knife- if you are a classical person can divide things into smaller pieces allowing for analysis of things, making the beauty of them lost. Romantic people add things to the world with their knife to make things. Phadreus was the master of the knife.
o Phadreus- plays close attention to detail but misses the bigger picture, stuck in his ways of breaking things down.
- Motorcycle references (8)
o Feeler gauge and push rod- have to adjust when the engine is cold because otherwise the material is expanded. When engine heats up the size of the gap gets smaller, need to ensure there is always a gap even when the engine is very hot. The gap can’t be too big as this wears parts, also cannot be too small as this prevents valve opening.
o Changing jets- fuel needed to be ‘leaned’ more, gets new jets from Bill. At high altitude the pressure is lower as there is less oxygen. As they go higher in altitude there is too much fuel for the amount of oxygen that is available. By reducing the size of the opening from the float and the reservoir of the gasoline.
o Discusses the different systems of the motorbike and the idea that a motorbike is a system.