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| Re: SP1 Clutch, or lack of it. [message #222156 is a reply to message #222154] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 01:23 |
 SPAL 
Messages: 835
Registered: June 2009
Location: London |
(7) 125 GP Winner |
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HI All,
If small end of seal goes towards engine, it was fitted wrong way round first time.
Piston cant be fitted wrong way round as it has a spring which attaches between the piston and cylinder body and an oil seal which goes over top of clutch operating rod.
Not sure what scoring is, not sure it actually is scoreing, think may be marks left by oil seal, which has become softened by being soaked in clutch fluid.
I've ordered new cylinder gasket, oil seal and piston seal (which came to about £12.00), should be in on Wednesday so will fit and check out.
Think failure was probably down to piston seal being fitted incorrectly.
SPal
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| Topic: Routers |
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| Routers [message #222166] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 08:16 |
RobGoo
Messages: 8787
Registered: July 2003
Location: Edge of sanity |
(19) John Surtees |
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I'm more used to dealing with the woodworking type, and I must be getting old because I'm finding an increasing technology-apathy creeping in...
But my router in currently wireless and unsecured because every time I put a key in, it stopped working. I've tried the theoretical ways to update it and also tried just about everything by process of elimination too. Dont know if it's linked but regularly I open up the laptop and cannot get a webpage because it says 'Resolving host' then says page is not available. The old IT trick of switching the router off and on works though! Dont know if this is switching between mine and the wife's user accounts, or if someone is hijacking the connection.
So I'm thinking that it's long in the tooth and a new router wouldnt go amiss and I might be able to get the security set up.
What should I be looking for these days in terms of features and speed as a minimum requirement? Doesnt have to be flash or loaded with features.
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| Re: Routers [message #222185 is a reply to message #222166] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 12:17 |
Kermit
Messages: 15042
Registered: June 2003
Location: Leeds |
(22) Giacomo Agostini |
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Tricky to be specific about any one router but you should be looking for a router that supports the 802.11n wifi standard as while your PC/Laptop might not support this 108mbps wifi standard atm, the router will also support using the previous 802.11g standard (58mbps) but will be ready for any new laptop in the future almost all of which do now support the faster n standard. Its not so much the speed that important, but the n standard does seem to have a better reach than 802.11g so tends to work through walls better and even to the bottom of most gardens.
Firstly though, besides the wifi aspect, there's 2 types of routers, CABLE routers and ADSL/BT Routers with the later having a builtin ADSL modem. I think your on ADSL so make sure you get one of these and make sure the box specifies that it supports ADSL2 or ADSL2+ as thats the adsl standard that supports the newer type of adsl with internet speeds of upto 24mbps. Most bt exchanges have or will be upgraded to this standard over the next year or so so best to ready.
If your going to a store to buy (eg PCworld) then this looks pretty good for the money although most routers in the £45-75 range (mainly netgear, linksys and belkin) should be solid routers although there's always the slim chance of a lemon. I tend to stick with well known brands as support and upgrades to their firmware are easier to get hold off than chinese routers from little known brands (even though most routers are probably all made in China)
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/belkin-f6d4630uk4a-wireless-ad sl-router-802-11-n-4-port-switch-02380487-pdt.html
Be sure to to use the "collect in store" option as the shelf price may be more without that and if you do get in store and see a better offer, then there's nothing to prevent you keeping your "collect in store" printout hidden.
As for security, its fairly easy to do this, you choose to configure the wifi security as WPA (personal) or WPA2 (personal) in the routers web menu, add a password (can be any alpha/numeric combo unlike WEP that requires a specific length password made up of 0-9 and a-f). Then on your laptop goto your wifi networks and remove your current saved config for whatever you've called your wifi as that profile will be stored without wep/wpa and it'll fail to connect to the new secured wifi. When you've removed the old saved profile, refresh available wifi networks, find your own and connect. This time it should prompt you to enter the security password as entered in the router.
TIP - don't go with a routers own randomly generated wifi password (eg df778fd6fd77vfs7) as its too hard to remember, but pick something fairly easy to remember but not guessable
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| Forum: General chatter... |
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| Topic: Conservatory costs |
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| Topic: earthquake |
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| Re: earthquake [message #222159 is a reply to message #222157] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 07:14 |
Lara929 
Messages: 5596
Registered: June 2003
Location: Aotearoa |
(15) Kenny Roberts |
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shamelessly stolen from a forum here, but this sums it up really well:
For those of you in the rest of the country, please do not underestimate the power of Mother Nature. If you haven't done so, have your survival kits ready, your grab bags too.Write phone numbers on a peice of paper as well as store them in your phone, have cash to hand for 2 or 3 days, secure those tall cabinets to the wall and look what you have stored where. Make sure you have water for drinking and washing, petrol in your car and your phones charged and credit on them, and make sure your kids know the drill, wherever they may be.
Having lived through the past 36 hours and held my children in a doorway more than once and seen a grown man reduced to tears, this is not a situation I wish to repeat. For those of you on the outside looking in watching the news constantly, when you are that news it feels very differently, and right now I think most of us wishes we could switch channels for a few days.
Keep safe friends
Look here to see what we have been experiencing today, 30 after shocks since midnight today. No other quakes are registering other than those near us.
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| Re: earthquake [message #222164 is a reply to message #222159] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 08:02 |
RobGoo
Messages: 8787
Registered: July 2003
Location: Edge of sanity |
(19) John Surtees |
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Glad you both came through it relatively unscathed. I was amazed there were still as many buildings still standing in Christchurch on the news when they said the size of the two big quakes had been that big. Still a shed load of serious damage though, but good no-one was seriously hurt
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| Re: earthquake [message #222171 is a reply to message #222089] |
Sun, 05 September 2010 08:48 |
Kakugo 
Messages: 3370
Registered: August 2003
Location: Lugdunon |
(11) MotoGP Podium Finisher |
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We had a pretty big earthquake around here about five years ago.
As in the case of NZ only the oldest buildings were affected and, thankfully, there weren't any casualties.
The only damage we had was an old well, which had been covered up, opened up again. It took five truckloads of rubble and earth to fill it up again... but since we got away without any other damage we still consider ourselves very lucky.
Again my thought to all of those hit by this tragedy.
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plus aftershocks. Not good.
for me