Weekend update-

The Suzuki's still not ready. Huge surprise there, I suppose. After asking for some expert advice over at GS Resources, I took the carburetors off the bike again, for the umpteenth time and this time I installed the correct sized main jets- 115s instead of the 132.5s that were installed and I fixed the float height, which had been set on the wrong part of the float and so were much too high.

After all that and reinstalling everything, it was running much better and not leaking fuel when it was shut off, so that's a minor success. The plugs still are showing that the engine is running rich but I'm (hopefully) going to leave that alone until I can get the carbs sychronized by someone with a tool I don't own.

But the charging system's not charging... Nada. So- I dug out the repair manual, again and turned to the electrical section. The first test called for the main fuse and ignition fuse to be removed and then running the bike and measuring voltage output... See any problem with that last sentence? I never figured it out. But I did accomplish the no-load stator output test and the bike passed just fine. Which leaves the regulator-rectifier and bad connections as the only remaing source of problems. And I've been over all the connections and double-checked the grounds that can be bad, leaving just that pesky regulator-rectifier. Which turns out to only cost $120 delivered... Hooray!

What else? We had Knock-Me-Naked margaritas and fajitas at Carol's house Friday night and I finally got to meet her hubby, Dave. That turned out to be a really pleasant evening and I hope I behaved myself well enough to get invited back.

I did a little hobby molding this weekend, creating a plaster mold of my P3AT handgun. First I made the molds from some mix-with-water stuff that turns rubbery and preserves the details of the original. From there, I mixed plaster of paris and poured it into the two mold halves. The next day I spent a couple hours trimming the two plaster halves and then sanding them thin and flat enough to mimic the thickness of the original gun. Why did I do all this? I'm hoping to trade my work for a little work from Crossbreed Holsters. I've been communicating with the proprietor there and he said he didn't have a P3AT to mold holsters around. I'll be shipping him my plaster pistol today to see if he can use it.

Last night I spent a pleasant hour at guitar practice at Vicki's house and she has hummingbirds at her feeders, which were just above us on the deck where we played. I need to get my feeders out tonight I guess.

And we went to see a movie but that will get its own post, later today hopefully. Now its time for me to generate some effort for my handlers on the job.