What did you do in your garage today..?

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Also - at my cottage we've been having some leaks during rains. My usual guy has been up there several times, each time claiming he had fixed it, but taking literal months to look at things each time water came through.

So I decided to pull the plug on that guy. I'm very loyal to my guys, and he has been very good to us over the years and I consider him my friend, but I hit my limit. Had a new roofer come in who suspected a spot - the shingle was lifting up there, it as on a flattish spot near a transition in the pitch, there was a rusty nail visible and it was pretty much above where the leak was. So he suggested I go up there later with a hose, apply water to the spot, and see if it leaked.

It didn't. There was some debris on the roof a few feet away from this spot, so while I was up there I decided to sweep. I found a clean hole about the size of a toonie underneath, almost certainly from a broken tree branch. Confirmed with the same hose that water applied to it will come back out inside. So that's a win, knowing where the water is coming in from.

Tried to cover it up with duct tape as it looked like it might rain. In case anyone is interested - duct tape does not adhere to wet shingles. Put some down anyways and sat a bottle of vinegar (LOL) on it to hopefully weight it down. Don't know why I didn't think of using a brick, but by the time I had that idea it was dark. Wife doesn't like the idea of me on the roof.

Come to think of it, I'm very surprised I don't hear about trephinations by falling tree branches. I find tree branches all over my property stuck vertically in the ground and have had similar holes punched in a bunch of other stuff (lawn furniture, SUPs, etc).
 
Relax said:
The typical loops that go around a fastener don't need to touch to heat them up. I don't know if it's the saee for the pad style that mimics the way an induction cooktop works. Maybe someone can try lifting their pan a few mm's off the cooktop with a sheet of silicone and see if it still heats up. The free-form loop should solve that problem as it will go around the bolt, albeit around the entire fork bottom, which is why you'd want as many loops as possible to generate a strong enough field to reach the bolt from that distance.
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Sounds like some voodoo magic right there! I've got to learn more about how that works. The few videos I've found, the tool looks gigantic.
 
85K100 said:
Expanding the surrounding material will do the same thing.
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It's much easier to heat the steel bolt than the heat sink that's the aluminum fork bottom. Using any kind of torch whether it's aimed at the bolt or the fork bottom will surely discolour the bottom, not something OP probably wants. That might be avoidable if the inductive heater works. If it doesn't, then he still has the option to use a reverse drill in the socket head of the bolt and worst case drill off the head the head to release tension allowing the axle to come out and the fork leg to be removed from the bike for possibly better access. Worst case scenartio, replace the fork bottom.
 
I don't mind if the bottom of the fork leg gets discoloured. Nobody's going to look there, and my bike has her share of pock marks already. Dirt on the underside isn't going to bother me.

I'm more worried that there's a chance heat could compromise the fork leg itself.
 
NuggyBuggy said:
I don't mind if the bottom of the fork leg gets discoloured. Nobody's going to look there, and my bike has her share of pock marks already. Dirt on the underside isn't going to bother me.

I'm more worried that there's a chance heat could compromise the fork leg itself.
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A wise concern. Just don't over do it. It doesn't have to be glowing red.
 
Found this broken oring on the driveway this morning so we’ll see if it turns into a busy day in the garage. Pretty much narrowed it down to either the truck or van or one of four bicycles.
This will involve standing in the garages looking around at things (which is my typical Sunday anyways).
 

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Hardwrkr13 said:
Found this broken oring on the driveway this morning so we’ll see if it turns into a busy day in the garage. Pretty much narrowed it down to either the truck or van or one of four bicycles.
This will involve standing in the garages looking around at things (which is my typical Sunday anyways).
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A o-ring shouldn't be able to get free without removing the plug it is sealing. It's not tiny, fluid should be pissing with a hole that big (check fluid levels to make sure there is fluid to piss).

Imo, it's more likely to have dropped off something like a rigid wallet where it was a friction ring than a vehicle.
 
GreyGhost said:
A o-ring shouldn't be able to get free without removing the plug it is sealing. It's not tiny, fluid should be pissing with a hole that big (check fluid levels to make sure there is fluid to piss).

Imo, it's more likely to have dropped off something like a rigid wallet where it was a friction ring than a vehicle.
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Power washer, air shocks on bikes, lots of things it could be.
Noticed one kids helmet has a oring in the strap and the others doesn’t so maybe that’s it.
 

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NuggyBuggy said:
...I’ve been ripped off twice now on Marketplace in a year.
Be careful.
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mixed experience here. found some really good deals tho; sony a6000, rtx 3060ti from a fellow rider, ultrasonic cleaner, furniture, and other random things.

to be on topic:
I was thinking about repainting my bike then i remember how much it costs and the amount time/care/prep/materials/equipment i need to get it done VS getting a pro like john/dave connery. I go back to sweeping up the floor in the garage and take the bike for a ride. I'll do this another 5 times throughout the year until i get bored of my bike and sell it.
 
85K100 said:
Heat makes things expand. You do NOT want to expand the bolt. You DO want to expand the material that surrounds the bolt, and is entrapping it.
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The heat expansion works to break bonds caused by corrosion or thread locker so it doesn't really matter if you expand the bolt or the fork -- only thing that matters is you have enough heat to cause one of the parts to expand enough to break the bond. If the bolt is overtorques, heat wont help much as heat doesn't loosen the tension on a bolt. For that you need penetrating oil , which only works if it can penetrate down the threads.

Nuggy's problem could be corrosion or thread locker locking, overtorquing the fastener, or stripping out the fastener with the wrong size allen key (or a poor quality allen key). Heat can help wihth corrostion or thread locking -- not much ihelp f the cause is the other things.
 
i had bought an Abba Skylift but was looking into machining the parts myself. After a while going down that road, I spent the money and just paid the vendor. Somebody on Facebook was nice enough to take measurements of his fittings but I decided to stop futzing around. After a back and forth with vendors I finally received them.

I couldn’t get the bike on the lift. Off the center stand, the lift doesn’t seem to go low enough. On the center stand, the foot gets in the way of the lift. Ended up having to put it on the center stand, and stick 2x4s far enough under the rear wheel, so that when I rolled it off the stand it was still elevated. That just bought me the room to mount the bike on the stand. Pretty sure I should not have to do that, but for now I have a solution. I’ll have to do something similar to get it off the stand.

Online the bike length was supposed to be just a few inches less than the width of the container, and I had expected to be able to turn the bike around when on the stand horizontal. In reality, I can JUST turn the bike around in my shipping container IF the bike has the front wheel lifted to the max. Bike feels pretty stable, even with the container not being fully level.

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EDIT: I went over my correspondences with abba (*great customer service*, by the way - they are super responsive and helpful), where they did mention that there is a minimum swingarm pivot height below which, the rear wheel may need to be raised slightly, say by using 2x4s as I did. I didn't pay attention at the time because it didn't occur to me this would apply to a tall adventure bike with suspension in its tallest mode. So this is a reality with at least some bikes. Next weekend I'll measure the pivot point to confirm that this is true for mine, but I assume it must be.
 
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Relax said:
You just can't catch a break, eh?
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I told my wife that if I could get my bike up on the lift this weekend - I'd count it as a success. So I'm happy on that count.

But in the large, you're not wrong. I love this bike to death - every time I look at it, I fall in love again. But for some reason I feel snake-bit by it, and I don't know why. I've not had any problems with it (beyond this one, which apparently is not all that uncommon), nor any issues that weren't directly attributable to something I did. But somehow, I feel like I'm in abusive relationship. A female friend told me she thought it was going to my sweetheart, and I told her, she's no sweetheart - she's a big bad sexy ***** who wants to kill me.

So much so that this weekend, I started listening to my wife begging me to sell it and buy something else.
 
NuggyBuggy said:
I told my wife that if I could get my bike up on the lift this weekend - I'd count it as a success. So I'm happy on that count.

But in the large, you're not wrong. I love this bike to death - every time I look at it, I fall in love again. But for some reason I feel snake-bit by it, and I don't know why. I've not had any problems with it (beyond this one, which apparently is not all that uncommon), nor any issues that weren't directly attributable to something I did. But somehow, I feel like I'm in abusive relationship. A female friend told me she thought it was going to my sweetheart, and I told her, she's no sweetheart - she's a big bad sexy ***** who wants to kill me.

So much so that this weekend, I started listening to my wife begging me to sell it and buy something else.
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Looks like a '12-14 Multi is that correct? If it makes you feel better I had a 16 Multi 1200S and it's still one of my all-time favourite bikes for many reasons and I put 35,000 trouble-free km on it.
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