fan on temp '05 klr

[sd_ware]

"Paint it, apply clear fingernail polish, or just smear grease on it. Easy enough. Its a KLR not a F-18 Super Hornet. Dooden A15 Green Ape" ============================ Thanks Dooden. You have the most logical and practical solution and being fixated on stainless, I just didn't think of the obvious. It still galls me, however. Doug

[revmaaatin]

Hi Doug, Dooden's fixit is similar to the Soviet/NASA fix for writing in space. NASA developed a pen that has positive pressure above the ink so that it will write in a gravity-free, or in a vacuum, right side up, upside down. They advertised them for years in magazines, "Developed by NASA, etc." The US cost is reported in the ....well, it was bu-coo bucks. The Soviet response? Use a 5-cent pencil, as graphite does not care about gravity. Sometimes it pays to be Master of the Obvious. Sometimes, good enough, really is, good-enough. (I say all this as though looking into a mirror.) The A-men choir may now sing. Sometimes we are over technologized for our own good. It happens to me often. Not to be confused with over-farkled, as in, buying more KLR farkle....(;~0) Dooden, I learned something here tonight. I got to buy some clear nail polish. Thanks. revmaaatin. Ps. clear nail polish works good on killing chigger bites if you ride far enough south in the spring and summer to find chiggers, aka red-bug. If you never got in a mess of chiggers, you are in for one, miserable, surprise... Pps. It really does not have to be "clear" nail polish. You just get fewer strange looks from the gal at the cosmetic counter when you go in to pay.

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, "sd_ware" wrote: > > "Paint it, apply clear fingernail polish, or just smear grease on it. > > Easy enough. > > Its a KLR not a F-18 Super Hornet. > > Dooden > A15 Green Ape" > ============================ > Thanks Dooden. You have the most logical and practical solution and > being fixated on stainless, I just didn't think of the obvious. It > still galls me, however. > > Doug >

[Erik]

> Hi Doug, > Dooden's fixit is similar to the Soviet/NASA fix for writing in space. > NASA developed a pen that has positive pressure above the ink so that > it will write in a gravity-free, or in a vacuum, right side up, upside > down. They advertised them for years in magazines, "Developed by NASA, > etc." The US cost is reported in the ....well, it was bu-coo bucks. > The Soviet response? Use a 5-cent pencil, as graphite does not care > about gravity. Sometimes it pays to be Master of the Obvious.

As much as I'm a proponent of KISS, this isn't really accurate. http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp "... both American and Soviet space missions initially used pencils, NASA did not seek out Fisher and ask them to develop a "space pen," Fisher did not charge NASA for the cost of developing the pen, and the Fisher pen was eventually used by both American and Soviet astronauts. " erik

[Bill Watson]

For trivia, don't forget that the fan temp switch is in the "Cold" tank of the radiator, not the "Hot". As a rule of thumb based on lots of testing, there's a 10 degree drop across the radiator when the stat is wide open, if you're moving and getting airflow. Obviously at a stoplight this drops to zero degrees. Anyway... my point: Water temp exiting the engine is more like 211-221F when the fan comes on. Bill Watson Phoenix ----------------------------------------- Fan on 94-100 C (201-212 F) Fan off 91 C (196 F) --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]