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Getting good at it!

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:32 am
by Virginia
Last night, I had to do some work on my bike! Its a VTX 1800S Honda. I had to take the battery out (requires an engineering degree or shooting blind whichever) and I had to install the entire left rear turn signal assembly. Never done that before either and required a bit, hell a lot of trial and error. Anyway two hours later, all done! =D>

Point: I did NOT break a single nail!!! \:D/ and that included having to reach up under the rear fender constantly with these hams I have for hands and really did not fit all that well in that tight spot!

Actually kind of scary now that I think about it! :-k

Love ya,

Virginia

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:47 am
by Caith
Woohoo!! You go, girl!!! =D> =D> =D>

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:56 am
by JoAnnDallas
No way am I going to touch the battery in my 2007 Toyota Pruius Hybred. As for the tail light assembly, looking at in the Maintence manual, I see that to remove the entire tail light assemble requires removing four screws, and unpluging 2 electrical connects.

My father when he was alive, was a master factory trained auto mechanic. I remember he telling me that most commision mechs charged by how long the standardized repair manuls said a certain job would take. He could always do it in less time, thus always maximized his work thus making more money per day. LOL

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 7:59 am
by DonnaT
Yes, congratulations. Even blonds can do it. Image

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:28 am
by Carol Ann
Oh no DonnaT,

You didn't say what I think you said?, rotf rotf

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 10:42 am
by SilverLady(SO)
Oh, yes, she did, Carol Ann! ::hmph::

Just wait, Donna, that blond is going to beat you with the cue stick :shock: . . . while at the billiards table, that is! :P :mrgreen:

*Hugs, Ladies*

- SL

Posted: Tue May 20, 2008 11:18 pm
by Jaye
On a similar note, I changed the bulb in my right front turn signal the other day. I didn't break a nail either. Of course, that might be because the manicurist cut them all off.

good

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 10:05 am
by Ann Stef
pure skill in working on cars withour breaking a nail, way to go.

Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:13 pm
by Carolynn
Hmmm. Monday I needed to replace my alternator, my airconditioner conpresor and a vent fan, and also of course, recharge the airconditioning coolant. So I took it in to the mechanic and I didn't break any nails either!!! Did cost me $1800.00 though, and that was a big ouch.

I have never been mechanically inclined, though in my first year in the Navy I was inexplicably posted to engineering where I had to rewind the armature and reinstall an electric motor, trace the steam cycle that provided basic power to our vessel, set up and operate steam turbines, and sketch and lable the reduction gears supplying motive power to the props that moved our ship and thoroughly learn the evaporator system that provided feed water for our boilers and fresh water for the crew. And I had to run a lathe, clear a deliberately blocked eductor pump (delibrately is about the only way to block one) and manually start emergency deisel generators and service same, and so other Damage Control things. But, automobile engines? I know nothing about anything more recent than 1964. :lol:

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:29 pm
by Tammy_F
Virginia,

I guess I should log in more often. I didn't realize that any other CDs in the area rode. Do you make it down to Christiansburg much? I ride up to Roanoke and on the parkway from time to time (several times this last month)

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 3:39 pm
by Amelie-Laveau
Last week I removed a battery from a car and I don't even own a car. I needed a battery and thought that the car parked in front of my home would have the battrery I needed, and I didn't break a nail either, well, i got no nails, I bite mine,,, so after reading back. my post didn't make much sense.

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:44 pm
by Jennifer M
As a fully trained tech(factory and A.S.E.)I have short fingernails.The occasional slip of the hammer doesnt help much :?

Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:23 pm
by Carla L
Well I bought oil today. Oh, and some new floor mats also. Maybe tomorrow I'll put those mats in the car after I vacuum the dirt under the old ones.

Does that make me a mechanic in this forum? (i didn't break a nail either)

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:58 am
by DonnaT
I can do all kinds of things without breaking a nail.

Except the laundry. I'm still trying to figure out how that happens.

No, I don't use starch.

Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:29 pm
by PattiG
Jennifer M wrote:As a fully trained tech(factory and A.S.E.)I have short fingernails.The occasional slip of the hammer doesnt help much :?
After you hit all ten nails, you could have the goth look :shock:

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Patti