Gordy
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Sounds like a dream come true
Ld100 progess
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I am probably the only person you will ever know that has taken his so-called smart phone and turned it into a stupid phone on purpose, I removed and disabled anything and everything that contacted the internet and is now only capable of sending and receiving phone calls, it does not even text as I refuse to do that either...lol.
I run a sophisticated enough Linux Operating System on my computers which is good enough for me and gives me my privacy with no trackers or advertisers following me all over the web and have totally eliminated all advertisements including even the youtube ads in their videos...lol...lol.
Below is how the Linux OS looks when I am broadcasting for radio stations that have had some sort of melt down and call me to broadcast for them until their engineers can fix their breakdown and get things up and running again...lol...It happens more often than you might think and I am on an FCC shortlist of go to guys that have the setup to handle these type of outages etc. when they happen, not to mention a vast library so large that I can literally broadcast for weeks without repeating any songs during that time...lol.
Gordy
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I would love to hear a radio station manned by you.
I used to "moonlight" back in the 80s at two stations in Brockton, Massachusetts...WBET which was all oldies all the time and WCAV, music of the country, (country music).
When I am broadcasting from the house these days to downed radio studios, (they are pretty much all computerised now), it usually means their main computer with their entire music library on it that would normally be broadcasting on air has totally fried on them and they need to rush out and get a new computer, download all their backups including music files to it etc...It sometimes takes them days to get it all back together and online again.
In the meanwhile, I have them hook up any old computer that is still working in there like their PSA system or their weather computer and I then link their system and lock it onto mine so all they have to do is have a DJ there on duty because their automation just croaked on them, that way he can still do their advertisements, public service announcements, periodic station identification, etc...all that guy has to do is just do a fade in or fade out depending on what that station needs to be doing at a given time...I just make sure to keep my end constantly streaming to them and they can just fade back in when they see and hear the next song starting...They are able to only broadcast the sound, but they can see the video as it is playing and although you do not see it in the screenshot, I also have a studio countdown timer so they see how much time has elapsed and how much time is left to the next song in queue.
I just let it stream as my system is totally automated even though I can also run it manually as well.
When I am broadcasting from the house these days to downed radio studios, (they are pretty much all computerised now), it usually means their main computer with their entire music library on it that would normally be broadcasting on air has totally fried on them and they need to rush out and get a new computer, download all their backups including music files to it etc...It sometimes takes them days to get it all back together and online again.
In the meanwhile, I have them hook up any old computer that is still working in there like their PSA system or their weather computer and I then link their system and lock it onto mine so all they have to do is have a DJ there on duty because their automation just croaked on them, that way he can still do their advertisements, public service announcements, periodic station identification, etc...all that guy has to do is just do a fade in or fade out depending on what that station needs to be doing at a given time...I just make sure to keep my end constantly streaming to them and they can just fade back in when they see and hear the next song starting...They are able to only broadcast the sound, but they can see the video as it is playing and although you do not see it in the screenshot, I also have a studio countdown timer so they see how much time has elapsed and how much time is left to the next song in queue.
I just let it stream as my system is totally automated even though I can also run it manually as well.
For the OP.
Most of your questions were sorta covered. Head gasket sealing techniques? Do you mean methods we use to get a good seal, or maybe spray coatings for a gasket? As backyard as it sounds, a sheet of glass, a mirror on a table, or a thick piece of Lexan with a sheet of sand paper taped to it is an incredibly simple but effective way to create a true/flat surface on a cylinder or cylinder head. I will use 80 grit to do most of the work to get the sealing surfaces level. Once I know I am almost at the entire sealing surface being flat I will start switching up to higher grits to help smooth the surface. I will go to a 400grit finish, which is usually more than sufficient. The finer the surface on the head AND cylinder, the better a metal head gasket will seal.
On the other end of the cylinder I like to use Aircraft Gasket sealant No.3 to coat my base gaskets it. This helps prevent them from wicking oil through, and is a semi-curing sealant that can tolerate fuel. Pretty nice stuff. I also love to level the base of my jugs if at all possible.
Crank balancing is definitely worth it, but not completely necessary. More important, IMHO, is truing the crank. This can actually resolve some vibration on it's own, and greatly extends crank seal and bearing life.
In both regards, there are people that offer/sell balanced cranks. Obviously, the best way to do it is to find the weights for your parts and determine the balance factor you have, and doing the math to determine how much weight to remove or add to the crank. Price wise, it's cheaper than buying/building the tools and equipment needed to do so yourself if you don't have any of it.
If the LD100 is anything like the YD100, I know my YD100 builds loved a Mikuni VM-18 carburetor.
A good expansion chamber goes a long way to add useable performance.
Most of your questions were sorta covered. Head gasket sealing techniques? Do you mean methods we use to get a good seal, or maybe spray coatings for a gasket? As backyard as it sounds, a sheet of glass, a mirror on a table, or a thick piece of Lexan with a sheet of sand paper taped to it is an incredibly simple but effective way to create a true/flat surface on a cylinder or cylinder head. I will use 80 grit to do most of the work to get the sealing surfaces level. Once I know I am almost at the entire sealing surface being flat I will start switching up to higher grits to help smooth the surface. I will go to a 400grit finish, which is usually more than sufficient. The finer the surface on the head AND cylinder, the better a metal head gasket will seal.
On the other end of the cylinder I like to use Aircraft Gasket sealant No.3 to coat my base gaskets it. This helps prevent them from wicking oil through, and is a semi-curing sealant that can tolerate fuel. Pretty nice stuff. I also love to level the base of my jugs if at all possible.
Crank balancing is definitely worth it, but not completely necessary. More important, IMHO, is truing the crank. This can actually resolve some vibration on it's own, and greatly extends crank seal and bearing life.
In both regards, there are people that offer/sell balanced cranks. Obviously, the best way to do it is to find the weights for your parts and determine the balance factor you have, and doing the math to determine how much weight to remove or add to the crank. Price wise, it's cheaper than buying/building the tools and equipment needed to do so yourself if you don't have any of it.
If the LD100 is anything like the YD100, I know my YD100 builds loved a Mikuni VM-18 carburetor.
A good expansion chamber goes a long way to add useable performance.
Mike Cyanide
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Ok so it spools up FAST. Once it's really pulling at roughly 8000+ no tach on this one. She vibrates kinda like an oscillation. Ya kno like a bad rear wheel bearing in a truck.
Have you checked the motor mounts lately? You can get some weird vibrations when they get loose.
Mike Cyanide
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I wish man they're rock solid. Wheel bearing aren't fantastic but don't bind. I'm thinking possibly when under load they make it pronounced.
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