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Of course it says right on the label of the charcoal lighter fuel: squirt directly on flames. When I was a little boy, 3 nuns died in my hometown doing just that. And a friends dad almost died spraying start fluid into a carb on a running engine.
Did anybody else notice that the cable that went into the amp was a TRS? The one into the guitar was a standard right angle TS. No wonder it all blew up! 
That would depend on the cable, the jack and how the TRS is connected. You can use a TRS connector or cable in a TS application. If the jack is TS and the cable plug is TRS the ring connects to nothing and the cable works fine. Just don't confuse an instrument cable and a speaker cable. [I've always hated that amp builders used the same 1/4" connector for both. Bastards!]Did anybody else notice that the cable that went into the amp was a TRS? The one into the guitar was a standard right angle TS. No wonder it all blew up!
I, as a long time musician and retired electrical engineer, get that but TB has a lot of innocents who, lacking understanding, would take it quite seriously. I've had quite a time over the years driving a wedge between neophytes and bad (ill-understood) ideas that they've latched onto and hold tenaciously. My apology for being a wet blanket.
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...and usually the worse the idea, the harder people seem to want to hold on to it IME!
I got my first 4 stroke dirt bike and obsessed on making it run like a two stroke. It took a while after reaching diminishing (or no) returns to let go of that. I did get it about halfway there....and usually the worse the idea, the harder people seem to want to hold on to it IME!
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I hope it didn't end up a 3 stroke... you know 3 strokes and you're out
Wow! This thread is still going. It’s the little ELF That could
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Only two stroke engines I ever really liked the sound of were the old Detroit Diesels (53, 71 and 92 series). I know you ran across of them in all that flight line yellow gear you spent your younger days around.
Oh, Sir Al, hop on a Yamaha IT and experience 3rd gear wheelies on gravel!
I liked the tugs, with maybe 10 or 15 MPH top end, MOPAR V8, very geared down, and a 3/4" steel body. I can't recall the model, but it's the same one that GHWB had on his Carrier, painted pink with his wife's nickname on it.
A fellow Plain Capt. my trainer, and I met up face to face on the flight line, him in an NC-8, me on the tug. He stood up and said NC-8's are BAAAAAAD. And I said tugs are BAAAAAD. Crazy !@#$ kept inching forward until they touched, then he floored it, pushing me back. So I floored it and kept it floored until he held his hand up NX fun.
I liked the tugs, with maybe 10 or 15 MPH top end, MOPAR V8, very geared down, and a 3/4" steel body. I can't recall the model, but it's the same one that GHWB had on his Carrier, painted pink with his wife's nickname on it.
A fellow Plain Capt. my trainer, and I met up face to face on the flight line, him in an NC-8, me on the tug. He stood up and said NC-8's are BAAAAAAD. And I said tugs are BAAAAAD. Crazy !@#$ kept inching forward until they touched, then he floored it, pushing me back. So I floored it and kept it floored until he held his hand up
NX fun.
Not so bad. It still had a helluvalotta torque and I was getting 3rd gear wheelies on pavement (and chewing up knobbies really fast). Then I moved onto suspension. Fitted an RM400 front end on it. I could swear the tire was hitting the fender for just an instant after getting air. Felt like I was hitting the front brake when the tire hit the ground for a second before I shifted. I heard a scuff and it felt like I was breaking. Turned out I WAS hitting the front brake hard, because the cable wasn't long enough for the longer forks
Rerouting the cable fixed it.
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I recall some good times on an early/mid 70's 90CC, 5 speed (IIRC) Kawasaki that was part dirt bike, part road bike. That thing didn't have tremendous top end, but it would have climbed a phone pole if you could have stayed on it. Of course back in those days I was too busy with big block Chevy muscle and my favorite Mopars (Duster 340's, 383 Road Runners, and 440 Chargers) to care much about two wheeled stuff...my loss I think.
Those old gals are coveted for nice trial handling. The Yamaha version, DT series (often called the Yamaha enduro) was really good. A full racing version like the Yamaha YZ, 'zuke RM, etc., is hard to control on the trials. REAL enduros, like the Yamaha IT, 'zuke PE and the Kaw equivalent make very good trail/woods bikes. 2 strokes are not allowed to compete at the same cc level with 4 strokes. Power band is amazing. Not there on 4 strokes. I knew a guy that broke his back hitting the power band on a Honda CR500. Doctors said if he hadn't had his Darth Vader suit in he'd be dead. IIRC, he had a throttle stick.
Yer thinking of the wrong kind of strokes, my brotha.So, what... a 1 stroke?
Or half a 4 stroke... That's, like... a 2 stroke?
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