Never Ever B4 seen photos of a Goldwing

[Goboy]

Patricco, beer, ice cream, & pretty women & bikes are part of male genome don't cha know!

[Patriccio]

Yea, I guess I knew that was part of my male make-up; I just need a bigger blender for the mix up.

Fi! Fi! Fi! Fi, the knurled ferrule. After installing the grips & mirrors & letting the alcohol evaporate for several days (lucky it wasn't weeks), I noticed the right control unit slipping again. As my mother would say as she witnessed my working out some math or grammar problem, "You're not at your wit's end, because I don't think your wit has an end." Such a nice way of calling her son a smart alec.
I've epoxied the ferrule. I've used the JB Weld, & it still spins. I tried some Lock Tite on the threads; didn't help. Today I extracted the offending part, admonished it, subjected it to the flash mode on my camera. Here it is, & I hope it's embarrassed that I took its picture in the nude.

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The problem-solving continues, because I am surely not at my wit's end.

[gltriker]

[Patriccio]

This Puppy is so close to being finished that I can taste the gnats in my teeth! (That would be from riding down the street w/ the big grin, right?) Marshall's Hardware has nearly everything, so I visited the store, showed the guy the part, & he rummaged around, grunted, coughed, & pointed to several bins. I found a threaded hexagonal ferrule type widget thingey & bought several w/ properly threaded bolts. After dismantling the control unit, I noticed the ancient plastic had broken in two places. Using the appropriate amount of JB Weld I filled up as much as I could, & without clogging up the entire area. Another ferrule appeared to be trying to escape its plastic case, so I welded it in.
I'll give it a couple of days so the epoxy cures completely.

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Long day. Tuckered out. Time for some prunes. Ciao.

[Sugs]

Yes, Marshalls Hardware. My go to place for finding any kind of nut, bolt, washer, SAE, Metric, etc. Love that place.

[Patriccio]

Heck yea, man! When I was there the other day, & on my way out, I spotted a bright yellow extension cord that matched my shirt exactly! In error I was thinking I could once again connect the Mr. Coffee Maker to the Puppy, so I popped the beautiful sunshine yellow extension cord into my already over loaded basket & headed for check-out. I had visions & dreams of being the most snazzy in the neighborhood w/ the black 'n white bike, the black awesomeness of Mr. Coffee Maker & a wonderful yellow hue of the extension cord. Fifty bucks for fifty feet--that's cheaper than Starbucks coffee! If you stacked three tall coffees upon each other, that would amount to $5.85 a foot, a ridiculous amount for coffee by the foot. Sugs, when the Puppy is finished we could meet at Marshall's, probably in the tools section, & mull over future purchases.

[5speed]

[Patriccio]

Woeth, woeth, woeth me for I have been besieged by the JB Weld failure. First, Nagasaki & Hiroshima, then Nixon resigns, Mt. Saint Helens blows her top, then Reagan removes the solar panels from the White House roof, American Motors & their wonderful designs become defunct (Remember the Gremlin, the Ambassador, the Javelin, the Marlin, the Pacer--all at the cutting edge of peculiar automotive design), and now a JB Weld failure.
I took the Puppy out into the neighborhood for a scoot, & when I returned the R switch housing was loose. So, the bike's for sale! No, it isn't! Yes, it is! No, it isn't! Yes, it is! No, it isn't. My personality disorder is a bit disordered today. I'll sleep on it, write a letter to JB Weld asking for advice & move on. I'll deflect this bummer w/ a story about a guy & his truck.
A buddy of mine was towing a big box truck from Atlanta to San Diego w/ his big truck when he hit black ice in Texas. Those of you in Texas & those who know black ice, know it is treacherous. Right after breakfast in Texas, the wind hit the trucks & the black ice was right there under the tires, so he spun out, rolled, disconnected. He was OK. Trucks were damaged. And now the important part: HE REATTACHED THE STEERING COLUMN IN HIS TRUCK W/ JB WELD & DROVE BACK TO SAN DIEGO!
If he can attach a steering column, why can't I repair a plastic switch housing? Aaaah, the rhetoric continues.

[CYBORG]

I have nothing but respect for JB weld. The slow stuff,...not the instant stuff. Soooo I have to wonder if it was operator error

[Patriccio]

Were it not so darn slow here at the pizzeria, I would not even consider a response in heat. But I'm taking umbrage, the biggest umbrage, yugest umbrage, so sad umbrage, in that someone would think I could make a mistake. [But then again, I'm not sure if I read the directions.] After work tonight, I will re-re-read the directions to see if the stuff is even compatible w/ 37-year-old plastic of oriental origin. Then I will check my lab notes to determine if there was a flaw in the application; then I will interrogate the operator to determine expertise, sanity, attention span, hand-eye coordination, personality disorder, general disorder, sobriety, etc. After delving into the scientific method, I, too, may develop nothing but respect for JB Weld.
(I think I hear the phone ringing or a pizza falling from the oven.)

[5speed]

Is there anything that J-B Weld WON’T bond to?
J-B Weld will not adhere or bond well to:
Any flexible rubber surface
Leather
Vinyl
Canvas
Polypropylene plastic
Polyethylene plastic

[ericheath]

Somebody has re-re-read them for you!

[Patriccio]

I had to put on my man-pants after work because it was so chilly here, 5speed. It's about 60 degrees. The coyotes are yipping like they own the place; technically, they probably did own the place, but we humans have built on their ancestral land. Anyway, I've taken 5speed's implied advice; anytime someone types in red, you gotta pay attention. I thought JB Weld was the fix-all in the galaxy. From listening to people, friends, mechanics, girlfriends, acquaintances, TV commercials, the Hairdo-in-Chief, well, I thought it could repair anything (except my marriage bond, but that wasn't worth it). I never heard about it from my kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Woodburn, so there's a clue.

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It didn't work. So I went to a big box store & read all the directions of all the epoxies. Funny how they leave out the fact that they don't work on some plastics. Some labels do say, & some do not. One label stated the epoxy wouldn't work w/ nylon, Teflon, "PP or PE" but they don't explain that PP probably means polypropylene & PE means polyethylene; sly dogs. This time I used cyanoacrylate. We'll see tomorrow if it holds.
It has dipped down to a near freezing 59 degrees. Time to don the onsey & hit the sack.

[Sugs]

I wonder if the JB weld plastic putty would work better in your situation. I used it to repair a plastic buttress on the rear cowling of my CB-1(we won't talk about how or who broke it) and it seems to be holding well.

[Patriccio]

That was quick. If the cyanoacrylate doesn't work, I'll try it. Time for prunes & my onesey.