[s-cars] Coil wire splicing

Lee Levitt lee at wheelman.com
Tue Sep 13 11:14:28 EDT 2005


Oh, the "you are an idiot" conversation.

I've managed to avoid that particular one, but then again, my 
collecting habits lean toward Italian racing bike components.

Interestingly enough, every so often a heap of unassociated parts 
spring into life as a complete bike. And its only then that my 
wife notices.

So I've learned something new from the latest exploit, a pretty 
red Cinelli Super Corsa (set up as a fixed gear). Buy all the same 
color cars/parts/etc. Most of my other bikes are blue, and this 
red one stood out like a sore thumb.

6 blue bikes. 8 blue bikes. Whatever. 6 blue bikes + 1 red bike = 
TROUBLE.

Note: I have my wife trained to believe that this particular 
addicti, er hobby, is not only self sutaining but money making. 
Every so often I sell some no longer needed components on ebay and 
bank the proceeds. After all, if I need them later, I can just buy 
them again :)

She saw the red bike and just shook her head after ascertaining 
that it did not involve a significant capital outlay, but that it 
in fact was leftover from a rush of product *out* the door (which 
in fact was true, but that's irrelevant <grin>.

Lee



On Tue Sep 13 07:56:04 PDT 2005, Bill Mahoney <wmahoney at disk.com> 
wrote:

> Bob Q'd
> "Before begging for some money from my wif to purchase new coils 
> I'm going
> to splice some new wires on the old ones.
> Question: can the wire connectors to the coils be removed without 
> breaking
> them? - of course they are brittle from the heat."
> 
> Bob,
> Funny, I have just learned this parts management tidbit from 
> Brian Bilotti.
> You need to build an even bigger inventory of parts to bring your 
> wife to
> the point where she grows more curious and reminds you that you 
> are silly
> and should just buy the parts as you need them.  Since this is 
> now her idea
> future purchases 'should' proceed unhindered;)  Do not even 
> attempt to explain the concept of parts becoming unobtainium or
> you risk revisiting that "you are an idiot" conversation yet 
> again.
> WRT your actual question, if I understand it, the answer is "No."
> The coil wire connections are buried inside the coils and cannot 
> be
> disconnected.  That said; you could cut them and splice in new 
> wires though
> this seems like a big waste of time to me.
> OTOH I wasted three hours on Saturday refurbishing all my 
> interior light
> switches, so I am an obvious advocate of time wasting.
> Bill~all the lights are on... or off~M
> 3Q's, 1Cabrio, 1Pcar
> 
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