[s-cars] Coil wire splicing

[Lee Levitt]

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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