Atlas Questions

I hope not but it wouldn't be my first experience with Asbestos sadly. The latest fuckup happened today. I finally successfully glued the heated grips on today with Super Glue, and then I had a great idea, the Grip Puppies, thin spung rubber grips I like over the heated grips for a bit more comfort were moving a bit so I decided to Super Glue them to the heated grips. Or I tried too, seems Super Glue Disolves foam rubber. Live and Learn Again.
 
Vince said:
I hope not but it wouldn't be my first experience with Asbestos sadly. The latest fuckup happened today. I finally successfully glued the heated grips on today with Super Glue, and then I had a great idea, the Grip Puppies, thin spung rubber grips I like over the heated grips for a bit more comfort were moving a bit so I decided to Super Glue them to the heated grips. Or I tried too, seems Super Glue Disolves foam rubber. Live and Learn Again.
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Toss the melted puppies, get a new puppy from the litter and try Quick Grip.
 
When I was a first-year Apprentice we tried glueing a couple of large blocks of Poly Stireen together with Contact Glue, Quick-Grip, that caused melting as well. Smart people test this on a small scale first.
 
I think people who use polystyrene foam regularly, glue it together with PVA glue. I have a vague recollection of doing it myself in a previous life when trying to carve out a shape to be used as a plug for a fibreglass fairing or something like that. The thing I remember most clearly about it is the bloody mess it made. I was covered from head to food in white dust from sanding the foam. I must have looked like Casper the ghost.
 
Dellortoman said:
I think people who use polystyrene foam regularly, glue it together with PVA glue. I have a vague recollection of doing it myself in a previous life when trying to carve out a shape to be used as a plug for a fibreglass fairing or something like that. The thing I remember most clearly about it is the bloody mess it made. I was covered from head to food in white dust from sanding the foam. I must have looked like Casper the ghost.
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At least you were a Friendly Ghost
 
The LED tail brake light turned up and I got it to work, kinda. When I first removed the Incandesnt offset pin bulb some kind of packer fell out. THE SOCKET THAT THE BULB GOES IN HAS ONLY ONE GROOVE FOR A PIN. I shouted that because it's just so bloody odd, never seen that ever before. There is another tiny groove but it's nowhere near where most are 180degs from the only proper-sized groove. Looks like that packer was to support the other pin on the bulb and that's exactly what the LED needed. It's now got 3 x 15mm long tips from cable ties wedging against the opposite side of the groove down the socket hole stopping the LED from leaning away from plumb in the socket or losing contact or even just falling out of the socket. It works but obviously is a bodge. It looks like Laverda had a secret facility building one-off tail and brake bulb holders for Atlass and all involved are now either dead or not telling and nobody else on the Planet has seen anything like it.
 
Its a very nice cast alloy tail light body that I don't really want to muck with. I will take a trip to the local Repco tomorrow and see what they have regarding bulb base types so will see tomorrow
 
Whatever happens, the bike wILL have a stable and reliable tail brake light. If Repco doesn't have a bulb that fits I will be reengineering its socket to take an offset twin plug but if I can I will avoid that. I have no idea why this hasn't affected other Atlass. Very odd again.
 
Vince said:
Its a very nice cast alloy tail light body that I don't really want to muck with. I will take a trip to the local Repco tomorrow and see what they have regarding bulb base types so will see tomorrow
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Ooh. I like a challenge like that. Send me the very nice cast alloy tail light body and I'll fuck it up for you fit a standard bulb holder. I'll turn one up out of brass if necessary!

Or if you don't wanna do that, can you use something like a dremel to cut another pin groove?
 
Nice offer Cam but that's a long turnaround. BTW as the twin pin bulbs do fit even with one groove, adding another won't achieve much but an even looser fit. Repco returned a Glazed stare, twin pin, wedge or nothing else, the LED place never saw anything like it either. I am Ordering a std offset pin socket from them and butchering it into the light body, that's the easiest long-term easy to get a reliable easy-to-find bulbs, fix. It still buggars me that no other Atlas owner has encountered this issue. I joined the Atlas Forum to ask but that got nowhere, all the links are dead, the lights, pun, are on but no one is home. According to the Atlas forum, these lights are the same as Belt Ducatis from the 1980s, Gowanlocks say they take std tail brake bulbs. What the hell am I missing here? The fit now is so piss weak that a tiny bump loses contact and kills the brake light, stupidly dangerous.
 
The body of the tail light is a great-looking gadget, big and tidy and very well built. Stylish even but that bulb holder defies description. And I don't really want to start hacking it about.
 
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