Sigh. Bigger ecosystem for the rest of us I guess.

Guess I’m not buying anymore sparkfun stuff.

Shame.

More like grouchy Marx, amrite?? Eh? Eh?

I’d talk to you if you were on the map 👍

Be the change 😎

In sum, these guys at EAST got the Greenwald limit elevated in their tokamak, which indirectly influences the Lawson criterion: nTTau, density * time at said density * plasma energy released. Lawson is the master finish line for measuring whether a fusion system can actually make more power than it consumes.

To date, when you cross the Greenwald limit, the man/woman in the operators seat should expect the plasma inside the device to become uncontrollable, hurting the reactor by touching the walls or instruments inside, a so-called “disruption”. Only a few topologies like the stellerator can exceed the limit, and so far, only by 5x.

But here we have a way to exceed the limit in the much more researched tokamak. This research has positive impact for all but the weirdest/niche fusion devices.

There are topologies which don’t require steam heating for electricity generation…

Unlike this captain positivity’s social life, fusion is making some sizable strides forward in short order.

I design diagnostics going into systems like these, there’s a lot of positive news coming our way.

Helion’s gonna have some problems though.

What a low quality joke. The humor was bad too.

Sure, one can hope.

In my case, the distance I needed to commute daily at the time was farther than level 1 charging could handle to even get me back home once I arrived at the site. I’d have to stop about 3/4 of the way back home every day, as I don’t have a car.

Almost bought a zero, but the lack of charging at my office and the distance involved… sigh.

Still excited to swoop through the mountains quietly someday.

Oh dude, glue stick 100%. PETG is my preferred print material, wouldn’t dream of printing without the glue stick.

Use a smooth plate as well.

My modern bike includes a fuel EVAP filter as well as a catalytic converter, which early 2000s bikes mostly didn’t.

👍 Still useful info for the anyone in the future doing this kind of work.

Nice, you’ll find bikes to be away easier to work on than cars haha. Maybe email this guy? https://www.pentonpartsusa.com/catalog/8a repair sachs.htm

For the tank, I basically turned the tank upside down after taping up the fill port, and reached a bent coat hanger in via the removable petcock, electrically isolated from the tank body with the highest of technology: used chopsticks. Coat hangers usually have a thin plastic varnish, so scrub the wire with steel wool first.

Electrolysis will ‘pull’ rust from every spot that has line-of-sight with the wire. Considering the u-bend, seems like you may have to do two runs of electrolysis for removing the majority of the rust, then follow it with something like evaporust to get anything that got missed.

Glad to hear you put oil in the cylinder first, I really wish I had known that when I first started haha.

Alright bud, congrats, this is how I got into motorcycling as well, albeit on a different make/model.

Some things to check, if you’re already aware of this stuff my bad, but maybe you’ll find some useful info here:

1. The tank is probably fine, I used electrolysis+washing soda to derust that fucker over an afternoon. POR15 is great to permanently block water from being a problem again after the initial derust.
2. Carbs are going to need careful cleaning, I never tried berrymans (gallon of noxious chemicals sitting around is not my vibe), but I do recommend ultrasonic cleaning. The rubber is likely degraded (pinholes, dry rot), see if you can find people making aftermarket replacements which use viton, resistant to ethanol in modern gasoline
3. For the future, never spin a motor without putting some oil into the spark plugs holes, the piston rings will gouge the fuck outta the piston walls. Gouges = reduced compression, which = lower engine power, besides burning oil. Clean around the spark plugs to prevent any grit from falling in. Pull out the spark plugs, borrow an endoscope camera from AutoZone or whatever, check inside the cylinders for rust or for circumferential gouges left by the rusting piston rings as well. Nobody ever drops a little oil into the pistons before putting them away, the small amount of humidity that sneaks in causes flash rust. You’ll be honing the cylinder wall, it’s a bit of work but not too bad.
4. Whether you hone or not, best way to check engine condition is using a compression tester, fill the engine with the right kind of oil (should meet at least JASO MA2, no friction modifiers!! They make your clutch permanently slip), plug a charged spare battery in (even a jumper from your car), hook a compression tester to one cylinder while the other cyl has its spark plug thoroughly loosened but not removed (otherwise it may jet oil out into your shop, you can also use some paper towels). Crank, crank, crank, check the tester for the max value. I don’t know this bike, but look for at least 110psi compression, with approx. symmetric values on both cyls.
5. Save money and use cheap oil during restoration, the filter will catch the important debris as you keep reusing the oil, because you’ll find that as you get closer and closer to proper operating status, you’ll be emptying/refilling the oil to get at internals for inspection/adjustment, thus no need to keep using brand new oil. Definitely use the right stuff on the final fill though, and please recycle the old stuff and the filters at the place you bought the oil.

Plenty of other work to do, as your life is in your hands, but you’ll learn a lot, and have fun too. Keep an eye out for corroded electrical connections too, there’s a wiring diagram in the manual that’s pretty easy to follow.

The official service manual is your friend, take the time to read the job first before going for it. Crazy I gotta say that, but I’ve seen other people really fuck some moto jobs up.

Have fun, keep us posted on your progress!

I’m glad you posted it. Wherever, as long as I can read it. I appreciate the other person’s spirit too, but just glad for knowledge being shared.

I have 4mbps down, 3 up. But I only pay $10/mo.

Where do latex socks go

I absolutely do not want to run Google binaries on the phone, graphene doesn’t support microG and instead want you to run Google’s binaries on your phone, just sandboxed.

I hate that idea.