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tinman Silver Wing Guru
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| I thought the grumpiness was from all that cold rain making it impossible to smile on account of a stiff upper lip,and riding with no underwear. |
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tarmacburner2 Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1099 Age : 70 Location : Cleveleys, Lancashire, England Points : 6459 Registration date : 2010-03-27
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 9:02 am | |
| - Winger61 wrote:
- I'm with Meldrew. What's wrong with being a grumpy old git? Considering what my daughter bought for me last Christmas, I think I'm well qualified!!
http://www.play.com/Gadgets/Gadgets/4-/24172453/740459252/Grumpy-Old-Git-Caution-Cone/ListingDetails.html?_%24ja=tsid:13315%7Ccat:24172453%7Cprd:24172453&ef_id=MqhQDUnPJg4AAAP7:20130328115352:s Couple of bits of string and you have a new helmet. Cheers, |
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johnd Silver Wing Expert
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Number of posts : 543 Age : 76 Location : Santa Barbara California Points : 5995 Registration date : 2010-02-01
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Thank you gents Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:36 am | |
| I want to thank all that responded, in the way you did. I sometimes have a way of putting my foot in my mouth side ways and then regretting it. :lol!:
I must say I do appreciate his knowledge and help in this fine forum. |
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tarmacburner2 Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1099 Age : 70 Location : Cleveleys, Lancashire, England Points : 6459 Registration date : 2010-03-27
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 10:44 am | |
| John, Just send us some of your cheap petrol as a way of showing your appreciation. Best to use airmail as your gas 'goes off' if it isn't used within a week!
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Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
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Number of posts : 4207 Location : York, North Yorkshire, England UK Points : 9360 Registration date : 2010-11-16
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:04 am | |
| - bikerboy wrote:
- Meldrew grew up watching Sesame Street and like myself he has modelled himself on Oscar the Grouch, he just let's it show a bit more than some of us oldies!!
You had a TV!...I used to dream of us having a telly, the nearest I got was watching the Lone Ranger in black and white through Radio Rentals shop window. The manager used to come out and bollock me for leaving nose marks on the window! |
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tinman Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1298 Age : 76 Location : Matheson, Ontario, Canada Points : 6055 Registration date : 2011-11-29
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:18 am | |
| I know what you mean. Bin there done that ,stood there for hours watching the image of a indian head for hours before the Howdy Doody show came on. |
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Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
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Number of posts : 4207 Location : York, North Yorkshire, England UK Points : 9360 Registration date : 2010-11-16
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tarmacburner2 Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1099 Age : 70 Location : Cleveleys, Lancashire, England Points : 6459 Registration date : 2010-03-27
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 11:29 am | |
| Next thing someone will name all the non-existent characters from Captain Pugwash.
Cheers, |
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Winger61 Silver Wing Rider
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Number of posts : 452 Age : 75 Location : Louth, Lincolnshire, UK Points : 5559 Registration date : 2010-10-15
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 5:53 pm | |
| - tarmacburner2 wrote:
- Next thing someone will name all the non-existent characters from Captain Pugwash.
Captain Pugwash Tom the cabin boy Master Mate Willy and Barnabas the pirates Cut-throat Jake (Sorry!!! Wikipedia is your friend, - and I'm sat at work bored witless!!! ![Laughing](https://2img.net/i/fa/i/smiles/icon_lol.gif) ) Graham |
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Winger61 Silver Wing Rider
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Number of posts : 452 Age : 75 Location : Louth, Lincolnshire, UK Points : 5559 Registration date : 2010-10-15
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:02 pm | |
| And before you ask - Pugh Pugh Barney McGrew Cuthbert Dibble and Grub!! Dear God please let it soon be time to go home!!!! Graham
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bikerboy Silver Wing Rider
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Number of posts : 405 Age : 80 Location : Leyland England Points : 5296 Registration date : 2011-05-12
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:05 pm | |
| Hugh, Pugh barney Mc Grew etc. not to mention Roger the cabin boy |
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Winger61 Silver Wing Rider
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Number of posts : 452 Age : 75 Location : Louth, Lincolnshire, UK Points : 5559 Registration date : 2010-10-15
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 6:10 pm | |
| Thanks bikerboy, edited my spelling. (You Roger the cabin boy if you want to!!) |
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jmaslak Super Scooter Rider
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Number of posts : 252 Location : Golden, CO, USA Points : 4735 Registration date : 2012-06-15
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Thu Mar 28, 2013 8:18 pm | |
| - rollsroyce250 wrote:
The power wattage NOT consumed by installing LED running lights is insignificant compared to running a Swing with the high beam on continuously. As the electrical system is designed for operating with high beams and not discharging the battery, the last thing I would worry about is a few extra watts shunted to ground by using LED's. If your concern is valid, blown regulators would be much more common on Swings running only low beams as compared to owners who run high beams continuously. The difference is that the regulator is designed to shunt X watts to ground (X being "base load without high beams but with normal other load plus a safety margin"). If you turn on high beams, you have a load on the regulator of something less than X, so you're still fine. If you lower your base load, however, you are using up some, all, or more than all (I couldn't tell you which) of the safety margin. Not something I'd want to do. But, yes, if you replace your running lights with LEDs and then run with high beam on, you're probably fine. But if you don't, you're going to generate more heat than that part was designed for. |
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KurtPerthWA Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1710 Age : 75 Location : Belmont, Perth WA Points : 8082 Registration date : 2009-01-19
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Atrick Maxi-Scooter Rider
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Number of posts : 198 Age : 75 Location : England Points : 4601 Registration date : 2012-09-04
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Fri Mar 29, 2013 3:15 am | |
| Well Kurt, that explains it all then. However the toffs were all Normans so that means these continental "French" practises were imported & forced upon those of us who were living in blissful ignorance - if only King Harold had done his job right, we'd have been OK!! |
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tarmacburner2 Silver Wing Guru
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Number of posts : 1099 Age : 70 Location : Cleveleys, Lancashire, England Points : 6459 Registration date : 2010-03-27
![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Fri Mar 29, 2013 5:46 am | |
| - Atrick wrote:
- if only King Harold had done his job right, we'd have been OK!!
"Should have gone to Specsavers" Cheers, |
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AV-40 Scooter Rider
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![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Fri Apr 12, 2013 9:34 pm | |
| Finally completed the bulb change today. Obtaining the correct bulbs while living in a one horse town was the first challenge. Parts house had the correct tail/brake light bulbs. Not difficult to get to those. Got the stock turn signal amber bulbs from Honda. Rear no problem. Front requires taking the front cover off, This entails the windshield garnish, the windshield, the lower cover, and then the front cover. I'm going to be hesitant to even use the turn signals now that I know whats involved with replacing the front ones. This had to be done as the previous owner had replaced all bulbs except headlight with LED's. It might have been Ok if he had used LEDs designed for the Silverwing. The ones he used were way underpowered, didn't fit the socket, and the front ones were directed toward the sky and offered no illumination toward the front of the scooter at all. Changed the final drive oil too while I was at it and set the idle speed to within specs. Found a service manual on eBay that covers 2002 to 2012, and that was a big help. |
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DarthJ Maxi-Scooter Rider
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![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Fri Apr 12, 2013 11:19 pm | |
| - AV-40 wrote:
This had to be done as the previous owner had replaced all bulbs except headlight with LED's. It might have been Ok if he had used LEDs designed for the Silverwing. The ones he used were way underpowered, didn't fit the socket, and the front ones were directed toward the sky and offered no illumination toward the front of the scooter at all. Changed the final drive oil too while I was at it and set the idle speed to within specs. Found a service manual on eBay that covers 2002 to 2012, and that was a big help. If the previous owner had used the correct type, wouldn't have been an issue. There's a company V-leds.com that makes very good ones. Unfortunately, they ARE rather expensive. If you want extra brake and turn lights, can't go wrong with the Admore light bar with the DennisB perfect connector. |
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Meldrew Visiting Curmudgeon
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![Changing bulbs - Page 2 Empty](https://2img.net/i/empty.gif) | Subject: Re: Changing bulbs Wed Aug 31, 2016 3:33 pm | |
| I've just been out and changed both headlight bulbs, riding home from Cumbria over the A66 Pennines section one moonless evening last week the OE bulbs or whatever I had in there seemed a bit weak and weedy. A road diversion in rural North Yorkshire directed me down a long section of unmarked road with full tree canopy that was literally "starless and bible black" (That's a quote from Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, and the title of the 1974 King Crimson album, but of course you all knew that.) made up my mind for me.
I thought I'll go for high-performance bulbs not the spare H7’s that live in my bulb kit under my seat that'll be more of the same.
So after a bit of ratching around online for recommendations from UK motoring and motorcycle websites and online bulb sellers. I chose a pair of Philips X-Treme Vision that should deliver 130% more light on the road if manufacturers and consumer reviews are to be believed. I used a seller over in West Yorkshire so the package was delivered within 24 hours.
Fitting them was straightforward enough, even though the lower high beam bulb I'd never disturbed before and was a bit of a fiddle. A Schwinn bike mirror and a LED lamp helped visualise what was up there. The top dip beam bulb I've removed before, mainly to fish OE pilot bulbs and LED pilot bulbs out of the reflector with a grabber tool. It definitely helps if you've dug around in there before, and removing and reinstalling the screen garnish was a doddle too. I wore vinyl gloves handling the bulbs and used alcohol wipes to clean the bulbs before installing them.
I may have even had a ride tonight to check out the improvements my new bulbs make, but that'll have to wait for another time because I had a nice cold beer with my evening meal. |
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