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neptune8
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PostPosted: 18:31 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Listen to this! Reply with quote
Years ago, I remember seeing a mechanic listening to an engine using a large screwdriver as a stethoscope, trying to locate the source of an engine noise. I am told that for about £20, you can buy a mechanical stethoscope designed for the job. My question is, has anyone done this, or used a mechanical stethoscope, and actually gained useful information as a result?
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PostPosted: 18:45 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 18:51 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
The chap I used to take my bike to back in Oxfordshire used a screwdriver this way to check whether my valve clearances would need further inspection. He said he reckoned one was just getting a little on the tight side, but nothing to worry about yet. I have known other mechanics do this in the past too. This was a guy whose mechanical knowledge I hold in very high regard.
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PostPosted: 19:07 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
chickenstrip wrote:
The chap I used to take my bike to back in Oxfordshire used a screwdriver this way to check whether my valve clearances would need further inspection. He said he reckoned one was just getting a little on the tight side, but nothing to worry about yet. I have known other mechanics do this in the past too. This was a guy whose mechanical knowledge I hold in very high regard.


Going to boil your pee for talking about cars in bike section Laughing but I once knew a guy that worked on old turbocharged 80's performance engines that had a penchant for big end bearings and he'd use a screwdriver end to diagnose not only early failure of the bearings but which bloody pot it'd be on. Fine tuned ear that man.
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PostPosted: 19:09 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
It's probably best just to get yourself a stethoscope. My local classic bike builder uses one so I reckon that it's likely to be a better method than a screwdriver. What do they cost anyway - £20??
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PostPosted: 19:27 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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It's all good and well having fancy tools knowing how to use them and what you're listening for is another matter entirely. Noob.


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PostPosted: 19:33 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:
It's all good and well having fancy tools knowing how to use them and what you're listening for is another matter entirely. Noob.


Says the noob who didn't put his chain adjusters back in when putting on a new chain, then cried because he thought he got the wrong length chain.
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PostPosted: 19:34 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:
It's all good and well having fancy tools knowing how to use them and what you're listening for is another matter entirely. Noob.


See my avatar for evidence why you should not advise on mechanical skill.

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PostPosted: 19:37 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
FretGrinder wrote:
License to kill wrote:
It's all good and well having fancy tools knowing how to use them and what you're listening for is another matter entirely. Noob.


Says the noob who didn't put his chain adjusters back in when putting on a new chain, then cried because he thought he got the wrong length chain.

I missed that one Crying or Very sad We need an alert system for those of us who don't frequent the workshop section.

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PostPosted: 19:59 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:

Some time after I had the engine in bits put it back together and it's still purring like a tiger 12 months on.


Even so, you're still a cunt.
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PostPosted: 20:06 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:
It's all good and well having fancy tools knowing how to use them and what you're listening for is another matter entirely. Noob.


fucking lol. you cant even use basic tools with any degree of competence, and you feel the need to pass comments like that?

YOU can fuck off. Noob. Middle Finger Middle Finger Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: 20:13 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
arry wrote:


Going to boil your pee for talking about cars in bike section Laughing but I once knew a guy that worked on old turbocharged 80's performance engines that had a penchant for big end bearings and he'd use a screwdriver end to diagnose not only early failure of the bearings but which bloody pot it'd be on. Fine tuned ear that man.


At least your comment has some relevance to the thread title, and you don't make a habit of rambling on about bleedin cars on a bleedin bike forum in bleedin bike threads Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 20:23 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:
FretGrinder wrote:
Says the noob who didn't put his chain adjusters back in when putting on a new chain, then cried because he thought he got the wrong length chain.

Some time after I had the engine in bits put it back together and it's still purring like a tiger 12 months on.


Tigers can't purr.
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PostPosted: 20:48 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Re: Listen to this! Reply with quote
neptune8 wrote:
or used a mechanical stethoscope, and actually gained useful information as a result?

Yes.

No.

Workshop.
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PostPosted: 21:25 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
License to kill wrote:
duhawkz wrote:
Even so, you're still a cunt.

Feel free to enemy me you fat cunt.


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PostPosted: 21:36 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 22:17 - 04 May 2017    Post subject: Reply with quote
mpd72 wrote:
"Listen to this!".

Quite a disappointing waste of my life to be honest.
I think you talked it up a tad.


But you got to see Bodytard make a fool of himself.... Again.
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