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This is a schematic of the fuel pump relay for a V65 Honda. Pete Karasz carefully removed the potting material from a defunct fuel pump relay and made this drawing.

Hi Art,

That drawing was preliminary and is incorrect. As I recall I sent copies to you, the Pelican and some others for comment. Part of the error was an incorrect interpretation of connector pins due to the error in the V65 wiring schematic.

The final correct analysis was provided by Tom Bowers who used an oscilloscope on the fuel cut relay of his V45 Magna while the bike was running. Using those readouts and the photos of the fuel cut relay circuit board that I provided he recreated the wiring schematic for the relay’s circuit. See and download from here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9zztvvi2vcgyh90

All the best

Pete

Or here. I saved a copy for myself: Tom Bowers’ V4 Magna FUEL CUT-OUT

What could go wrong?

Try this on for size and see if you can wrap your head around these thoughts. You work for UPS. You get hit by a car while doing your job, nearly die and it takes a year for you to recover. When you come back to your job you are terminated for not moving fast enough. Your fellow union workers protest the fairness of your termination and they’re fired too. As soon as their replacements are trained.

Ain’t life grand? Government regulations? We don’t need no nanny state!

UPS refuses to back down from firing 250 union workers for walkout that violated labor contract – NY Daily News

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ups-refuses-back-firing-250-workers-walkout-article-1.1743587

I skimmed through a Rolling Stone magazine recently, my aging eye caught the cover photo of a shirtless Justin Bieber. I’m old and lame but not dead. Yet.
But I do read the words in addition to looking at the photos and right on the cover of the March 13, 2014 Rolling Stone, Issue 1204 below the JB headlines was this: The Cruelest Sting How Undercover Narcs Set Up an Autistic Teen. Inside the all too true story was titled The entrapment of Jesse Snodgrass. Here’s a link the the RS story and if you use the title as a search term you’ll find more thoughts on the matter.
Now I was hooked by one sentence, “He (Jesse) had resigned himself to maintaining a dignified silence when . . .” Oh how that struck home with me. I’m one of the lucky people. I’m intelligent and I had a good friend that no questioned asked helped me learn the social graces as a set of rules and then when Asperger’s hit the front page of Time magazine we knew why I was so different from other people. So I can relate to Jesse. What I can’t understand in my orderly rational existence is this:
If a civilian preys on a child sexually it is a crime, and rightly so because harm is done to the child. But if an undercover police officer, attending high school in the guise of a teenage student pressures legitimate highschool students into making bad decisions regarding drug use, the undercover police officer’s behaviour is legal and correct?
The heinousness of Deputy Daniel Zipperstein’s actions with e-mails and telephone calls and classroom conversations that ultimately stressed Jesse Snodgrass to the point Mr. Snodgrass regressed in his behaviour and inflicted damage to himself, all in the sake of obtaining a conviction for drug dealing, is perfectly correct in the eyes of our society and the law. But why?

No one steals an airliner full of people for a good reason.

If the Boeing 777 did climb to 45,000 feet than releasing cabin pressure will cause the passengers, anyone without a supplemental oxygen mask to lose consciousness and eventually die.

I think that now-missing aircraft will appear again as a weapon, or as parts on eBay but I’m pretty sure that Boeing is going to be a flying bomb.

Pakistan and India are the guys in the elevator said “Who farted?” when they announced that the Malaysian airliner never showed up on their radar. Id est, by proclaiming their innocence may have announced their knowledge of where the Malaysian airliner has landed.

Hundred of innocent passengers are dead. Somebody has a sophisticated weapon delivery system and we aren’t going to know where it’s aimed at until it hits.

Duck and cover folks!

For a reasonable explanation, Chris Goodfellow, published on Wired wrote this. A Startlingly Simple Theory About the Missing Malaysia Airlines Jet

I sincerely hope that he’s correct.

and there is no physical damage to the motorcyclist?

I’m still dealing with my permanently disabled status here in New Hampshire, granted in July 2013, and how that wiped out the last of my plans and dreams. At 57 I’m too young to be sitting around and waiting to die but I’m also too broken up physically for any meaningful labor. I’ve know since I was 28 years of age that my mind was probably going to “age” faster than normal because of the concussion I received when my neck broke and that I’d have increasing pain from the healed bones but I thought that I could deal with all of that stuff. Or re-stating what happened, I broke my neck by landing on my head after a motorcycle get-off and I tried to live a normal life. But here I am. Living in a motorhome, relying on public services and painkillers.

Back in August 2013 I was on my way home from Allenstown, New Hampshire after a day of working on motorcycles and good conversation. Heading up route 3 from Allenstown to Concord, the plan was to cross on Airport road and pick up something for dinner at the Fort Eddy road Market Basket. Now I’ve been taken out twice in my 40 years of riding, once by a rear-ender hit and run driver and the second time by a young man who was concentrating more on his girlfriend and where he wanted to be than driving. The first time I broke my neck at C-2, what’s called a Hangman’s fracture, you can figure out why it’s called that, and the second collision I broke my right arm at the humeral head and once again my pelvis. Plus enough organ damage that I had to wait a couple of days to see if I was going to live through the week. I’ve been around the block.

After we passed the intersection of route 106 and route 3 we rode down the hill, crossed the river and took the right turn lane heading up the hill toward Airport road. The next thing I know is I’ve got a Mitsubishi Eclipse being driven by an aggressive driver, someone who wants to be at the head of the line and as I learned in court, late for a party, to my left in the through lane. Traffic is moving along at v+ or briskly and I don’t want to do any faster but the Mitsu driver does want to go faster and she’s in my lane! I’m next to her passenger side window and she’s pushed me over to the guard rail. I worked for years to regain the usability of my right arm after the hemiarthroplasty in 2010 and now I’m faced with the possibility of losing my arm completely, if I survive the tumble over the guard rail at 50+ MPH. So I kicked at her door and sounded the bike’s horn to get her attention and she pulled back into her lane. So far so good.

The problem started when both of us were waiting at the stop line for the traffic light to change. I sat there collecting my thought and when I look to my left and saw her sitting there all that went through my mind was that she had nearly killed me for a perceived advantage in traffic to be gained by racing up the turn land and then back over to the through lane. I secured my bike and walked over to talk to her and she refused to acknowledge my present and it was then that my temper got the best of me. I broke off her driver’s side windshield wiper arm and used it to break her window. I drove down airport road and waited for the police to arrive.

I thought that the act of running me off the road trumped a broken windshield. Well, I’ve been to court and while the other charges were dropped due to insufficient evidence I now own a broken windshield and I need to figure out some way to pay for it and I’ve learned a lesson. If you’re driving an automobile you can do anything you want while you’re behind the wheel when it comes to people riding a motorcycle or bicycle as long as you utter the magic words “I didn’t see the guy on the bike.”

Philip Seymour Hoffman July 23, 1967 – February 2, 2014 according to news reports that I’ve read died of a self administered heroin overdose. Because he was Philip Seymour Hoffman and not some un-famous person, you know an average human being, extraordinary measures have been taken to place the blame for Mr. Hoffman’s death on someone. Anyone.

Here’s a thought: Place the blame for heroin overdose deaths on the United States government’s ill-advised war on drugs. Why? Because drugs are only illegal because a government makes a law against the drugs use. Human beings are sent to jail because the government makes a law that says if you use this chemical, we will remove your freedom.

But how can a chemical be so bad that it rises to the attention of government oversight? I mean recently in the news Charleston, West Virginia suffered the contamination of its municipal water supply after a local company called Freedom Industries spilled a 7,500 gallons of 4-methylcyclohexylmethanol into the elk river from its riverside tank farm. In response to this spill the speaker of the house, John Boener commented that there was already too much government regulation. But the chemical,4-methylcyclohexylmethanol has never been thoroughly tested for its effect on human life. Why? Because since the environmental laws that cleaned up our air and water were passed in the 1970s, new chemicals have not been tested. Eastman Chemical did some testing on its own but only to gain an idea of the necessary lethal dose. So right now the citizens of Charleston, WVA and anyone downstream can consider themselves lab rats.

What’s this got to do with Mr. Hoffman? Well, our government sees fit to regulate chemicals that go into our bodies when we choose to use them. But if Heroin wasn’t listed as evil, if Mr. Hoffman had access to a source of regulated Heroin of a know purity and strength, maybe Mr. Hoffman wouldn’t have overdosed himself.

But it’s okay to store an untested potentially lethal, carcinogenic and birth-defect causing chemical in an un-monitored tank, on a riverbank up-stream from more than one city’s water supply. Because that’s business as usual.

Equal Protection Under the Law,

Only exists for people with money.

On television, television shows that are sometimes referred to as “procedural” or police drama always show the alleged criminal sitting with a lawyer at his side. The police officer asks a question and the lawyer either answers for the defendant or advises his client not to speak or don’t say a word.

Only on television do you have a lawyer sitting next to you when you talk to the police, a lawyer saying don’t answer that. Someone to protect your rights.

In NH, if you are less than wealthy maybe even indigent you only receive legal representation after you have been arraigned by a judge in his court.

In NH you are arraigned after you are arrested.

In NH you are arrested after you have been interviewed by the police

Therefore in NH receiving representation is less about protecting your rights than it is about making sure all of the paper work is filled out properly and your conviction is legal.

New farm bill to cut SNAP benefits by 8.7 Billion dollars!

Wow! the 5 billion dollar cut back in November 2013 reduced our SNAP benefits from frugal but comfortable to, we ran out of food money starting the third week of the month and with this additional 8.7 billion dollar cut our SNAP benefit will be reduced to you’ve got to be kidding? Right?

Since I finally gave up trying to support myself and admitted that I really can’t do much of anything anymore I spend alot of time in line at Health and Human Services and when there aren’t enough kids running around like dervishes to keep me amused I watch the other people in line and at the service windows. A trip to HHS never goes by without someone upset that their benefits are being cut and these are these are the able bodied being encouraged to find better employment. There is no unavoidable waste in the HHS programs. There really are people that can no longer fend for themselves.

But I guess we’ll all die just a little bit sooner without food and shelter. Is that the plan?

Art the Moocher.