Seager engineered head

EstuaryBoy · Dec 4, 2022

Fast Eddie said:
On the whole I agree.

But if the question is a fundamentally basic one, that’s covered in page one of the owners manual, then it is somewhat ignorant to ask others before making the most basic check yourself.

Likewise asking the same question more than once after having received a perfectly good answer the first time.

TBH I was thinking beyond the sphere of motorcycle maintenance, but yes, there are resources the enquiring mind can and should at least try and consult for themselves before adopting the soft option..

Fast Eddie · Dec 4, 2022

EstuaryBoy said:
TBH I was thinking beyond the sphere of motorcycle maintenance, but yes, there are resources the enquiring mind can and should at least try and consult for themselves before adopting the soft option..

It isn’t limited to the motorcycle world.

IMO it’s about respect. If I pose a question to other people BEFORE looking for the answer, or thinking about it myself, I am being disrespectful because I am basically saying that your time is worth less than mine. That it’s ok for you to spend time answering me rather than me spend time looking / reading or heaven forbid… thinking…!

The irony being that these days it is easier to research things than ever before, massively so.

baz · Dec 4, 2022

Fast Eddie said:
It isn’t limited to the motorcycle world.

IMO it’s about respect. If I pose a question to other people BEFORE looking for the answer, or thinking about it myself, I am being disrespectful because I am basically saying that your time is worth less than mine. That it’s ok for you to spend time answering me rather than me spend time looking / reading or heaven forbid… thinking…!

The irony being that these days it is easier to research things than ever before, massively so.

What I see these days is as soon as something goes wrong people reach for their phone to contact a person that works in that trade rather than fix it themselves
IE plumbers that get called out to unblock a sink when use of a plunger would sort it in seconds
People that can't change a wheel when they have a puncture
I'm sure it comes from our education system that teaches kids not to try anything they are not trained for
If you go back a bit further it'd be common to see blokes working on their own cars/bikes lapping in valves to an inch of their lives on the side of the road outside their houses

Fast Eddie · Dec 4, 2022

baz said:
What I see these days is as soon as something goes wrong people reach for their phone to contact a person that works in that trade rather than fix it themselves
IE plumbers that get called out to unblock a sink when use of a plunger would sort it in seconds
People that can't change a wheel when they have a puncture
I'm sure it comes from our education system that teaches kids not to try anything they are not trained for
If you go back a bit further it'd be common to see blokes working on their own cars/bikes lapping in valves to an inch of their lives on the side of the road outside their houses

I can tell you that after struggling like freakin mad, in the dark, fiddly, awkward, confined space when changing our kitchen mixer tap t’other week I REALLY wished I had called a plumber to do it !

Still, the skin is now growing back on my knuckles…

t ingermanson · Dec 4, 2022

baz said:
What's an 'owners manual' ????

It's the thing I put down on my welding table to stop my beer from sweating on it.

KiwiShane · Dec 4, 2022

baz said:
What I see these days is as soon as something goes wrong people reach for their phone to contact a person that works in that trade rather than fix it themselves
IE plumbers that get called out to unblock a sink when use of a plunger would sort it in seconds
People that can't change a wheel when they have a puncture
I'm sure it comes from our education system that teaches kids not to try anything they are not trained for
If you go back a bit further it'd be common to see blokes working on their own cars/bikes lapping in valves to an inch of their lives on the side of the road outside their houses

Smart thinking people can see that "the system" is literally dumbing down our children that don't get to critically think out anything...and just to nod their heads to the rubbish they are being taught which will give them no practical ability to do stuff for themselves....the curriculum needs to be changed in many schools

Staytite · Dec 4, 2022

Mr Seager did a totally fantastic job on repairing the exhaust threads on one of my cylinder heads.
IIRC he explained that he cut a new thread in the head then inserted a threaded insert, then he cut a
thread in the insert to match the new thread in the head, such that it was as thick as possible all
along the thread and also was specifically cut to match the thread on each of the rose nuts (750 type)
he supplied. I found that the rose nuts were specific as each one was best in its appropriate exhaust port.
Highly recommended

Tornado · Dec 4, 2022

Torontonian said:
Questions are the only path to learning.

Actually, on the internet the best way to get the right info is to post a wrong answer ;-)

Torontonian · Dec 4, 2022

Tornado said:
Actually, on the internet the best way to get the right info is to post a wrong answer ;-)

Ha. Question the internet .. best not to engage .

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