Trying to help a recent widow sell her husband's '71 Commando.

L.A.B. · 2025-03-16T18:22:27-0600

gpzkat said:
I don't recognize the electric gizmo on the air filter housing. It has a red wire and a brown with green stripe.

That's the early power socket. The wires should be red and brown/blue.

gpzkat · 2025-03-16T18:29:52-0600

L.A.B. said:
That's the early power socket. The wires should be red and brown/blue.

Thanks. Missing the plug. Will double check wire color, prob my mistake.

baz · 2025-03-16T18:46:25-0600

gpzkat said:
Thanks. Missing the plug. Will double check wire color, prob my mistake.

It's so you can have a shave on the side of the road if you need to

baz · 2025-03-16T18:51:18-0600

baz said:
It's so you can have a shave on the side of the road if you need to

L.A.B. · 2025-03-16T19:32:21-0600

baz said:
Thread 'ACCESSORY PLUG AND SOCKET (06.2099)'

Yes, although that's the later type socket.

gpzkat · 2025-03-16T20:39:30-0600

L.A.B. said:
That's the early power socket. The wires should be red and brown/blue.

The wire is brown/blue up higher, and brown/green down lower where the sun hit it

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Hey Baz, no electric shaver can cut through my heavy gauge wire beard, least of all a Brit-bike powered one

. I swear, now I know why graybeards are graybeards. Shaving sucks. Seems the whiskers turn quite hard as we age and other things go soft. Ugh.