Pythonista

In the 80's and 90's, I used to write my two stroke programs in TI Calculator Basic. Mainly I didn't want to risk a $3000 laptop in the garage around heavy things, gasoline, oil, etc. So I would write it in TI Calculator Basic and risk a $100 calculator to the environment of the garage.

Between JetSki's and Georgia's rules on mopeds, I have renewed interest in two stroke motors, I have been resurrecting some of the programs I wrote back in the 80's and 90's. I have found that if I write / re-write them in Python, they will run on Linux, Mac, Windows and with Pythonista on my iPad and iPhone.

http://omz-software.com/pythonista/

I am finding I like Pythonista a good bit and I am liking the reduced decoration requirements of Python (Perl is historically my preferred scripting language).

An example of how I am using it, is my hp.py script, which I have up on GitHub:

https://gist.github.com/edt11x/52c69a6448f7a379ad19

Oil Injection Block Off

I bought from Ebay a Oil Injection Block Off for a Honda DIO. It's close but not quite right, but close enough that I will buy a couple more and modify them.

The grommet that seals the oil injection block off is right about where the hole for the outside bearing oil goes. I have taken off all the metal below grommet and will use a cut off tool to cut a new location for the grommet.

There's the oil hole which provides oil to the back side of the crank bearing that I am worried about.

Two Speed Motor

Happy that these later motors have case bolts rather than Phillip head screws:

Motor seems like it hasn't been apart, bolts look fairly clean, old spark plug doesn't show anything scary.

Insides:

Downside is the motor appears to have very little compression.

Output shafts are different lengths. Need to get a rear wheel from the two speed honda express.