Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Looking for a little rivet clip....

If the cold weather is to end, it isn't tonight, because its already down to 37 and its only 10:30...  Again we are to be below freezing but only in the upper 20s rather than the lower 20s so that's a step in the right direction...

When I was putting that accessory socket into the fairing pocket the other day, I lost one of the little rivet clips that are made out of plastic..  It has a little button in the center that you push and it expands...  Then if you push the button on into the rivet it contracts again...  Tiny little things...

But one must have fallen into the engine compartment when I took it off...  I only had three and there were four... I looked and looked with a big lantern light but it was gone out of sight...  Well no problem, I'll just go buy another one....  Ya, right, good luck....

Not at my dealer anyway, as I called with the exact part number and again was told they hadn't sold one for the last two months so the part number had been eliminated....  So I called their competitor, Ride Now, which is a larger company with more dealerships here in the valley...  And they had 6.......  Over in Chandler.........  130 blocks away from out here....

It was still 42 outside, so I took the car.......  Sissy,!!!  But a warmer one...

And to my surprise, this little plastic rivet that was so small that it was in a much bigger plastic bag so as not to be lost, cost $5..   Of course I spent much more than that in gas and mileage on the car, but hey I had one now...

I also checked on the price of the windshield that we broke on the trip back to Kansas and that will set me back hundreds.......  And you can save $25 if you take the car to the garage, but its clear over in the center of Mesa....  Maybe on an afternoon when I don't have anything else to do...

I didn't make an appointment because tomorrow Biscuit has a hair appointment at noon, and needs picked up just as soon as she is done...  That will be stressful for her as she has about 2 inches of hair all over to get shaved...  It was right before Christmas that she had her last doo, but she evidently grows fast in the colder weather....

She's going to be wacko when the fur is gone....  Well for a little while...  And then we hope to go back and visit our friends from Des Moines back down in Tucson, so we are busy for the next little while...

It is to start warming up tomorrow with a high in the 50s and then warmer again on Thursday...

It did finally make it to 50 by 3 PM today so I went with the bike in the warm sun...  It looked like it should be warm, but it wasn't...  I went over to old Wal Mart in Apache Junction and parked for a few groceries...

Then I rode until about 5 PM ducking back into the garage before the sun went down...

Another winter day...

5 comments:

  1. That reminds me of those little clips that held the carb linkage on I used to call them Gosh darnits, because invariable you would drop one under the intake and the first thing you yelled was gosh darnit. or something similar.Hey be safe out there. Sam & Donna...

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  2. We've done that so many times - spent big bucks so Jim can find a $5 part for something. I am so glad it is finally warming up. Hopefully, a campfire tonight.

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  3. Good job on finding that little rivet thingie - your are a very persistent person.

    Let's hope the weather guessers are right and it is indeed going to warm up here in the great frozen southwest!

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  4. Now that everything is dead in our yard, we can move forward to some warmer weather. Looking forward to it for sure!

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    1. Yep, its the same way out here in the East end... Everything is dead even if it was covered.....

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