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frjack
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 Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject: Foggy Instruments |
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Hi,
Is there a recommended fix to stop my RS's clocks misting up? 
Usual problem, fogs up in the wet and when it's cold.
Cheers!
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drikko
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| Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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Follow all your countrymen over here to Australia.......
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robleyd
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:54 am Post subject: |
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But these days it'll cost you more than ten quid 
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malcolmt
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:02 am Post subject: |
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It only cost my great, great grandpa a loaf of bread.
Costs have certainly increased. 
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robleyd
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 6:44 am Post subject: |
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| malcolmt wrote: | It only cost my great, great grandpa a loaf of bread.
Costs have certainly increased. |
I'd guess the loaf of bread wasn't his in the first place !
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malcolmt
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:37 am Post subject: |
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We better stick to the topic 
Jack, does your bike live outside ?
Its a cinch to pull the clocks off your RS, I'd get it off the bike and inside to dry out. Then replace and / or smear silicon grease on the rubber gasket between the case halves.
The only other place moisture can get in is possibly round the trip meeter reset knob. I think the hassles with early 80's speedo's were resolved when the K11's came out.
Malcolm(t)
In a sunny but very wet Joburg,
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frjack
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:48 pm Post subject: |
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| malcolmt wrote: | Jack, does your bike live outside ?
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No, it lives in a garage. No heat, no power. bloody cold.
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malcolmt
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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Have you looked inside the cluster recently and take action before the dreaded cluster rot sets in.
I was in Blackpool last week, we were damm lucky with the weather.
Malcolm(t)
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beemeerr11
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:11 pm Post subject: Re: Foggy Instruments |
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| frjack wrote: | Hi,
Is there a recommended fix to stop my RS's clocks misting up?
Usual problem, fogs up in the wet and when it's cold.
Cheers! |
FR Jack, I have the same issue with my R100/7 it only happens on cold days/nights I just put up with it, I think it must be cold air getting in somewhere, although it doesn't happen on my LT!!!! Go Figure. |
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drikko
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| Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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Do you keep your headlight on when riding? I wonder if all the lamps for the dials would help to keep it a bit warm in there and the moisture out. That's one reason I haven't moved to LEDs in the dials.
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Jim
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| Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:24 am Post subject: fogging |
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Fr Jack - if you're going to the trouble of taking the pod out and pulling it apart, you might as well replace the gasket - it doesn't cost that much.
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frjack
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:43 am Post subject: |
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| drikko wrote: | | Do you keep your headlight on when riding? |
Yup, I have the light on 99% of the time, but there isn't enough heat coming out of the bulbs to do any good.
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Fr Jack
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frjack
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:47 am Post subject: Re: fogging |
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| Jim wrote: | | Fr Jack - if you're going to the trouble of taking the pod out and pulling it apart, you might as well replace the gasket - it doesn't cost that much. |
Good point. I haven't decided on a course of action, yet. Mainly because the bike cave is just about big enough for the bike and I don't have the space to work on it, ATM. I'll see how it goes and maybe invade a mate's workshop soon... 
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drikko
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 10:04 am Post subject: |
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| frjack wrote: | | Yup, I have the light on 99% of the time, but there isn't enough heat coming out of the bulbs to do any good. |
Hhhhmmm, maybe the new gasket may help, if not then see my first suggestion 
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Tim (Midland Section)
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| Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Last time I had a cluster apart (for lamp change), I did three things:-
1) Put it in the airing cupboard overnight (no American translation).
2) Find space to insert the largest dessicant pack I had, which is found in new electronics packaging & it too spent the night in the airing cupboard.
PS I have plenty (due to my job) & could post FOC to Scotland.
3) Lightly sprayed WD40 over the PCB just in case the damp had started corrosion.
HTH
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