Best cheap gadget.

[catmandoes]

Whats the best cheap gadget/widget you have ever bought for you Quad thats made the biggest different to riding comfort/enjoyment ?

Mine has to be my plastic Thumb throttle extension. Bargin at 14 squid and makes it so much easier. I can use the throttle with the palm of my have now.

[WELLZY]

winch, saved my back millions of time's and never broken down once in three years, bargain at £49.99:rolleyes::D:cool::cool:

[catmandoes]

I've bought a cheap winch for the Scrambler but having a hell of a job trying to work out how im going to fit it. Bit of a welding job im afraid, and yes im afraid of welding :-)

Probably going to have to rear mount it. Im just waiting till i meet someone who is very confident with working with metal.

[WELLZY]

you rang!:D:cool:

post a few pics and i might be able to help out with a solution:cool:

[RED PRED]

You could probably fabricate a bracket, oh yes, our soon to be new member with the Renny runs a steelwork fabrication company and he could make a professional looking bracket for you, do you want me to ask him

[Raptorman]

i brought some unleaded petrol for my raptor its goes so much better now:D:D

[WELLZY]

i'm on your side mate, my quads last 6 month's if i'm lucky!!:eek::D
can't see the point in doing them up, but new quad should last longer hopefully, might do a little work to it but non of this biger jets and stuff, i like my engine's pure without any rubbish added:cool::cool:

[RED PRED]

Raptorman, what were you using before :eek:

Wellzy, if your quads only last 6 months then stop buying crap, sometimes the only way you can get the smaller quads to go well at all is to change the exhaust, air filter and jets to unrestrict them, never be afraid to change bits, the standard stuff is often restricted, even the standard exhaust on my Pred was very restrictive, probably to keep the noise down :D .

[WELLZY]

i'm not afraid of changing any thing on quad's, i just don't bother spending money on them, i save it up until i get my new quad:cool::cool:

[RED PRED]

Good idea, what are you getting now then ?

[WELLZY]

yamaha grizzly 660 with outdoor's man package on:cool::cool:

[catmandoes]

Hmmmm

Intresting how you think a Yam Grizzly is a 'cheap gadget'. Your parents must be rich !! :) Get rid of the Chump and get them to buy you one.

[pottsy]

best cheap bit i ever got is odi lock on grips £14.99 they are great perfect balance of soft but hard wearing plus no grip glue special mounts with allen key to lock on take about 30 seconds to fit and look the dogs
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ODI-ROGUE-LOCK-ON-BONUS-PACK-BLUE-FREE-UK-DELIVERY_W0QQitemZ250168826087QQihZ015QQcategoryZ5 6194QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[WELLZY]

Hmmmm

Intresting how you think a Yam Grizzly is a 'cheap gadget'. Your parents must be rich !! :) Get rid of the Chump and get them to buy you one.

because brand new with 0 miles on it straight from the factory, guess how much?:confused:

the chump is going, i'm going to fix it this weekend and send it packing:D:p

[catmandoes]

I bought one of these and i have to say i was impressed considering how cheap it was. For those that dont have a back rack, its great for holding things behind you.

A very usefull cheap gadget in my experiance.


Cargo net (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CARGO-NET-BRAND-NEW-BLACK-EXTRA-LARGE-SUPERB-QUALITY_W0QQitemZ190158131224QQihZ009QQcategoryZ30 240QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[RED PRED]

The best cheapy thing in my tool kit is superglue, great for punctures, just removed a huge thorn from my front tyre and opened the hole with a nail, filled hole with superglue, let cure for half hour then reinflate-job done

[WELLZY]

you do no that super glue is bad for rubber!

and one day you could glue your tyre to the floor?:D:D:rolleyes:

[catmandoes]

I know, it makes rubber stick ;) and repairs holes, terrible isnt it ;)


Seriously, in what way is it bad for rubber ? I've heard of a few people using it for punctures successfully. I carry a tube in my emergency kit all the time. Mainly to stick things that fall apart.

Went out with RedPred one day and my fuel cap split open after a unfriendly meeting with a tree root, Super glued it together and it together no problem. Since then iv'e always carried a tube of it with me.

Bit like condoms, never leave home with out them. :eek: But dont try to fix them with the super glue, could be bad... very bad...

[RED PRED]

do not superglue a johnny to your todger guys .
Wellzy, in what way is superglue bad for rubber, please enlighten me with your wisdom and knowledge of petro-chemical products ;)

[catmandoes]

Introducing the Helmet Torch DA DA DA :eek:


Bet youll be all queing up to buy one of these .....

[RED PRED]

You will look like a miner Danny, how much was that, COOL :D

[NJK]

Only if I was quading down pit.:D

[catmandoes]

Ok, well we used this head torch on the night ride this evening and it was really good. Definatley belongs in the catagory of useful cheap quad gadgets. :D

Get one, you wont regret it

[NJK]

I think I would with everyone taking the ****:D

[RED PRED]

Its a good tool and i would give it 10 out of 10 for usefulness, i could have done with one as i could not find my zipper when i needed a pee LOL .

[NJK]

Well with years of practicing undoing bra's in the dark I don't think undoing a zip will be a problem.:D

[RED PRED]

All the women i have known have been the `burn your bra` feminist type LOL
I did have a bit of fun trying to find the ignition key and starter button in the dark .

[catmandoes]

I have to say, i was suprised myself on the performace on the helmet light. Worked really.

Keep these cheap gadgets coming, its a good useful thread.

[RED PRED]

I was very impressed by Danny`s lit up helmet LOL

[RED PRED]

Another great cheapy is WD40, great stuff and really protects your electrics and mechanical parts, spray on before a muddy ride and it makes your quad easier to clean, spray on after to dispel water, brilliant, I dont use it on the plastics though .

£3.48 for a large can at B&Q

[WELLZY]

5 quid for 2.5 ltrs from screwfix!:eek::D:D:p

[NJK]

Be careful with WD 40 because it has corrosive properties Duck oil is a better bet.

[RED PRED]

when you say corrosive, what does it corrode, metal, plastic ?
Where do you get duck oil from then ?

[NJK]

Metal especially aluminum.

[yellow peril]

Duck oil is quiet expensive, due to where it comes from...
It comes from a certain type of duck only known by a few special people, it's corrosive to flesh so be careful when using it, gloves should be worn at all times!!
The full moon gets the duck into it's oil producing cycle and when milking the duck you have to be so careful that the oil doesn't get onto your hands which is difficult when milking a duck, so I am told!
The duck only manages to produce oil in the first three days following the full moon, but they can produce a fairly large quantity, usually one hundred and fiftythree thousand gallons per day for three days, it is a long hard three days for the duck milkers out there.
You maybe asking yourself why can't they milk the ducks by machine like they do with cows, the ducks aren't silly they know the difference between man and machine and they stop producing the oil if you try to milk them by machine, I guess they just love the feel of the human hand milking them.

[RED PRED]

Dave, that was superb mate, i laughed my nuts off reading that, it was almost as if i had written it, superb .

Come to think of it, us blokes prefer to be milked by a human hand dont we ;)

[NJK]

Dave

I hope you realize what you have done, You have now told the world how they make Duck Oil.

[RED PRED]

i must admit i was oblivious to that, those poor ducks must be bloody knackered, where abouts does the oil come from, not their ****s i hope because if i had 153,000 gallons a day coming out of it i could not imagine the pain that flow rate would cause, how big is a ducks **** ?

[RED PRED]

bloody hell, that is 106 gallons a minute, i could find a formula to work out the diameter of the duck oil ducks ****, using the Hazen Williams formula, I will do it tomorrow at work .

[RED PRED]

Have played about with some figures using the simple formula used to determine sprinkler orifice diameters and have come up with the following .

153,000 gallons per day = 483 litres/minute flow rate

if we take a pressure of 100 millibars then the diameter of the ducks todger would be 48.3 mm, quite impressive I think .

The formula is;

K = Q divided by the square root of P

where

K = a constant in mm (in this case the diameter of the ducks todger)
Q = flow rate in litres/minute
P = pressure in mbars

Impressive stuff

[yellow peril]

With poeple going on about tyre pressures and what pressure they have in their tyres and how much pressure guuages cost them and if they are digital or not I have just come across the best and cheapest gadget yet, it's from Tesco and it cost me £2.57 in a petrol station, it's a Tesco own brand digital pressure gauge and reads upto 100psi or bar or kg/cm2 or KPa.

Can anyone beat that for value for money??

[RED PRED]

Dave, you did well, that is less than the price of a decent pint .

[secret solo]

[QUOTE=WELLZY;1844]i'm not afraid of changing any thing on quad's, QUOTE]


then maybe if you learnt how to do it properly your quad would last beyond 6 months.

[secret solo]

With poeple going on about tyre pressures and what pressure they have in their tyres and how much pressure guuages cost them and if they are digital or not I have just come across the best and cheapest gadget yet, it's from Tesco and it cost me £2.57 in a petrol station, it's a Tesco own brand digital pressure gauge and reads upto 100psi or bar or kg/cm2 or KPa.

Can anyone beat that for value for money??


YES,, i stole mine...lol £0.00

[WELLZY]

[QUOTE=WELLZY;1844]i'm not afraid of changing any thing on quad's, QUOTE]


then maybe if you learnt how to do it properly your quad would last beyond 6 months.

i know how to do it properly, i hust buy cheap cr*p off ebay to learn how to fix them, now i have a proper bike, and have enough no how to fix it if anything goes wrong.:cool::cool:

[RED PRED]

yeah secret solo, leave him alone



wellzy is an expert in cross-threading lol

[WELLZY]

:D:D:84::nitro:

[RED PRED]

why arent you at school young man ?

[WELLZY]

why arent you at school young man ?

this is the modern age, schools do have pc's!!:aikido:;):bathbaby:

[RED PRED]

Another brilliant cheapy is the cable tie, a thousand uses around the house, well maybe 4 .

[WELLZY]

Another brilliant cheapy is the cable tie, a thousand uses around the house, well maybe 4 .

bloody hell, out of everything how did we miss the cable tie!!:frusty::cheer2:

duct tape!:amen::D

[RED PRED]

Sandwich bags are good cheap items, on really wet days i put my mobile and wallet in sandwich bags and they keep them dry .

[WELLZY]

Sandwich bags are good cheap items, on really wet days i put my mobile and wallet in sandwich bags and they keep them dry .

i put mine in my bomber jacket pocket.;):rules:

[secret solo]

Superglue- brilliant stuff in the right places. invented for war as it was used for glueing skin back together as an emergency measure out in the field. The other great application is rubber. Used for more years than i can remember to join rubber gaskets in upvc windows. Contrary to wellzys belief, it is far from bad for rubber. I sliced open a tyre wall miles from home, popped into a superstore,glued the gash and got home. no puncture repair kit could have achieved this.
you can buy 10 tubes for a pound in them pound shops although it does not stick as well and as hard as the loctitie version. Used with an activator applied to one surface and glue to the other)it bonds instantly to practically anything.

[RED PRED]

Glueing skin back together :eek:, I have experience of gluing a spanner to my finger, had to cut through the glue with a blade, only suffered a little nick to my finger .
It is great emergency glue .

[outlander]

I agree with secret solo in that it's worth buying the good stuff. I obtain mine from the aircraft stores at work, if it's good enough for a Boeing 777 then it's good enough for my bike. Incidently it has quite a short shelf life and must be kept in the fridge, they have a fridge specially for superglue. Also great if you need a o ring and havn't got the right size, cut with a razorblade and glue back together.

[yellow peril]

Just gone out and bought myself a "Tefal quick cup" it's like a kettle but just boils the water that you require for a cup of tea or any hot drink that rquires hot water, the best part of it is that it only takes 3 seconds to boil the water and at the rate I drink tea it bloody fantastic, it's meant to save 65% of your electricity compared to a normal kettle, but it does cost £44.99 so I guess it doesn't really come under the heading best cheap gadget, but sure is a good gadget.

[corsasri]

today i was looking in pound land, and came accross a folding ruck sack it folds up into its front pocket. fits nice under the seat of my qz. even used it tonight to put my kebab and coke in.
bargin as was only a pound.

[RED PRED]

A brilliant cheap get you home gadget is a mini air compressor, I keep one in my ruck sack, it plugs into my fag lighter socket, useful for re seating tyres that have pushed off the rim too .
This combined with a tube of super glue makes possibly the most useful gadget of all IMO .

[WELLZY]

a hand winch and tow rope, most useful gadgets.

[robgrizz660]

a hand winch and tow rope, most useful gadgets.


For what Wellzy? I'll just stick with my Warn thanks:bangin:

[outlander]

Don't forget that Wellzy's quad thinks it's a hang glider and keeps launching itself over cliffs so anything he fits must be manually operated or it won't work when it reaches the bottom.

[RED PRED]

Plasticine-mould around your cable ends and use as a funnel to oil your cables .

[James]

Lighter fluid, briliant for starting a "snotted" 2 stroke or a flooded 4 stroke- take spark plug out, spray some inside, re insert spark plug. start it up :D

Lunchbox, great for keeping things dry, phone/ipod/sandwiches and if you mount it up on the front rack, stick a camera in to video the ride
:crazy:

[RED PRED]

The best gadget I have bought for a while was an electric fly swatter from Somerfield for £5, its like a small tennis racquet and runs on two AA batteries, when the fly touches the grill it pops, sparks and burns, the bigger the fly the bigger the pop, its immense fun :D:D

[James]

my mate has one of those, he hit it with his finger and there was a hell of a spark and a scream lol

[RED PRED]

Was that mate Wellzy by any chance lol

[WELLZY]

no i use spark plugs for that, bigger zap!!:D:D:crazy:

[secret solo]

no i use spark plugs for that, bigger zap!!:D:D:crazy:


doh, thats probably why you dont zap anyone then.. you have so much to learn,. If you are going along that route its the ht coil that produces the volts, not the plug. Use a tv transformer and 9v battery and stick your tongue on it !!!

[WELLZY]

doh, thats probably why you dont zap anyone then.. you have so much to learn,. If you are going along that route its the ht coil that produces the volts, not the plug. Use a tv transformer and 9v battery and stick your tongue on it !!!

yes, i know the ht coil is the thing that produces the charge. the spark plug is easier to get to.

[RED PRED]

Use a tv transformer and 9v battery and stick your tongue on it !!!

Bad advice for Wellzy, he would do it :eek::D, honestly Wellzy it is fun, does not hurt at all LOL .

[WELLZY]

car battery, jump leads.

touch both terminals to your tongue.

[RED PRED]

Instant mohican hairdo lol

[WELLZY]

be worse if it was your nipples:bangin::84:

[RED PRED]

Or your testicles-shocking !

[outlander]

Duck tape and WD40, If it dosent move and it should use the WD40, if it does move and it shouldn't use the duck tape.

[two wheels short]

shouldn't that be duck oil and duck tape:84:

what part of the duck does duck tape come from?

[RED PRED]

Now its funny you ask that two wheels, the process for making duck tape is a long and sticky one, it appears you have read the very humorous thread on the story of duck oil production and as far as I know there is absolutely no connection, they simply get some very long material and put sticky stuff on it !

[two wheels short]

Do you mean the ducks put the sticky stuff on RP?
Must be the ducks otherwise they'd just call it tape hey:crazy:

[RED PRED]

Thats a good point, I suppose the ducks line up alongside a conveyor belt and use a paintbrush to apply the sticky stuff as the tape passes them .I have just read an update on the `Duck Oil` site and it appears that the glue is a by-product of Duck Oil, there is a two day window in the ducks oil producing period when the duck ejaculate is too sticky to be used as oil so it is scraped off their anus-flaps and blended with water to make the Duck tape glue .Another intersting fact is the use of Canada Goose feathers to make the brushes for applying the sticky goo, the Duck oil ducks hate the Canada Goose because they tried to sell Duck oil to Primark and we all know what unethical things happen there, yes the people of the UK buy cheap clothes there !Unless there is another reason it is called `Duck` Tape,

[Big Jim]

Thats a good point, I suppose the ducks line up alongside a conveyor belt and use a paintbrush to apply the sticky stuff as the tape passes them .I have just read an update on the `Duck Oil` site and it appears that the glue is a by-product of Duck Oil, there is a two day window in the ducks oil producing period when the duck ejaculate is too sticky to be used as oil so it is scraped off their anus-flaps and blended with water to make the Duck tape glue .Another intersting fact is the use of Canada Goose feathers to make the brushes for applying the sticky goo, the Duck oil ducks hate the Canada Goose because they tried to sell Duck oil to Primark and we all know what unethical things happen there, yes the people of the UK buy cheap clothes there !Unless there is another reason it is called `Duck` Tape,

That's a fantastic explanation of how duck tape is produced.

Now explain BABY oil ! ! !

[RED PRED]

The internet is amazing, I have found the actual origin of Duck tape, it turns out that a long time ago there was an amphibious vehicle making company with a dyslexic marketing manager, the tape was invented to seal holes to keep the water out, the company was called `DUCK` but the word `DUKW` appeared on all their products, one of which is shown below .

[Big Jim]

Suggs & that strangley attractive mechanic woman restored one of these on...scrapyard challenge?? No, sorry cant remember what it was called.

[RED PRED]

Probably was a DUKW or Duck, they still use them to take tourists around London, they do river/street tours .

[WELLZY]

Suggs & that strangley attractive mechanic woman restored one of these on...scrapyard challenge?? No, sorry cant remember what it was called.

scrapheap challenge

[RED PRED]

Baby Oil, now thats easy Jim .
Baby Oil is made from left over dead babies from Alice Cooper shows,

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8KGxk0CXQ

There is always a plentiful supply !

[Big Jim]

scrapheap challenge

Thats the one, cheerz

[Big Jim]

Baby Oil, now thats easy Jim .
Baby Oil is made from left over dead babies from Alice Cooper shows,

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aR8KGxk0CXQ

There is always a plentiful supply !


Ahh, Alice Cooper, one of my favourite entertainers for biting the head off a bat & crashing a quad bike

[RED PRED]

Yeah and the other one `Ozzy Osbourne`, the one who sings Schools Out and has his head chopped off every gig, blood golfers !

[WELLZY]

Thats the one, cheerz

been watchin it all sunday

[Big Jim]

been watchin it all sunday

What would we do without Sky???

[RED PRED]

What would we do without Sky???

Probably just look into the empty space !!

[two wheels short]

bumped into Fred Dineage today (long story but his future daughter in-law is a barmaid in my local) and asked him, previously of "HOW" fame, of the origins of duck tape and duck oil. Believe it or not but its all true apart from the bit about canadian goose feathers as glue applicators, in actual fact they preferred to use the three central tail feathers of the Outer Hebredian Pasting Duck or Dukw as its spelt in Gaelic!

[RED PRED]

I remember Fred, that HOW programme was so cool in its day .

[Nogbad]

Bom boomy bom bom, Bom boomy bom bom, Bom boomy bom bom,Bom boomy bom bom..........HOW!!

[two wheels short]

bom boomy bom bom...............................brilliant.
Fred would be proud, and the old boy (Jack someone) who did "How" and "Country Ways"
Anyone remember him?. used to talk about proper old school country stuff like horse drawn ploughs, fly fishing and black and white laning?!

[Big Jim]

I too loved Fred Dibnah, he was a great guy

[RED PRED]

Was it Jack Hargreaves ?
Fred Dibnah is a legend and such a nice bloke

[two wheels short]

Yes, Jack Hargreaves, used to do his show sat in that little shed, brilliant.

[James]

thats How for Now