Unc's Workshop
Home improvement, bikes, classic motorcycles, vintage stereos, and small boats. Short guides that separate useful gear from garage clutter.
Home improvement, bikes, classic motorcycles, vintage stereos, small boats, and homebrew. Same rule: buy the bottleneck, skip the wishlist.
Home Improvement
Home improvement buying guides: a full workshop under $350, a fuller shop under $750, a first-home tool kit, plus drills, paint, caulk, a stepladder, and a shop vac.
Brewing
Homebrew buying guides: starter kits, fermenters, chillers, sanitizers, and cold-side gear—what changes beer quality vs what can wait.
Cycling
Road and mountain bike buying guides: home stands, tools, chains, pads, tubeless kits, and first upgrades that matter after years on used bikes.
Motorcycle
Classic Honda CB tool guides: a 20 to 100 ft-lb torque wrench, an 8 to 19 mm socket set, and a multimeter—stock-friendly maintenance buys first.
Vintage Audio
Vintage stereo repair guides: crackle and no-sound diagnosis, one-channel amp faults, contact cleaner, freeze spray, a dim bulb tester, and a multimeter—the cheap checks before a recap kit.
Boat
Boston Whaler and small-boat season kits: marine batteries, bilge float switches, battery tenders, and trailer grease—spec-matched pre-launch buys.
Motorcycle·
On this 1976 CB500T both coils' black/white wires were found joined to a small box with a red wire and a green wire. The bike later ran on the kickstarter. That box was not confirmed as the repair.
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This 1976 CB500T has two condenser cans and bullet connectors. The first replacement had a green wire and a two-prong fork, so it never met the harness. Bolting a new can down did not restore the dead plug wire.
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After the throttle cable was fixed, this 1976 CB500T idled, then died with the enrichener off or from about 1,000 rpm. That is a lean slow circuit, not the cable again.
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Each CB500T carb has a fuel inlet and an overflow. The two petcock spigots feed the two carbs separately. There is no crossover hose between the bowls.
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