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Waking up from hibernation?

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 Thomas H. Leave a comment Honda Melody Mini

It would seem that the hibernation lasted for 3+ years, since that’s the time of my last post.Meanwhile, the old house was sold, a new one was bought, and my girlfriend gave birth to our second child, a little boy. If I thought that the time I had to tinker with my small bikes was […]

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Tapered piston rings

August 24, 2019August 24, 2019 Thomas H. Leave a comment Honda Melody Mini

So, still learning – and hopefully continuing to do so for a lifetime. I found out why there wasn’t any compression. The piston rings were simply tapered, meaning that I should have paid more attention when mounting them. See an example here of tapered piston rings and how to mount them. Apparently I had mounted […]

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New piston

July 28, 2019October 8, 2019 Thomas H. Leave a comment Honda Melody Mini

Thought I could buy a new pair of piston rings, but it turned out that this wasn’t quite doable.The only piston rings that I could aqquire looked like this: One being wider than the other, but the old piston had two identical sized piston rings: This forced me into buying a complete set with piston […]

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