THE MOMENT OF TRUE.

When I bought the motorcycle, I got a PDF with the workshop manual. Having the more than 300 pages printed cost me almost 70 euros, and the print quality leaves much to be desired.
 A week ago, I found the original manual on a website for buying and selling used items for 50 euros, including shipping.
 The difference in image clarity between the glossy paper and the photocopies is remarkable.
 
 
 
   

 

 

It's been weeks since my computer died suddenly without warning.
I have lost years of personal photos and various information, I have not been able to recover anything.
After recovering my password I'm here again.
Regarding the restoration of Christine, I am at that point where I have emotionally detached myself from the project, I am still waiting for an attack of will to be able to finish it.

Hard drive failure? If so, there are companies who can disassemble the drive, remove the platter, and recover data. Good luck with HDD and Christine!

You can't let the project get you down. It will affect all other parts of your life if you do. I know the feeling. I bought a lot once to build our dream retirement home and drew up the plans to build it. After discussing the plans with the wife, I figured out the house was going to be a 3800 square foot bungalow with a 3 car garage. The wife said it was too big, so we went through the room sizes one at a time and she wouldn't compromise on any of the room sizes, so I started. Took 1 1/2 years on my spare time to build it. Worked in Pickering from 7 am to 3:30 pm. Drove up to the lot in Breckin ( 1 hour 20 minute drive) and got there for 5 pm. Worked on the house till 11 pm. Drove back to the house we were living in in Markham ( 1 1/2 hour drive) and went to bed. Got up at 6am and did it all over again.

2 or 3 times when I got to the lot, I had a fight or flight moment at the end of the driveway. The house was too big a project for any one man to take on by himself but I was committed and had to finish it. One thing I learned at the nuclear plant was how to hand out jobs and set expectations. Any job that took more than 3 shifts would go down hill if you didn't rotate out staff on the job. You have to make expectations and results in reasonably sized bite size chunks rather than one big prize at the end of the project. The goals have to be obtainable and not unsurmountable or the project will fail. Kowing that, while sitting at the end of the driveway looking at the house under construction, I forced myself to not get overwhelmed at the size of the project and focus on just what I could get done in 6 hours of work and go in and get another 6 hours of work done. From that point on, I had to remind myself that I was ther to progress the project and not to get overwhelmed with finishing the project.

I finished that house and I still can't believe I thought I could do it in the beginning. Neighbors came up and asked me how I ever thought I coul do it all by myself. My answer - If I gave you 2 pieces of wood and a couple of nails, could you hammer them together? Could you do it 4000 more times? Then I guess you could build a house too.

So, all that being said, maybe focus on bite size chunks and pick away at it. Make it a project of joy and not a problem that gets you down. In the end when you finish it, it will probably give you more joy to know that you overcame all the difficulties and finished it above all  the other projects that just happened without problems.

Hang in there.
KB