As I had mentioned in an
earlier post, the battery in my iPhone4 only has about ⅔ of the original capacity and would barely last through the work day. After a quick search on Amazon, showed that I could get a replacement battery and the toolkit for about $12. They arrived on Tuesday and after watching the
short video on ifixit.com, I disassembled the phone, replaced the battery and reassembled everything. Total time was maybe five minutes. I don't have any photos of the disassembled iPhone as the phone is my point and shoot camera and it was sitting disassembled on the desk. So here is just a photo of the toolkit and the battery. I hope the battery will at least last through the day again. If I knew that the process was this simple I would've replaced the battery a long time ago.
Still no signage on the artsy piece next to the parking lot. Maybe so you can target trucks/cars parked in motorcycle parking (the spaces across the parking lot). The sign states that it is only valid motorcycle parking until September 1
st. After all, who would be crazy enough to ride after Sept 1? I chose not to park there since the parking lot was deserted when I arrived this morning plus I sort of take up a whole space anyway. And I've ridden (driven?) the sidecar rig every time I've gone to work since May 1
st.
One other task that I have been putting off until I was fairly sure of the positioning and alignment of the sidecar has been to cut off the excess tubing from the 70° mounting bosses. I wrapped them with painters tape and cut them with a reciprocating saw. I then filed down the sharp edges and finished the cut off with some gloss black paint. When comparing the before and after pictures, you can see how much extra material there was.
Without the excess tubing, I think the mounting looks a little cleaner. I also pulled off the front strut and finished painting around the hole I drilled in the lower fairing last week. I had accidentally picked up dark blue paint last winter and in the dark garage, I couldn't tell the color that I had painted the lower mounts until some sunshine returned in the Spring. I repainted those parts of the sidecar frame gloss black not that anyone besides me would ever notice.
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"After all, who would be crazy enough to ride after Sept 1?" Well, duh! They should know you better by now ;-)
ReplyDeleteActually, there are several others as well. The bike you can just barely see (actually parked in "motorcycle parking") is a purple Sportster ridden almost daily since the snow was gone. She'll probably keep riding until it snows again.
DeleteIf you have dibden your hack to work daily all umber therein lies the proof hat it was the right thing I do,of which there is no doubt in my mind onside ring ow tough Alaska two wheeled riders must be.
ReplyDeleteI think it was a good thing to do as well. We'll see how far into the fall I'll go. I don't have anything to prove but just want to see how the rig will do.
DeleteRichard:
ReplyDeleteso far my iPhone battery seems to be Okay. I've seen those kits but wasn't sure how good the battery was. The apple store charges $100. for battery installation
Your sidecar mounts do look cleaner.
bob
Riding the Wet Coast
The store charge is was had convinced me that it was difficult to do. But simply two screws and the back slides off. How difficult is that?
DeleteThey look cleaner since I had to wipe off the grime to paint, right?
Nice job with the sawzall! Wonderful tool isn't it, that along with a good grinder.....
ReplyDeleteIt's one of those tools that you don't need until you need it. And then nothing else will do. I thought about using the 4" grinder to clean off the sharp edges along the cut but simply broke out the file. Sometimes the simpler tools are all that you need.
DeleteIs it something inherent in batteries that they don't take a charge like they used to? Even the batteries on our dumb phones don't hold a charge like they did when new, but at least they are cheap. Good job replacing yours.
ReplyDeleteI think that they just wear out. When Li-ion batteries first came out, I heard tgat they only had a lifetime of like 100 "full discharge-recharge cycles" where a partial discharge-recharge counts for a fraction of a "full" cycle.
DeleteBasically comes out that a phone in regular use needs a new battery every couple of years. I'm told that Apple charges something like $80 to replace the battery which is why I procrastinated so long.