Posts Tagged With: K1200LT

A Mother’s Day Ride

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Chris

Yesterday was Mother’s Day here in the US.  Donna and her sister took their Mom to lunch and then Donna had to work later that afternoon.  I called my Mom who lives in another state.  But what did I do on Mother’s Day?  Why I went for a motorcycle ride!  Now some may think this unusual but Donna has even requested to that before on Mother’s Day and birthdays.  I guess I’m one lucky guy.

My Blue Knights Chapter had to cancel a ride the day before because of a forecast of a high probability of thunderstorms.  Those thunderstorms never materialized.  But there’s an old aviation saying about cancelling a flight that can be compared to motorcycling, “It’s better to be down here wishing you were up there than to be up there wishing you were down here.”  So on Sunday a friend, Sean, and I went for a ride.  We were going to pre-ride a route for an upcoming Blue Knights ride.  We met in Jasper, GA under a nearly cloudless blue sky with temperatures already warming into the mid 60′s.  We took off and headed for Talking Rock before heading up over Burnt Mountain on GA HWY 136.  I don’t know what it is about Burnt Mountain but it’s always significantly cooler up there.  Along the top, the temperature dropped down to 51 and when Donna and I were up there about 2 months ago there was snow on the side of the road when the mountain tops in the area hadn’t seen snow for over a week!  We headed on through Dahlonega passing Rider’s Hill and making the turn at the Rock Mound for Turner’s Corner and US HWY 129.  Turner’s Corner wouldn’t be our lunch stop today as we were going to have BBQ in Blairsville.  But now it’s time to vent.  Some people shouldn’t ride motorcycles.  Or if they do, they should pull over and let the line of cars and motorcycles pass them.  On US 19/GA 9, between GA 60 and US 129 we got stuck behind a couple on a Kawasaki Vulcan cruiser, a “Harley-A-Like” bagger.  He had highway pegs mounted high up on his crash bars. He had the pegs angled so his feet pointed to the sides of the road.  This guy literally looked like he could’ve been at the gynecologist’s office for an exam!  That was just to paint a picture.  He would go along at 45 mph or higher; until he reached a curve.  When he reached a curve his brake light would come on and he would slow dramatically.  Come out of the curve and he’s speed up until the next curve and repeat it again.  The entire stretch of road is probably a no passing zone and there was car between us, so I didn’t pass them.  Then I noticed (because I had nothing better to do while creeping along) that when he would brake in the curves that his feet were still up on those highway pegs!  He was braking hard using only his front brake in curves.  When we got to US 129 to go up and over Blood Mountain, this guy on his Kawasaki sadly turned left.  Great, now we were going to be behind him on a really curvy road!  He started his routine all over again.  But luckily, it wasn’t long before we got two lanes on our side of the road with a nice sign that reads “Keep Right Except To Pass”.  So I drop to 4th gear, pull out into the left lane give the gas; good.  I wanted to pass this guy as quickly as we could!  Then to my amazement as I’m parallel to him, he begins changing lanes into me in a curve to the left.  I saw the shock and panic on his face.  I’m sure that if I had hit my horn he would’ve wrecked.  But we put him in our rear view mirrors.  It wasn’t until we stopped for lunch that Sean told me how close that Kawasaki had gotten to me.  Since Sean and I were both riding solo, we rode a bit more “spirited” than if our wives were with us.  The BMW K1200LT is an 850 pound touring motorcycle can that do a pretty good impersonation of a sport bike at times.  We got to a nice sweeping, angled and sharp right curve and I was really leaning into to it, “motor officer style”.  That means pushing the bike over while your body is upright.  Suddenly I felt my right foot peg scraping the road!  I guess I was leaning a bit far!  Usually when riding 2 up and we’re leaning like that, the side stand on the left or the center stand on the right will scrape first as a warning.  I didn’t get that warning being solo and it surprised me a bit.  I got to thinking later and realized that those foot pegs are pretty high off the ground to begin with.  In the same spot Sean drug the right floorboard of his Victory Cross County Tour through the whole curve.  We had a really good time going up and over the mountain.  If you’ve been in the area you know what a well maintained, curvy and fun road US 129 over Blood Mountain can be.  We stopped for lunch in Blairsville before getting back on the motorcycles and taking a more sedate and leisurely route home.  As we were getting ready to leave the BBQ restaurant, a group of 5 Triumph motorcycles pulled in just in time to take our parking spots as the lot was full.  I even made it back home in time to kiss Donna before she headed off for work.  But I did cook her a dinner she wanted when she got home.  Now Donna wants to go for a ride because it’s been a while.  Where should we go………..

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I Don’t Like Solo Trips

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Chris

Last Wednesday I took my first long solo trip on the Magic Carpet.  By solo I mean just me on the motorcycle and not just one motorcycle.  I’ve grown very accustomed to having Donna sitting behind me and having her to talk with.  I just enjoy having her back there and it’s not just for the neck and shoulder rubs on long trips (although those are a big plus).  Our young beagle had very recently had spinal surgery and Donna needed to stay at home with her as she can’t be put in a kennel yet, even though she is healing ahead of schedule.  I headed down from metropolitan Atlanta, Georgia to the Daytona Beach, Florida area.  My Mom is a breast cancer survivor and has now acquired another malady that puts her in yet another fight.  Mom & Dad needed some help with a few things.  Mom’s just not up to getting out and doing things like cleaning gutters and patio furniture with Dad right now.  This is a 480 mile door to door trip and would be all interstate this time.

I had planned to leave at about 6:00 am so that I could be well ahead of rush hour traffic on the interstate.  Well plans don’t always work out and I wasn’t rolling until just before 7:00 am.  Yes, I got up on time.  I kissed Donna goodbye and was rolling.  I wasn’t on Interstate 75 very long before I was greeted with brake lights in front of me.  The traffic was brutal.  It made me happy that I’m retired and no longer have to make that trip everyday at that time.  The traffic added at least another hour to my trip.  My travel time was over 10 hours to get to Florida!  The weather wasn’t bad either, being cloudy or overcast most of the way.

Coming home the following Tuesday was just the opposite.  It was the same route but I got on the road at 6:00 am this time after saying goodbye to Mom & Dad.  The sun began to rise from the Atlantic Ocean over my right shoulder as I rode north.  Temperatures were even the same as the trip down.  Both times I started out with temperatures in the low 60′s (F) and they rose to the mid 70′s (F) for my destination.  Only for the return trip I had blue, cloudless skies.   This time I made the trip in 7 hours and 16 minutes of driving (moving time) according to the GPS.  I arrived home 9 hours and 10 minutes after I left.  That time included two meal stops and 3 gas stops.  I was pretty impressed that I made it from Daytona Beach to Valdosta, GA on a tank of gas and still had just over 50 miles left according the K1200LT’s trip computer.

This was my first long trip using my earplugs which made a world of difference.  The earplugs had a lot to do with the lack of fatigue from the sound.  A quite noticeable difference.  Wearing the ear plugs for that long (other than meal stops) caused me no physical discomfort.  I also paired the Scala Rider Teamset Pro with my Windows Phone instead of the GPS this time.  As I approached my parent’s home while I was traveling on I-95 I was able to call them with an updated ETA.  They had no idea that I was actually calling from the motorcycle and said it just sounded like I was outside.  I know the nemesis of motorcyclists is text messaging drivers.  But on the way home, a friend and Donna both sent me a few, that the phone read to me and I replied by voice commands and speaking he message coincidentally while either pumping gas or preparing to leave from lunch (so I guess I wasn’t texting and riding after all).  I really wasn’t too happy with the volume of the messages and the few phone calls until I remembered that I had to raise the volume on the phone and not on the intercom!  Would I leave the phone paired to the Scala?  No.  I’d just assume leave it paired to the GPS.  But this was a special trip and I didn’t need the GPS for directions and just used it for arrival time purposes.  My new Windows Phone doesn’t have all the features my last Windows Phone did.   In testing it, the old phone would voice announce the caller by name and use the phone’s ringer or the caller’s unique ring if they had one.  It would also announce who the text message was from so you could “listen or ignore”.  The new phone just uses a generic phone ringer with no voice announce and merely informs you of “new text message” and asks if you want to listen now or later.  I liked the features on the old phone better.  But since I don’t plan on using except for an interstate trip like this one, it doesn’t really bug me.  I’d rather have the GPS directions sent to the Scala.  The Scala Rider Teamset Pro allow only one additional Bluetooth connection to each headset in addition to the one already taken by the intercom.

When leaving Florida in the dark, a motorist pulled up next to me and told me “You know the back of your helmet is flashing?”  I told him it was to make me more visible, especially in low light conditions.  He laughed and said “Well I guess it works then!”  Our helmets have a red LED light in the rear that can be set to off, steady on, slow flash or fast flash.  He was right, I guess it works.  My Dad had also run down the driveway calling at me to tell me my helmet was “blinking”.

Don't you have to wear "shades" Florida. The clouds behind me look like mountains too.

Florida Welcome Center. The clouds behind me look like mountains.

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An Accessory for Donna

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Chris

Get your minds out of the gutter!

But on the BMWMOA flea market I bought Donna a pair of BMW floorboards for the K1200LT.  Their was an owner who had sold his K1200LT and removed some accessories to sell separate from the motorcycle.  Donna had floorboards on our Suzuki C50T Boulevard, one of those “Harley-A-Like” motorcycles.  Since getting the K1200LT she has mentioned the idea of the floorboards a few times.  You see, for some reason the BMW K1200LT was the only luxury touring motorcycle that came with footpegs instead of floorboards.  BMW of course would sell them to you for a price they were very proud of.  A company named Illium also makes passenger floorboards for the motorcycle but they’re smaller and if you want the adjustable ones (like the BMW ones are) instead of fixed, their price approaches the BMW boards.  I got these used floorboards at a nice discount as they were used.  The advantage of the BMW floorboards is that they are adjustable up and down (6 settings) without the use of tools, are larger and the entire foot surface is rubber.

I hope to be able to get Donna to write an article on the floorboards after she’s ridden with them.

Original, wide BMW footpeg.

Original, wide BMW footpeg.

The adjustable BMW floorboard.

The adjustable BMW floorboard.

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Our 2002 BMW K1200LTE

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Chris

When out on the road and even here on the blog we’ve been asked “Is that the “new” BMW?”  We’d get asked this especially shortly before and after the release of BMW’s K1600 GT & GTL motorcycles.  Our motorcycle is a 2002 BMW K1200LTE.  That’s right, with the 2013 model year motorcycles being announced and even released that makes our motorcycle 11 model years old!  The LT stands for “Luxury Touring” and the E is for the specific trim package of “Elite”.  At the time BMW had different trim levels with options for the motorcycle, each adding a few more features.  There was LT (Icon), LTC (Custom) and LTE (Elite).

I decided to offer a walk around of the things that were original on this motorcycle as it was delivered.  Keep in mind that this is an eleven year old motorcycle.  Some of the standard items are offered by other makes as an extra option, just as car makers do and some are just not available or are just now becoming available, like the power windshield.  I did miss in the video that the trip computer is also controlled by a button on the on the right handlebar, the motorcycle originally had a 6 disc CD changer in the right side case (which I removed to get more room), I removed the CB radio in the “glove compartment” as it never really worked and wouldn’t anyway with our Bluetooth Scala Rider intercom and we have replaced the original GPS with a new one (how many cars came with GPS in 2002?).  Oh, and not only did the intercom have the ability to use FM/FRS radio instead of CB, it also had an input for a cell phone cable and an external audio device (the manual specifically reads “such as a Sony DiscMan.”).

So here is our 2002 BMW K1200LTE, The Magic Carpet.

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Some January “Throttle Therapy”

Posted on January 13, 2013 by Chris

Today’s temperature hovered around 70 degrees here in north Georgia which is pretty unusual. You see, contrary to popular belief, we do have winter here and in the area we rode in today, snow is not unusual.

I missed out on a ride yesterday with my Blue Knights Chapter but Donna and I made up for it today.  It was cloudy and overcast but quite a pleasant day.  Temperatures were in the upper 60′s when we left very late in the morning and even peaked at 72 on the way home.  We had no particular route planned, but figured we’d head up to Turner’s Corner Café for lunch and then go from there.  But even our lunch destination wasn’t set in stone as it was just us riding today.  We headed on up through Dawsonville and Dahlonega, passing Rider’s Hill along the way.  Rider’s Hill looked to have a parking lot full of motorcycles today.  After passing Rider’s Hill a large group of sport bikes came towards us and they looked pretty good, riding in a very tight, staggered formation.  We did stop at Turner’s Corner Café for a nice leisurely lunch.  From our table inside we could see the stop sign for Georgia HWY 9 and US Highway 129.  We watched solo riders and groups of motorcycles pull up and make the left turn heading up Blood Mountain.  One group was a trio of women, all on BMW motorcycles; two R1200GS models and an R1200R Roadster.  I noticed the motorcycles and then that they were all women!  If you continue on US 129 from there on into North Carolina, the highway eventually becomes the infamous “Tail Of The Dragon”.  After lunch we headed down to Cleveland to Dahlonenga and from Dahlonega headed for home the same way we had come up.  In winter you can see a lot of things along the road that aren’t visible the rest of the year, being covered by kudzu or other foliage.  I made a note to myself to come along this route again soon to take some pictures of those roadside anomalies.  It was really good to get out for some “throttle therapy” and exercise both us and the Magic Carpet.

I also got to use 2 of my Christmas presents on today’s ride too!

One was my pair of Sliders Kevlar Cargo Motorcycle Pants.  The pants are khaki colored cargo pants, looking pretty much like any pair of pants.  But, underneath in certain areas they are lined with Kevlar for abrasion resistance and have CE approved armor in the knees.  Donna said they looked pretty good, not looking like my bulky Tourmaster pants or other pants I’ve looked at.  I’ve got to say that were very comfortable both on and off the bike too.  The armor did seem to move to the inside of my knees when riding though.  These would not be pants you’d want to wear in the rain though unless you had rain gear to put over them.  For rain or just outright stopping wind though, the Tourmaster’s or something similar is still the way to go though.

The other item was my ETYMOYIC earplugs.  I’ve been debating on earplugs for quite some time now, especially to help out with some of the wind noise around my helmet.  When we switched to the new helmets, they helped dramatically with the noise but wind around the helmet was still there, even behind a fairing and a windshield.  They work great!  Just as they advertised, they reduced the noise but because of there design, still allowed for normal conversation and intercom use.  I did raise the volume on the Scala Rider Teamset Pro to hear Donna better (as expected).  Wind noise was still there, but muffled and not as bothersome when at highway speeds.  I found that I heard more of the K1200LT’s engine along with environmental sounds around me.  I didn’t think that they could make that much of a difference.

Until next time, Ride Safe!

Lunch at Turner’s Corner Café. Notice the “Bikers Welcome” sign on the post?

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70,000 Miles And A Great Ride With Friends

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Chris

The Magic Carpet reached a minor milestone today.  While in Dahlonega, GA and returning home from a ride with friends the Magic Carpet’s odometer reached and passed 70,000 miles.  No, I didn’t ride 70,000 with friends today!

My Blue Knights Chapter held a “Hooky Ride” today and 5 of us met and rode some crooked north Georgia roads and then stopped in at the Batesville General Store for lunch before heading home.  A “Hooky Ride” is a weekday ride where you take the day off or are already off from work.  Well almost everybody as two of us today were retirees.  We did run into an issue on Georgia HWY 17 though.  Just as we were ascending the mountain and the road was getting twisty we found that a truck or a motor home had leaked a nice trail of diesel fuel all the way up the mountain in the curves.  This was not fun as diesel fuel is basically oil, doesn’t evaporate quickly like gasoline and is very slippery.  Luckily none of slipped and went down.  It was a great day to get out and ride 200 miles with some friends and then watch the odometer roll over to 70000!

 

The Magic Carpet came home with 70,072 miles on the odometer today.

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A Great Autumn Day To Ride With New Friends

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Chris

A while back I met a local member of BMWLT.COM who had a repair need and was asking questions on the forum.  When we met we did what most motorcyclists do and talked of getting together for a ride sometime.

Today was that day.  Donna and I met Mike and Carol and we headed up to northern Georgia for a short ride.  The weather and the company was great.  We had a cloudless blue sky and temperatures just above 60 degrees.  Mother Nature is also in the middle of putting on her annual show of the changing leaves.  There was a collage of red, gold, yellow and brown in the trees along the road and in the mountains in the distance.  To break up the ride a bit, we stopped for lunch at the Dawsonville Pool Room before heading back for home.  Out in the parking lot there was a bloodhound in the back of parked pick up truck and he howled every time a Harley Davidson started up!

The only negative to the day was a GPS issue.  I mapped out a couple of routes using Garmin’s BaseCamp and sent them to the GPS.  When we left, I got the normal on-screen message of “Would you like to navigate to the start of this route?” and punched “Yes”.  Of course the GPS wanted us to use the highway but I wanted to go a different way to the beginning of the route.  Of course the GPS kept “recalculating” because it wanted us to go a different way.  But then, even when we were on the route, it started trying to re-route us!  It appeared that it kept wanting us to go back to the start of the route.  This is now the second time I’ve had this problem using BaseCamp and have never had this happen when creating routes with MapSource.  One thing I’ve noticed is that when you click on an intersection with BaseCamp is that it usually selects a business at the intersection and not the intersection like MapSource does.  I tried using BaseCamp but it looks like I’m going back to MapSource.

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You Mean I Could’ve Bought A…….

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Chris

OK, editorial time here.

I am a believer of that it really is that you ride and not what you ride.  You may be riding a motorcycle that I would never ride but you’re a brother or a sister because you ride.  And, I can fully understand brand loyalty.

As readers of this blog know, we ride a BMW K1200LT.  Why?  Because it appealed to us and we bought it.  No one else bought and paid for it, we did.  I get this a lot from strangers “Why didn’t you buy a Harley?” or “You should’ve bought a Harley.”  Excuse me?  It would be a bit more understanding if they asked “Why did you buy a BMW?”  I can take the joking from friends, but strangers?  A few years ago I was at the Fall Southern Regional Conference for the Blue Knights when I was at the hotel wearing a t-shirt with the BMW roundel on it.  A member from another Chapter asked a question and here’s how the exchange went.

Him: “You ride a BMW?”
Me: “I sure do.”
Him: “You should’ve bought a Harley.  We’re American Police Officers and it would look cool if we were all on Harleys.”
Me: “OK”

Did you notice that he didn’t even ask what model of BMW I rode?  It could well be that he didn’t know that BMW makes more than one model or style of motorcycle just like Harley Davidson does.  I also noticed the “look cool” part.  I want to ride what I want to ride, not what people think looks cool.  Now please don’t get me wrong here as Harley Davidson makes excellent motorcycles.   And they are an American icon and deserve to be.  If I were shopping for a luxury touring motorcycle at the moment I’d probably look at the Harley Davidson Road Glide Ultra with its beautiful, frame mounted “shark nose” fairing with twin headlights in the nose.  It stands apart from the usual Harley Davidson with its appearance.  Honestly, I’d look at it before I’d even consider some of the BMW models.  There I go again, not following the crowd in my motorcycle choice.

It’s all about choosing your motorcycle for you and nobody else.  Different motorcycles have different abilities and appeal is what it boils down to.  This going to sound weird but as I grow older the sportier touring bikes appeal to me.  The K1200LT is a luxury touring motorcycle that when ridden properly on a twisty road thinks it’s an 870 pound sport bike.  The Harley touring bikes on the other hand, strive for comfort and pull it off very well.  The Harley with its naturally low center of gravity is an excellent lower speed maneuvering motorcycle that instills confidence in the rider.

You should see the looks on faces when I say how much the BMW retailed for as opposed to other touring motorcycles and had ABS brakes, heated seats, heated handgrips, reverse gear and an electrically adjustable windshield (just to name a few) as standard equipment.  The next thing I might hear is “Well I can get some of those but have to pay extra.”  You choose your motorcycle and proudly ride it.

Brag all you want to about your motorcycle too.  Be proud of it.  I want to here about it.  Mine is no better than yours and yours is no better than mine, they’re just different.  Just let me brag about mine too.

I love what someone on an online BMW forum said once.  He owns both a BMW and Harley.  Usually when he sees a vehicle emblazoned with Harley Davidson stickers and he’s on his own Harley, he’ll ask “So what kind of Harley do you ride?”  He said you’d be amazed at the answers.  He now even asks it when on his BMW, especially when someone says “Why didn’t you buy a Harley?”

Remember it really is that you ride and not what you ride as the wind is all the same.

Ride safe on whatever your choice is!

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Make It Stop! (Working On A BMW ABS System)

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Chris

Back in June when we were returning home from a trip to North Carolina the front brake line on the K1200LT developed a small leak in the front brake line.  We made it home with no issues but in the last few miles I began to notice a different feel in the front brake lever.

I ordered a new front brake line from BMW Motorcycles of Atlanta and it arrived this week.  I spent the last 2 days doing my repair and cleaning up.  Well, actually today was just spent putting the body panels back on the motorcycle.  My plan was to replace the leaking line, then bleed the air out from the replacement and then flush the entire ABS system.  Flushing the ABS system is a maintenance item that should periodically be done anyway.  In the past I had flushed brakes but this would be my first time replacing a line and therefore intentionally introducing air into the system.  To replace the line easily I was going to have to remove the fairing from the motorcycle, or the parts referred to as “Tupperware”.  I’ve removed all these parts before during a 24,000 service so I wasn’t scared.  Usually I have to remove the engine spoiler and lower fairing, but not this time.  When you follow the directions in the Clymer’s manual it all goes smoothly.  It was tempting to not remove the fairing but it was obvious removing it would make things easier.

First, you need to understand something about the brakes on this particular motorcycle.  BMW uses a servo assisted integral ABS system.  That’s a lot of big words but it means the braking system is power assisted like a car, the integral part means using the rear brake will also begin to add front brake, using the front brakes will also add rear brake and the system is an Anti-lock Braking System.  It also has a front & rear control circuit (integral pump) and a front & rear wheel circuit (the calipers on the wheels).

Once I got the Magic Carpet naked the brake line replacement went pretty quickly.  Then it was time for the bleeding and flushing.  I got a lot of information from BMWLT.COM for the flushing.  My assistant, Donna, helped me for this part as you really can’t reach the bleeder and the brake lever for all of the work.  While bleeding & flushing the front, I accidentally let the funnel in the brake reservoir run dry.  I regrouped and we bled the air out making a foam in the catch jar and then all was good.  The old brake fluid in all 4 circuits had the color of iced tea so it really did need to be changed.  All 4 circuits now have that nice, nearly clear DOT4 brake fluid now.  So far I don’t appear to have any error codes appearing on the dashboard either!  Of course there were some “gotcha” moments too.  Some of the bleeders on the integral pump were a major pain to get to.  And for some reason, the bleeders on the front and the rear brakes used 2 different size wrenches.  The use of the brake funnel from Beemer Boneyard made this job a lot easier too.

Once the old hose was off, I looked for and found the suspected leak.  I cut the hose open in both known good areas and the suspected problem area.  The good area has a nice, round opening for the fluid to pass through and you could see the layers of rubber and braiding.  The suspected bad area was brittle, clogged and all black.  Oddly enough, I also think the bad area is where the Moto Lights had a short in the wiring and the wires had been zip tied to the brake line.

The job wasn’t as bad as I had feared but it’s not something I want to do all the time.  I can see why the dealer gets so much money for a brake flush though!

I’ve had the Tupperware off a few times before so I have a system for keeping track of all the torx screws.  But this time, when I put everything back together, I had 2 leftover torx screws.  At least I’m not OCD enough to take everything apart to see where I missed putting them in.

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Redneck Engineering

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Chris

The top case (trunk) of the K1200LT has a fold down mirror with a light.  Behind that fold down mirror is also a compartment to keep small items like the owner’s manuals, insurance card, small books or other small things.  For quite some time one of the plastic hinges has been broken on the left side (marked by the arrow in the attached picture).  I’ve tried gluing it several times and it always breaks again.  The glue that lasted the longest was 3M Plastic Automotive Trim Adhesive and it still broke.  Today I decided to try a little bit of “Redneck Engineering” and fixed it with some small piano hinges.  It was simple.  Mark and drill my holes with a Dremel, cut the sharp protruding ends of the screws with a small cutting wheel on the Dremel, file them smooth and cover them.  It really was an easy fix.  The cutting part was cool because it made lots of sparks!  I was thinking about painting the hinges black but Donna said they look fine just the way they are.

Sometimes a little "Redneck Engineering" is all it takes!

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