Colin Seeley

Number 55, Seeley-Weslake 750, 1972

Colin Jordan Seeley (1936 – 2020) was a British motorcycle retailer who later became a motorcycle sidecar racer, motorcycle designer, constructor and retailer of accessories. In 1992 he was involved in running the Norton Rotary race team.

Colin got started with motorcycles when he was 16 and for 20 odd years he was a prime mover in motorcycle racing. Ask Google for a Seeley 750 and you get a bunch of Honda CB750s.

I found another picture of this bike on flickr

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10 Short Videos #6057

10 Short Videos #6057

Thought for the day

This Horse Obeys Like MAGIC… Watch the Rope Work

Just be like Jeremy!! The baddest pitmaster in town!

Stealth Bomber Emergency Landing in Crosswinds

The $50 box saving a $200,000 harvest

The U.S Before ICBMS

Who is behind this?

Handicap Bathroom Plumbing

They found out the hard way

Crazy MotoGP

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10 Short Videos #6056

10 Short Videos #6056

Owls Make No Sound When They Fly

Absurd King Fu Cat

This packaging system creates the perfect package using 3D scanning!

Compressed Unboxing Final Boss

This freeway has 26 lanes — and traffic is worse than ever

One of the Narrowest Ship Passages on Earth

Trams without Wires!

The Ancient Technique Behind Massive Clay Forms

People think fiber internet is a new technology, but TAT-8 has been running the internet since 1988.

This Feels Like A Fever Dream 

Fireplace Thermostat

Emerson Low Voltage Mechanical Thermostat

There is a gas fireplace in the basement. It keeps the room as warm as you like. The fireplace is at one end of the big room and there is a thermostat at the other end of the room. I could never get the original thermostat to behave like I wanted, too large a temperature swing maybe. It's been a long time, so I don't rightly remember what the problem was. In any case I bought a new thermostat and it was satisfactory until it quit. Seems the old thermostat used a mercury switch and the new thermostat had mechanical contacts. The new thermostat is supposed to be used with a 12 volt control circuit, but the gas valve in the fireplace runs off the millivolt current supplied by the thermopile. It's like 600 millivolts which is less than one volt.

I don't know whether it was dust or corrosion on the contacts in the thermostat, but I cleaned them up and they worked for awhile, but then it quit again. Obviously I need a better solution. So then I got the idea of using wall-wart to supply voltage to a relay to trigger the gas valve.

Car Relay 12V SPST

12 volt relay designed for use in a car ought to do the trick, but none of the old wall-warts I had lying around produced 12 volts. I even tried using a USB plug, but it didn't have enough oomph either. 

12 Volt Transformer Power Supply

Finally resorted to buying this LED power supply. 3 amps is overkill for what I'm doing, but it works a charm.

On Off Rocker Switch

After the thermostat quit, I resorted to using the switch attached to the gas valve. Awkward being as it is behind the lower grill and down around ground level, but it worked. Until it didn't. Time for a new switch. 

AVARBUVO Lever Wire Connectors

Don't want to wear out the new switch, so I resorted to connecting the two wires together with a splice connector. Once again that worked for a while until the it didn't. Connector is only supposed to connected and then left alone. It is not designed to be used as a switch. That's okay, I've got a bunch of these connectors, I can just throw out the old one and put in a new one.

Of course, using a connector to turn the fireplace on and off is silly, especially since I have all the parts I need to implement my relay scheme. Today the boss is on a tear and something must be done about all the valuable stuff I have collected in my dungeon. Fine, okay, I'll hook up the relay. After stalling for ten months it only took me 15 minutes to hook it up and so far it's working.

Date	Item	Amount
Oct 15, 2021	Thermostat	33.81
Mar 13, 2025	Relay	7.95
Mar 13, 2025	Connectors	8.99
Dec 22, 2025	Switch	15.99
Dec 25, 2025	Power Supply	9.96
	Total	$76.70

I sacrificed an old extension cord to feed 120VAC to the power supply.

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10 Short Videos #6055

10 Short Videos #6055

Crazy racing MotoGP

Hilarious 🤣🤣 and TRUE! ADHD COOKING!!

11 years of experience in 60 seconds

Endgame: White chess has 3 pawns and black chess has 6 pawns, but white can be promoted to become a minister first

High speed rear bumper detachment method

THE FLASH

This Machine Lifts ENTIRE SHIPS!

Smooth skills

A miraculous escape

Senam tranpolin indonesia

Ukraine War

The 80th Air Assault Brigade captured a T-90M Proryv tank in the Kursk region

The Geopolitics has a summary:

Four years after Russian troops crossed into Ukraine on 24 February 2022, the war has settled into something more troubling – a grinding conflict that continues to destroy lives and livelihood, and test the limits of international law. The early drama of invasion has given way to sufferings and anxieties, and there is hardly any substantive move toward peace.

The front line stretches for roughly 1,200 kilometres. Russia today controls about one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, but its gains since 2022 have been slow and costly. Estimates suggest that up to 1.8 million soldiers on both sides have been killed, wounded or gone missing. Civilian losses remain severe. The UN has documented nearly 15,000 civilian deaths and more than 40,000 injuries, while warning the true number is higher.

Thanks, Obama.

Always Remember Us This Way Remix

Always Remember Us This Way
Aspinal - Topic

Just popped in my head this morning. Used Google song search to track it down. I could remember it perfectly in my head but I could not sing it for shit. Google was still able to sort it out. Weird.

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10 Short Videos #6054

10 Short Videos #6054

The big guy know how to be soft with the little one

How America Used Stalin to Beat Hitler-Military Expert Explains

The Ghost Ship That Vanished for 451 Days — SMS Wolf WWI Naval History

Is this the ultimate jump hour?

This New Way of Making Robots is Wild

In your opinion, could this be called a helicopter?

Fishing live like bait fishing gear and tools

Ranking The Craziest Motor GP Moments!

what octopuses have in common with the statue of liberty

What is the shiniest gemstone on earth?

Brief History of Submarine Cables

Internet Vs Ocean: the essential wires we never think about
Jay and Mark

Submarine Cable Map

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10 Short Videos #6053

10 Short Videos #6053

Although Known as the #Ford Canabus #automobileCar it was actually mostly Soy

Don't trust locks

AND MY CAR IS WHEN EXACTLY 

How Otters Turn Winter Into a Playground

Why America Balanced Patience and Chaos to Win WWII

Fire from gum wrapper.

Nocturnal, stumping, still and camouflaged like no other - this is a Tawny Frog-Mouth!

The White Cream On Sailors’ Faces In The Caine Mutiny Explained

Moves Without Anyone Noticing

Minecraft world reveal!

Moon Shot

Magical Moon

New York Vessel Tower

Vessel Tower New York

Funny little tourist attraction stuck in the middle of a bunch of skyscrapers making it look tiny.

Vessel Tower New York

Interior View

Tara Polar Station

Tara Polar Station

Tara Polar Station is a French drifting scientific base aimed for Arctic Ocean expeditions and operated by the Tara Oceans Foundation and its collaborators. - Wikipedia

All the stories about this thing talk about Global Warming. Can't say as I blame them, that's how you get idiots to cough up the dough to fund this project.

Putting the global warming nonsense aside, it's a heck of a project. Imagine being stuck on this boat for 6 to 9 months with a dozen other people. It's almost as bad as being in a nuclear submarine. You can go outside, but in the middle of winter it is going to be completely black outside. It will be interesting to see how well they survive.

Tara Polar Station Cross Section

Mistakes Were Made

Mistakes Were Made
James Butler

I don't know why, but I really enjoy listening to this guy.

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10 Short Videos #6052

10 Short Videos #6052

Recreating A 140 Year Old Photo in the California Mountains

New York City paid cowboys for safety. But even they couldn't solve this problem.

A premium flake from a flint blade core, using a soft antler hammer

Making sure both wing mirrors are fully folded in

They took everything but the body, This is how the scam works

Lockheed Martin or Narco Cartels?

angieamato Just normal tourism - RMI Extrusion Plant, Ashtabula, Ohio

New anthem

This wedge removal got messy

The Driver Went Overboard—Then the Boat Took Off Alone

National Ignition Facility

National Ignition Facility (NIF) at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California

Wikipedia:

The National Ignition Facility (NIF) is a laser-based inertial confinement fusion (ICF) research facility, located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, United States. NIF's mission is to achieve fusion ignition with high energy gain. It achieved the first instance of scientific breakeven controlled fusion in an experiment on December 5, 2022, with an energy gain factor of 1.5. It supports nuclear weapon maintenance and design by studying the behavior of matter under the conditions found within nuclear explosions.

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