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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #120 on: March 18, 2015, 05:31:19 PM »
Quote from: gPink on March 18, 2015, 05:03:22 PM
Maybe it's just me but if I push down on the gas hole cap ever so slightly, the ignition key turns effortlessly with no fear of catastrophic failure.

Haha...I was just going to say the same thing...you guys ARE giving the filler cap a little push down, right? Mine turns like butter, always has...my current 2010 C14, and the 08 before it.

Quote from: VirginiaJim on March 18, 2015, 04:35:54 PM
Must be the salt air in your neck of the woods.

Don't think so...I'm at sea level, right next to the ocean...and it doesn't cause any problems for me.

Actually, I didn't even know there were problems with the fuel filler lock until I read this...
They've always worked fine on both my C14's, and the bikes before them as well.

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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #121 on: March 18, 2015, 05:43:14 PM »
The salt is different up North than in the Mid-Atlantic.  Everyone knows that.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #122 on: March 18, 2015, 05:53:12 PM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on March 18, 2015, 05:43:14 PM
The salt is different up North than in the Mid-Atlantic.  Everyone knows that.

Haha...is this a Geico Commercial?...lol.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #123 on: March 18, 2015, 06:02:32 PM »
It just might be.  Their HQ is just west of me. 
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #124 on: March 18, 2015, 06:06:23 PM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on March 18, 2015, 06:02:32 PM
It just might be.  Their HQ is just west of me.

See, I knew it.

Seriously...I've never had an issue with the fuel filler locks, but...I don't notice a lot of things that others do...so what I don't notice doesn't really matter...lol.

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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #125 on: March 18, 2015, 06:20:28 PM »
There are some bikes that got a sort of whitish crud around the cap.  Don't really know why.  Mine has never got it and I haven't had a problem with using my spare key on it.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #126 on: March 18, 2015, 06:21:34 PM »
Quote from: VirginiaJim on March 18, 2015, 04:35:54 PM
Mine doesn't.  Must be the salt air in your neck of the woods.

I posted about it in another thread somewhere.  Mine gets this white stuff on it somehow.  Could be the area, who knows.

To others- yes, I always push down while turning.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #127 on: March 18, 2015, 06:27:13 PM »
Quote from: XR6 on March 18, 2015, 11:47:12 AM
Good point, I will lube the petrol cap,  but I do think the key is made from softer material. The keys from the fob do feel stiffer ( easy boys)........ to use Brian's phrase ;)

Yes, I believe you are correct, the stove key does seem to be softer.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #128 on: March 18, 2015, 07:25:42 PM »
Vindicated!  :banana :banana
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #129 on: March 18, 2015, 08:11:57 PM »
What'd you do, have the dummy bite down on both keys and see which key had the deeper impressions?

:-)

Brian

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Yes, I believe you are correct, the stove key does seem to be softer.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #130 on: March 18, 2015, 09:43:23 PM »
I do agree that it is important to push down with the key (or put pressure on the petrol cap opposite to the hinge ) before turning. There seems to be some back pressure from the rubber seal.
The key is soft, it bent easy and straightend easy.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #131 on: March 19, 2015, 08:42:12 AM »
Quote from: PH14 on March 18, 2015, 06:27:13 PM
Yes, I believe you are correct, the stove key does seem to be softer.

Maybe it needs a little blue pill.  ;D
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #132 on: March 19, 2015, 08:45:53 AM »
Or Cialis,  that way it gets hard when you want it to.  :rotflmao:

Quote from: Rhino on March 19, 2015, 08:42:12 AM
Maybe it needs a little blue pill.  ;D
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #133 on: March 19, 2015, 04:34:28 PM »
Quote from: B.D.F. on March 18, 2015, 08:11:57 PM
What'd you do, have the dummy bite down on both keys and see which key had the deeper impressions?

:-)

Brian

Nah, I know it was soft, it's been soaking in Pamolive.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #134 on: March 19, 2015, 04:35:50 PM »
Quote from: Deziner on March 19, 2015, 08:45:53 AM
Or Cialis,  that way it gets hard when you want it to.  :rotflmao:

For those times you want to spend time in a bathtub on a beach with your motorcycle.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #135 on: March 19, 2015, 05:20:42 PM »
And who does not?

By the way, I just glanced at the title of this thread and read it as 'stove knob key'.... but it really says 'stove pipe key'. Hmmmm, what is a stove pipe key? Who thinks the key in the ign. of a C-14 looks like a stove pipe?

Brian

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For those times you want to spend time in a bathtub on a beach with your motorcycle.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #136 on: March 19, 2015, 05:21:41 PM »
Hey, something new to soak my fob in! I ran out of ideas for things to dip that thing into years ago- thanks!

Brian

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Nah, I know it was soft, it's been soaking in Pamolive.
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #137 on: March 19, 2015, 05:32:19 PM »
Quote from: B.D.F. on March 19, 2015, 05:20:42 PM
By the way, I just glanced at the title of this thread and read it as 'stove knob key'.... but it really says 'stove pipe key'. Hmmmm, what is a stove pipe key? Who thinks the key in the ign. of a C-14 looks like a stove pipe?

Good point.  I don't even know what a "stove pipe" is, unless that is the chimney/exhaust from a wood burning stove or something?  Certainly doesn't look like a pipe.  Certainly doesn't look like just a stove.  Attached is a photo of the knobs on my stove (really old stove).  Yep, looks like that!  I am changing the name of the thread to match (although all the existing posting subjects will, unfortunately, still say "stove pipe").
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #138 on: March 19, 2015, 05:37:36 PM »
Quote from: PH14 on March 19, 2015, 04:35:50 PM
For those times you want to spend time in a bathtub on a beach with your motorcycle.

I know I don't want MY motorcycle anywhere near a beach.  The few times I encountered sand near the beach while riding a motorcycle were VERY scary.  And to keep it on topic- sand is probably not a good thing for the ignition key, anyway :)
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Re: Do You Remove the STOVE PIPE key
« Reply #139 on: March 19, 2015, 08:46:48 PM »
Quote from: B.D.F. on March 19, 2015, 05:21:41 PM
Hey, something new to soak my fob in! I ran out of ideas for things to dip that thing into years ago- thanks!

Brian

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