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Fantastic Work Nessism. What a beaut!

Just stunning attention to detail.
One of the nicest Kawasaki's I've ever seen restored.!

Updated the photos in this thread! Yeah! Freaking Photosuckit can put it where the sun don't shine! Unbelieveable that they would have the audacity to want to charge people $400/year for a service that was previously free. At any rate, all better now!

Yeah considering it's only $15 for a 32 G card and you can keep them forever.
Steve

No eBay APP ID and/or Cert ID defined in Kunena configurationYes indeed. In fact, you can buy a 256gb SanDisk thumb (flash) drive for $50 (see below). So for $400 a year you could buy 2 terabytes of storage every year!

I switched to Imgur a couple years ago when PB started sticking pop-ups all over everything and slowed their site way down. Imgur is free, easy to use, and fast. Of course I keep photos on my own media in case Imgur decides to follow the PB example. Ed

Or if you need a bit more storage.......

www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus...4503.p?skuId=2944503

TexasKZ wrote: Or if you need a bit more storage.......

www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus...4503.p?skuId=2944503

Excellent point! In fact, using the Seagate product one can buy 15 terabytes of storage (3 * 5 tb) for the cost of one year's PB fee! Ed

www.amazon.com/Seagate-Backup-Portable-E...0/dp/B01LZP2B23?th=1

$400/year, never. Buy a cheap NAS and a free DynDNS account and get free access to your pics world wide for $100 for a live span.
NAS with Raspberry Pi cost under $100

Scirocco wrote: $400/year, never. Buy a cheap NAS and a free DynDNS account and get free access to your pics world wide for $100 for a live span.
NAS with Raspberry Pi cost under $100

This is an option! For now I'm all set with Flickr though.

I've got plenty of home storage space, but webhosting is what I didn't have (thus the use of Photobucket and now Flickr).

Was it very difficult or time consuming restoring all of the photos in this topic?

martin_csr wrote: Was it very difficult or time consuming restoring all of the photos in this topic?

Yes. Had to find the original photo, post on flickr, then come back and cut and paste each link. Photobucket has a better user interface compared to flickr. This site is quirky too since it reads each flickr/photobucket link as several links even when it's only one. Have to parse down the link to the bare minimum or the site will think you posted a lot more photos than you are.

One of my last projects with this bike was to update the gauges. As shown earlier in the thread I cleaned up the housings and the gauges looked nice and all, however, the needles sort of wobbled around more than I liked. Did a deep dive on gauge part numbers and got all kinds of confused. Kawasaki used a bunch of different part number gauges which threw me for a loop. The 550's used the same gauges on at least some years too which increased confusion.

In the end I've come to realize that the E2/3 bikes use a different tach than the E1 in that has a "headlamp" warning light built in. . The gauges for my bike have a black bezel around the face but some other bikes came with green bezel gauges. I found a NOS tach with a black bezel but the only speedo I could find has a green bezel. Guess I'll have to open up one of them to swap things around to get them to match. Later though...

Sorry for all the photo glare...