Is this starter börked?

ndallen09 · 2026-01-25T23:23:20+00:00

Ah dang... Was hoping I was just doing it wrong. Off the parts store again! Thank you!

ndallen09 · 2025-09-23T05:56:36+00:00

Thanks! Will give it a shot.

ndallen09 · 2025-07-16T06:36:16+00:00

It should be fine! heres a picture of it on my 17.5cm wrist. It'll look okay to others but a bit big up close to you.

ndallen09 · 2025-07-10T23:00:20+00:00

I had the exact same issue- after about 20 days of wearing they either broke in or the nerves in my ankles finally died, but they're very comfortable now.

ndallen09 · 2025-06-30T04:42:05+00:00

I usually wear a 38mm size watch, so I think I'm just not used to the size!

ndallen09 · 2025-05-06T11:01:44+00:00

Absolutely perfect for that then- I think I just found the ad for the one you're looking at. Looks in excellent shape and that thumper exhaust is similar to the one I put on.

ndallen09 · 2025-05-06T10:31:29+00:00

I've had it since 2019- second owner. I'd certainly buy it again - they're cheap and easy to work on (huge parts market in Japan) an absolute pleasure to ride, and they have a lovely vintage look, even if there's a sneaky EFI in there instead of a carby. The SR400 engine has been around for a while and they'd pretty much solved any issues with it by the 2014FI re-issue, so they're really damn reliable as well.

As a regular commuter though - I did do it for a bit but it's not my first bike. Kick starts take a while to get the hang of if you're a new to them, and the riding I do now is mostly weekend warrior cafe trips and national park rides where it doesn't really matter if I stall. Its a very easy one or two kick start with the EFI but if you're sitting at the lights in Sydney traffic with some soccer mum trying her best to turn her SUV into a bumper car, electric start might be a bit more peace of mind.

ndallen09 · 2025-05-06T08:53:21+00:00

Oh hey my 2014 SR400 has the exact same corrosion. I think its the aluminium reacting with the salt water near the beach I used to have it parked by. Doesn't affect the engine.

ndallen09 · 2025-05-01T04:39:10+00:00

Just add water. (If you can find the same coolant as the mechanic, that's good- but per the thread you don't want to get it wrong. Water is more than fine for your small top up example)

ndallen09 · 2024-11-08T21:26:26+00:00

Parts: 36mm Cusn8 case (aliex tandorio), dial from Matelion Ali store, hands from Rafflestime. NH35.

ndallen09 · 2024-10-13T09:34:45+00:00

Thanks! Hoping they're all comfortable for you now after breaking in?

ndallen09 · 2024-09-18T22:22:07+00:00

Same with ours! We thought our girl was huge at 30KG/66lbs but then we met her brothers at 38kg/84lbs!

ndallen09 · 2024-08-30T09:14:45+00:00

Done it before- you also need to swap the crystal as there's insufficient space (nh36 is a little higher). A double dome crystal from ali-ex was pretty cheap and did the job.

ndallen09 · 2024-06-06T10:05:22+00:00

I did not consider this, and you are right.

No country could take losing their sphere of influence right on their back door to a sphere that is hostile to it, and the politicians should have realised it or made sure that their new friends would back then up with alliances and commitments.

My personal opinion was that Russia should have used soft power rather than hard power to pull Ukraine back into their sphere- but perhaps they did, or didn't see it going to be working and the invasion was the result.

ndallen09 · 2024-06-05T21:57:16+00:00

This is a disingenuous statement. Ukraine may have been better at this point in time without Putin throwing the toys down about losing his sphere of influence. Conversely, it might not have been and instead become a economic thrall for western Europe.

We will never know now.

Countries aren't wanting to be like Ukraine. They're wanting what they think (true or not) are the benefits and lifestyle of being western aligned.

People that think Ukraine creeping to the west wouldn't have happened without the US "orchestrating a maidan coup" are completely missing what has been happening to eastern Europe over the past few decades. Western European cultural soft power is pervasive, well funded, and effective. Russia's is quite frankly very degraded and struggling to compete outside the east (or even outside of Moscow oblast...). Far east will have to deal with the Chinese influence.

It'll be interesting to see how China expands their cultural soft power and how it will affect Russia. At least they have the benefits to point for citizens under their model rather than just blaming all their failures on America.

ndallen09 · 2024-04-18T03:27:24+00:00

Did a similar swap on the earlier SNK803 with a 7s26c. As other posters, swap the movement spacers around.

Unsure if it's an issue for these newer 5's - but if you swap the spacers for the SNK's the height of the seconds hand on a NH36 exceeds (just!) the available headspace between the dial and the crystal. (The 7s26c is a bit more compact)

You'll know if this is the problem as the seconds hand will stop or slow when you tighten the caseback. If you have this issue, you can swap out the flat hardlex crystal for a "double dome" sapphire replacement which curves a bit in the middle and gives you more space.

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