Osram headlight on Honda ST1300

I recently installed a new set of Osram H4 60/55W lights on my ST1300. The overall experience was pretty miserable. I didn't want to remove the fairing so I spent a lot of time reaching up through the bottom of the fairing and down-through the top of the fairing.

The end-result though was a very, bright set of lights.

It's important to point out that I needed to purchase a couple of brackets for the lights to fit correctly in the ST sockets. I used the tin snips below to clip two of the posts on the lights and the bracket fit nicely over a tab on the light.

Cutting to the chase, it was hard for me to put these lights in the ST as there is very little room for large hands to maneuver in. Having a loose bracket on the lights only exacerbated the problem.

To secure the bracket to the light, briefly, while I got it into the light housing I used some Elmer's spray adhesive I had around. I sprayed the bracket carefully and quickly seated it around the base of the light. While a bit like playing the game Operation so as not to touch the light. The glue worked great. The glue sets fast and really isn't made to hold the bracket for more than a few minutes but I just needed it for about 1 minutes to get the light back into the socket. Again, the glue may have saved my sanity and allowed me to put the light into the socket correctly.

If you would like more information about doing this job or the final quality of the lights just post a comment and I'll follow-up.

Lines and ridges on my fingernails - gone!

Executive summary:

I had horizontal ridges on my fingernails that looked unsightly. The diagnosis of various Internet blogs/sites was that I was malnourished or lacking in one or more vitamins. I found one site though that had a simple solution: stop picking your cuticles and wait a few months for the nail to start growing back normally.

Common sense

With this in mind I made it my mission to stop my nervous habit of picking at my cuticles and see if there would be any difference after six months.

The difference was dramatic. The nails were growing back heathy and the horizontal ridges completely gone. The moral of this story is: there's no quick fix, I need to change my basic bad habit of picking at my nails. That it was really, really, hard to change. I need to constantly remind myself to not pick at my cuticles but that's what it took to make my nails look good again.

Here's the difference after six months using a side view.

To the left you can see the sheer amount of nail growth I was losing when I was picking my cuticles. The old nail is thin and has the horizontal ridges in it (seen in the picture above). The new, lower section, of the nail looks heathy and has no ridges.

In conclusion, I didn't need to buy any herbal remedies, vitamins, minerals etc. I just needed to stop picking at my nails. If you have horizontal ridges in your nails, and want to see if you can 'heal' them, try not picking at your cuticles/nails for a few months. It's tough but the difference was definitely noticeable for me after about four-months. Good luck.