Bike is dead, carb problem is beyond me.

[scratch]

Slow down, if you kill yourself, you wont know what the rest of your life is going to be like, because it wont flash before your eyes.

Anyway, you learned something...like: don't put sewing needles in small metal holes. It was a hole in the metal body of the carb, right? If so, start having fun looking for a set of carbs on ebay, or, depending which carb you stopped up, someone may have a replacement carb for you...like me.

pm me.

[conflicttheorist]

It would be stuck in that bronze thing.
good times.
How much does a used carb go for?  I might just have to part out my bike because I can't afford to put anymore money into it.  I already sold my strat to fix it.  POS can't be a money pit for me.

[The Buddha]

Send me your damn carbs  ... how many times am I supposed to tell you ...
Ok now you have a steel wire in a bronze fuel line ... great ... none the less send it to me ... vinegar and a magnet or wd40 and a magnet or diesel fuel and magnet or dammit warm it a shade and magnet ... I'll do somehting ... I also told you clean is over rated ... a generous helping of crap is almost a neccesity ... You have my address right ... just send it ... and yea scratch's carb bodu idea might work too if all else fails ... BTW I have never seen that part you shoved a wire into get stuck really ... you have fuel in thefloats that part is OK ...
Cool.
Srinath.

[cummuterguy]

cheap parts carbs......  I noticed them yesterday, I think it ends tomorrow evening (the 27th)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=34284&item=4522602795&rd=1

[The Buddha]

OK conflict theorist ... I have your solution ... if you sent it to me and I really cannot get that steel wire out ... guess what I'd do ...
I'd make a shallow cut in that bronze tube and bend it over and take that steel wire out ... why ... that brass tube only serves to send fuel into the top part under the diaphragm (not really under but that part just below that) when the choke is on ... cutting it off wont make any diff, OK OK you want to leave atleast a small part in the carb cos the floats are going to need that to stay in place ... anyway your problem is easy to fix. For the interest of having a matched pair I'll lop off the other carb at the same spot.
Cool.
Srinath.