Lord Gruntfuttock

They are a pretty car...

This looks like something a Falcon rally car would be shit at. But entertaining...

No prob

Oh invers... I've been at the pub. But yeah

Where? When? Drivable? Embarrassing?

THEY DON'T DO THAT IN AMERICAN 'RESTORATION' SHOWS M8... (usually crank em over with decades old fuel, get it 'running' and a spray bomb recondition if they're feeling fancy...)

Luckily you can wind tunnel test an imp inside a toilet roll tube with a hair dryer...

Can use coloured heat shrink to help blend in if correct wire colour not available...

Supercheap have these ones, quite unobtrusive compared to the blade type...

Never knew these were a thing. yuk. I'd put an inline fuse in. A little ugliness is better than a car fire...

Yep, check cable operation/condition, adjust and oil, should be all good...

Oh boy. Sturmey Archer chat. There's heaps online about how different generations of them have different characteristics. Some of the earlier ones would find 'neutral' and disengage while pedaling leading to ball damage (rider not hub)...

Is the metro basically a twenny with bigger wheels?

With my boring sensible hat on, aren't spray booths supposed to have explosion proof fittings to avoid sparks igniting fumes...? You're prob fine if just drying parts in there tho...

Some big screws straightened things up a bit. Waterblasted the sheepshit and slaters off the old palings and it came together ok. Rough but sturdy, and at the back of the house so nobody will see it...

Got a bit of waste ground by the back door that's only good for weeds, so just banged up a woodshed that'll save a trip to the big one. All scrap timber from an old fence so only cost me some screws and a bag of cement... Got the piles perfectly level then discovered the 100 x 100s were warped AF...

1/24th scale hornets/nest in engine bay pls. They always seem to find em in American shows...

^ Those weird cutouts are for soldering gear, but normal tools quite easy, just cut to depth req'd and peel out shapes...

@h4nd's Weller soldering iron post reminded me I've been sorting tools lately. Bought a stack of tool foam from Temu, got half it as freebies, satisfying work. Just need a pen, ruler and scalpel...

How does one encourage their offspring into such things pray tell...?

Get into bonsai for further realism/wasting your life making silly little things...

Looks like my one. You can still buy different sized tips for em...

Just found them, were in my toolbox. Think I grabbed a yard or so of them from the engine room at a previous workplace. No idea if you can still get them but they're super comfy under a helmet...

How good... Sounds awesome. Weekend of tunes upcoming... Could be some albums getting an ultrasonic bath too.

Reason I got it out is I won a record on the radio, so keen to get my beer crate of albums out. I've ordered a new stylus for $30 and looking fwd to traumatising the kids with arcane music and the rituals in playing it... I've even got the smoked glass doors somewhere I think. Be good to refit them and experience the satisfying magnetic closing 'clunk' again...