Lord Gruntfuttock's Restoration Manual erm, Restoration...

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

Dunno if anyone has done a thread on a Tech Manual restoration...?

Anyway, scored a Haynes manual cheap (ok free) for the old Honder, but it looked like rats had been shagging on it, and every time I picked it up I was showered with confetti with snippets of Haynes info onit. Useful stuff in there but the thing was effectively unusable, and I was scared placing it in my technical shelf would inflict the pox on my other reference books - 'twas pretty bad...

So I found some decent sized pics on th'web, and set about fixing them with my awsome Picture manager/ MS paint skills (basically copying good bits and straightening lines etc).

Donor pic 1...

Donor pic 2..

And between them cobbled up this image...

And back page did the same, donor pic...

Stage 1 cleanup...

And painstakingly recreated the overwritten text by copying/creating individual letters and pasting them in place...

So with decent looking front and back covers I just printed and pasted to thin card that I glued to the remnants of my manual (placed weights on the thing while the paste set). Then I covered the worst of the internal page cancer with clear duraseal (think it had been attacked by acid or similar). And I ended up with a very useable manual, (that will probably get covered in oil stains if I ever get around to working on my mini-bonneville)...

I'll post a pic when I get home of the completed item. The wife thinks I'm nuts, but I love fixing pieces of crap that should probably be biffed in a skip...

[Lord Gruntfuttock]

Here 'tis...

 

 

Durasealed the cover as well as the scody inside pages, would happily stick this on my shelf now, and saved a bit of coin...