This post on the continuing Sprint saga owes more to Mme. Glynskette than to me!
You are aware that there have been electrical problems to solve, with some being pure repair/rectification but this component was one of my main concerns and targets as the main parts are impossible to find.
They are the indicator repeater light bulb holders mounted, obviously, on each wing and subject to all sorts of water and salt corrosion - particularly as the last person to touch them stuck them on with mastic!
The total assembly looks, I think, very 'period' and like an arrow - an obvious designer's masterpiece giving the impression of movement.
Interestingly the outer 'arrow' shape is stainless steel which must be one of the first uses of this...
...material in a mass produced car - I wish the rest of it was as well!
So, back to the inner bulb holder.
After a thorough degrease and paint strip in a tin full of cellulose paint stripper (for the benefit of Engine Room and his coffee addiction I would mention that I always and only use old Illy tins in the garage)
they emerged clean and mostly shiny but with serious corrosion to the holder part itself.
As usual with old cars, someone somewhere has the bits you want and it is just a case of finding them, but new ones!! However, thanks to a little help from my friends (thanks Rog)
Enter Mme Glynskette (stage left) wielding my dad's very old 'whittlers' set of X-acto blades and holders(probably a collectors item in itself according to Rog who knows about these things and tried to steal them) to begin the specialised work
More soon on her sterling and skilful efforts.
Yours, diablog, seeing light at the end of the tunnel
Glynsky
6 comments:
While Smiles is probably yawning, let me inform you, your fan liked the post.
ER
Yawn? Just reading the title was enough to send me to sleep.
Dear ER, have you suddenly become a fan since Glynsky started renovating your new home?
Dear Smiles,
Of course I was referring to Glynsky's fan, who has built a Harley Davidson from scratch.
I don't see Glynsky finishing "my home" anytime soon. Or anything else for that matter. Has he ever?
ER
I have expressed my views on Fat Boys already - nuff sed.
As for your lovenest ER, it is moving on apace. The pallias has been stuffed, the kerosene heater primed, the floor earth beaten and lo, beyond that window a light doth shine - bum, its all caught fire again!
Dear ER. I am pleased to learn that you have not become soft and started liking Glynsky's posts about Alfas. Next time, tell the Harley Davidson builder to comment directly to avoid confusion.
Have a good weekend.
Dear Smiles,
Glynsky's fan is even re-tweeting the stuff.
It's that good.
Or noteworthy.
Or a bad example.
Or something.
ER
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