And by the magic of television, here they are
Actually, by the magic of plugging an 18 metre extension cable into the one remaining functional power source in the house (the kitchen) and running it through into the dining room so I can get the 'puter in. Had to unplug the telly, mind
For those who don't know, btw, this is due to despite having been in a drought and hosepipe ban for the last few months, we had enough rain this week for this to happen to my garden/house;
which resulted in us being without power, heat and water for a day or two as the vault under the house looked like the garden, and all the electrics blew up. Still, some nice Trumpton did come out and pump it out eventually, by the time we'd been off the power for about 24 hours
Here's one of them trying (not very hard) to look like he's working lol. Mind you, it was nearly midnght by then
Anyway, a lot of our electrics still seem a bit iffy. Probably catch fire the way my luck goes. Mind you, the fire alarms seem to work OK. Right, just for MR TOOL who was guilty of either showing an interest or taking the mick, or maybe both, proof...
My manky old battery tray, looking a bit rusty;
in actual fact, it was even more rusty than it looked, as I found out when I started to strip it down. The paint seemed to be clinging on remarkably well over a layer of rust
Anyway, a serious blitzing with a wire brush on the grinder and some wet and dry later it was ready for some of Hammerite's finest. It's hardly smooth and mirror-flat but hey, it's a
battery tray
Here's the area of the engine bay mid-way through me rust treating the worst bits. I need to get some colour-matched (or near enough) paint though cos I don't really want to mank it up with Hammerite. I swapped every bolt I could for stainless as well while I was in there, which will also make it a lot easier when it comes to strip it down properly so I can paint the rad shroud and the inside of the nosecone etc.
If we ever get a summer with enough dry days to get it done
Anyway, I haven't got any pics of it going back together cos I had to do it in a hurry. Mainly because the garden was under water by then and it was raining like a scene from The Crow and I had the right hump
Also because I had to get the FD out of the garage to get the clocks reprogrammed cos I had to give the insurance a mileage for the restricted miles policy and my odometer had blown up ages ago so I had to buy a new (secondhand) set of clocks and swap them but they were in Km/H so I had to take them to get them converted so it was a really stupid time to decide to take the FB to bits and block the garage just as a flood like Genesis descended as well. In hindsight.
Follow that? Excellent.
Anyway, it wasn't all doom and gloom. Conrad helped and kept me sane. Here he is explaining why I need an idler pulley to increase the contact patch on the waterpump belt and how it would have been better if the Trust tubular manifold hadn't mounted the turbo so far forward that the old idler no longer fitted
That's me boy
N.B; some of the above may not be 100% accurate
Hey, you know how it works if you're on the railway... Clear Understanding. Don't matter if you call it an artiefufkin nut so long as everyone knows what you mean 
