Greetings from 'The Old Sidevalve Bar'. Well not exactly 'cos the building was last year reduced to rubble. No need to cry dear readers 'cos your Uncle Albert is busy building a bigger and stronger replacement. A bit like 'The Three Pigs' where the sensible piggy built his house out of bricks...and Mr wooolerf couldn't blow it down. Yep, old Alb is building 'The Old Side Valve Bar 21st century version political proof.. No chance of hurty words or strange cultures getting over an extremely high doorstep or through a very robust door.
Enough of the technicalities of this almost atomic proof building as I don't want the details falling into 'woke' hands.
Let me tell you I've done a teeeeeny-weeeeny bit of work on Lovely Maroon. The BSA that time forgot.
My guess is you'll say Albert my dear fellow, you know how to waste time...This is the finite example! It's not time wasted to me. I've fabricated.(or should I say Ive carpentered) an internal box to fit inside the Lucas battery box replica to stop the modern 6V 4.5A battery from rattling around. Other lesser chaps will probably use ty-wraps and bubble wrap.. but those that care and take pride in doing their best will relate. Which is what I try do....made it mi-sen oot of mahogany, part of a wood pile inherited many years ago. Who could have thought what this ancient piece of Swietenia macrophylla was gonna be used for....now we know.
Cut, glued and then sand papering to within an inch of it's life it would have been rude not to apply several coats of luscious yacht varnish to add old skool to even more old skool.
Job done. Think it may be 3 months thoroughly drying the many coats, but should last forever.
Stay safe....say nowt.....write nowt......and certainly believe nowt ya either hear or read..
Keep looking into 'Crackleports Scribblingtons'. For they are the last refuge of truth and honour.
