25-10-2020, 02:42 PM
(25-10-2020, 01:54 PM)Malcolm Parker Wrote: On my SWB saloon which has steel glove boxes at each end of the dash, I lined them, on a temporary basis, by folding up cardboard from an old Weetabix carton (other wheat based breakfast cereals are available) which was then covered in off-cuts of the headlining cloth, turned over at the edges of the cardboard and glued to the back. The springiness of the cardboard keeps them in place and they are still there 21 years later.I love these “temporary" solutions. In 1979 I was looking at Morris Patey's Sprint Special Scott and noticed that a bent 6-inch nail, threaded at one end, was holding the magneto on. When I pointed this out, Morris said, “Oh, that’s just temporary.”
”When did you do it?” I asked.
“In 1930. I was near Scarborough and the mag strapped dropped off and I couldn’t find it. I pushed the bilke along for a while and found the nail in the gutter opposite a garage. I walking in and asked if I could borrow their vice and a tap. They found me a nut as well. I must change it one day…"
As the bike had been used extensively in competitions as well as a road hack for a prodigious mileage, he never did.