What’s it say on the tin?

In this life there are those who can maintain a sense of order in their working practices – such an aim is admirable and I’m always in awe of such people. On the other side are the totally disorganised restorers. Most of us will fall somewhere in between the two extremes.

So we have lots of boxes with all sorts of things in. This project is a bit of a mix of all sorts of things – mostly Triumph, with the odd bit of BSA chucked in – in other words pretty much what I had on the shelves. There are imperial fasteners alongside more readily available metric ones and to complicate matters even more, instead of the steel plates to mount the engine in the frame, I’ve used thicker, aluminium alloy ones, which means even if I had the original fasteners, they would be too short. Shortening bolts isn’t a difficult task, especially with