Store cupboard special

The hope for this issue was that I’d be able to report we have a rolling chassis – and, happily, that’s exactly what I can say, though it hasn’t actually rolled anywhere far as yet, apart from off the bench and back on it, the other way round.

Because of the way it’s been positioned up until now, so basically the other way round to how we normally have machines positioned on there, there was an ongoing effort to get the front end bits finished before swapping it round. And, as ever, a couple of little issues have held us up.

But to go back a little, first. As previously reported, on reassembly we started to find out that perhaps the machine as acquired had been off the road for so long owing to a familiar reason – a crash. With the benefit of hindsight, it would appear it’s had a front ender.

Doing a bit of research, it seems