... well possibly more annoyance. Much of the Rhiw stock roster has grown quite organically, and even this has moved around date wise. The upshot is that the stock is stored in random boxes. Post Eastbourne some of this stock jumped out of the box. There was damage. This was a known known and it has sat motionless since the summer, while I plucked up the courage to investigate further.
Most was underframe damage and mostly those oh-so-delicate tie bars. I did scoot around Squires stand a couple of weeks back looking for some thin brass but to no avail. So it was plastic again reinforced where possible. I'm thinking that it will probably break again so there is little point making it so strong that the break point is extended elsewhere. Five of these needed attention and a buffer and some odd bits of brake gear. All done and painted now. have I reached the point where I'm in 'care and repair' mode rather than 'generate new'. In some ways that may be a good place and I've mooted the lifelong single project as the unreachable ideal many times here before. Somewhere where the movement is about maintaining what you have with the odd addition here and there. This opposed to the butterfly approach that I and many others have where a new project/new stock on repeat is the name of the game.
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