Today I are mostly been doing domestic stuff. Sorta.
I did laundry, hung my bike gear (which I washed last night) out to dry in the gorgeous sunlight, cut the grass (even strimmed the edges), tidied up the gardening equipment, swept the patio (‘cos I’d covered it in grass), hung out my laundry, threw away countless boxes (well, put them in to recycle), tidied the garage, found the camping gear, decked out my ‘garage’ PC (the one which has the stuff on it about servicing the car and is set up to display that and play music) with an MZ logo – and a slogan, hoovered my car (which was looking very untidy, but now the interior’s looking pretty okay), stuck the first aid kit in her… cooked dinner (demi-semi-curryoid-veggie-chicken-simulation – dead nice) – helped Lauren knock up sort-of-curry-type dinner for friends (with actual chicken in; due to the accidental purchase of oven-bake instead of hob-cook sauce)….
….chilled out for a bit… chatted to Trey…. and then had a quick attack of my telly.
It appears that the LOPT is definately dubious; interestingly though you don’t have to replace the thing as a whole. Unfortunately, ThornEMI appear to have failed to grace the item with a part number. Ever so slightly frustrating. So John’s hoping to find the BRC8500 set in his copy of Television and Radio Servicing, so we know which volume and year it’s in; then we need someone else with a copy of it to tell us what the part number is, ‘cos John’s copy has a few pages stuck together – meaning we can’t see the vital information.
We’ve got the part number for the earlier chassis, the 8000/8000A, but not for mine. I’m feeling a keeness to get it working again now. Either that, or I’m incredibly stubborn. I’m in the mood for projects. I would like to have the table back in the dining room too; that’d be nice.
So, if anyone knows that part number, the information would be gratefully received.
Tomorrow, the plan is: Sort out my Temperature gauge, connect the pipework for the oil-pressure gauge at the gauge end, connect the clock up, maaaaybe, if I can scrounge another 555 timer of John, I could get me intermittent wiper and whatitsface, heated rear window all installed. Do Hebe’s brakes and maybe her diff, if Nikki fancies. Then chill out with ‘the man who mistook his wife for a hat’, which should be both work and interesting.
Mmm.
