Featured 1976 One For 2022

I honestly thought, by now, someone was going to guess correctly. But unlike that French crackpot Nostradamus I've been wrong.

Absolutely the bestest guess ever but not the Arc
No locks at all on this box, sorry
And, no, unlucky, but good guess, not flooring

There can't be much left now, think of all the guesses and whatever is left it must be. Didn't Sherlock say that?

 

I still didn't know what that meant even when I looked it up (you clever fucker you). Until I saw "the simplest explanation is usually the best one." Which I thought I understood but then didn't when I thought about it. Jeez, I think I'll go have a lie down.....

 

I wouldn't be able to get our cat in it, let alone Schrodingleberry's - I don't even know where he lives

 

"the scientific principle that things are usually connected or behave in the simplest or most economical way, especially with reference to alternative evolutionary pathways."

What? What? I need another lie down. Nope it's not the box. Cor I hope you win it, you deserve to with all your, your,....... bloody cleverness you

 

This is what I had lurking in the garage, it looks all gooey but it's solid.



Cor, it took some removing from the frame. I thought I was going to break it but found that a chisel and hammer was the best route:



Of course everything needed a clean up. The resin had dissolved the duck tape adhesive which all had to be cleaned off with solvent. The lacquer thinners made short work of that. Cellulose thinners was just as good but I don't use that anymore as I'd be dizzy after using it to spray with.
Disc cutter zoomed around the edges to clean the glass fibre up a bit. I kept away from cutting too small as I'll do that when it's back on the frame.

 

Yes, I may be putting in slightly too much hardener but I didn't want to wait for 3 weeks for it to go off while it's cold.

 

Drill through frame and seat base for bolts. But as the bolts will be splayed front to back due to the angle of the frame I drilled the holes larger to give some wiggle room to get them out again.



Then the messy bit again and try to get the blimmin gloves on



Go over all the bolt heads with a load more glass fibre and strengthen up some of the thinner vertical patches:



And drink several cups of tea while it hardens.

 

Blimey it'd be leaving via the window, with me alongside of it, once the Admin Staff got a whiff.

 

Lever the thing off again cause, of course, it'd stuck back to the frame again. Trim down the overly long bolts.



Go around the edge with a flap disc on the grinder. And whack it into place.......aha, quite pleased with that ........Over....

 

I really didn't know what I was going to do today to get the seat put together. I've never tried this before and had always relied on buying something from some custom shop as it's waaaaaay out of my comfort zone of doing things up with spanners.

So, I farted around cutting up bits of foam and trying to make something to resemble a seat. I know that if the seat looks wrong it buggers up the whole look so was getting resigned to finding something for sale. Then, bless her little cotton socks, the Admin Staff arrived, like the cavalry over the hill, with her stapler. Here it is bolted to the made up frame (that I now need to weld up properly)



Look at what she did - ha

 

And here it is on the bike:



Well chuffed with that for a first try. I might even paint triumph on the back of it



So, seat number 4 it is. Good choice all...