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Been at my mate Dunc's over in Scotland today. Lending a hand to build his carport and workshop. This is the carport. Room for two cars and will have store room/workshop at the far end. This will be his workshop and garage for his tractors, digger etc. This is a rather steep decent down to the main workshop. This is the result of a tractor and loaded trailer, running away from the top of that slope, when the handbrake failed. There was no brush at the corner at the time and tractor and trailer came straight down. It stopped when it hit the digger's bucket which was parked at the bottom. Digger ended up leaning against a tree and only suffered broken widows in the cab door.. Tractor didn't fare so well.

Spent the weekend painting bits and bobs. Couldn't decide whether to paint the frame or get it powder coated. Monday morning I made the decision and took the frame and swinging arm to be powder coated after lunch. Get it back in about a week. In the mean time I'll see where I can get new fork stanchions and seals, plus rear shocks. To days been a real washout. None stop rain. So it's been a workshop day. These parts are now finished and will be wrapped up and put away. Started on the wheels today. First the rear. Removed the brake plate and then the shoes. Cleaning the old paint off the brake plate took a while. Much scraping and wire brushing. Then it was primed. Later it got a first and second coat of top coat. Getting the tyre off was a right fight. It still had air in. Not bad for standing for 20yrs. My valve removal tool seems to have gone awol, so I got as much air out as I could by pushing the valve down. Next broke the beads with the use of a G clamp. Then the struggle started. The tyre side wall goes well down in the rim. About an inch. With the use of one long lever and two short ones, plus a big screw driver, the tyre succumbed. Pulling the tube out with some air still in it, was a struggle as well. Gave the wheel a bit of a clean up, then put it on one side. Next, the turn of the front wheel. Brake plate got the same treatment as the rear one. That and the brake arm are now awaiting a second top coat. That's it for today. Seven and a half hours is enough. Wheel will get the tyre removed another day.

You will need to get in line he need's to do about 10 for me first I don't know were he finds the time but I'm jellies they look great . Maybe in a few months I will have some time.

You do nice work. Think I'll ship you about 15-20 engines do for me!

After hours of tedious clean up with dental tools the engine is finally free of green paint and I completely went through everything. I’m working on prepping all the body work now. I wasn’t expecting this to turn into a complete re-do but o’well, it should look nice all said and done.