oh ere we go

It seams like its been an age since my last shed time, oh how I missed Percy the spider and the continuous bashing of my head on those bloody roof beams. It was the sickness you see which kept me from the shed, the sickness that is DIY. When the boss decided it was time to decorate my little heart dropped. Off to B&Q; Paint, brushes, picture frames and the likes. I'm naff at painting, my theory is get paint, fill up tray get roller...Go! as fast as you can, the quicker you roll the quicker it gets done. This was my fatal flaw. Not the crap paint job it was the mountains of splatters and drips of paint. Well that was how it was in the flat but now we is grown ups and as such we have a house and I am banned from using the roller. Its paintbrush for me. Its the same punishment naughty soldiers get when they clean the bogs with tooth brushes. And its all my fault for rushing. To cut a long rant short I'm back in the shed. for my troubles the boss got me a huge extension cable (To contain my racket!) but this means no more leaning out the kitchen window to grind. First thing is sanding the old front forks back. Rough forks, sand paper, how hard can that be? Actually very hard so off to a friends grab a electric sander and back in the shed; for the record it took bloody ages and I still only got one finished.

Its looking pretty good I think, But I will probably paint them once the second fork is done.
So next job was some spacers for the rear wheel. Got on the phone to my Dad for some steel tubing and away we go (actually I'd call him a few days before in pre shed planning). The axel holes in the frame are 20mm and the axel I have in the wheel is 15mm so I had a bit of jiggery pokery to do, out comes the trusty grinder AND the gloves; safety first, oh yeah. a short while laters every thing almost fits so a little test and low and behold its wrong, not wide enough, so its start from scratch. It wouldn't be so bad, apart from the sawing. oh its a killer but I'm sure my Grandad said its character building. Now they are longer shinny and most importantly the rear wheel now fits nice and snug and can be done up for the first time ever. Wheel the bike out sporting a front wheel and a back wheel all attached.

As I mentioned before, I'm not so good with the electrics so some research was done in the office the other day (hell yeah, it was definatly in my lunch break, pre lunch break, well just before tea break) any way I was reading some hints on electrics from this link
http://www.dirtybobbers.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2557.0
And it was really helpful. I don't have a soldering iron or other bits so for the time being I was just laying it out with what I have. Its not easy. Really not easy. I got and old electricians project box to hide some of the bits and bobs in. I put the indicator relay and the condenser and some of the bulkier cable in it. I cut some in/out holes in it and also a hole for the battery cables to come out of and I also attached the rectifier to the lid. I got the collection of mini toggle switches and button switches the eBay has sent me and tried to figure out where best to have them. I have decided to have then between my legs by the front seat mount but need a plate welded to the frame to house then but as I didn't have and steel or know how to weld (Yet) I zip tied some ali in place for a make shift plate (fear not I put in a request with pops for some steel off cuts, his gaffer must be awful lovely keep donating steel to my noble cause) I got it all together as best as possible. I do have some questions though.
1st. Do I need a main beam light?
2nd. Do I need a rev counter?
3rd. Is it stupid off me to not have an oil warning light?

I have also been filling, sanding and painting the tank. This task I have been repeating and then repeating and then repeating. I used to watch tomorrows world and I never saw the robots at the beginning on the production line spraying and filling and then doing it all over again. The cheats! Everyone is like yeah painting is the easy bit, just fill it sand it and spray it, bugger that! I've filled and sanded about 4 times now and I'm out of filler, I only brought a small tube, that's false economy that is