My next project "La Petite Chanteuse"

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All four original steering rod ends have now been totally dismantled, cleaned, carefully inspected, re-assembled and given a coat of chassis black. None of the ball-ends or sockets show any significant wear. There is no damage to threads or castle nuts so for once I will re-use the original 3/8 BSF castle nuts. One clamp bolt had some slight damage to the hex head and it has been replaced from "stock". Even the original lock tabs for the main adjustment were OK and re-used.

Bj.

You would be excused from thinking that this car could not come apart any further but to clean up the mounts for the hand brake cross-shaft, the lever had to come off the end of the shaft. Only then could the mounting plates which also contain the pivot points can slide off. The lever is fixed with two taper pins. No problem. Four hours later and some gentle heat it is all apart. After all the man that put those pins in, in 1928 did not want them to fall out. Times like this a 20 ton press could be helpful.

Bj.

8-13-2013

Hi all 

Sorry about the slight delay in proceedings. Straight after lunch today I went and collected the dozen or so loose bits that go to make a Singer Junior chassis frame from the sand blaster. I am still not sure whether it is Leggo or Meccano but it all goes together with an assortment of nuts and bolts rather than just pressing together so so I guess Meccano is closer. The big thing is that the basic frame is almost all back together. 

Bj.