More painting anyone?

Well I can’t just sit around and do nothing, well actually I can, but I get a bit bored, I have quite a problem reading books, I read a chapter but while I am reading I am also thinking about what else I could be doing, so I usually give up on the book and get on with whatever I was thinking about. I have almost totally given up on TV, I only now watch programs that I want to watch and not anything else, so a bit of breakfast TV to take in the news and weather and maybe a drama or film in the evening, you do realise just how pointless watching “Pointless” actually is.

Anyway back to the engine bay yesterday, first I charged the batteries as I would need to remove the starter battery to do the work, then out with the battery and it wooden enclosure and begin de-rusting the horizontal shelf, it is so difficult and cramped the job has to be broken down into five or maybe six stages, there is not much room to stand and very little room to kneel, and on this occasion made worse by the fact that the engine was now hot!

Before

One half

Anyway after a couple of hours prep it was on with the first coat, the good thing about Coo-Var (£43 for 2.5 litres is the bad thing) is it can, in fact has to, be recoated as soon as it is touch dry or within four hours, and it doesn’t require a primer, so second coat on later and relax, sore back, sore ribs (from laying on the engine) sore elbows, my word I would never complain about painting a house ceiling again.

Other half

Battery back in

This morning an alteration to the battery enclosure and some re-routing of the cables as this battery has the terminals around the opposite way.

Now I will have to leave phase three a few days at least to let this coat harden before I start stepping on it and generally damaging what I have just finished.

I’m not sure what I am doing travel wise, I am itching to get moving again but don’t wish to head north if it’s colder, I am contemplating going down the Paddington arm later next week but not sure yet, I ought to have a look while I am here but London isn’t too appealing to me, another problem is that quite a lot of visitor moorings are given over to Winter moorings at this time of year (you buy a permit and can stay as long as the permit is valid, 1,2,3 or more months) and there may not be many proper visitor spaces, but a decision will have to be made.