On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:34:25 GMT, (Lurch)
wrote:


If you really must, personally I don't think it's worth all the
hassle.

Thanks to you and all the other replies so far. I wouldn't look upon
it as 'hassle' but as an interesting project? I wouldn't do the same
thing for anyone else and I suggest any solution I came up with would
be well engineered and more important, safe.

'Doing stuff up' can be both a pain and a pleasure. I found a cycle
in a ditch (in a sorry state) when I was 12, handed it in to the
Police station and 6 weeks later it was mine ;-) Four weeks after that
I had rebuilt it and was cycling it around the South Downs with the
School cycle club. My Mum and Dad *might* of bought me a bike if I had
asked but I never thought to and got a lot of pleasure doing up then
riding this one for the next 4 years. Then I bought a Moped off my
school teacher for a fiver with a stripped spark plug .. repaired that
and rode it for the next 8 months till I was given another moped (NSU
'Quickly') in a wheelbarrow ..... then there was the Messerschmitt and
the Morris Minor van for 15 quid and another 5 quid for the gearbox I
fitted at night, in the car-park, in the rain .. etc .. ;-)

I find that by buying something that has been 'neglected' I learn much
more about that thing when restoring it than anything I might buy new
and running?

One thing to bear in mind, if you start making your own
components the unit won't be to the relevant BS. Insurance companies
like this because it can be their getout clause.

Ah, now that might be a stumbling block (and mentioned elsewhere
(thanks guys)).

I don't mind doing it but I like to do it right ..;-)

So, who's got a *little* split (BS stamped g) CU in the back of
their van that will do me fine for my garage setup then ... ?

All the best ..

T i m

p.s. What about the wooden, live and neutral fused CU I just took out
of my Dad's workshop .. I don't suppose that had a BS stamp?