Dec 16 2022 

If you’ve ready my earlier posts, you will see that my opinion of what is needed changes as I learn more.  Unlike some politicians I don’t mind or apologize for changing my opinion as new facts come to life.

I started on the disassembly of the 1970 Series 2A 88 that I got not long ago.  The deeper I get into the disassembly the more extensive my project grows.  But the good news is that the chassis is real nice.  It hasn’t been touched in 50 years so all the hardware has never been off, and doesn’t want to come off! All the rubber parts, hoses etc seem to be just as old.  So I’m taking it down to the frame and will repair, replace, clean and paint from there up. A lot of PB Blaster being use (I put it on all hardware a couple days in advance and often.  When that hasn’t worked I use a cut-off wheel. Most of the cut-offs have been on the smallest hardware, straight slot head (hate those things!)