No dusting here, morning all, off to Bracknell with Christine today. Dodged a bullet yesterday in Tewkesbury; having waited 12 weeks for the part from Czechoslovakia we got there, dug a huge hole in the rubber surface and extracted the broken part. I test fitted it in the 32mm O.D foundation pipe and was looking at the top fixings, Christine out of curiosity also tried test fitting it and dropped it down into the tube! not just a little way but it went all the way down about 450mm to the top of it, and about 100mm under water! Worse was that having only seen it a couple of times, I had no idea of the shape of it! Then ensued an hour of raiding the van for anything that might hook it back up! Having looked at the manufacturers installation instructions I figured it had a small stub near the top sticking out about 4mm, I fashioned a hook device and eventually it appeared on the end of it to much relief! Day saved, we finished the repair.
Have fun all...