Maybe you’re thinking of when the boat’s frame went to PDS Engineering, in Lancashire, to be put back together? That was in 2007.

I’m just back from the Lake District National Park Authority meeting, to which the whole team went, all in our best project team wear, to be there for the vote. It was 11-4 in favour, and the news crews were everywhere- BBC, Sky, ITN, locals etc. Exciting times- guess I’d better get back down to the workshop then- we’ve got a boat to finish!

Hmmm. I wonder why someone would go to the bother of drawing a square on an instrument panel with a scriber. Perhaps, maybe, it is a temporary bodge? Could it be that the switch was occupying a previously drilled hole and it’s threaded portion is a smaller diameter such that the securing nut would pull itself back through the hole on tightening?

Any good bodger would drill the right sized hole in a bit of sheet metal and cut a square around it. Perhaps then what you see in the photo are the bright edges of what is effectively a square washer?

Regards, Aerial

Quite possible- there’s a fair degree of ‘bodge’ to be found in Bluebird! Half the time in her rebuilding, we’re having to build something ‘wrong’ for it to be ‘right’! 😀