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A couple of years ago I sent a small collection of speedo bits to Roger. At that time his Dad was still coming in to work a couple of days each week, so he did it for me. It came back looking lovely. From memory the charge was a rather nice bottle of Tasmanian scotch.

I also had them repair the fuel sender unit from the Traveller tank. The internal mechanism was badly burnt, but Roger had a replacement part and it came back working perfectly and looking like a new one.

Tim

In my time we had craftsmen with those skills in England. Long time served ex sixties apprentice instrument makers were trained at Carlisle. The 'repair by replacement' era put a stop to that together with roll-sealed units. And, it has to be said, by the refusal of the manufacturers to sell spare parts. We later learned that certainly in the optical instrument side of things, they couldn't sell spare parts or lenses because the items were made abroad!

Could someone please change the topic title, as it implies you are talking about me.