Chorehorse restoration project

[Jordan Baker]

While a few parts were soaking, I did a redo on the frayed wiring. I took the original off and then removed the original terminals. Using new made vintage looking wiring I was able to make up a replacement piece.

I also removed the field coils so I could strip off the paint on the generator housing. Two more wires are showing a bit of fraying, so these will get fixed up another day.

Lastly for the day was the air breather. This was in NOS shape. The top had suffered some damage at some point and was slightly crushed. However with some careful metal bashing I was able to get it looking pretty good. I did a partial repaint on this as I didn’t want to disrupt the original decal. Interestingly, these were all originally gloss black and given a quick paint job of the SCC2 brown including drips and smudges. On another one I’ve seen there was even a few finger prints in the paint.