stalling build up ...

Today I picked up the sanded and painted parts. A bit pricy but it's now done nicely. 

The reservoir tank apparantly had some small holes. I'm not going to repair it and buy a new one instead. So that was money wasted on sanding/primer. Thinking about it; likely it explains why underneath there was a layer of surface rust on the chassis:

For the sanding and spraying the rubbers of the fan were removed. I only realized that when I was back in the garage and wanted to mount the fan:

So I got in contact with him to see if he still had them. He claimed they were dried out and would check on monday if he still had them. Else I need to find new ones … sigh.

Besides that I could not continue in any case. Earlier this week I checked with SNG Barrat regarding the reinforced hose kit that was suppose to arrive mid January. Turns out they will not arrive untill mid March. Sigh!  So I cancelled the order and searched for alternatives. On Ebay I found them but these were located in Hongkong and about the same price. But also with potential very long lead times. Then I found one kit in the USA. But when checking they charged 75 US dollar shipping costs. No way. Eventually I found one in the UK and despite being on stock it turned out the next day this was not the case. They would however arrive within 10 days. Sigh! Let's see.

And one more thing I need to look into is this aircopump sensor connector. Which is brittle and partly disintegrated

So I need to search for that as well. In fact when fiddling around the other end of the cable snapped at the other connector. Hopefully something is available.