As usual a simple job becomes a disaster.

 I changed Oscar's fuel filter and when I primed the system I noticed I had cracked the squeeze bulb, which is quite a disaster.

I did a bit of nutting things out and used a bit of old pushbike inner tube with a bit of fairly large heat shrink underneath.

Hopefully it'll hold until a new generic bulb arrives which I'm hoping I can splice into Oscar's never to be serviced fuel line.

Slow progress with the scooter.

 

A new control board arrived the other day and it's tested up fine, wheels are a turning again, eventually I'll meld it into the circuit so things will be operational again. The old control unit also suffered flood damage and although I think it could have been fixed, this unit from China wasn't expensive.

Something to cheer me a little after nearly a month of misery.

 Roadworks have made our life hell of late, made worse by knowing the state government as per usual are only wasting taxpayer money on this, when it's all done things will be the same as they always were. Our road has a concrete depression era base and has always been pothole free, the worst was it's been too narrow for today's standard but I don't think it'll be widened.

Anyway what's made me happy is the 60 speed limit has been moved out of town to just past the entry to the sporting ovals, some genius must have noticed how odd it was to have that in an 80 zone. A decade ago I hounded Main roads and the council about it but merely being a below average punter I was shunned as some sort of moron, now I'm feeling good as I suspect the sign will be permanent. The downside is I suspect more cars will overtake me as I turn into our driveway when coming home.