Box of (elec) tricks!

Previously, I explained how I had modified a battery box from a stock Zed to fit in this big block special.

There was only one place in the frame where the battery could go but the fit between the top frame rails was as tight as a Yorkshireman deprived of his natural sense of generosity, but it was the only place it could go. I nosed around my stock of steel and came across some 3 x 20 x 20mm angle iron that was perfect for the job: yup, I re-purposed it, rather than sending it for ‘recycling’. Like keeping our old machines on the road, this is probably more environmentally friendly than melting it down for something else, same as scrapping my old 1977 Z1000 A1 rather than making me a newer, more fuel efficient one!

I have piles of old bits of metal which I make into new and useful things. A lot of current metal stock now comes from China and is cheaper than the stuff we used to make in Britain, but the quality is not