As the 4/4 has been regularly used for competition it is required to have duplicated throttle return springs ('Belt and Braces' .... and having made a trip to A&E courtesy of a stuck throttle while racing my single seater it's a rule I'm happy to follow!)

The previous owner in his inimitable style had fitted a spring bracket made out of an old bit of strip steel that looked like it had been chewed to length by rats before being fortuitously bent to approximate shape by being accidentally stepped on by a rhinocerous.

As I'm a big fan of TPAU (not the '80s pop group but The Pursuit of Avoiding Ugliness) ... I stuck a bit of hex brass stock I'd had on the shelf (having been gifted it by a model engineering pal decades ago) into the lathe and turned down a replacement bottom spring mount .... drilled and tapped to 5/16 UNF at the hex end it neatly screws onto the protruding portion of one of the inlet manifold studs.

Hopefully neater and nicer (and acceptable to the scrutineers)


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Just the job to while away a rainy cold October hour in the workshop

K