Lucas, Prince of Darkness.

[Lewis]

I am a gradually evolving Luddite. Born at he height of the Battle of Britain, I prefer much older motor cars to the plastic dipped jelly moulds we drive today. I own the HRG Bristol, a 1948 (?) experimental chassis built for the 2 litre Bristol engine. Until HRG realised that everyone was using the very sporting Bristol engine for racing and stopped the project after a Bristol engine had been dropped into the first and only rolling chassis. HRG already had a quietly successful sports car. The bits ended up with a cousin and sat in a shed on his sheep property in New South Wales for at least 40 years.

End of boring preamble. Point is: problems with antique engine bits and pieces. My Lucas voltage regulator, c. 1948, recently stopped regulating.

After much prodding and poking and adjusting of gaps Vic Grayson, a Geelong contemporary with the engine, found one of the metal strips at the rear of the unit, whatever they are - but they conduct electricity- had fractured. Vic had to scrape off half a century of dirt and corrosion to spot the crack. A few dollops of soldar and the electrics worked again. So have
a look at the back of your ancient voltage regulators and scratch off the crap
of ages.

Lewis.