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At last, there is some progress - I have been working on the basis 'why put off to tomorrow what you can leave until next week'.
Now the chainset has been installed, there's just the cabling, mudguards and tuning up to be done. I suspect the 'tuning' will take at least as long as all the other work.
The chainset did cause some problems. I had intended to use the Chater Lea set that I had on this frame in the '90's (see pic with rather grumpy looking young son on board). When I came to refit it I found that it was a poor fit on the spindle (too loose) and came so close to the chainstay I would have needed to get it almost perfectly true to prevent it from fouling on the stay. I really can't understand what's going on here, since I don't remember having this problem when I used it before.
I took the easy way out and used the BSA/TA set you see in the photo - this has the benefit of saving almost half a pound in weight.
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