Its very warm in Scotland just now. Too nice an evening to try the final last bits of assembly of my hydraulic system and then filling fluid and bleed, after renewing all the cylinders and hoses. Leave that for tomorrow. Instead added another coat of paint to the old bean-can which has actually come up from a "shocking" condition to actually not looking too bad. I flushed it out inside with fresh fluid last night, about 20 goes and a bit of clean ragging in between, until I was convinced it was basically clear of all gunk and "bits". One thing to come out was the remnants of the foil top of a dot 4 container which someone must have dropped in there sometime. There was also a lot of black "gunge" at the bottom which I take to be the product of a chemical reaction between the remains of the old rubber washer off the old lid, with dot 4 fluid, over 60 years. That lid got junked earlier this year and replaced with one off ebay that has a new washer, but I am trying to make the main bean-can live on for a while at least. On the outside, a scrub, not thoroughly to bare metal but just removing loose stuff, a coat of special metals primer slapped on, and 2 coats of black and it starts to look pretty good. First spillage of fluid and it'll all be ruined but hey ho.
For some relaxation, after dinner in the dark under spotlight and party lights with the music on, installed a new bonnet strip with nice new copper "bifurcated rivets" which I got off ebay, as the last one was in strips of string and I'd installed it with pop rivets back in 1988. I spent some time trying to work out which way up the rivets should go, without finding anything conclusive in any of the parts books or online. So I put them in with the "bifurcated" bits UP, so they slot within the 2 thick braids. This seems logical to me, but I have no idea if it is the "right" way. Online advice was to use a pair of plumbers pliers which is a good tip. I also found a strip of plastic (to protect paintwork and rivet underneath) and a length of hex bar made up a good way to squeeze the rivets tightly down, after first splaying the ends a bit with a much smaller set of pliers.