** Warning ** Lot's of pics and a long winded resto diary entry tonight.... 🙂 I spent the afternoon today running around getting electrical bits and pieces, and some more stainless bolts. First up is a pic of the T8 14W, 360mm fluoro. It turns out fluoro's this size are imported, and quite hard to find - unfortunately they don't come in colour. I bought fittings for each end; one side also has the holder built in to take the starter. You can see the original brackets are the only thing holding the whole lot in place - I might need to bend the metal fingers of the bracket into a new curve, or make up some new metal bits, as it was designed to hold a much smaller tube. The rear cover has two holes for the cable from each end of the tube. I'm going to terminate it on the inside of the cover with the little ceramic block. From there it will run on high temp 2.5mm 3 core (ordered, but won't arrive for about 3 weeks), to the original ceramic plug and socket. I also ordered a couple of acrylic tube covers, one yellow and one in blue. I'll try these out to change the light colour, and if no good will just use the fluoro on it's own. 
Here's the original harness. I want to re-use all the original ceramic bits. Where the new hi-temp cable branches off, I'm going to cover each core with some glass sheath, then for appearance, put back the little ceramic heat shields. 
Next, I bought some stainless bolts to replace the originals used for the lever body brackets. The originals have a non-threaded bit close to the bolt head that is a larger diameter than the rest of the thread. You can see the stepped hole in the old lever body: 
And here's the 'non-stepped' mounting holes in the new lever body: 
And the finished product with the new stainless bolts: 
And another problem still to be solved... The top cover is supposed to have two cheese head bolts to fix it to the lever body. My original arrived with them missing..... Here's a pic of the body - the two offending threaded holes you can see just to the left and right of the larger black rubber lever stop: 
I went into Coventry again today (they love me when I come in just to buy two bolts... ;D ) and had them try to find a matching cheese head. They reckon it's some strange euro / italian thread pitch, possibly 0.5, and they don't stock it. So now I have to find somewhere that can supply a couple of 3 x 16mm, cheese head with 0.5 pitch.... Something a bit like this, but with the correct pitch: 
Any ideas where best to go for some of these?
