To be filed under "What were they thinking?"

[acadian]

I always thought aluminium foil tape was period correct for the journals

 

[850commando]

I always thought aluminium foil tape was period correct for the journals

well it is an aluminium case, so the foil should work

 

[Nortorious]

I also have to decide what grade of masking tape to use to fit my main bearings....

Perhaps painter's tape would do the trick.

Thanks for sharing, and for setting things right with the world.

 

[Flatspot]

Didn’t John Steinbeck advocate a leather big end bearing?

not forgetting stuffing inner tubes with hay.

or filling a gearbox with sawdust to stop the whine