I have been working on small silly things which were quite enjoyable to do but not without their challenges.  I finish the battery tray and installed it which has made me happy for some reason.  I went to connect the battery leads only to discover that the positive terminal was loose and on close inspection it came apart completely which was some frustrating.  I repaired and sent a picture to the company that made the leads for me and they have kindly agreed to replace it which is good.

I have been reading some other posts and articles from people restoring Healey 100's and noticed that they use completely different parts suppliers to me so I checked the relevant websites out.  One of them had a tray for sale that sits in the compartment for the twin batteries to provide an extra storage facility.  I presume they put the battery in the boot but wasn't really sure as the main focus was on the idea itself, it looked very cool.  Making the battery tray has been fun and reminded me of the mucking around I got up to when I was building the kit cars of yesterday year.  It also occurred to me that I should have welded two battery support brackets in for the other side so that I could mount a small storage compartment for tools etc.  Now I have a project for the future.  When the car is finished and I have sorted all the inevitable gremlins out I will make a drop in storage compartment for the opposite side to the battery for tools; cool.

I also drilled the holes for the wiring loom to go into the boot, some holes for rivinuts to mount said loom and a couple more to hold things such as the negative battery lead whilst the tank was out.  This all created a fair amount of swarf which collected in the boot area.  I had previously taped a section of neoprene into the boot on top of the chassis ridges that run under the tank to protect the tank and the swarf stuck to this like glue.  This isn't good as it will rust easily so I ripped out the neoprene, only it didn't come out easily.  I have a clean up job to do and then I will put the tape on the tank rather than the chassis.  I do need to drill more holes for the bracket that holds the spare tyre in place but think I should do that once the tyre is in place with care to ensure I catch all the swarf produced.

Things are progressing nicely.