Thank you all for your responses. If I replace the tube with the bath rod it feels solid brass and robust. The other tube in the photo is thinner walled will indeed slip over the existing but I will then need to make and chrome a new top button. Not a problem but for both options I still I think I n...

I believe that the chrome handbrake lever cannot be removed from the rest of the unit for chroming . I seek to remove the chrome tube of the handbrake to replace it with another. It seems to be welded into place. A How can the tube be removed ? 1 Cut carefully with a hacksaw or grinder. 2 Remove any...

Timberstone is exactly right. Unfortunately on my 1936 T.A. (TIZI) not only the wire from the coil to the distributor can come into contact with loose parts such as the tachometer drive gear box - so can the HT feed to the distributor. It has burnt out, rather completely fried, the entire Distributo...