Today I did a bunch of useful things, but the fun/useful thing was moving two circuits on the Spitfire from "fusible link" (IE bit of copper wire that burns up) to actual replaceable fuses in a fuse box, and rewiring the fuse box itself from one wire spliced to three wires that go to all the fuses, to a busbar that distributes power for everything and is enclosed so it can't short. I've been adding relays for any loads that are over a couple hundred milliamps so the vintage contacts on the car don't burn out, but instead modern relays with exotic contact metallurgy designed to handle 20 amps do all the hard work. This should make the original switches last forever. I had relays bolted to the firewall and ziptied to the former fusebox; now they're all bolted down to the same piece of polycarbonate that serves as the base for the fuse box and busbar. This isn't the kind of stuff that NEEDS to be done, but it's the kind of stuff that once it's done I feel a lot better about the safety and longevity of the car.
While doing this I noticed that for some reason this last snow/ice storm stripped about half the paint off one of the soffets. Just one, and it's been fine for a couple of years, but suddenly, pow, everything gone and in piles on the ground underneath. Middle of next month, I'll strip, prime, and repaint it. So weird.
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