Honda-SOHC

Looking at the state of the regulator box and connectors I would check and clean the connectors and earthing points.

I just googled Regulator box for cb400f and got images of the finned regulator/rectifier I just replaced. Yet it's called a regulator in the manual..trying to find one on the web. DDS don't seem to have one.

 I recently had a new harness (loom) fitted and new battery too. I soon needed a new rectifier and that was done. Then a black out on the street that turned out to be a couple of blown fuses, something the AA man overlooked    , my local bike shop sorted that out. A new condenser has been ordered as I saw a one on ebay. So I'm working on my electrics but not fast enough it seems. This morning all was dark when I turned the key. I noticed my headlamp switch was in the on position from when I last rode a couple of nights ago, I didn't see that doing any harm but took my battery in for a check in case, all was well with that.
I take off the side panel over the fuse box area and gave this tiny black square thing (arrowed in picture) a good press with the finger and all lit up fine. voom voom off I go.  Next time I try to start the bike down town all was dark again. Pushing and pressing the same thing didn't help this time, so I go to check the fuses, I took out the lower most one, it looked fine, put it back in and all lit up again. When I get home I experiment a bit and find that taking out that little black square didn't make the bike go dark ...so what happened his morning. What could be causing this. Is changing the fuse assembly a good idea or should the next move be something else?

The mudguards..or fenders on my CB400f2 look great on the outside, less so on the inside but as you can see in the pic it's not really so bad. I'm thinking of painting the undersides sometime soon....any paint recommended?

My front brake is capable of squeaking loud enough to have people looking at me funny sometimes, I bet I'm not going to oil them but what can I do, why does this happen if it's not at the disc?

Took my bike in for the work to be done...left the gaiters at home!!

Laverda....I tried very hard to get it but it isn't out there anymore. The US forum advised me to plain cut out a a piece of scotch brite and so I did.

Thanks Julie...you're a gold mine of info!!