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I think the back story qualifies it for an Out & About Ted👍

As an addendum to the story way back in 1969/70 I collected a brand new Mini Cooper S from Kennings on Queeen street Derby using trade plates (closed decades ago) it was a blue & white one. I drove the vehicle to the garage were I was working during the summer holidays - a Vauxhall Dealer (Allsops)on Bold Lane Derby. The vehicle was bought by an 18 year old lad - yes it was Neil Wheal.

Never saw the Neil or the car until 1973/4 when I saw it advertised in the local paper. I viewed the car but it had a cracked sump that had been bodged with glass fiber - at that time I had no facilites to remove the engine to fix it so I put my best mate onto the car as it was a one owner vehicle. The photo below is me (Navigator) with my mate at the start of the local DFS rally start line - circa 1974/5  yep it was Neils Cooper S - its a small world.

.428608426_1919445428471951_8381795319219720693_n by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

For the last two evenings I have had a few hours fishing at a local man made Lake that I only discovered by pure serendipity  about five years ago.

My BiL (Dave) told me the story behind a Pike that was on the wall of a pub in Tutbury in a glass frame for many decades. It transpired that a local lad who was a glass cutter at the Webb Corbett Factory (now flats) caught the Pike when out poaching with Dave one night in a brook near Hilton where there was a small pool caused by an old works dam. Circa 1968-70)

The lad Neil Wheal (sadly deceased) was also an amateur Taxidermist hence the Pike on display in the pub as he was at one time associated with a barmaid at the pub a stones throw from the old glassworks.

As I grew up close to this area I wanted to find out where this pool was as I only knew the Brook as it used to flood part of Hilton every few decades. I went onto Google Maps/Satelite and found this huge lake that you cannot see from any nearby roads except possibly from the newish (30 yrs?) A50 By-Pass.

I drove out to where I thought the Lake was circa 2019, the access road was gated with a lock & chain. I climbed the gate and walked about a fifth of a mile down the road to reach a lafge notice board that gave details of the fishing club that owned the Lake.

I duly paid my £35 a year membership I am now in my fourth year as a member - the price went up to £40 for 2024/5. It transpires that when they were building the A50 the Contractors dug out free gravel for use in the road construction. In the 1950/60s there were a number of Gravel Works in the Hilton Area with a nearby Concrete Works.

What was left behind after the A50 was completed were a few houses that were in the end not demolished but sold off leaving this one area of about 4 or 5 Acres of land with a big hole in it full of construction debris. A  couple of blokes from the Derby Area bought the plot and in a couple of years it became a private fishing club.

The place is full of wild life plus I saw my first ever Red Kite flying overhead a few years ago - probably out on a day trip from further north.

PS Could not load all my fishing tackle on the 400 so went in the car - does this qualify for Out & About.

Sutton Lane Lake by Macabe Thiele, on Flickr

It's probably  between my ears rather than reality - when I did my rectification fit of the right bearing instead of using my lump hammer as previously to get it fully home -  I used my Orange Plastic shot filled hammer for the final strike - thinking it might stop a rebound.

Yes they are already painted in gloss Black in safe storage - done by the bloke in Ilkeston who was recommended to me by a sohc member (Seaman Phil?).

No petrol tap or filler cap fitted as yet - I have a tap kit & new filler cap to fit.
All the big ticket items purchased just some minor oddments for the final fettle.

Might not be a 0.22 how about a 0.177.🤔🤔🤔

It's different but the same in some aspects as the old Mini Cooper S had taper roller bearings in the front hubs that were not adjustable you just torqued them up. The other Minis all  had plain ball bearings.

Or a bean counter.

That's a real pain - at least you have found the issue.