Advice on Lisa 2 restoration

In case anyone's wondering why I've been silent for almost a week, it was due to problems with some modern equipment between me and this list. That is to say my ISP had routing problems (or so it appears). The ancient parts (my PC) worked perfectly. This normally happens when you part it and go just too far with the parting tool so that it actually separates form the stock held in the chuck (note that parting between centres is never a good idea :-)). I am told that Shakespear wrote 'Parting is such sweet sorrow', and he was most definitely correct. Ocasionally thinbgs do not disappear thoguh. The other day I foolishly tried to turn down the pivot shoulder on the governor in a telephone dial (without checking the real reason for the lack of endshake -- a distoredted cup/bearing). The goverenor escaped from the chuick and was found slightly tiwsted and without the return spring, on the other side of the workshop. The spring, amazingly, was foudn i nthe drip tray of the lathe. The divided boxes have several advantages (although unlike your tubs they are not free... If you know them ovver, you don't get a mass of parts all mixed up on the floor (Yes, I learnt to close and latch the lid of the box when I've put a part in it). If you uase the compartments of the box in a sensible order (I start at reaer left, and go by rows), it's clear the order you remvoed the parts in. A stck of tubs can be mixed up, particularly if you want to look at parts from one of the intermediate ones. The box will last a lot longer than the tubs. I find such tube degrade and crack after quite a short time. Considering I might have something dismantled for several mohts, this matters... -tony