First, I finished off the swivel bracket and tried then to get rid of the surface marks from the file and the bending activity (welts with a 2lb dead blow hammer). The more I look at it the less confident I feel about it actually working but I will persevere anyway until proved wrong.
Then a little nervously, I took the plunge with the specialist epoxy to bond the front mounting to the fly-screen. It soon became obvious that I did not have any clamps with a deep enough throat to hold it satisfactorily in place. At this point I did what all bodgers do, I reached for the gaffer tape. The technique was to get the screen 95% in the right place then put the first holding strip on adjust the position then another strip, slowly centreing it in the right place.
The two epoxy tubes came to £27 and it very soon became apparent that you needed an applicator gun to squeeze the 2 part glue down the nozzle. I did not buy one, because I was not aware one was needed.
After the first 10mm of movement down the bores it was impossible to exert enough pressure to force the contents into the mixing chamber in the nozzle. I was holding the barrels in my left hand and using my finger and thumb on the right hand to get the glue to flow out of the nozzle, directing it to the right place was definitely impossible. So I used my largest snipe nose pliers to exert the pressure on the pistons. One of two things happened, either the pointed end of the pliers pierced the back of the pistons or the unequal pressure caused the piston to swivel in the bore, whatever there was £13.50 worth of evil smelling, unmixed epoxy on the wrong side of the pistons. I was not impressed.
For the second side of the front mount I had to open the second tube and I knocked up a plywood holder and a plunger using two bolts which works in an ordinary sealant cartridge gun which seemed to work OK. I will leave the epoxy to harden overnight before I try to do the top mount
