After extensive work my friend and I have finally completed our binnacle upgrade.
The old binnacle had had various modifications by the previous owner over the years which gave the panel an appearance resembling a sieve. It had holes everywhere, the instruments were all out of alignment and the 12 year old plotter was hanging from an old rusty bracket with 1 screw.
Behind the panel the wiring was a total nightmare with several unlabelled redundant cables.
Trying to work out what did what was very time hungry.
Whilst this was going on we managed to shear the shaft on the engine throttle. With advice from this forum we managed to find a recommended replacement. Unfortunately the new unit required a different size/shape aperture and so we had to undertake some GRP cutting.
With great care and attention to detail wefitted the control and reassembled the linkages.
The photo shows the finished project.
We are very pleased with the end result and are grateful to all on this forum for their advice.