steamy hallows

 Repaired, Billy gets to work in the front garden...after a short,undignified journey from the workshop at the Forgery which involved unhinging his arms and removing his head which was transported in a hat box...all that hair was starting to fill with all sorts of small particles of the scenery.
 After getting his dust sheet to remain in a reasonable position, by using some clamps which were luckily to hand. He was going quite well until the rain,when the sheet became steadily heavier and more sodden. I increased the spring pressure,which helped, but forgot to cover the power supply, which didn't. The result was that Billy operated rather intermittently, but still quite effectively.

OK I should have started earlier so that I had time to take some photos as I was setting up, but by the time I found out that Borris the butler, whose power supply had gone AWOL, was not responding to any new source of electricery and neither was my digital multimeter. Eventually an alternative was located and put together with a plug of almost the correct dimensions. Borris lives!

Edgar the raven was firmly attached to Borris' tray to prevent him from 'flying away' and Borris sported a pair of goggles on his Top hat, for the first time.
The rest of the graveyard went up quite quickly.

The motors kept going, even as things were getting really quite wet.
The lighting kept going too, and the smoke machine only fell silent when Maisie was too cold to stay out in the coffin, where the controls were situated. The blood curdling screams, with which she leaped from the coffin on the approach of the unsuspecting trick or treater, are probably still haunting some of those taking solace in the sweets they gathered on that cold wet evening.

Part of the aftermath... everything needs drying before putting it away...and this is only a small part of it!
 Billy needed to dry his hair...