a fairground life

With the DZ n.d.t tested by early afternoon I decided to do some work on the show. There had been a leak from the roof over the ball pit. This has been a problem over the summer. Every time it rained we had to catch the drips in carefully positioned buckets! Any how I decided to remove the section of roof to try and repair it. What a disaster! You know, one of them jobs that escalates by the second and before you know it you have done more damage than the job was worth in the first place. I ended up breaking out the roof sheet in question, then having to remove other panels that happened to be in the way, then whilst cutting some bolts off with the grinder---a red hot bolt end fell onto the top of the ball pit and burned a lovely hole right through the top cover. Now that spells disaster- cos if I can't fix the leak 100% then any water will drip down onto the ball pit cover (8ft x 4ft) and find its way through the hole and turn the ball pit into a ball pond literally! By looking at the roof section I have concluded that there is NO way on this earth I will stop the rain from getting in. With no water tight cover on the ball pit there is no way to keep the area reasonably dry. So mind made up-repair roof best I can, seal best I can and then REMOVE the ball pit altogether. After all it is a pain- when you are busy the kids can't get in and out,when the big kids go in they eject the wee kids,when the wee kids go in they get stuck,then lost shoes,socks,phones,glasses. It constantly needs cleaned out and some kids even use it as an urinal! I will replace it with a Ball Forest (my new invention). Low maintenance, no crawling about on the floor so no chance for the kids to get wet or lose anything.
Had some news reagrding the miami motor. It seems that one of the piston seals was knacked, this leads to the theory that the oil passed through the piston chamber and was forced out the shaft seal. Sounds plausible so hopefully when it is returned with new seals fitted all round it will be fine. However this raises the question- if this motor needs seals then maybe the other one will too? Roll on starting out as I need a rest.