BRINGING MY TRIK TRAK BACK TO LIFE

 I've had great fun cleaning up my new Trik Trak Daredevil set. I really enjoy bringing old toys and boxes to somewhere near there former presentable glory. 

This is how I got it, lovely but in a jumble. I identified every part in the box save for a ball of string; not sure what that was for. Four plastic logs were initially mis-ID'd as Lincoln Logs until I saw that they really were part of the Daredevil set. Only instructions were missing, which I imagine can be found on the net somewhere.

The yellow car had a red head and stopper missing, which I 'replaced'. I tested them with batteries and bingo! They still worked. Finally I gave them a thorough clean.

I stiffened the box lid by ironing it and taping over the four inner corner creases. I flattened all the other card parts like car boxes and tunnels overnight with a stack of LP's. I stiffened the four inner corner creases of the bottom box using extra triangles of thick card glued in.

The open seams of the two car boxes were glued back and the inner supports folded and slid back in to house the newly cleaned cars.

Consulting the net for an image of a mint'ish set I positioned the parts as they were shown

Finally I returned the stiffened lid to its rightful place and stood back to appreciate this huge set in its nice spruced-up condition.

Do you get satisfaction from cleaning up old toys, and their packaging and boxes readers?