Paint the town red
It didn’t take 4 hours – it took 3. And it’s still lacking a front derailer (I need to go back to the CCC and get a suitably nice one that fits on a steel seat-tube.) But aside from that it’s reached the state of kludgy functionality that it had a couple of months ago before the chainstay started to separate.
But now it is red, and that means it’s faster.