Well that was fun.
My battery was at the battery hospital overnight. They had it on a charger all night. It passed all the stress and load tests, so they gave it back to me. So I went home and put it back in, and cleaned off a few tiny spots of corrosion, and cleaned up every connection to the point of using my dremel with a wire brush the polish the connecting surfaces. It fired right up, and all seems normal.
The alternator is charging it at 13.2 volts or a little over 13 volts anyway. Hard to tell precisely on a little analog gauge. I decided to run an errand up to Ace Hardware.
When I had the instrument bezel out for something or other several years ago, the top part of it cracked in half. I managed to glue it together but it really showed up since it was right in front of me. I found one on Ebay that was the right interior color. It was in good shape, but it was from a car that had more options. It has a hole for the right had rear view mirror adjustment with a little joystick. And it has a place for the rear window defogger. That would be pointless in the Elky. I can literately wipe it with a towel while driving with ease. The switch for the rear defogger is not bad, but the big hole for the joystick was bugging me. So I found a $0.98 plastic plug that snaps in place perfectly. If anyone asks about it, I will tell them it the the 8 second squirt of Nitrous oxide!
If I ever come up with something that needs a switch, I have one ready to go!