Wednesday 16th - A bit of a Shunt day

We needed 16221 on the jack road, for bogie removal and under floor inspection. The compartment floor bearers were found to be in remarkable condition and require no further attention ... happy days!

Rex is seen here altering the outer skin which did not quite match
the door profile, it looks much better now and with capping strip fitted near perfect.

Derek is fitting wood floor sections and found the one hole in the wrong place .... not any more.

Bryan got the best job, he always does ...... This storage container is somewhat porous, so using available and scrounged materials he/we are constructing a pent add on roof, this will take a while so lets hope the weather holds.

Des is working in 34929, varnishing its a never ending job but looks brilliant.

David is sanding a table for the disabled compartment on 34929, its attention to detail like this which gets noticed.

Colin is fixing an inner panel to a door assembly, I have to own up I am not sure for which carriage .... its an ongoing production line.

This is one of my bits, welding the water inlet pipe brackets to the carriage end panel. Its best done before any wood panelling goes inside to reduce the fire risk.

In the paint shop Dave and Rod are debating whether the painted areas are the same colour. Maybe a trick of the light

Rex is cutting steel here for a wall mounted rack to hold our smaller acrow props safely.

 

Bryan did come into the workshop to cut these scrounged lengths of section for the container roof .....

Then exhaustion set in and it was tea time ...... distanced of course.

We are taking the advantage of time and weather to do a number of jobs around the works, even sweeping up .... so when we return to normality, we will be all set to go forward.