Wednesday 21st - All Hands

 A sort of normal Wednesday, if there is such thing ..... the plan being to carry on where we left off last Thursday.

Rex carried on with removing a door skin, the hinge bolts refused to budge so the magnetic drill stand came in. Slowly but surely he drilled each bolt out ..... success!

Meanwhile, Gerry is moving on with another door skin ..... the Bottom 200 mm has tin worm. He removed the rotten bit and made a new piece which was welded in.

Bryan is continuing with making ladder wall mounted brackets, these are situated at various points around the workshops each is numbered and hopefully get returned to their correct places after use.

David is seen here continuing the panel work in the North vestibule of 34929, it's slowly moving towards completion.

Dave made a lovely job of painting this battery box, he then asked is there any thing else to do?

I think we can find you something, so I introduced him to the sliding windows on 16221. The top frame needs to come out to replace a missing part.

This is not a job for the feint hearted, but Dave waded in and managed to remove 1 screw. Its looking very likely the window frame will have to come out ..... Dave thanked me for having such a lovely day.🙈!

Jenny and John are removing a luggage rack from 34929, this will have their magic worked on it.

And this is the magic!

Tony just loves preparing the compartment doors, and has his own way of making perfection. It might not look much now, but when the varnish goes on it makes all the hard work worthwhile.

It doesn't matter what you are doing, if you hear the steam whistle ..... drop everything and go and wave.

With around 12 of us in we tend to be spread out a bit, which makes it tricky to photo everyone. If I missed you I do apologise.

And from Richard on the Mink A:

Not Floored by the flawed floor....

Today's work on the wagon was to remove the doors, remove the roof metal end cap hoops, and the floor.  The doors came off relatively easily, and gravity helped with the 'heavy-ish' end hoops....but the floor put up quite a battle!

 

Doors dismantled and metal hinges, locking bars etc. laid out along with end roof hoop caps

The floor mid-battle!

All gone!