Saturday 16th - It's Grim Out There

 A grim day weather-wise, but lots achieved. Starting off in the barn, where Steve was investigating door function on the blue DMU:

There's not much time to do any actual work on this as it's only in for the metal repairs at the cab end, but investigating and recording is a good start for future work.

On the jack road the dirty gang discuss the plan of action for the day:

It was good to see Clive back after a while away.

The first job was to take some measurements on SK 25488, which John did:

Before it was shunted out and a pair of bogies were brought in to do some wheel swaps to enable them to be put under the SK:

The gantry lifts the bogie up:

Allowing the wheelset to be rolled out:

And axleboxes to be taken off:

One was later found stewing in the parts cleaner:

A vaguely tidy environment is always important, Ian does the honours!

In the workshop, Richard and Paul were once again wielding the paint brushes on the Mink A, this time top-coating the inside surfaces of the framing:

Meanwhile, John got to do his favourite activity, a turn on the pipe-bending machine, to make some more buckeye bars for lifting the couplings:

Checking the angle:

The finished product:

Meanwhile I pottered on with some more window frame painting on CK16221, now completed on the Cotswold side:

Alan was also working in the workshop, working his way through some more PAT testing:

As Dave says, just where do they go! George was painting the new scotches which should keep us going for a little while:

Onto BSK 34929, Dave and Pam were both cleaning up various bits of window trim for the toilet compartment:

While some other bits of trim were being fitted by Dave:

Looking smart by the end of the day:

Chris and Robert were once again busy on fitting door pillars:

A bit more adjustment was still required!

Ainsley was cleaning up a wood frame for one of the doors in the woodwork shop:

A trip upstairs found Jenny and John working on a completely different coach, recovering some seats for TSO 5042:

And I dodged the showers to nip out in the yard and find Dave and Rob sanding down the sycamore veneer in their coach SK 24006, it's coming back quite nicely:

Dinmore Manor and 4270 were out today, absence of rain and Dinmore facing the right way did not occur simultaneously, but I caught 4270 coming through on the last train, exchanging tokens with Bob on signalman duty today: