Thursday 25th - A very quiet day

Well, very quiet except for a bout of sanding, but with no engineering and holidays underway, there weren't many of us in and the day was mainly one of cleaning, preparation and painting.

 

However, first a catch-up with a bit of Wednesday's efforts with much of Saturday's filling on both ends of CK 16221 sanded down by Bob M. This is the north corner on the Cotswold side.

Our Upholstery team have done wonders in TSO 5042, with the new Bournemouth Blue moquette now enhancing about two-thirds of the coach. Paul and Dennis take a rest from cleaning.

Paul posing in sleep mode!

On the other side of the yard in the 3rd Rake, it was just Geoff making repairs in one of the toilet compartments.

Visiting TK 24006 found Bob K. top coating the ceilings in the south half of the coach.

Owner Dave H. was sanding more parts from 24006 ready for varnishing. Much of this has now been completed and stored back in the coach.

Inside BSK 34929 Phil was taping up more skirting board ready for top coating in black gloss, in effect continuing what had been done by David A. the day before. Phil then repainted a ceiling in one of the 3rd Rake coachs, and then returned to 34929 to do the glossing.

Other progress on the coach was made with the second top coating of the window frames being completed by Alex and a number of other minor jobs being done by myself.

The Paintshop trestles were somewhat covered with various items for preparation and painting. In a clockwise direction, Alex was sanding down more station notice boards ready for upgrading, the grab handles on the battery box cover had been attached and were in the process of being painted (the cover was later completely black glossed), in the far corner two more footboards for the Dogfish in the Barn were greyed up and later black glossed, and finally some new containers had been given an identification colour.

It is easy to mix up the containers being used for the different types of oil used on our coaches, hence the colour identification which will be painted on the relevant oil drum. As for the new tin of paint, the old large tin holding the yellow paint (Goldcup) was gradually losing the use of its lid, which was steadily being bashed out of shape (poor fitting lids = loss of paint). Sadly some of our tins suffer badly from over-zealous closing.

Alex sanding down another station notice board ready for the upgrade.

With both boards cleaned up, Alex cut new lengths of beading and glued them down. Paint pots make very handy weights! The boards will now be painted up ready for the new signwritten notices. 

Potted plants free to a good home. This is half the number that were present when I opened up the Works, so some very gratefully received plants will be on their way to new homes. Thank you Ken! 😀

Another fine day over and a last look at the Works, outer yard, and the lovely Cotswold escarpment before heading home.