Saturday 12th - Bouncing from one job to another

 It was a blustery day with everyone seemingly flitting from job to job as we tick off all the things we need to do before the running season starts again. But before that, the arrival of the sets of cast wagon plates on Thursday was too much, and we couldn't resist having a little play. John did the honours measuring the existing holes on the solebar then drilling the plates on the pillar drill, finishing off with a square file:

In-between other jobs I rushed one of them through the painting stages and by the end of the day gingerly bolted a still wet plate in place for a test, well worth the effort we think:

John had moved onto turning some wooden handles for some perfectly serviceable chisels that had lost theirs, by the time I'd caught up with him he'd just finished:

And rounding off wagon matters, Paul was painting the roof battens, having previously cleaned up the door catches for the Malvern side which you can see on the right:

Onto more pressing matters, TSO 5042. Jeff and Dave did the honours with the lining out today doing most of the yellow on the Cotswold side between them:

While I made inroads into the lettering, in-between progressing more of our fleet-wide component numbering system:

There's still a few door wood repairs to do which Robert was cracking on with, sizing up a finger pull here:

The RBr is still in the barn through road for various bits and pieces. Bryan is trying a mounting plate for a water heater up for size:

And Richard II is working on the control unit for it, it all looks very complicated to me, lots of interlocking to allow one heater to be switched on and not the other, or something like that...

Outside there was lots of shunting going on, I think it was mostly preparatory stuff for reforming the rakes ready for the running season:

Back in the workshop Ken was cleaning up various components for vacuum connections:

And the BCK was shunted onto the jacks to continue the radiator fitting in the disabled access compartment - you can see the right hand radiator is in, on the left still just a black hole. Anyone know where the covers went, we're sure we dug some out in preparation but no one seems to know where they've gone!?

Jenny and John were back on bubble car seats today, it seems fair enough to break up the work with the other repairs and RBr chair tests they've been doing:

I missed Paul carrying on tidying up the rakes outside, but later he was giving the paintshop lobby a good vacuum, we're very good at producing dust in C&W!

Finally there was plenty of activity on CK 16221, these two doors on the benches seem to be progressing well:

Robert had the router out shaping another bit, this looks like an upright pillar section:

An overall view of the coach with plenty of busy orange bodies:

Dave was making a racket once again cleaning up more wood sections for re-varnishing, I think he's nearing the end of this job soon:

George was doing a very thorough job cleaning up the North end corridor connection:

While inside David was working on window frame trim pieces:

And Richard fitting the last of the insulation in this section of the corridor side:

Finally, readers will know I'm keen on historical photos of C&W at Winchcombe, so I thought I'd share this excellent photo which popped up on Facebook the other day courtesy of Paul Fuller, showing the carriage jacks in use before the barn was built: