Tuesday 15th - Reflections

With all the new paint on both TSO 5042 and the Mink van, the title seems very apt.

Just two weeks to go, so no hanging about with 5042. With the yellow lining out started on Saturday,  Stu, Richard and Phil got cracking and completed both sides. We will possibly leave the black lining out to Saturday to allow the yellow paint to harden off.

 

 

Some of the door furnishings have already been black glossed. Phil continued the job, leaving I think just one door to do.

 

Roger made great progress, initially completing the black paintwork at the south end. The tower was then moved to the north end to enable repairs to the canvas raincover, followed by more black glossing.
 

So, what's left to do: -

Black lining out 

Complete any signwriting

Complete door furnishings in gloss black

Four door backs to varnish

Communication cord flags in red

Fuse box and charging points in red

Electric connections in orange

Small radiator in north vestibule in silver Hammerite

Complete doorway thresholds in black gloss

Connection chequerplates in silver Hammerite

Large corridor slider at south end in orange-brown

Complete lamp brackets in white

Minor paint snagging (tidy up job with little brushes)

Paint repairs to internal window frames 

Clean outside of the windows (paint spots, etc)

General vac through, though sheeting up the central vestibule kept the dust out.

Anything else not thought of 

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David and Jeff are in on Wednesday, so some of the above will be done by them.

  

 More great progress with the Mink A van. The final door was trundled out of the Paintshop. The blue trolleys are a real benefit when it comes to moving doors.

Returning later to find the door mounted.

 On the Cotswold side the heavy steel locking bar had been mounted. The other bar was lying beside the van.

 That too was soon in place. 

An overall view of the van. It must be near to completion and looks fantastic, a really great effort.

I spent some time trying to remove the old masking tape and resulting stickiness from the door of the reopened north end toilet compartment in CK 16195. Thinners and even hot water with detergent proved only partially successful. However on returning later in the day, I discovered the stickiness had gone with the drying out, so a light sand to soften the hard edges of the pulled coating. Russ suddenly appeared and unbeknown to me had intended doing the same job! Excellent because he had the original  branded woodstain (misnamed!), so took over with the recoating. It will need several coats to complete the job.

In the Barn Bob continued with the paint repairs to the central catering doors on RBr 1672. There's quite a bit to do here so it will take several sessions to complete, but as with 5042, it has to be completed as soon as possible.

The new cleaning materials cupboard now on board BSO 9000 in the disabled compartment. I'm not sure how we missed painting the base, though it does give the appearance of resting on a piece of spare wood, so may be this was the reason.

Varnishing on the Paintshop trestles has been very much the theme for the past months, as initially items from TK 24006 have been followed by items from CK 16221. It will soon come to an end, but there was more than enough to keep Alan busy today. He was later joined by Bob after he had gone as far as he could with the job on 1672.

In the foreground are the four new works plates for the Mink A van and Queen Mary brake van, the backs of which have been painted.

Bob also gave an initial coat of varnish to one side of the internal sliding door from CK 16221.

Ainsley also came in later in the day to do more door work. 

Part of my day was spent taking more photos of the inside of our various coaches, some of which will be part of a very interesting post being prepared by Roger from our Cleaning Team. So watch this space!