Catching up

 I've now got 2 lots of photos sent to me for the blog waiting for me to get round to writing a post, plus a few bits and pieces from me, but I've been so busy I haven't had a chance.

So first off, some from Richard back on Wednesday. Upholstery were 3 strong, all on RBr chairs:

 

Robert and Dave were apparently cutting up an old door from the Toad to make a new one:

Gerry and Rex were doing more destruction in the RBr:

 

Do you cut the green wire, or the red one?...

Trevor was on the door workbench working on one from CK 16221:

Not quite sure what this is for, John working on some sort of trolley, while on the right David got stuck into patch undercoating the bubblecar:

Thanks to Richard for those pictures. Onto Wednesday evening then, and some wagon progress at Toddington.

Mark and I carried on with top-coating the Macaw:

Half of it is now ready for signwriting when I'm next there.

Meanwhile Greg took on the Conflat with Beer Tank:

The new plan for this is to focus on the conflat and maybe take the tatty looking tank off for the gala until we can make that presentable too.

Progress was good though with primer splashed around as darkness fell, so we'll see what we can achieve.

Also in the dusk, we went round and topped up the axleboxes on both the macaw and beer tank conflat. Mark was pleased with the size of oilcan he found...

Onto Friday where Mark and my task was to do the drawbars on the big Mink G:

It's just about passable cosmetically, and after all, wagons were hardly ever in pristine condition in real days! Happily the hooks came out no trouble at all, so we cleaned them up, inspected the assembly and put it all back together with new split pins:

Passing through the barn, the Toad is really shaping up now:

And after all that, there's still Saturday! I was busy, and Dave was on holiday, so Ian stepped up, thanks Ian!

The two Andys (Andies?) took on the refitting of the toad's refurbished vacuum cylinder. Once again ir was lifted back in via telehandler.

John was preparing some metal banking strips for a metal work team project:

While Ken was preparing mounting brackets for the safety barrier chains to be used

during the forthcoming Gala:

16221 again saw a lot of progress, George found some more prep on the North end, while at the same end Steve and Simon were discussing how to install the new ceiling:

Ben and Chris were both working on door hinges, fiddly stuff:

Rod was fitting one of the door liners on the centre door, Robert did the same on the opposite site:

 

In the wood shop Dave was attempting to glue together some damaged Formica panelling:

Upholstery today were represented by John, Jenny and Laura:

Robert and Dave took a coach each today, Robert dismantling one of the toilet doors in 24006, Dave enjoying the summery weather doing some more body prep to TSO 4867 in anticipation of it entering the works soon-ish (when 16221 is done?):

Paul kept the troops fed and watered as usual, absolutely critical!