Thursday 26th - There are times when a title generator would be useful

Another busy Thursday, although I wasn't able to capture all the work going on. This was mainly because I was involved with some work on the Mink van as Alex was unable to attend today. Apologies to those I missed.

Beginning with CK 16221, various ceiling sections for the vestibules have appeared in the Paintshop so we need to get on with these as our Woodwork team will want to get them fitted. Martin L. applies white undercoat to the largest one; the others needed initial priming.

Ainsley works in the entrance for the second class central door in 16221. Judging by the mass of sparks it looks as though the door frame needs some attention.

Later on he had transferred to the first class end door on the Malvern side, again cleaning up the door frame.

One of the jobs today was checking the toilet tanks at both end of the coach. 

The filler pipes union on the south end of the roof was leaking and was subsequently removed and stripped down. 

Phil is busy cutting out new gaskets to replace the existing worn ones. Hopefully this will sort out the problem.

While I was busy with the Mink van, Ken had been busy nearby cleaning up what I think looks like the main frame for one of the gas bottle cupboards that are suspended under RBr 1675 (I forgot to ask!). A coating of red oxide completes the job.

Just across from the Barn in the nearby siding is TSO 4867 where Dave is once again working on the Malvern side. Rather like his BCK 21092 which was covered in odd claw marks, 4867 in places is the same. With the former we were having to go back to bare metal to remove them all; hopefully we won't have to do quite so much with this one.

The Indoor Gang have transferred to the interior and were busy removing the old trim from the windows. While Roger tackles this one, .............

 ...... Geoff is on the Cotswold side tackling another. It all looks pretty grubby and tired underneath the old wood inner frame sections, but at the moment any metalwork repairs appear to be minimal.

Back to the Paintshop where some more progress was made with the Bubblecar as Martin J. top coats the frame for the Malvern side double doors.

I later returned to find he had gone, but was very impressed with the lovely job he had made top coating the double doors. Progress is rather varied at the moment, but when the major effort on freight vehicles has been completed and the gala is over, we should be able to concentrate a lot more on the Bubblecar. We need to!

More preparation for the gala with the Toad axleboxes being serviced, a job with kept Bryan and Rex busy for quite some time. 

  The footboards need to be removed to be able to do the job properly. Rex reattaches this one.

My main job was to finish off the undercoating on the Mink where needed, which included some repair work on the Cotswold side planking and the cleaning up and priming of the north end roof capping bar. The underframe still needs attention.

Another blog posting finished, but I still can't think what to call it!