Wednesday 28th - Welding, welding and yet more welding

The title suggests nothing else but welding takes place, not true as that’s the last bit. An enormous amount of effort goes in before the final sticking together.

The first of the four crash pillars is carefully aligned, tack welded, checked and then fully root welded.

Gerry is removing the remainder of the end panel, complete panels will replace the old metal.

All of these are of 1675, here another door pillar is being welded top and bottom. A former is then used to get it parallel to the other side.

Bryan found a suspect piece of cant rail, anew back to back section is fully welded in and the job is good to go.

Ken is now back in the fray and loves this kind of work, a badly damaged panel with inches of filler. Ken removed it and welded in a new panel, a bit of grinding and it’s as good as new.

Derek is fitting new supports for the floor panels, once this is done work on the kitchen area can gather speed. It is quite cramped working in the servery.

Phil is very kindly repairing a return (earth) lead for a welder.

Ian is cleaning down chassis components on 16221 ….. it looks better than new.

Still with 16221, Colin has remade the stretcher window and found it would not close. Ken to the rescue and carefully removed the offending metal with a die grinder ….. the result a perfect fit ….Phew!

A quick return to 1675, on Thursday Bryan came in and made this new roof section to go over the replaced cant rail, all it needs is welding.

That’s about it for this week, more of the same next week. Please stay with us it will get better.