Wednesday 19th - Another day at T' Mill

 Not quite the whole team in today, but we all communicate via WhatsApp and knew we had sufficient to carry on with the re-build of 1675.

Our new volunteer Chris came in today for a second helping of fun, he has done brilliantly removing 2 door thresholds intact. This makes life easier for the carpenters to copy.

Dave is fine sanding another Aluminium door, why is it sanders make so much noise?

Phil is very Kindly fitting new earth return clamps to all 3 welders. These are hand wound clamps with just a couple of moving parts and do not rely on springs.

Next he cleaned and refitted carriage end sockets, must have been very dusty.

Geoff and Tom discussing measurements, now is that metric or imperial?

Another skilled craftsman at work, making a bottom door section.

John V. likes to make anything thats needed. An urgent job .... please make a frame for an information banner for next weeks mixed traction Gala ......

And there it is, just needs top coat paint and the job is done.

1675 keeps on giving, corrosion that is, so Gerry who excels at this and is preparing the crash pillars for the next end skin panel to go on hopefully next week.

The new complete skin looks so much better, Rex is critically checking the alignment. It was decided a 1mm cut from the top would do it.

Just cleaning up to be done, gutter back on and then its the other side.

Rex is watching me preparing to weld the new panel to the original carriage side, considering its age the steel welds nicely.

Thats it for another week, as you can see its a challenge but we are hoping to get close to having all the metal on by Christmas/ New Year. There will be internal work to do after the outside is completed.

Look out for Dave's blog tomorrow, some of the team were going in to do more prepping for welding.