Saturday 14th - Cracking on with everything

 There was a definite feeling of action on all fronts today, with good progress on all of our workshop projects along with good inroads made on the winter maintenance checklist.

Starting off on the winter maintenance, John was in his element today with some proper pipe work to do on RMB 1876 to repair a steam leak. Assessing the situation underneath:

And out with the pipe thread cutter:

I believe this was all sorted by the end of the day, so a big tick on the spreadsheet.

I managed to catch Dennis cleaning before the shunters stole his train today, I believe the deep clean of this rake is now nearly complete:

Paul was cleaning up sinks, we want to try and get a few more toilets serviceable in time for the start of the new running season:

Another important maintenance job is some defective doors on BSO 9000. As the brake coach for rake 1, this is an essential vehicle to keep in service. Ainsley sets to, while Ben is supervising at this point:

Some defects required the coach to come in, and this it did later in the day:

Meanwhile, bogies were being moved on the adjacent road to put the RMB back down and out:

With the BSO out of rake 1, we needed it attached to another handbraked vehicle to properly secure it, BSK 35308 was the least inconvenient to use, although the buckeyes did put up a fight, they got it out eventually:

The Mogo also got displaced from the barn and nudged into the workshop. Look at the dust on that roof!

Probably best have a sweep up around the barn then:

Paul captured Michael and Maurice cleaning up more of the metal framing:

While I caught Paul removing more of the plywood panels before the move into the workshop:

Onto the CK then, and lots more finishing off jobs on this. Robert was doing a few final adjustments to some doors:

This one was resolved, but frustratingly at the end of the day, I found a door that was working perfectly fine in the morning had decided it didn't want to close properly. Sigh - one for another day.

Alan was back on fitting tables, and here is discovering the meaning of the word "standard" when applied to BR Mk1s; "I've carefully marked out all the holes for the brackets using one bracket as a template, and every single bracket is different!"

Dave was on roof cleaning duty today and sent these 2 before and after photos:

He was a very happy chappy at morning tea time, our marketing manager had supplied us with homemade sausage rolls that Dave is always telling her how much he loves. He admitted to having 3, they disappeared awfully quickly!

Dave also beat me t finding out what was going on in upholstery. Possibly inspired by the cover for the welding equipment the other week, it was the sewing machine's turn to make itself a cover with Laura guiding it through:

Jenny was kitting today! I don't think we've featured this before, making luggage rack netting. Looks rather fiddly to me!

Steve and Simon were progressing with the basic woodwork for the RBr:

Kevin's project for today was to sort out all the templates used by the woodwork team; clean them up, work out what they are, whether we need them, and bring some sort of organisation to them:

Dave carried on working on his compartment door from last time:

While I had a new small project to do; the main noticeboard on Toddington platform 1 has been looking very tatty for a while now and has long been on my hit list. A good sand down was phase 1:

It should look a lot better after the planned improvements.