Wednesday 26th - Not a Good Day

 It is with great sadness I have to report the death of one of our volunteers 'Dave Hewitt', he was one of our stalwart upholsterers. He published his own blog to us volunteers, and was usually humorous  and very long.

He will be greatly missed.

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This weeks activities were mainly aimed at RBR 1675, indeed it was a hive of activity.

With the floor going down along the entire length of the vehicle, it is now becoming more accessible to the carpenters ..... so here is Geoff and Simon working on a window surround.

On the other side of the workshop Steve is preparing fittings for pipework.

The request was to finish all welding on the North end so painting and corridor connection work can go ahead. Here Bryan is making the final fiddly bits for me to weld in place.

Ken is attaching exterior guttering with through bolts.

Rex is working on the door frame of door four, most of the door frames have been replaced with new top to bottom Z section.

It looks as though Bryan and Phil are moving stuff about in the saloon, and having a laugh while they do.

Its not just vehicles we fix, John is making a bespoke trolley for our older but very good plasma cutter. It can now be moved around for use anywhere in C&W.

Another view of Rex, grinding flat yet more welds.

Ken is working on the other side to Rex, again grinding back welds on the new side skirt panels. The exterior work is not causing any problems for the carpenters, a good job because there is a lot of it.

Thats me attaching the lower parts of the skirts to the vertical sections, we have also fitted some extra horizontal box section .... this has helped enormously in keeping the panels in shape.

Re-attaching the doors is always a challenge, here is Ainsley and Rod finalising the fit of door 2.

Many thanks as always to Gerry for the photos.