Saturday 20th - Good, steady progress

Another typical Saturday with plenty of projects moving forward, nothing ground-breaking, but good progress all round. 

Starting with the FK today, Robert is making good progress with the door thresholds, another one now fits.

Now if it doesn't, do you blame the woodworkers or the metal workers? Here the metal needed a little adjusting, James did the honours.

Simon also continued on his mission with the vestibule framing.

I was itching to get some more top coat on so towards the end of the day Dave captured me doing the cream panels. We're leaving the panels either end in undercoat for now whilst door work is ongoing.

Off the coach Dave spent some time cleaning up the corridor connection chequer plates before fitting, many years of grime and caked up stuff flew off with the wire wheel.

The ply van is coming on well, it was a chilly start in the barn but Maurice cracked on with undercoating the last 2 panels on the Malvern side.

While George finished glossing the underframe on the Cotswold side.

Later on continuing with the undercoat Maurice took care of the door frames.

And once it had warmed up a bit, I cracked the gloss open to do the South end and Malvern side.

Over on the jack road Ian's mission today (which he chose to accept) was the drawbar assembly on the spare SK. A bit of a fight to get it out...

But out it came...

Along with the old tailpin, success!

By the end of the day the whole area had been cleaned up, painted, and everything reassembled with a new tail pin, mission complete.

Once again, we felt obliged to watch the trains go by and give everyone a wave.

Train gone, and Paul and Dennis return from their adventures on the third rake.

With the good weather the model railway coach took another step forward as I added the yellow lining on the final large section. Hopefully I can do the black next week.

It was just Laura up in upholstery today, here sewing up some hand bags for the shop.

Glasses cases had also been on the production line.

And finally the RBr. Phil continued the electrical fit out inside.

Ben and Ainsley had a challenging day it has to be said, this door just wasn't behaving itself. In the end the door liner was concluded to be at fault. Annoying, but better to decide now than a couple of months into service.

Gutter work continues, with Alan welding up the many sections into more sensible lengths.

At one point it needed turning round, and the only option by that time as it had grown so long was to take it outside to spin, then take it back in again!