Tues 18th / Weds 19th - Concentration
Apologies for no Saturday posting. Alex was guard on Rake 3, which was running as it was our Beer Festival and there was a three rake timetable. As for me, just too busy!
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Firstly in response to two comments from last Tuesday's post: -
That moquette looks beautiful, I remember when it was used by BR. It should look magnificent when finished.
I trust that all the screws are lining up with the grain on 1675. That was a bone of contention with the quality inspectors
Best wisjes
Malcolm in Canada
I do know that lining up the screw heads used to be a requirement, but if I have to be honest, I don't think our's will be. However I will see what is happening on 1675. Years ago one of our Door Team would faithfully line up the screw heads on door back panels, only to find that somebody would later tighten them up. So he put them back as they were, only to find .......... etc, etc.
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Hi, I'm curious. What is a pelmet?
The definition of a pelmet is:
A narrow band of cloth or wood, fitted across the top of a door or window to conceal the curtain fittings.
Our oak pelmets in 1675's saloon are hinged so as to allow easy access when fitting or removing the curtains.
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Tuesday
Tuesday's efforts were concentrated on RBr 1675 and the MICA van.
Beginning with the latter.
Lots of banging tempted me to see what was happening on the MICA van. I think Alex was removing internal planking.
Maurice was cleaning up the south headstock ........
............ while Paul was doing the same at the other end.
Returning later to find the Red Oxide going on the south end.
Planks have appeared from the wood container. No doubt they will be joining the planks on the trestles in the Workshop which are being primed and undercoated prior to recladding the van.
Alex was having a battle removing the nut from under the footstep. Not really surprising as, according to my signwriting on the sole bar, it was 2010 when the van was last refurbished.
Paul applies the Dark Grey undercoat.
Roger was tidying up the edges of the Cotswold side emergency door.
Pam was back in the servery, and once again lying down as this is the most comfortable way of painting the counter shelves.
Ian was back on sole bar glossing. The intention is to get the step boards installed, which will help with general access while we are still working on the coach.
Returning to Richard who is now applying the Light Grey base coat to the door frame.
Chris and Robert are now test fitting the section of panel in the corridor.
The counter shelves looking very much better, especially with a second undercoat to remove that horrible orange. The aluminium base section will have a coat of Silver Hammerite.
Pam having a rest after a good job done. Time to give the back shelving a second undercoat.
Richard very carefully paints the very narrow strip between the Whitroc panelling and the rubber draught excluder.
Robert finishes the area around the servery door entrance, applying beading along the edges of the panels. Pam can then get all this primed and undercoated. The whole servery area will then be top coated in the Executive Light Grey.
Enjoying the sun while working on one of the corridor connection metal straps.
One of the large seat backs has now been covered in the new Snapdragon moquette, destined for SO 4798.
John cuts the foam around another plyboard template.
Bob has rejoined the Painting Team as we are currently short staffed. 1675's calor gas boxes look as though they are complete following a slight modification, so a chance to catch up with painting these.
While interior painting isn't easy at the moment, at least some of the exterior of 1675 can be done. Bob black glosses the south end of the coach ...................
................ while David adds undercoat Brown to the Malvern side gutter section.
Back in the Woodwork shop another section is being marked out for cutting.
Other members of the Woodwork team were also busy in the corridor with Colin building more window frame.
More oak panelling being installed.
Still more attention by Geoff and Ben on the Cotswold side emergency door entrance.
Alex was back in and working on the station notice board. I forgot to ask him on Tuesday where this was destined. Doing a great job though.
Dave
ReplyDeletePerhaps I should have been more clear on my comment regarding screw heads, as I realised when I read your response, the screws were expected to be both tight and in line. It was some 60 plus years when I was an apprentice in the Carriage Works (I was really a loco works "Priv" but we were expected to do 1 year in the Carriage works), I seem to remember that not all screws were slotted in the same orientation, so by dint of judicious tightening and swapping screws a good straight line was achieved, bits of fag packets and even ends of match sticks were sometimes called into play. The art was to leave an obvious one for QA to spot if there was a marginal one next to it. BTW we were allowed 10 minutes to hang a door and get it working correctly. I won't go into the somewhat savage tricks used to persuade a door to adopt the right position.
Best wishes
Malcolm in Canada
Thanks for answering my question!
ReplyDeleteI've been wondering about the moquettes. Were there first class moquettes and second class moquettes, or moquettes that were only used in compartments or only used in open/tourist coaches? Also, do you try to use moquettes that the coach had during its service life in the way that the loco teams normally paint the locos into liveries that were carried by that particular engine?
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