After last weeks very quiet Tuesday, it was back to normal this week with 10 attending.
Many thanks to Robert, Paul E. and Roger for the extra photos, especially today as I was busy with the urgent partial repaint of TSO 4986.
There was a lot of good progress with the MICA van today, with Chris, Robert, Paul and Maurice busy throughout the day.
The construction of the ventilation cover at the north end was the focus for Chris and Robert. Chris attaches the right hand corner support.
[Photo : Robert] The three planks forming the vent cover are now attached, the bottom one still to be primed and painted.
Robert works on a new section of roofing plank.
[Photo : Robert] Maurice now steps in with wood primer.
[Photo : Robert] The north end now looking a lot more complete.
More of the galvanised interior sheeting is put back
Maurice reinstates the repaired Cotswold side label box.
[Photo : Roger] Out in the rakes, more shutdown jobs were completed by Roger. In CK 16195 the repaired and painted wall under the table in one of the 1st class compartments.
[Photo : Roger] One the vestibule ceilings in SK 24949 had been damaged through water ingress.
[Photo : Roger]
[Photo : Roger] The repainted ceiling and the job completed.
Keith had several items awaiting his return. The spare light sockets, having previously been primed, are now undercoated. The chair has now been repaired and was given the first coat of varnish. It will be used in BCK 21272. Meanwhile Tony has been cleaning up more spare window sliders - Keith top coated this one in GW Cream. After Tony's efforts today another two groups appeared on the trestles to be painted in both cream and maroon. While we still have maroon coaches we will need emergency replacements.
My first job of the day was to complete the vacuuming of the Paintshop floor after all the filling that had been done on TSO 4986.
The cleaning of the cream and top brown sections of the coach had eaten up a lot of rag, so with the bin near empty it was time to cut some more.
Today's first job on 4986 was the cleaning of the door and doorframe edges. Richard and I took on a side each.
As previously mentioned 4986 has been one of the dirtiest coaches I have worked on, having been at the north end of the rake and as such immediately behind the engine (I believe it will be positioned there again when it is returned). We tried the Wurth industrial cleaner kindly donated by Pam and it worked really well, as can be seen above. Even so the job still took a while to complete.
Having completed his trestle work Keith joined in and cleaned the lower half of the north end with detergent and warm water.
With the door and frame edge cleaning completed, for Richard and myself it was straight on with coverage of the brown sections with undercoat Madder.
[Photo : Paul E.]
[Photo : Robert] With all undercoating completed, at last the Crimson top coat on the top south half. Unfortunately Robert and Maurice were packing up for the day, so time to call a halt. Hopefully the remaining Crimson topcoat will go on during Thursday, and also hopefully one coat will suffice.
Very well done on your work. Nothing like having a deadline to work to to get things done is there? When you eventually get a carriage shed large enough to hold the entire coaching and goods fleet, you will maybe to take a well deserved breather LOL. I think, unfortunately, that may be a long time coming. One can dream can't one? In the meantime, we hope that the travelling public get to realise that they are riding in museum quality restorations, and not to, (or let their children), take liberties with the wonderfullu restored coaches.
ReplyDeleteRegards, Paul.