Tuesday 22nd - An ooh er moment

Just 12 of us in today, but some good progress with 1675 and the MICA van.

Beginning with Robert planing down one of the battens to hold the canvas on the MICA van roof.

Robert and Chris fixing the batten on the Malvern side of the van.

Back in the Woodshop where Robert is now planing the angle on one of the roof edging rails.

With the battens and felt adhesive now firmly holding the canvas, Paul and Maurice paint on the Evercryl waterproofing roof sealant.

Towards the end of the day Maurice top coats the door hinges.

At the other end of the day Maurice catches up with a bit of top coating on the Open C wagon.

[Photo : Paul]  The first of the heavy metal corner pieces for the Open C wagon is undercoated.

The Cotswold side of 1675 is almost completed with two coats of varnish now on and just some blackwork left to do. Richard lightly sanded the whole of the Malvern side ready for its second coat of varnish.

Back on the Cotswold side David carefully removes the little caps of masking tape from the tops of the door hinges. Any stickyness from the tape is cleaned off with white spirit and then if necessary the top lightly sanded. Any residue in the hole is cleaned out with a wire paperclip.

There are still some improvements that can be done inside by the Painting team. Pam made a very good job of two of them. The first was coating the tired looking metal edging on the draught excluders with Silver Hammerite.

The second, also using Silver Hammerite, was coating the heavy hasp and staple locks on the internal sliding doors to the pantry and kitchen. The base section of the window in the kitchen storage area also looked somewhat tired and was painted.

With the formica on the counter now fully stuck down, Robert has mounted an inner edge (presumably this will need varnishing). Phil will now be able to replace the metal frame and associated metal pieces.

With the light sanding preparation completed on the Malvern side and the whole area given a wipe down with white spirit, Richard now moves on to painting the blackwork (door stops and handles, grab handles and droplight tops) where still needed.

A swap of compartment doors. I helped Dave swap the revarnished door in the Paintshop with one he wanted from his BCK 21092. The extracted door has a cup shaped handle on its droplight which matches the compartment door droplights in TK 24006 which he co-owns.

The heavy wood corridor connection support plates for SO 4798 are undercoated by Keith.

And mentioning corridor connections I noticed that the south connection on RMB 1876 had been pulled back on Saturday. What it revealed was not good news, though I guess it shouldn't be a surprise - a definite ooh er moment!