Tuesday 17th - The buzz of sanders

 A busy day with 11 attending. This included a very enjoyable tour of the Works for 18 members of Gloucester U3A run by Dave and myself.

Kicking off the work today with Chris and Robert producing cuts of wood for internal window framing in TSO 4867.

A collection of worn pieces of frame from 4867. The sizes of the various parts are different from our normal framing. TK 24006 has the same type and soò will also be helpful for templates.

Much later in the day all the new pieces are having a coat of Creosolve.

It's now into second top coating with the Open C wagon with Paul, ............

......... Maurice, ........

.......... and Keith in action.

Paul reattaches the disk to the brake handle.

With his H & S hat on Roger is reorganising some of the Workshop first aid items.

More good progress was made with TSO 5023 where Richard and Richard sanded the fibre-pasted rivet line. Some of this had further been overfilled with standard filler.

Ainsley did a great job on the Malvern side, clearing much of the lower triple-banded line and generally giving this side a very thorough sanding down. The rivet line needs some further work which I took on.

Ainsley also cleaned up the edges of the north end door and it's frame, getting much of the old paint off. All the doors need to have the same treatment.

There's no better sight when involved in the lengthy prep stage of a repaint than to see the base coat of light grey beginning to go on. There should be more on Thursday.