Wednesday 30th - 'Upholstery and stuff.....'

This week we start with the very popular upholstery department, they were extremely popular at the recent Diesel Gala.

The team decided the time had arrived for a huge clean up, Laura, Eve, Ceri and Chris got to grips with all of the shelving. A place for everything and everything in its place.

They were given a seat from a signal box ( not sure which one) for stripping and re-upholstering, it was a bit of a challenge but Eve and Chris got to grips with it.

Now completely stripped ...... watch this space!

In other news, it wasn't raining so we descended on the eventually to be our very own Weed killer wagon.

There are a number of structures to be made, and here Bryan is priming various bare metal areas.

Bob is painting the corrugated panels which will become the roof. Today we had delivered the metal section to make the longitudinal roof supports. We will have to wait for space in the workshop, as the weather keeps hampering progress.

Rex in the background grabbed a paint brush .....

Alex had asked us to rectify a small problem on the Mica van. The side door locking bar was misaligned, so Gerry came up with the solution .....

.... He re profiled the latch, removed it to the bench ....

....... the other end was cut off and then a small extension plate was made. Here I am tacking it on, to be fully welded off the vehicle.

..... same vehicle, with 2 buffer mounting bolts missing. We used a big drill and a small amount of heat to remove the one and Stuart used a porta- power to re align the other side and a new bolt went straight in, just needs paint and new springs and its pretty much finished.