Yes. Happy day, the sun is shining and it's a beautiful day. A rare treat
Two photos from Paul W, , with Paul himself washing TSO 5023.
It was good to see the Youth Group in again, under the supervision of Alex and Richard S.
Some good progress was made with painting various areas of the Mink D van. While Richard looks after the far group, nearby Alex was explaining an aspect of the underframe.
Ed from Didcot was back in again and sanding down another of the large steps from the Mink D.
The step now primed, with the original two steps now undercoated.
Maurice adds green primer to the many nuts and bolts.
Later priming whatever this is, which has been sat on the paint trestles for a while.
Jenny, having cleaned the windows on the Cotswold side of RMB 1876 last week, moved round to the Malvern side. The Mess Room bell has just rung hence no Jenny, just her gloves resting on a step.
Simon did some very good work today in 1876 getting the two compartment doors and the very heavy connection slider back into place.
This is the door to the north end compartment.
The door to the south vestibule.
The connection slider took quite an effort to reinstate and Simon is to be congratulated for getting this done. It will need some adjustment to ensure it closes correctly.
Robert fitting more draught excluder. This in itself can be a tricky job as occasionally a nail or screw will find nothing to bite into or hit an obstruction.
The ceilings in the toilet compartments still need to be top coated but with Simon fitting the compartment sliding door, Bob instead moved to the store cupboard to do more painting and varnishing. I captured him finishing off the undercoating of the painted section of the outer wall.
He also top coated the outside of the servery door.
In Upholstery Peter and Jane are creating more curtains for SO 4798, ..........
........ while Laura and Carol are cutting out the side pieces for the seat head rests. The photo below shows one in place.
John is making more metal parts for new vacuum cylinder sleeves.
John making more recordings for SO 4790 which is still on the jack road.
Andy collects the leaf spring clamp which had been used to adjust the tension of the springs and enable the correct ride height of 4790 to be achieved.
TSO 25488 had been brought to the pit area and given a steam heating test. Leaks were found and will need to be dealt with.
There is a real feel good feeling when the light grey undercoat begins to go on after months of bodyside preparation, though in the case of SO 4798 this has been very sporadic because of other priorities and as such seems to have been going on forever. Now happy with the preparation in the first of the recently marked out zones, Richard takes on the painting of Zone 1. Zone 2 is also ready so we can also get that done. Zone 3 will be next to be checked. Now at last we will be able to know how we are progressing.
Rose's efforts have not just been restricted to the greenhouse, gardening and her work with the FOWS Maintenance Dept. She has installed bird feeders by the greenhouse and regularly feeds the feathered visitors, including very friendly robins. That's a fine collection of birds listed.
Her spring plant trough looks lovely.
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