Saturday 24th - Let's roll out the carpet!
Another very busy Saturday with another high attendance, even with at least five regulars away. Thanks to Paul E and James for the extra photos.
[Photo : Paul E] One of those away was Jenny, but hopefully as consolation she will like the gift of a chocolate orange from Paul. Hopefully it made it home and husband Andy didn't consume it during the day!
And joy for me as my last paint order for the current financial year made it safely to Churchward House, our Admin HQ in Winchcombe Station yard. My grateful thanks to whoever brought it down to the Works.
I seem to have caught a mini meeting involving Woodwork, Wagons and FOWS Maint Dept.
As a bonus though it's good to see them actually going on to the wagon. Paul holds the plank firmly in place while Maurice drills the hole for the bolt.
[Photo : Paul E] What a contrast when compared to the adjacent door.
It's roll out the red carpet! While Bob looks on, his son Pete carefully rolls out the carpet ready for cutting and laying in SO 4798.
James checks the angles - some adjustment may be needed.
The recently made and painted battery box doors were taken out to the yard and matched up with an existing box to determine the correct positions of the furnishings. Kevin, Andy and Clive now begin putting it all together. The two halves will be brought back to the Paintshop to complete the painting.
Alan is steadily rebuilding the skin on this door from BSK 35308.
Jane carefully trims the excess off this rectangle of foam. I remember the first time we reported the use of the electric bread knife to cut foam in the original blog. Even though that was many years ago now, it still makes me smile, but what a brilliant way to cut foam. Imagine the rough edged result if this was attempted by hand.
It's Saturday so Alex is back and intending to get the first coat of varnish on the Malvern side of RMB 1876. First though a rubdown of the paintwork with scotch bright.
Returning much later to find he is well on the way to completing the varnishing. Unfortunately he wasn't able to finish as he had discovered that the gutter panel on the north end section was incompletely painted, so a job for next time.
More interior door varnishing for Richard, this time the two toilet compartment doors from 1876.
Simon was back in the Malvern side toilet compartment, continuing the internal rebuild. My paint order included three more tins of varnish. With all the varnishing to do in the north vestibule and veneered toilet compartments, I need to keep our stocks well up.
Bob did a lot of cleaning of the metal cladding in the centre vestibule and edges of the cupboard doors and partitions. The latter in particular tend to get left, so it's good to do these and improve the overall appearance.
The beading on the left hand side of the south corridor entrance was standing slightly proud. It turned out to be a tiny nail protruding from the main veneer panel. With the nail removed Richard was able to screw the beading tight against the panel. A coat of varnish was then applied to the beading.
With the painting and varnishing completed on the Cotswold side, time to reinstate the grab handles. We need to get the metal threshold strips put back in the doorways too.
Oh dear! Robert makes an unwelcome discovery when trying to replace the narrow doorside panel. More rotten wood to deal with. Still when your coach is 60-70 years old I guess you have to expect these "delights".
