Hello everyone and welcome to another Quorn update. We thought it would have been a wash out, but we’ve managed to do quite a lot! The main event was the annual exam of the Van Train, ready for the Last Hurrah gala.
I’ll start with some good news though B954268 has now received is new wheelsets, fitted by the C&W department. The brakes have been re-assembled and adjusted and it’s had a test run with the Class 10. The van is due to run at the Last Hurrah before an external refurb in the new year. Sadly, years stood stationary not in use have not been kind to it.
Saturday was a wash out, so we ended up continuing to fit LED lights in the GUV. We got 2 fitted, so that leaves 2 left to do.
On Sunday, we got to the annual exam on the vans. Mostly small defects, but one suprising major one, fortunately all able to be fixed. Tom, Dan and Oliver got started on oiling the brake rigging, Mark on the screw couplings and Nick and myself inspecting.
On to the defects then: B852838 required a brake adjustment, B850498 had 3 loose bolts on the underkeep/tiebar, B786348 had a minor repair to the vacuum release cord, M730562 was booked with a loose veranda floor plank, B777728 also had some loose bridle bolts for which the hot spanner had to come out to tighten the bolts which were re-assembled with spring washers. B777171 ended up with the major defect, this being a cracked disc in the drawhook rubber arrangement.
Oliver and I tackled the veranda floor in the LMS Brake van while Nick, Mark and Tom tackled the broken drawgear disc, initially by searching for a spare disc then dismantling and re-fitting the spare disc. One of the cracks is quite old, but we think it happened as the disc had been mounted the wrong way round, increasing the stress on the disc beyond its limit.
Unfortunately we lost the light before adjusting the brakes on B852838, so this will be caught next week so that it can join the ball. Thanks for reading and join us next week to see what we do alongisde the brakes on B852838!
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