08/09/24 – More Catfish Cleaning

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Hello everyone, and thank you for joining us for another update from Quorn. After last week’s working on B954268, we’ve moved back onto the 2 Catfish; getting DB983393 to get this ready for paint.

Initially it was out with the scrapers to make a start on the solebar.

We quickly got bored with that, so moved onto striking up the Hydrovane and using the needle gun and the sanders to clean down the solebar and hopper respectively.

Dave took a short trip on the Brake van in the Parcels set to monitor Palvan’s riding. He was pleased to report that there were no surprises and that it rode quite well.

Dave and I took a brief interlude from the sanding/de-scaling to check a R Y Pickering builders plate for the TEA that Dave had drew up and 3D printed. I also brought in a piece of BR history, a Metallurgical Defect Meter.

Sunday was more of the same, but on the other side of the Catfish, so instead of repeating darker pictures of the same activity, I’ll leave you with a picture of the cleaned down article. Both Catfish are rapidly reaching the same point, so we’ll soon be breaking out the primer. Thanks for reading!

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3 responses to “08/09/24 – More Catfish Cleaning”

  1. Richard W Wildman avatar
    Richard W Wildman

    Great to see your fantastic weekly progress on the wagons, pleased to see the Hydrovane getting some use too.

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  2. Raphael Whittle avatar
    Raphael Whittle

    Palvans make me nervous because of their (deserved?) reputation for poor riding and involvement in a number of derailments. Was it that they could be loaded unevenly, but also the design of the body contributed to that reputation? Or was it just another example of the increasing speeds, welded rail and stiff suspension short wheelbase vehicles all being responsible? Fantastic work as ever. Always amazed at the speed of and dedication to your work.

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    1. Ross Loades avatar
      Ross Loades

      Hi Raphael, Palvans were more reportedly more susceptible to mishaps, mainly down to the design of the van. The design uses J type suspension similar to our LMS van, so I wouldn’t say that it is any stiffer that that, though there is less flex in the chassis due to the floor being welded steel and acting as a shear panel. My opinion is, looking at the design of the van, the doors are quite heavy and are on opposite corners of the van. The latter fact means that if a customer is loading the van from a goods dock on one side, that van is already set up to be unequally loaded. Ours had a particularly poor wheel profile when we started restoring it, but the change in wheelsets seems to have cured that, we also have an even load of our 6 BRUTEs which puts the load in the van at around 1.2tonnes.
      Kind regards,
      Ross

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