Hello everyone! I’ll start off with a reminder about next weekend’s Railways at Work Gala, full details are on the GCR WebPage here. We’re all looking forward to it, and you’ll see some of us dressed up taking part in the action.
This week, we’ve done some odd jobs and put the last two planks in the Pipe. Tom, Dan, Oliver and Charlie along with Nick were on site on Tuesday carrying on with the Pipe, neddle gunning the east side and priming the metal work. They also found a broken brake block carrier on 3777 and oiled its brake rigging.
Nick went to fetch these from Harlows on Saturday morning, Dave started applying Kiki’s new identity, which can be seen in its entireity next weekend.
Thomas, Nick and I removed the 2 old planks from the East side, ready for the new planks to be dropped in and checked for size. Nick and Thomas also finished off the scraping of the underframe.
The plank was cut down in length and then run through our thicknesser to skim a few millimetres from the planks to remove some machining marks.
The planks were then dry fitted and drilled. The planks were removed and the painted into primer in the GUV.
The changable weather over the weekend has changed plans a little, so instead of fitting the planks first off, we took the opportunity to paint both new planks into undercoat.
Thomas paid some last attentions to 5209, picking out the red lettering on the bearing caps afterwhich he got the undercoat out and painted both ends of the Pipe.
At our event, Dave noticed that the hand brake rack on 3436 is slightly twisted on one side. This was improved with a tickle from the sledgehammer.
Our final act was to drop the 2 painted planks into the Pipe, which went well haing been pre-drilled and prepped.
That wraps up this weekend’s activities, if you can do pop down next weekend and see the event unfold, we’ll try and get some covert pictures through out the day too.
Cheers, Ross
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