Hello everyone and thanks for joining us for another update, there has been more progress on the two tanks and the Test Car has had its generator run up properly for the first time in 18 months.
Mark, Oliver and Tom finished off painting the pockets on 3689 into undercoat, once we have a good air supply again (more on that later) and the brackets are welded to the west side of the tank we can get the whole barrel into undercoat.
After taking delivery of some new (to us) machinery we’ve had a bit of a sort out in the GUV and put up some shelves and sorted some stuff off the benches onto the shelves.
After Dave and I’s Monday reassembling the generator and being thwarted by a tiny little fitting for the rocker shaft oil feed, I ordered one, but it turned out being the wrong part. Ernie can to the rescue and soldered two brass fittings of the right size together which worked quite well! I got it reassembled and filled up with fluids and with a bit of help from Charlie, got the fuel system bled up. The little Perkins lump fired straight into life, which means we can use the compressor on the Test Car while we get round to sorting out big Edward. There will be a few last small things to sort on the generator, but nothing to stop it from being used.
Dan carried on with the signwriting on the Lowfit, getting the container warning painted on the West Side. We’re very close to getting both the Lowfit and Conflat painted with a coat of varnish before releasing them both.
That wraps up this week’s efforts at Quorn. We’re really thrilled to have got the generator up and running again and looking forward to use it to progress our projects again. Join us next week for some welding and maybe even some paint (if the weather allows)!
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