This weekend sees us applying the final details to SC21202, The proverbial doting of the i’s and crossing of the t’s. The east side of the bogies receiving final tidy and paint application.
I attended to the door edges and shuts applying the lining and touching up runs and bleeds.
This was followed by applying black to the door bump stops.
Ross took some time to look at assembling some conduit for the inter-vehicle jumper which will connect to Test Car 2. This will allow the Mess Van to be powered by the Test Cars generator.
Final items on the Mess Van for Saturday was the application of the wheel profile marking to the South bogie west side.
We then all moved over to 500817, carrying out the final few areas of scrapping and preperation.
I manufactured two replacement plates for the number panels, the need for these is quite evident from the below images.
The number plates were also given a coat of primer.
On to Sunday with all hands scraping the outstanding trussing and bogie areas requiring paint.
This was followed by final prep and blow down of the ferry tank and with all the dirty work completed Ross and Dave applied black to coach.
Whilst Nick and I applying primer to the tank.
To finish up Dave applied red to the Distributor Isolator and brake cylinder test point. As well as the East side wheel profile marking.
So that wraps up another update from us. It’s not long now until we complete the mess van and tank this will see us return to Quorn were we already have the Bogie Bolster waiting patiently for us.
As always more next week.
Quorn Wagon & Wagon 