Hello and welcome to the news from another busy weekend at Quorn, as we progress a little further with the tank wagons.
Saturday started dry, with Nick, Ernie, Charlie, James and myself on-site.
Charlie helped me set out the Esso company lettering on the East side of 3606. Once we’d checked the position it was chalked up and traced.
Ernie and Charlie continued with the splasher repairs for tank 3854.
I made a start on the Esso Petroleum Company lettering before the rain brought proceedings to a halt for a while. The splasher repairs were however able to continue in the garage.
The rain cleared after lunch allowing the lettering to continue.
Nick and James also painted the swan necks, lamp brackets and lamp irons.
On Sunday (after an extra hours’ sleep) we had many enthusiastic hands on site, with Nick, Harry, Ernie, Mark, Dan, Tom, Oliver, Charlie and myself.
Despite the weather turning cooler and with occasional showers we still managed to make good progress.
Mark, Oliver and Tom getting stuck into more paint removal from tank 3854.
Ernie and Charlie continued with the splasher repairs.
Dan applied the empty-load lever position teardrop to both sides of 3606 and made a start on the west side builders plate; whilst Nick took a look at the two label clip blocks for tank 3621, having to modify standard hardwood blocks to suit the mounting holes on the tank.
I finished off the east side Esso Petroleum Company lettering, then marked out, undercoated and yellowed the Commuted Carriage Charge markings on both sides of 3606.
Last week Ernie designed, cut and welded-up a little clamp bracket. All was revealed this week as he brought the assembled bracket to show how it will be used to clamp steel pins into his milling machine vice to allow flats to be machined on the pin heads. All in aid of producing a set of new pins for use by the S&T department.
At some point we’ll need another set of Esso oval plate brackets making; however after a tidy-up the drawing I had made previously has been put somewhere safe, very safe; so I decided to re-measure, cut, drill and bend a bracket to confirm the design before we go about making another set.
Well that rounds up another week for the team at Quorn, despite the weathers’ best efforts we do continue to progress. Join us again next week, all the best, Dave
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