Hello everyone and welcome to another Quorn Wagon & Wagon update. This week we’ve painted the pipe into it’s gloss coat and have prepared for next weekend with the Test Car opening and progress other smaller jobs.
During the week, Nick and the lads primed and undercoated the east side doors and painted the underframe all round the wagon in black gloss, which looks really smart.
Come the weekend, Dave assisted by Thomas and Tom tidied the inside of the Test Car, even scraping the flaking paint from the generator compartment roof to then give it a fresh coat of white primer.
New volunteer Barry (welcome Barry!) gave the outside and quick hose down which also helped to smarten the coach up a bit.
Nick, Dan, Mark and Thomas continued painting the underframe of the Pipe, concentrating on the lower west side and the head stocks.
With the Pipe underframe finished, Nick and Mark went to look at tank A6090 to remove the last parts of the fuel dispensing system, which I ended up being roped into. The outfeed pipe on this wagon now looks more as it should, and there is one final job to do before the scrape and paint.
On sunday, the weather held us up putting the gloss on the Pipe, so Thomas painted the generator room door in Pearl Grey.
In the afternoon there was a gap in the clouds, so Nick and Thomas went for the bauxite for the Pipe. Each started with an end and then Nick got carried away and started down one side.
Monday was a much nicer day, so most people got stuck into the Pipe, though Dave and Barry did some odd jobs like pumping up the road vehicle tyres and re-shuffling them after Railways at Work.
After the last few bits of bauxite gloss was applied to the PipeNick moved onto details on the wagon, those being the usual swan-necks, hand brake ends and lamp brackets while the lads painted the inside of the wagon with some wood preserver as an experiment. Dave also got a chance to start the signwriting, applying the vacuum relase chord stars and assembling the templates for the bodyside writing.
The last job for the team was to repair some of our wooden steps ready for opening up the Test Car at the diesel gala.
Andy and Harry have started work on the GUV, as it’s been looking quite tired for some time now. I spent most of the weekend replacing the fluorescent tubes in the GUV with LED replacement units. 6 down, 4 to go! I also replaced the cracked beacon on Hector with a replacement
That about wraps things up for this bank holiday weekend. Next weekend is the Diesel gala, and as I’m sure I’ve mentioned the Test Car will be open to visitors in the yard so do come down and see us. We’ll be open from 10-4 Friday until Sunday. Thanks for reading!
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