After last weekends excitiment, this weekend has felt a bit slower and relaxed. Nick is away at summer camp, but that doesn’t mean progress is any less!
I started off with a last bit of tidying up after our open weekend with collecting a set of our steps left by the marquee. Dave, with grandson Oli to assist, removed the Deceleration meter bracket from the Bogie Bolster, B928135.
Joined by Mark and Dan, we then took a look at B740654 to see what further cleaning was required prior to paint. With a bit left to do on the North and East side, the Hydrovane was started and the needle guns deployed.
Along with the needle guns, I sanded off the east side and south end and started scraping paint of of the retained planks. Cut End preservative was applied to all cut plank ends on the wagon to help prolong their life. Dave drilled out one of the door reatrder pins for a split pin as it was noticed that one was missing.
The last job for the day was to remove the air driven pump from 3777 as this wagon will be reverted back to its Esso livery. The pump won’t be thrown away thoguh, I’m sure we can find a use for it.
Dave and I started applying wood primer to the ends and outward faces of the planks, the inner surfaces will have some clear preservative applied before the wagon returns to traffic.
All bare wood surfaces aside from the East side were painted in primer.
Next week will see the east side sanded and painted into primer (weather permitting), we might even start to apply some undercoat. See you then!
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