Welcome to April’s first update from Quorn. Time for a bit of a tidy-up, but we couldn’t resist continuing with work on the bare plate wagon E212315. It was also great to see trains running past us at Quorn again after completion of the bridge repairs.
Danny was called upon to help with the tidying up trips to the skip.
Seeing as the Hydrovane compressor trailer had been so useful last week, we decided to extract it from it’s long-time resting place on the dock to make it more accessible for use.
The dock space was cleared of some foliage and the old floor planks from the Plate wagon were used to make a bed to allow us to tidy up the spare van body sections.
The Hydrovane compressor has found a new mobile home being secured onto the back of the pick-up.
We then got stuck into needle gunning the remaining areas of the Plate E212315
A start was made measuring up and working out what lettering and numbering templates will be required for the signwriting once the Plate is painted.
We continued on Sunday with the final preparations of the plate E212315 ready for painting.
Door tops and bottoms had any paint removed.
Door and body-end inside faces were scraped.
The needle guns were used to remove any last bits of stubborn paint around the door hinges and buffers.
One of the door centre stanchions was noted to be a little stiff so this was freed off.
The whole wagon was then swept and any remaining dust and paint debris blown off with compressed air.
With paint brushes in-hand and paint kettles charged we set too with the Primer.
Well, we did say we would be painting a ‘plate’ today!
Back to the wagon and the painting continued.
By the end of the afternoon the doors, kerb rails and body ends were all in primer.
Thanks for reading, join us again on the 10th April for the Easter weekend update.
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