Hello everyone! Our little end of Quorn yard has seen the Pipe wagon completed this week, and more progress has been made on readying the two tanks for paint.
The last thing to finish off the Pipe was the axleboxes and 2 split pins on the underkeep under the dock side of the north axle. I attended to these, giving the wagon a clean bill of health. This can now join the mixed goods train, releasing space in the siding for another project vehicle.
Nick and Charlie started the day by continuing to eradicate the last remnants of algae from the outside of the tank, and then Nick moved on to finishing the repairs to the filler necks on both tanks, filling in the holes left by two different methods of filling the tanks.
Barry and Ernie continued the clean down on A6090, Barry back on the needlegun. After finishing with the needle gun, Barry then picked up a linishing disc for the grinder to see how it would finish the surface of the tank, whihc left a surface good for priming.
I spent some time on the vacuum test rig, continuing to explore the air brake side of the rig and testing it with the Vanwide/VEB. All seems to have worked a treat, so now just a case of writing up a procedure of how to use that side of the rig.
I also spent some time cleaning up the other Hydrovane plate.
Harry and Andy came by on Sunday to carry on work on the GUV, doing some more filling, sanding and painting.
Barry and I finished off by sorting out the BEVs, topping up batteries, and looking at bit more in depth into Kiki as its getting a bit warmer than it used to when motoring.
That covers this week’s activities, join us again next week to see what we get up to! Its looking like there is the prospect of at least some primer on one of the tanks. Thanks for reading!
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