Hello, and welcome to this week’s update. This week we’ve concentrated on A6090, ending the weekend with the wagon in primer ready for the next stage.
Being the Leicestershire half term week, the Baldwins and Nick came down to Quorn during the week and started to apply primer to the underframe of the tank. They also managed to tackle the south end of the barrel.
Nick and Ernie concentrated on the final cleaning down of the barrel of the tank, with a final blow down on Saturday afternoon.
I took the opportunity on to have another play with the Brake Test Rig, testing the brakes on the Sturgeon and on 1408 following a procedure I’d written based off of a BR document. There are still some tweaks to make to the rig and procedure, including a suite of new gauges, but we’ve got the makings of a good set up. I refitted the castor on the test rig and fitted a bung in the Brake Pipe of 1408, removing an extra Schrader test point.
With 8 of us on site on Sunday, we made the decision with the weather being good to hit the rest of the tank in red oxide primer to carry on the good work.
Dan focused on finishing the signwriting on B854097.
That about covers us for this week. Hopefully next week we’ll be able to get the tank undercoated but with the nights drawing in and the clocks falling back we’ll have to see how we manage. Join us then!
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