Hello and welcome to a sunny weekend update from Quorn; we’ve continued with getting tank 1919 ready for paint and completed a small repair to part of the brake rigging on the Lowfit.
Lowfit wagon B452718 is due to go to Rothley at some point for underframe repairs, in the meantime we need to progress other jobs which include a repair to a broken part of the brake rigging. One of the twin operating arms has a fractured spacer and a missing spacer. To make the repair easier, on Saturday the arm was removed from the wagon.
The spacer attachment areas were cleaned up and a new spacer cut from a piece of tubing.
The arm assembly was then clamped together and welded up.
The rigging arm was then treated to a coat of red oxide primer, followed by a coat of gloss black.
Dan continued with his work on the A-Type container, cleaning up more of the metalwork and applying red-oxide primer.
The main focus for the weekend has been needle gunning, sanding and scraping of tank 1919 to progress closer to being able to apply paint.
Where bare metal was revealed, red oxide primer was applied and when dry the north end headstock panel had grey undercoat.
On Sunday the sanding and scraping continued on tank 1919, also a couple of areas on tanks 3621 and 3606 were attended to.
Again any bare metal areas on all 3 tanks were treated to some red oxide primer.
The repaired brake rigging arm was re-fitted to the Lowfit after straightening the locating pins.
The sticker glue residue was removed from the west side of tank 1919.
Next week with most of the team away, we’ll be taking a break from reporting any activity until we’re back for the Bank Holiday bumper weekend at the end of the month.
Cheers for now, Dave
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