Hello everyone and welcome to this weekends update. Today’s been a bit of a foggy one for us which didn’t really let up until after lunch.
After turning 3854 in the week to allow for access, Mark, Tom, Oliver and Dan made a start on the other side of 3854, using the needle guns to bare metal the ‘belly’ of the tank barrel. The rest of the barrel will be done with the abrasive paint removal discs on the grinders, as per the other side.
James, Charlie, Dan and I started cleaning up the brake shoe hangers after which Dan followed behind and applied some black gloss.
Dan also applied white undercoat the the axle bearing end caps, handbrake levers and lamp brackets.
With assistance from James and Oliver, Nick stripped the floor from the Conflat, ready for it to be taken to the bonfire construction area.
Charlie and I repaired the motor cabling on George and got the field reversing switch wired back up to put him back into use. He was quickly placed into work moving the floor removed from the Conflat to the bonfire pile.
I showed Charlie and Dan how to adjust the brakes on the BEVs, and left Charlie to adjust the ones on George and Zsa-Zsa.
After cleaning down, Tom, Mark and Oliver followed behind where they had bare metalled with grey primer/undercoat.
On Sunday, Ernie and I looked at some more welding on the spark/splash guards from 3854
That’s everything for this week, join us next week to see us hopefully start signwriting the two tanks, and getting further with the work on 3854. Thanks for reading!