A busy week for the group this week. Work again concentrated on two areas, undercoating the south end of the barrel, and the continuation of cleaning the wheel. 2/3rds of the wheel has now been cleaned, the only area to be completed is the small gap between the spokes, more of a screwdriver and brush job. This should be completed this coming Tuesday.
Because the weather has been nice for the past two sessions (Saturday and Tuesday) it has allowed undercoating of the axle boxes to commence. These really have leaped forward. We will wait to gloss these until the fourth wheel has be cleaned and undercoated. Below is the current view of the west side, showing both axle boxes sitting in there lovely charcoal undercoat.
Copyright Tommy Lees 2013
Copyright Tommy Lees 2013
The above photo is a closer shot of the wheel and new painted axle box. It will make a nice sight once both areas sit in gloss black.
Copyright Tommy Lees 2013
The above shot shows the freshly painted section that was hidden by the brakes. This has been cleaned, primed and undercoated by Keith on a Saturday session. The rest of the area was cleaned last year, as can be seen by the appearance of black gloss. This will be glossed when we have a big gloss session, hopefully by the end of may most of the west side will be in gloss.
This weekend has seen the arrival of a new gala at the GC. The Swithland Steam gala was a brilliant day out, seeing shunting of wagons in the yard, windcutters up the Mountsorrel Branch as well as a freight train running the line, (not on the saturday due to a derailment at Quorn, unfortunately the freight was removed to cater for passenger movement) With the gala however meant that no work was undertaken, so expect an update Tuesday evening on progress, yes I do mean Tuesday as well.
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