Oxided the floor plate for the entrance this morning. The rest of the day was spent cutting and sanding floor boards to shape for the entrance area. These should be drilled and finished tomorrow ready for a dip in preservative.
Tag Archives: entrance
5/6/2019
Started the month of with the following jobs. First, removed the remaining screws from the angle-iron floor support by the entrance. Removed as much corrosion as possible then checked that it was structurally sound. Gave all of the steelwork in this area a good coat of Vactan ready for oxiding. Last job of the day was to cut the top step to size from a piece of mahogany.
Next, I oxided the angle iron frame for the entrance floor, two good coats.
Silvered the N/S chassis member, two coats applied, one first thing and the other late afternoon using spray and a mix of smooth and hammered finish hammerite.
More painting , two coats of silver hammerite on the entrance floor support frame.
Next, I trimmed the lower step to fit the frame taking into account room for the riser panel and the csk screw heads to mount the riser. Ordered some 25mm No.8 screws for fitting the wooden step treads from underneath.
Exhaust clamps arrived but no sign of the tubing!
I primed the exposed woodwork in the entrance floor area then cut a small section of floor board to fill in to the left of the step well.
Painted a coat of grey onto the primed woodwork from yesterday, ready for installation of the new floor.
Cut the triangular floor plate out of galvanised 3.5mm steel. This will support the new floor in the entrance area. Primed it with some Hammerite “T-wash” that I’ve had for a very long time and came from Ashley Autos on Ashley Down Road!. Cut the first floorboard piece out of spruce tongue and groove.
31/5/2019
Painted the roof repair and the steel reinforcer for the entrance pillar grey today.
Dropped the exhaust down pipe off the manifold so I could cut the broken flexi off the end. Trimmed off the end of the long pipe too. Ordered some steel tube and clamps to enable connecting up with the length of flexi that I already have. I will have to lengthen the main pipe at some time so as to move the silencer into its correct position behind the rear axle.
Lifted the gear box cover inside the bus then removed the section of floor the comprises the entrance. This had erupted due to corrosion in the support structure and rotted at the ends. I cut off the remains of the screws with the angle grinder with a view to removing them from underneath tomorrow.