Today was spent fettling the perimeter rail bit by bit to get a good fit with the side rods and at the corner. It is almost done, just needs a bit taking of the the corner end.
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21/2/2020
Continued working on the perimeter rail timber today, I finished cutting the floor rebate and then cut the slots for the side rods in the timber for the nearside. These still need a bit of finishing to get a good fit.
20/02/2020!
Final trimming and fitting of the repair section I made yesterday was carried out this morning. The repair section was fitted and screwed and glued in place after some fettling of the slot into which the boot floor bearer mortises.
Attention then turned to removing the remains of rusty screws from the the overlap section where the side meets the rear corner. I cut to length (64.5in) the long length of timber for the nearside rail and proceeded to start creating the rebate for the boot floor using the circular saw and a jig made from another timber. I made the horizontal cut in both offside and nearside timbers this afternoon and prepared the first timber for the vertical cut tomorrow.