Not much to report this week.  Almost all work has been focused on making parts for the half-drop window frames.  So far,  I have made one complete frame, two lower horizontals, one upper horizontal and a full set of verticals for the nearside.  This afternoon I spent the last hour bending channel section for the lower corners, eight in total  (two per window) from scrap left over from making the straight parts.   I have enough steel in stock to make the offside windows too.

Started work on the second frame, folded the top front flange (two pieces) and the small half-inch inner flange (also two pieces).  Welded the two front flange sections together and started to square the edge in the vice, with his complete I started  welding the flange to the lower horizontal and assembling the lower corners.

Work continued on fitting up the window pan I previously fabricated.  This included repairing the part of one of the side channel  fittings that hold the bottom glass in place (fixed light) with solid aluminium rivets, fiddly but necessary as the channel had come away from the main section of the fitting.  I also had to reattach the droplight  stop block which, for some inexplicable reason, is riveted to the main fitting, thus preventing removal of the droplight with the window pan still mounted in the bus.

Next I fitted the Delrin corner pieces and blocks to which the droplight frame screws.  I touched up a bit of the paint that got scratched off during the various drilling operations.  All that remains is for the top horizontal to have blocks mounted for securing the window top seal rubber,  then the glass can be fitted.

I decided to try chrome vinyl wrap on the sliding window frame side pieces today as the original chrome is virtually gone.  I am quite pleased with the results.  I replaced the felt in one of the side peices and will do the other tomorrow.  I decided that as the new felt is self adhesive I would not use the built-in clips but just leave them flat on the rest of the windows.   This afternoon I continued fitting up the new window frame with Delrin blocks, ready for painting and final assembly.  Before I put it in the bus I will measure all the parts so the rest of the frames can be manufactured.

Having ompleted fitting the Delrin blocks to the window frame, I gave it a coat of undercoat ready for fitting up.    However I think this will need to wait now until I find the right rubber for the top of the frame.