Not much visible progress this week, due to having a bad cold. I have ordered the steel for the remaining window frames and arranged to collect the moquette from my brother. Heard from Ifor Evans that the driver’s seat will be ready next week. I cut out the former for the larger window from 1 inch block and finished it on the sander then cut out some holes for clamping the material. Shot myself in the foot by not thinking about the smaller window and will no doubt end up having to cut a new former for that. I then turned my attention to wiring and fitting the indicator switch in the cab, during which I was able to amend the wiring diagram I had prepared earlier. In preparation for fastening the wiring to the frame in the cab, I repainted the cab grab handles to tidy them up as it will be difficult to do so after the wiring is installed. Last small jobs were electrical, running the three-core cable for the indicators up from the terminal strip behind the front wheel into the cab.
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6/5/2024
Started the week with more paint stripping and a coat of red primer on the aluminium face of the trapdoor. I also gave the cylinder head lifiting ring another coat of primer and found a new bolt for it, having lost the nut from the original. I collected the three remaining droplight panes of glass from K.W. Glass on Monday evening. On Tuesday I undercoated the panel just to the rear of the drivers, the rounded top of the dash and the trap door. On wednesday I assembled one of the droplight frames with a new pane of glass and had a problem with the bracket breaking away at one end of the lower horizontal, I probably wasn’t careful enough riveting the corner. At this point there was little I could do as the glazing silicone was already setting so I strapped it up in the right position and filled the hole with silicone in the hope it would all set in the right position – which it appears has worked ok. Had I glazed it using rubber as per the original method I might have been able to repair it, however that seems unlikely. I started to polish the newly-painted switch cover with a view to cutting back the gloss a little but discovered some flaws in the paint so repainted the sides. I rubbed down the trapdoor and gave it another coat of undercoat, another rub down then some cherry undercoat and its ready for top coat. I applied chrome wrap to the droplight frame I had assembled earlier in the week, with the usual difficulties. I chipped one of the otherwise-perfect long pieces, much to my annoyance. I filled the chip with chrome paint from a marker pen but I may replace the whole piece if there is any wrap left over.
21/4/2024
Started the week by painting the visible bit of the outerpanel at the top of the cab side window opening and preparing the triangular window glass for installing in the cab. As I had some topcoat left over I painted the emergency door step and the top and leading upright of the cab door frame. Next I started work on refurbishing the interior light switch box, removing the labels and cleaning them by knocking the awkward, tiny steel rivets. A job to do in between others! Next I fitted the fire extinguisher holder in the cab and polished up a fire extinguisher and placed it in the holder. At the end of the week I started stripping the remaining original paint from under the front canopy, a difficult, slow job but i made good progress. The last job of the work was completion of removing the labels from the switch box cover, ready for paint now.