Tag Archives: windows

24/8/2019

This weeks work:

Painted the underneath of the floor in bay 1  using silver Hammerite (hammered finish, because that’s what I had, to expedite fitting the lower timber frame rail.  This involved drilling the forward mounting bracket for the lower side rod between bay 1 and bay 2.  This is now fitted and bolted up.  I cut and fitted the frame rail this afternoon, using Granville sealant in the joints rather than glue to seal them but allow flexibility.  The frame rail was screwed into place with stainless screws and then primed ready for paint.

Next job was to fit the small piece of beading missing from adjacent to the cab window on the bulkhead.

Cleaned and painted the mud shield that fits behind the nearside front wheel.  I can’t fit this until I’ve undercoated the front bulkhead so I concentrated on priming the aluminium bits and cleaning excess sealant off the beading.  Whilst the paint dried I started on removing paint from the small window that fits in the rearward entrance bulkhead.

Applied undercoat to the front bulkhead small window and the the aluminium cladding.  Continued to strip paint from the small window that fits in the rearward bulkhead.  Mostly applied paint by half-inch brush but the larger areas I used a roller.  I also undercoated the flat panel in the lower part of the rearward entrance bulkhead.

Further undercoated the front bulkhead today so the periphery has had two coats and the windows and section alongside the engine only one.

Finished stripping the small window that fits in the rearward entrance bulkhead and welded a new corner onto it.  Vactan applied to the rust bits on the inside face, outside face tomorrow.

Front bulkhead in undercoat

Front bulkhead in undercoat

5/8/2019

Fitted the bulkhead window today.  I found I was unable to use some of the existing holes for screwing to the frame because the holes had become enlarged so the heads on the screws  were passing through.  So I had to drill a few new ones.

4/8/2019

Red oxided the large bulkhead window and will give the inner side a coat of grey tomorrow.

Painted the back of the aluminium cladding for the window corners with a thin coat of grey ready for fitting.

Grey semi gloss applied to the inside part of the bulkhead window frame today.   Whilst this was curing I finished stripping paint from the panel to the left of the door, ready for fitting the forward lower panel (below the window).   Applied a coat of waxoyl to the steel reinforcer that this panel covers, so as to avoid as much electrolytic corrosion as possible.

In the last hour of the day I started to strip the rearward lower panel of the entrance vestibule.  This needed a few dents knocking out and will probably need further finishing.  I need to have this ready for fitting before I can fit the rearmost window of the entrance vestibule.

Window frame after application of general purpose grey finish

Window frame after application of general purpose grey finish