Remarkably both the timber and the steel I ordered yesterday arrived today, so progress now on rebuilding the rear end should now be steady. Today was spent making the last of the templates for the new glass.
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6/2/2020
Work restarted on Sunday 2nd February after a brief gap. I finished off as much of the woodwork as possible in the wheelarch over the next few days, with a break to etch-prime the last four window frames. Carpentry included sanding the wheelarch timbers to finished shape and aligning the lower perimeter rail and attaching it to the wheelarch frame. Rotten timber to the rear of the wheel arch has been removed and some parts made, however these cannot be assembled until the timber for the perimeter of the boot floor arrives. This order includes timber for repairing the lower side rods alongside the boot. Removeal of the rotten steel reinforcement revealed that the whole of the steel stress panel that closes off the forward end of the boot needed removing. This entailed work on the offside of the bus, removing the cladding panels alongside the boot which required the emergency door to be finally opened.
Removal of these panels showed that all the timbering in the same area of the boot on the offside will need replacing so this was included in the new order. The steel panel – or rather, the remains of it – was removed from the boot front today. Once out and measured for replacement, attention turned to making templates for the replacement glass for the nearside.
Offside timbering alongside the boot and below the emergency door.
Frame below in front of the offside rear corner
4/12/2019
The last couple of weeks have all been about building window frames, spraying them in etch primer and getting parts prepared for assembling the first replacement window.
Five frames have been constructed so far. Three are in etch primer awaiting attention to the various mountings, one is still in bare metal whilst the first one is painted and today had the delrin fitted to the bottom horizontal ready for mounting the fixed light. The previous days of this week have been spent on chrome vinyl wrapping the fixed centre bar and the visible parts of the inner frame.
New rubber was obtained for the top seal that the droplight closes against and 16mm aluminium channel was cut down to 2.5mm depth to locate this in the top of the window frame. I cut enough pieces of this today to do the whole bus after a trial fit in the first window frame.
Today the fixed glass had the centre bar fitted using black glazing silicone to cement it into the channel in the bar, using pvc tape wrapped around the edges of the glass to give it a bit more thickness to centre it in the channel. I will leave this a couple of days now to fully cure so I can reassemble the whole window ready for refitting in the bus.