The heatwave continued today though not quite as bad as yesterday and I managed to complete the right-hand boot door and prime it. I also sorted out the pyramid strips for the entrance floor and cleaned and Vactan’d the first one. Last part of the day I applied filler to the left-hand boot door for rubbing down tomorrow.
Tag Archives: entrance
6/8/2020
It seems some time since any work was recorded and quite a lot of work has been done. Firstly, both boot doors have been skinned in aluminium. This took a couple of days to complete. Next, applying filler to the boot doors to eradicate hammer marks and minor distortion and starting the sanding process. A couple of days were spent spring-cleaning the railway shed and I decided it was about time to cut the lino for the floor by the entrance steps and for the entrance steps themselves as it had been hanging around in the shed for a while. The floor section has been glued in place and undercoated with copper red floor paint. The nosings for the top of the steps and the second step have been cut but the front flange remains to be trimmed. The lino for the second step has been cut and awaits fitting which will happen after the step bay metalwork has been top-coated.
RH boot door being skinned
Both boot doors, frames repaired and re-skinned
31/12/2019 and 2019 summary
Today was spent cutting the box section stock for the remaining window frames. This is almost complete and just requires cutting to length.
As it is the end of the year, a summary of work completed in the last twelve months is appropriate. 2019 has been the year of bodywork.
Starting at the front, the main steel bulkhead has has been fully repaired and painted.
New steel has been grafted into the roof structure above the entrance.
The complex shaped aluminium fairing immediately in front of the entrance was repaired by welding and refitted.
The entrance steps have been completely replaced with new steel and new mahogany treads. The floor around the entrance has been replaced.
The nearside chassis member outside face has been silvered from the rear wheels forward to the engine bay.
The nearside main body frame has been repaired, new steel flitch plates made and fitted and painted from the front rearwards to the rear wheel opening.
Two fixed-light window frames have been rebuilt and are awaiting glass. Five droplight frames have been manufactured and the remaining three are in progress.
The first bay rearwards from the entrance has been completed with new panels and the first half drop window completed and installed.
The plan for 2020 is to complete the nearside, rebuild the rear end and boot and progress to the offside starting with the emergency door.