A slow start to the week. Painted a thinner coat of brown on the cab door inner panel, a better finish but the second coat look good. Primed thewaistrail and the window surround on the cab door and applied a second coat of No.1 rust-beater to the plain window aft of the cab door, after rubing down the first coat. While the paint was drying I assembled the sliding pane frame of the cab door window and gave it a coat of the correct brown, it will need another. Applied finishing filler to the slight depression on the front corner quarter panel and to the roof just behing the emergency door. Final job of the week was to start creating a pattern for the front mudwing, for which I used a long piece of thick card from an advertisement.
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9/3/2025
First task of the week was to measure up how much flat beading is required to finish the bus. This was ordered and delivered the next day. As the weather was unusually warm and dry, I next turned my attention to the remaining wheel rings. I wirebrushed, primed and painted another two sets, leaving one pair to do. In a spare few minutes I cut another short piece of vertical flat beading for the waistrail. As the warm weather continued, the opportunity was taken to continue painting the wheel rings and the cab door. What was supposed to be the final coat of paint applied to the inside of the cab door did not go on well, due to being insufficiently thinned. This will be dealt with as oon as it is hard enough to sand. A final coat of brown was also applied to the short deflector piece above the O/S rear window and to the cab window frame. A coat of silver was applied to the underside of the O/S rear wheel arch in preparation for rear wheel fitting, which will happen as soon as the tyres are fited. Attention to a lump in the bottom of the rear O/S window created a hole which I have no option but to repair with filler, as attempting to weld in this poistion is too risky. So the exposed edges were treated with No.1 rust beater primer in preparation for this. Work then turned to starting to reattach the roof sheet edges over the O/S windows; this included priming the saloon ventilator cover with No.1 rust beater and cutting new drip rail for the emergency door from “J” section.This needed curving slightly which required heating in the centre, then using the MW gearbox spacer that I have for this purpose in the vice. This was pretty much the last job of the week, apart from filling the first mounting hole for the drip rail.
26/1/2025
A slow start to the week. I finished spraying brown on the various parts of the cab window frame, then drilled a 4m length of half-round beading; in 100 holes, I managed to get one slightly off-centre. I decided to use this for the curved section and the short piece for the emergency door, which may allow me to omit the off-centre hole. I cut and fitted the curved rear corner piece up to the emergency door the following day, then fitted the vertical wind deflector and beading to the to the emergency door with the handle recess casting temporarily in place. I am unsure that the beading is correctly aligned at the moment though. However, I decided to proceed with the beading and drilled and started to countersink a 4m length of half-round to complete and fit on Monday.