Wednesday the 8th Feb another cold clear morning with a frost and working in the shade of the building made a muddy area.

Dropped into the Museum Coach to see how Mike and Wayne were progressing, it is getting there.

Greg has been busy with oxalic acid cleaning up the crates and boxes for the displays, it removes the greying of the timber and reveals the printed signage.

The old belt drive lathe is by the door with space around it ready yo be cleaned up.

Greg fitted a 1920's electric motor a few years ago so the lathe worked.

The main task for the day was putting floor joist in the Boxford building after it was decided it would be better with one.

The rear and front frame timbers are 4 inch deep so we decided to raise the door threshold up 2 inches so we could fit the floor boards level with the top of them. 

2 screws in the way of the threshold bolts slowed progress and me slipping in the mud and putting a hand down on the strip to stop myself with the bolt part in meant we had to glue a split in the timber

It was then time to empty the building and cut joists to suit, they were fitted using joist hangers screwed to the inside. This job also moved the bottom of the right front out 1 inch so it square and the front is now flat when viewed from the side.

Joists in only one more to make for the centre but we did a test fit with one floor board and it is looking good.

this just leaves us to fit and secure the floor boards then remove 2 inches from the bottom of the doors and rehang them.

 All that is needed then is the final siting of the building and the glass cut to fit before putting a yet to be decided interior in.