Both having time away we rescheduled to Friday the 13th a warm dry day despite the usual weather forecast doom.
Due to Autumn and the leaves falling off the trees a sweep out of Taylors office was needed just to keep things looking tidy.
The Railway Safety Officer had been around and noticed vermin droppings in the pay office so a clean up was required whilst there the Scottish ashtray and the brass key were noticed to be suffering with oxidation so an application of brass cleaning acid a wash off and buff up on the polishing wheel made them shine.
acid applied
a quick buff up and ready for display
Then it was time to return to the ex Winchcombe track side shed with some replacement corrugated sheet.
Greg had already cut the right side away above the rot line and started painting the inside.
The new sheet going in had to be in 4 pieces as the later metric sheet does not match the imperial and after 9 corrugations it is 100% out so a bit of work went into bolting together through the side slopes rather then the top of the bend so it pulled the sheets to fit into each other but doing one edge makes them fan shaped so yet more tweaking.
The 2 nd pop riveter failed to release the cut off pins as the first one did but the problem is Chineseum rivets where the jaw gripping them to squeeze the rivets also distorted the pin so they jammed in the tool.
We then decided to do the rest of the rot as the previous repair from years ago had also rotted out.
The battery powered angle grinder was getting some use and getting through discs
More mew metal going in but the concrete base had been repaired at sometime and had gone outside the shed line so bolster chisel and lump hammer meant the tin would go in vertical.
The left hand side was next for the treatment
Not quite enough time to finish the job but it is time consuming work however it is looking a lot better than it did the rust has been removed, window repaired and glass reinstated.
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