Wednesday 28th June a dry day with a cool cloudy start but great for working outside.

                    On arrival the transport firms were already in collecting the guest locomotives

                                        

                                Hard to believe the AA box now sited on the entrance road came to us like this after 59 years as a garden shed that was going to be scrapped and burnt.

After a busy festival of steam gala the toy museum was found to be abused with trains taken out of the displays and played with, so relocate to their positions and fit larger washers onto the lock bolts so the door will not pass it even with abuse.

Thinking we may have lost an exhibit or two as there is some spare tank track and rope on the cupboard and a space on another cupboard, will need to go back through the old posts for photos. Thinking we had a chieftain bridge layer there.

After carrying the AA box contents up to it the door was closed and no key so artefacts were placed in the Scammell cab to save more distance carrying then it was off down to Line Wagon 2 to do more roof scraping and cleaning prior to white primer application with a roller.

Reports of one of the 3 roof lights in line wagon 1 not working meant a visit down the yard after checking the light a soldered connection was found to be dodgy it moved the light would illuminate so wires cut and bared then a new solder fitting was clamped on and hey presto 3 working lights.

The wagon has been used as an observation post by Carriage and Wagon during the Gala judging by the cold coffee cup and seats in there.

Line wagon 2 now has 50% of the ceiling scraped and sanded with a coat of white undercoat applied with a roller.

 

Enough of that so out in the sun on the Morris we have agreed to work from the top down to save revisiting work damaged by working above it.

A generous clean with a wire brush in the angle grinder followed by the sander with a coarse grit paper on got the rusty parts back to clean metal and exposed a couple of dents with filler in that was duly removed

50% near done with lots of rust and filler out and some etching primer applied this should bond well and slow the return of the rust.

                                         

                    Looking better now it needs the rear welded to the rear bulkhead and some sanding

                                        

                              From the front with a protective sheet over the new windscreens

A couple of time consuming jobs but progress has been made it now looks a lot better as work in progress but a few minutes welding on the Scammell roof will fill a couple of pin holes then we need to get the welding done inside to secure it to the back panel, we also need a gutter strip for the drivers side.

                                            That is all for today.