Wednesday 30th July a cloudy start that turned out nice.

The cupboard moved to Honeybourne for the toy museum has been having work done, A stripping off of the paint and broken glass removal.

Glass cut and fitted it now has a coat of new paint

A display cabinet in the museum carriage has had 2 glass shelves fall down off their dowels no idea why but it must be hot weather related as they will not go back on enough to stay put.

The dowels are glued into the uprights so a work around was required which resulted in some stiff wire going on to sit under the glass.

 

The wire wrapped around the dowels and tied across so the glass shelves cannot fall.

The screw replacement on the Ocean Mail museum coach goes on but slot head brass are now getting in short supply and rot in the frame has meant much fitting og doweling and wooden skewers to fill the voids. The box contains a few of the screws fitted in the last 102 years

That is the full length of the dock on the carriage is done so needs sanding and painting.

The British automatic company embossing machine has been greased and oiled so a test was done using cardboard and a temporary handle

The cardboard test piece proved it works so a roll of 15mm X 0.1mm aluminium is to be ordered and tried as this machine could be useful for marking exhibits.