October Progress

Thursday 14th October 2010, Baron Street Works
Attendance: 6

The day began with construction of some racking in 'Paddy' for storage of electrical equipment, the team then moved onto the class 14.

New volunteer Steve Connor was tasked with checking through the cubicle for any seized relays or contactors, two were found and attented to on the bench.

Chris and James set about fitting all the pins to the connecting rod nuts, this involved cutting to length then part pliting the centre, knocking home then spliting the ends. This took a good while to do as some of the nuts required the holes lining up.

Steve Connor at work	James splitting a pin

Rob Mason set about removing the plates that cover the spring mountings, and greasing the inside of each the best he could. He also took opporuntiy to refit any studs properly that came undone with the nuts.

Alan Lee went theough A end, making a list of required elecrical parts, then went up to Castlecroft to hunt for bits, returning with a few rolls of copex that we needed. He then returned to working on the starter motor contactor panel that is being adapted for use on the loco.

Graham arrived in the afternoon and set about removing the old solid conduit from the power unit that runs under the exhaust manifolds and is prone to failure, this will be re-routed with copex to the governor and other items. He then set about making an adaptor plate for the junction box that goes off to the exhausters, as the holes are too big for the copex we will be using.

View behind a spring plate	Fitted connecting rod split-pin

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Thursday 21st October 2010, Baron Street Works
Attendance: 5

The day began with Chris and James transporting and fitting the refurbed oil priming pump back into position with block and chains. This was already completed as Steve and Alan had arrived along with Kris Mason.

James lifting the Oil Priming Pump	Chris receiving the Oil Priming Pump

Steve continued with fitting the adaptor plate and copex to the exhausters. The plate required pop riviting on, and the holes in the exhausters opening out to accept the new copex. Kris was tasked with removing all of the old oil and fuel flexible pipes which took up most of his day with some being rather awkward! They will be sent away to have new hose fitted.

Flexible pipes removed by Kris	Copex junctions going off to Exhausters

Later, James set about finding and making the adaptor blocks for the windscreen wiper motors, again a very time consuming task. Alan continued with the starter panel and also identified which crimps we need to order for all the larger power cables.

Alan also wanted to spec up a replacement mobery switch for the cooler group so that the old mercury type can be replaced with a modern unit. James had previously drained some of the coolant out of the system a few days before so it was decided, with most of the system empty, to continue draining the rest. The taps were opened and the block drains undone - Once drained, Chris removed the old mobery switch for inspection and measuring.

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Saturday 30th October - Baron Street Works
Attendance: 4

Every so often, every project has 'one of those days', this was our latest!

Chris busied himself with fitting a fuel leak off pipe for the fuel pump that had been repaired by his mate P-T-W. Jonny Stevenson arrived and worked on cutting out 6 mounting blocks that had been drill and marked up, for the windscreen wiper adaptor plates. Chris then cut out and drilled the 4th and final plate for this. Jonny then drelled all 4 plates off and painted them with primer. So far so good ...

Windows! .. Mark Jopson and Andy Walton had removed the window frames and cleaned up the edges, and began fitting the mastic sealing strip. Two sets of self-tapping screws had been purchased at B&Q, unfortunately both were rendered useless for the front window frames, so attention turned to the side ones.

These were cleaned up, mastic fitted and then an attempt was made to fit one side. After much sweating and cursing it finally went into the aperture. However the frames were still a way off mating, so an attempt was made to pull it up with the screws, without much success. Some pop rivets were then tried, and although better, these were not fully successful. In the end we had to admit defeat but managed to come up with some ideas for fixing the troublesome window frames, either longer chunkier pop rivets with an air rivet gun or rivnuts. A air rivet gun has been purchased to try, if not it will be rivnuts!