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Saturday, 31 December 2016

Maintenance Update (fire, valve, spring, felt)

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Wednesday 28th Maybe it was the left-overs from Christmas, but none of us was terribly enthusiastic about tackling a big job. I couldn’t ev...
Tuesday, 27 December 2016

Maintenance Update (timing, sand, faithful, clamp)

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Monday 19th Gilbert supplied the following photos of the timing gadget that was used on 2807 up at Llangollen (and that David is replicatin...
Sunday, 18 December 2016

Maintenance Update (primer, stretcher, timing, painting)

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Monday 12th Unable to needle-gun rail chairs on Saturday due to rain, so had to pop down for an hour to clean two orders. Tripped the elect...
Sunday, 11 December 2016

Maintenance Update (hanger, jack, bolt, eccentric)

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Wednesday 7th Bruce reports: “Wednesday started by getting 2807 over the pit with coupling rods in the correct position to give better acc...
Saturday, 3 December 2016

Maintenance Update (test, beam, arch, grease)

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Sunday 27th Brian drove over from Sunbury on Thames to help light warming fires. Silly boy asked Carpo if he needed help on Monday too: “Br...
Sunday, 27 November 2016

Maintenance Update (bone, brass, rock, homework)

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Sunday 20th Carpo “boxed up” the loco (i.e. fitted remaining mud hole doors and inserted all of the washout plugs) and lit a small warming ...
Sunday, 20 November 2016

Maintenance Update (plugs, arch, timing, fire)

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Saturday 12th ... was cancelled!  However, I took Rowan, my 2-yr old grandson, to Toddington because he loves the trains, and there happene...
Thursday, 10 November 2016

Maintenance Update (slug, wall, annealed, swaged)

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Monday 7th Gil, Bruce and I joined Carpo with a view to finishing off making the new boiler tube. When we looked at the end that we had ope...
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