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July 2005

1st July 2005

Friday 1st July saw John still hard at work at C.F. Booth's scrapyard in Rotherham securing yet more parts. Alan travelled up to Rotherham to give John a hand on Friday 1st and together they successfully removed lots of parts that we will probably need for future times to come. On Saturday 2nd, Chris drove up to Rotherham to collect John and the newly purchased components and these were delivered the next day to our restoration site. Monday 4th saw Captain Chaos and John getting the heat exchanger back into the engine room at the end of the day. John and Alan turned out on Tuesday 5th and reconnected the repaired heat exchanger including the newly-manufactured gaskets. John worked on the loco on the Wednesday and Friday on various tasks mainly in number 1 cab. The following week saw John working on the loco for the majority of the week with the end result being that things are starting to be put back on the loco in number 1 cab and John also painted some of the cab bulkhead. Sunday 10th had 5 people working on the locomotive on a very hot day. Adrian was stripping the paintwork off a lot of airpipes so that they can be prepared to go back in no. 1 cab, Alan removed the two water pumps for examination to see if any defects could be found what would cause the water to contaminate the oil. Dan stripped the ceiling in no. 1 cab of paint and then replaced all of the screws with the proper type. John welded up a couple of holes under the loco as well as assisting Alan with the removal of the waterpumps. Chris did general tidying up and errand running to keep the job running. After examination of the water pumps, one was found to have a defective seal and so will be sent away for repairs, the other water pump might possibly be sent away at the same time to ensure that both are perfect. Sunday 17th saw just Alan and Chris working on the loco. One of our spare lubricating oil priming pumps was dragged out and cleaned up by Alan ready for examination. Stripping of paint in the nose at no.1 end was started by Chris as when the loco was at Barrow Hill, all pipework and conduit was painted the same colour and a lot of the paint hadn't fared very well. The fire extinguisher guards were taken to the workshop for rubbing down then painting. The old notices were removed from the guards and will be replaced by new ones. The next working party was on Sunday 24th when John, Joan, Doug, Chris and Alan were present on a day when the weather couldn't make its mind up - one minute it was hot then the next it was torrential rain - good job we have our container! John continued working in no.1 cab sanding the ceiling down and the pieces of wood that Dan had removed. Joan tidied the stores as it was becoming difficult to find things and as usual cooked a splendid lunch for all of the workers. The defective water pump was reassembled by Alan and Chris on our newly donated heavy duty tables - thanks to Brian McNaughton for the tables and chairs - we seem to be getting civilised after so long having to stand up or sit on the grass! Doug assisted Alan with manufacturing a wooden strut to fit in the roof so that the electricity supply can be further enhanced. Chris and Alan inspected the lubricating oil priming pump that was cleaned on the previous Sunday and it looks a damn sight better than the one that is currently in the loco! We decided to make this pump as complete as possible so various bits were robbed off other pumps to make one complete pump. The other pumps will be kept as spares donors for the future. Monday 25th saw the water pumps that had been removed from the loco collected ready for delivery to a local company that overhauls pumps and other bits of machinery. The work on the water pumps will be funded by the donations the loco has received and through selling items on ebay - see link on front page and a big thanks to all who have donated money to the loco over the past two years! Saturday 30th saw the very, very long awaited arrival of two tool cupboards. With the cupboards came some electrical trunking that Chris had also purchased the day before. On the final day of the month, Chris installed the new cupboards and began to get some much needed organisation of the tools in the container. The electrical trunking was installed pending the installation of some new wiring for power points. A dedicated painting bench was built during the day and installed in the container at the end of the day. This purpose built painting bench replaces the previous folding tables that we had been using. With the new cupboards and painting bench, the container is now looking like a proper workshop - only a purpose built workbench to be constructed is basically all that remains to be done (our current workbenches are performing sterling work but they won't last forever).

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