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Diary - August 2002
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6th. The main horizontal timber across the front is nearly ready
for refitting. Today I planed a drainage channel in the top with an ancient
wooden moulding plane - rather fascinating using a tool that is probably 100
years old on a 25-year old bus.
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7th. I successfully cut out from new aluminium
sheet a replacement panel for the damaged offside panel which I removed a few
weeks ago. This so far is the easy bit - the harder bit will be cutting out the
small panel for the door and attaching the old door to the new panel.
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9th Cut two more panels. Fitted and primed timber
across cab-front. |
| 10th. Undercoated cab-front timber, and fixed in
place. Then removed panels at left front and hammerited frame sections. |
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Also hammerited nearside where I had removed small panels by door, and cut
new panels |
| Finally replaced centre front section and (temporarily) nearside front
section. |
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| 14th. Replaced 1 length of beading across centre
front, primed and undercoated. Undercoated the underside of 2 of the new
panels. Very hot work... |
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| 16th. Decided to drill new holes in the top front
beading, since the previous holes were greatly enlarged and would not hold the
screws. So drilled new holes and filled old ones. Meanwhile all around me the
farm is a frantic scene of activity, with the farmer's entire family, as far as
I can judge, being press-ganged in to drive tractors bringing the wheat from
the combine into the barn. (As long as these amateur drivers keep well clear of
my bus...) |
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| 17th. More work on refitting the front,
followed by priming and undercoating. |
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18th. Fitted compartment door (with siezed
hinge freed off by an engineer friend) to new offside panel, hammered edge
round to grip panel, and the door now fits well and opens and closes freely! As
this is my first tentative attempt at panel-beating, I am very pleased! The
compartment door can now be stripped and primed. |
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25th. Progress has been slow this week as I
have had to break off restoration work to train 2 new (and very keen) drivers.
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| 30thI fitted a new door to the nearside
door-opening panel, and temporarily fitted offside panels. |
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31st. The nearside panels are
refitted, primed and undercoated. |
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