Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters

Mmm. A passage often quoted by the more rapacious capitalists, especially verse 29.

 

Maybe. But it also tells an important truth - if you do nothing, you get nothing back

 

Latest news from Ian Riley regarding 34007 Wadebridge. <BJ>

'34007 has it's overhauled boiler reunited with the overhauled frames in our works today''

 

But then: "v28: take what he has and give it to the rich man and then v30: cast him asunder". Sounds very... Tory to me. Y'know, giving tax cuts to the wealthy whilst cutting social security to the disadvantaged.

 

It's one reading. Though as it's a parable, it's worth remembering who the rich man is in the text - and how it needs to be seen figuratively.

 

It were a good day atop the hill yesterday, much needed by Muggin's 'Ere & Me Oppo after a tough week at work!

With seven in attendance, Me Oppo took two of the lads to give the running rake the once over as it's out to play next week. No nasties were found, and all axleboxes were checked over and given a top up, with rigging being oiled where needed, and there were some wagons that definitely benefited from it - so there should be no problems with the troublesome trucks during there time out on the line.......

That left two of the lads to crack on with cleaning up and derusting more steel work on the south side of the work shop PMV, which meant Muggin's 'Ere & Me Mucker had to crack on with producing the first replacement door....... he'd already constructed the composite door last week, so this week it was a case of fettling it to take a rain strip....... it turned into a ball ache, as faced with a plethora of rain strips, we had to work out just which one we needed, it didn't help that Me Mucker couldn't see the wood for the trees!

Eventually Muggin's managed to persuade him that the ones he was hell bent on using were the wrong ones as the profile was too narrow! So, the correct ones were found and it was then a case of making sure the right one was going to be used - cue more checking with the only pair of working doors we have left..... once that was established, the next headache was working out just how to achieve the profile needed for the rain strip to fit.....

And work it out we did, then it was a case of setting up the door so tat we could profile it by hand..... the first fit wasn't quite there, so it was a question of working out just where to fettle it..... we weren't helped by the fact that the rain strip was designed to fit a profile at the back that we aren't reproducing, so that needed correcting with the help of a heavy duty vice - once that was done, the strip was trialed again so that we could see more clearly just where to fettle - the use of a hammer to persuade a battered piece of steel to sit snuggly certainly helped!

After that, more fettling of the door was done, ie, sanding overall to give a key for primer, as well as getting rid of splinters, and bring in edges and then caulking all around to seal the layers and hopefully prevent water ingress......

Whilst all that was going on, the lads who had given the rake the once over fitted the third pane of glass, and sealed the inside of two cladding sheets.

So a good day was had atop the hill, topped off by Muggin's stopping on to see the final two trains of the main operating season!

@21B it was good to see you again and have a bit of a catch up and a brief footplate ride on the Hall.

For once, Muggin's actually got the camera out, so some pics from yesterday.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duty_druid/55625006061/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duty_druid/55625004071/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duty_druid/55625138958/in/dateposted-public/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/duty_druid/55625213749/in/dateposted-public/

It doesn't look like much, but it was a lot of work!



Three panels fitted along with three windows.