Build Diary entries for October 2025
Here are the diary entries for this month. You can use the forward and backward links to see the next or previous months. Most photos taken before 2018 are small size. From 2018 onwards, most photos you see below will have a link to a full size image by clicking on the photo.
| Cab Work |
| 13/10/2025 |
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You can read the background to this on this page. In the photo, the grey panel behind Mike's hand is the cab back panel as originally built in the early days of the project. The green panel with the brass frame is the new drivers screen panel. This will need to be welded so that it is flush with the grey panel. The edges of the back panel are protected by this beading. We needed a new piece of beading that needed a joggle inserted so that it followed the right profile (see the photo of 71000 in the above link. Bob from Tubular Fabrications Ltd, who are based at CTL Seal, quickly formed the correct profile in a piece of spare beading. Once the screen panel has been welded into the grey panel, this piece of beading can be welded into position. |
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| Hind Cover Painting |
| 13/10/2025 |
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The hind covers now need to go into store. Before storing, Ashley and roger applied some primer to the outside, non machined surfaces. All other surfaces will be coated in preservative oil. |
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