Work continues on the window frames. Today was spent fabricating the lower horizontal no.4 and the end of the afternoon I cut out the material for the corner cladding plates, these can be welded tomorrow then all three of latest lower horizontals will be complete. If time allows I will make the upper horizontals as the correct size material to make them in one piece (though two halves due to length) is in stock now.
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30/10/2019
Not much to report this week. Almost all work has been focused on making parts for the half-drop window frames. So far, I have made one complete frame, two lower horizontals, one upper horizontal and a full set of verticals for the nearside. This afternoon I spent the last hour bending channel section for the lower corners, eight in total (two per window) from scrap left over from making the straight parts. I have enough steel in stock to make the offside windows too.
22/10/2019
Started work on the second frame, folded the top front flange (two pieces) and the small half-inch inner flange (also two pieces). Welded the two front flange sections together and started to square the edge in the vice, with his complete I started welding the flange to the lower horizontal and assembling the lower corners.