A good start to the week, with all of the underside of the front canopy almost ready for paint. A minor diversion was the repair of one of the route number box bulb holders, the contact spring for the bulb having broken. I found this when I went to install the correct size 12W bulbs. Once the underside of the canopy and the area around the cab emergency window had been stripped, I cleaned the surfaces thoroughly and cleaned up the paint shavings. Next I applied a coat of no.1 rust beater to all the steelwork, then primed the exposed wood work. Whilst that dried, the last job of the week was to treat the rusty steelwork of the rear route number box with ACF50, it being impossible to access it to replace it, without dismantling the whole of the rear dome. This was the last job of the week.
Monthly Archives: September 2026
27/9/2026
Work continues this week under the front canopy, finishing the stripped surface ready for primer. A difficult job due to the awkward position one must adopt to reach the ceiling. I sprayed the drivers emergency window release with several coats of gloss black, along with the mirror mount. By the end of the week the paint stripping job was largely complete, with the removal of the flap seal from below the cab window over the engine.
20/9/2026
Started the week by filling the remaining gap on the front mudwing beading, then cleaning off the over paint on the black separator. My attention then turned to stripping the remaining paint under the front overhang, including removing the N/S mirror and bracket and the clamp lever and bar for the driver’s emergency exit. Next I stripped all the paint from clamp lever bar and freed up the joints, then spraying with Jenolite red oxide. This turned out to be the last job of the week.