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16/5/2021

Having fitted the final nearside window, I was able to properly install the waistrail beading.  I am a bit unhappy with the positioning of it as it rises slightly under the last window.  I may try to correct this before painting.

With the beading done I fitted the inner wheelarch cover.  This required the manufacture of replacement mounting bracket from angle iron, screwed to the floor alongside the wheel opening. I also had to do some work on the beading around the border of the wheel opening which would otherwise be inaccessible after the wheelarch cover was fitted.

Rear wheelhousing repainted, step plate replaced and assembly reinstalled.

Next, I was able to install the outer wheelarch and mudwing assembly that I had made up previously (see entry for 29/4/2021).  I was surprised at how well this fitted.    The last couple of days have been spent in finishing the mudwing with filler and preparing the existing half-round wheelarch beading for refitting.

AEC Regal

6/5/2021

Since the last entry I manufactured the two treadplates for the top of the wheel housings then red-oxide primed them both.  I fitted the nearside tread plate to the stainless steel  wheel housing cover then gave the whole assembly a coat of interior ochre brown.   Whilst the paint was hardening I removed the rearmost NS window frame  (fitted temporarily some time ago) and the half-round beading so that I could install the glass, which I did today.  The window assembly is now fitted back in the bus and I can complete the nearside now, apart for cosmetic finishing and painting,

 

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31/12/2020 – Summary for 2020

Today I installed the plain window, last but one towards the rear of the bus.  I started to assemble the last window, cut the rubber to size and drilled the frame only to discover the glass had been cut incorrectly, so I will not be able to complete the nearside windows this year.

As it is the end of the year, a summary of work completed in the last twelve months is appropriate.

Looking back, the work completed this year comprises:

Droplight window frames, full set of 8 completed, four assembled, several with new glass, and fitted to nearside along with one plain window opposite the emergency exit.

Entrance steps finished.

Rear window removed, frame repaired and window refitted with new seal.

Corner panels removed, stripped, reshaped and repaired then refitted.

Boot rebuilt, including the steel stress panel that closes off the front, framing around the door opening, the boot inner walls and I reskinned the boot doors.

Nearside cladding panels installed below the windows.