Work has been concentrated around front bulkhead recently. I decided that the rot in the steel front bulkhead was unacceptable so today I cut out a section adjacent to the door pillar, about 4″ wide with a view to welding in a new section. A section along the top of the bulkhead is also in poor condition and needs to be cut out and replaced which will mean removal of the window above it. This is not necessarily a bad thing as there are some small holes due to corrosion in the window frame. The challenge for welding will be avoiding setting fire to the wooden frame behind the bulkhead. This is bolted through the bulkhead in several places using what looks like coach bolts and square nuts.
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18/2/2019
A coat of grey was applied to the last of the window openings and the area of framing behind the rear wheelarch today. After that I continued preparing to remove the entrance steps. This has the added advantage of increasing access to the steel roof reinforcement that is awaiting repair, because of the amount of panelwork that has to be removed to get at the mounting for the steps. I removed the valance that trims the left-hand side of the entrance and the cladding for the entrance pillar. This has been sanded ready for priming and painting. A time-consuming activity due to the use of tiny wood screws and pins to hold the panels in place, all of which have to be removed in order that the area in question can be reassembled.
Removal of some of the wood cappings in the lobby revealed the wiring for the lighting, which is convenient.
2/12/2018
No significant progress over the last few days all though there has been a lot of work. I removed the entrance bulkhead window and the panel facing the steps the day before yesterday so that I could cut out a rotten section of the rearward door pillar where it connects with the waist rail. The steel reinforcement at this point had completely corroded away but replacement is straightforward as the end of the waist rail is intact and solid. I made a replacement wooden section to replace the rotted section but during the final cut the bandsaw blade broke, ruining the piece and I don’t have a spare blade – on order. Other work has included drilling out rotted screw holes and filling them with 6mm hardwood dowels glued and hammered in. Work at the moment is centred around making the nearside frame sound ready for repanelling, which has to be done from the bottom perimeter rail upwards.
Below is the corner plate that needs to be replaced.
Very rusty corner plate!
Close-up of corner plate and probably my thumb, showing there is really very little metal left at all.