Not much progress today due to work on the MW’s engine to get the idle to a reasonable rate.  I did manage to paint the bottom leg of the rearward entrance pillar with grey ready for fitting tomorrow.

Primed the lower leg for the rearward entrance pillar today.  Not much else done due to my MW arriving back from Thetford after visiting the North Norfolk Railway and Carlton Colville over the previous weekend.

Cutting and shaping a new, slightly wider pillar for rearward entrance pillar lower section, to accommodate the  steel reinforcer that the entrance steps sheet metalwork is partially hung from.  The pillar has a curved profile to the inner edge to allow the aluminium cladding to wrap around correctly. The first piece I made I copied from the only good lower side rod and didn’t realise it needed this profile and a rebate for the reinforcement, so I will use the first one I made further down the bus.  All good practice!

Gave it a good soak in preservative.

Welded a swaged end into the piece of exhaust flexi to join the down pipe to the exhaust.