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6/5/2024

Started the week with more paint stripping and a coat of red primer on the aluminium face of the trapdoor.  I also gave the cylinder head lifiting ring another coat of primer and found a new bolt for it, having lost the nut from the original.  I collected the three remaining droplight panes of glass from K.W. Glass on Monday evening.  On Tuesday I undercoated the panel just to the rear of the drivers, the rounded top of the dash and the trap door.  On wednesday I assembled one of the droplight frames with a new pane of glass and had a problem with the bracket breaking away at one end of the lower horizontal, I probably wasn’t careful enough riveting the corner.  At this point there was little I could do as the glazing silicone was already setting so I strapped it up in the right position and filled the hole with silicone in the hope it would all set in the right position – which it appears has worked ok.  Had I glazed it using rubber as per the original method I might have been able to repair it, however that seems unlikely.  I started to polish the newly-painted switch cover with a view to cutting back the gloss a little but discovered some flaws in the paint so repainted the sides.  I rubbed down the trapdoor and gave it another coat of undercoat, another rub down then some cherry undercoat and its ready for top coat.  I applied chrome wrap to the droplight frame I had assembled earlier in the week, with the usual difficulties.  I chipped one of the otherwise-perfect long pieces, much to my annoyance.  I filled the chip with chrome paint from a marker pen but I may replace the whole piece if there is any wrap left over.

21/4/2024

Started the week by painting the visible bit of the outer panel at the top of the cab side window opening and preparing the triangular window glass for installing  in the cab.  As I had some topcoat left over I painted the emergency door step and the top and leading upright of the cab door frame.  Next I started work on refurbishing the interior light switch box, removing the labels and cleaning them by knocking the awkward, tiny steel rivets.  A job to do in between others!  Next I fitted the fire extinguisher holder in the cab and polished up a fire extinguisher and placed it in the holder.  At the end of the week I started stripping the remaining original paint from under the front canopy, a difficult, slow job but i made good progress.  The last job of the work was completion of removing the labels from the switch box cover, ready for paint now.

Fire extinguisher fitted in cab and side window glazed.

3/12/2023

Work started this week with reinstallation of the wooden section of the cab floor and the steel sections around the gear stick and handbrake, along with the reinforcing bar angle that fits underneath and adds to the rigidity of the cab and strangth of the floor.  Also an addendum to the testing was the panel light wiring and the bulb holder itself which needed attention to the connections to make it work.  It has a new bulb fitted.  Screws for fitting it have been acquired, 6-32 UNC for the fitting and 4BA for the cable clips along with the missing 1/4″ screws for the cab floor.  The aluminium sheet needed for the remaining O/S outer panels arrived at the beginning of the week.

The woodwork for the bottom rail was cut, fitted and painted, the short section immediately under the first O/S window was made from the original long piece which was sufficiently good to use again with repair.  This has been primed and painted wood grey ready for the outer panelling to be cut and fitted.  This completes the repairs to the frame so a bit of a milestone this week.

Final job this week was preparing the wiring  ready for the panel lamp to be installed.

Draught seal and cab floor around the steering column.

Handbrake lever painted and wooden section of cab floor installed.

Bottom rail of offside frame.