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28/12/2025 and year summary for 2025

Effectively the last post of the year.  Started the week by cleaning the advert panel and seeking Rebecca’s opinion on the way to proceed.  I also painted the lower pipe connection for the rear  brake servo with several coats of silver.  Attention turned then to the chassis where the servo is mounted; the primer having cured for a few days, I able to apply two coats of silver paint.  This job is now complete and ready for the servo to be reinstalled, the first job of the new year.

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

The wheels were painted in black.

The horizontal beading was fixed to the offside and the emergency door.  Also the beading around the O/S front wheelarch and other small pieces of beading.

A new front mudwing was made for me by Geoff Brown, in several pieces, welded together by me, painted and fitted to the bus.

The cab door sliding window was completed, partially painted and installed.

Two battery boxes were made and installed, along with refurbished battery cables and an isolator switch.

The electrical control box in the cab was refurbished and connected up to the new wiring.

The rear brakes were were attended to and the large servo removed and refurbished.

5/11/2023

First job of the week was to apply two coats of Zinc Phosphate red oxide to the offside chassis rail inner face. The terminal box and griplock gland for the multicore cable has been mounted in the boot.  The chassis rail inner face has been silvered and the the griplock conduit, complete with multicore cable run from the cab to the boot stress panel along the inner face of the O/S chassis frame rail.  I am waiting on delivery of the correct size of P-clips to secure the conduit.  I started to  fabricate the cover for the wiring behind the front O/S wing as a fill-in job until I can secure the front-to-rear conduit.  I managed to make the side piece and top pieces and mark out the final piece ready for cutting on Monday.

Terminal box mounted in the boot. Multicore tagstrip in the foreground.

29/10/2023

Side rod brackets have been painted and fitted.  The lower side rod extensions have been drilled, painted and fitted.  Worked then turned to preparations for fitting the wiring conduit from the cab to the boot.   This included cleaning the chassis under the cab floor and prining ready for silver.  Drilling the rear bulkhead in the area of the lower electrical cubicle cover and fitting with the gland to accept the conduit.  The chassis from the main brake servo back to just in front of the rear axle has been cleaned and rust beater applied, ready for a coat of red oxide in the coming week.  The terminal box for the boot electrics has been sourced and work started on mounting the lid and the screw terminal strip.