Started the week by cleaning down the areas stripped of paint last week, followed by applying a coat of aluminium primer to the underneath of the canopy and some white etch primer around the front destination screen. I won’t use that again, though, as the fumes are noxious. I continued painting, rescuing some undercoat from the remains in the Johnstones tin and used it for the front destination box around the screen and for some of the waist rail on the cab door and along the nearside. I noticed some minor damage to the N/S waist rail beading, which needs attending to, so I left that section for now. At this point in the week, illness struck so work was temporarily halted.
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4/10/2026
A good start to the week, with all of the underside of the front canopy almost ready for paint. A minor diversion was the repair of one of the route number box bulb holders, the contact spring for the bulb having broken. I found this when I went to install the correct size 12W bulbs. Once the underside of the canopy and the area around the cab emergency window had been stripped, I cleaned the surfaces thoroughly and cleaned up the paint shavings. Next I applied a coat of no.1 rust beater to all the steelwork, then primed the exposed wood work. Whilst that dried, the last job of the week was to treat the rusty steelwork of the rear route number box with ACF50, it being impossible to access it to replace it, without dismantling the whole of the rear dome. This was the last job of the week.
24/8/2019
This weeks work:
Painted the underneath of the floor in bay 1 using silver Hammerite (hammered finish, because that’s what I had, to expedite fitting the lower timber frame rail. This involved drilling the forward mounting bracket for the lower side rod between bay 1 and bay 2. This is now fitted and bolted up. I cut and fitted the frame rail this afternoon, using Granville sealant in the joints rather than glue to seal them but allow flexibility. The frame rail was screwed into place with stainless screws and then primed ready for paint.
Next job was to fit the small piece of beading missing from adjacent to the cab window on the bulkhead.
Cleaned and painted the mud shield that fits behind the nearside front wheel. I can’t fit this until I’ve undercoated the front bulkhead so I concentrated on priming the aluminium bits and cleaning excess sealant off the beading. Whilst the paint dried I started on removing paint from the small window that fits in the rearward entrance bulkhead.
Applied undercoat to the front bulkhead small window and the the aluminium cladding. Continued to strip paint from the small window that fits in the rearward bulkhead. Mostly applied paint by half-inch brush but the larger areas I used a roller. I also undercoated the flat panel in the lower part of the rearward entrance bulkhead.
Further undercoated the front bulkhead today so the periphery has had two coats and the windows and section alongside the engine only one.
Finished stripping the small window that fits in the rearward entrance bulkhead and welded a new corner onto it. Vactan applied to the rust bits on the inside face, outside face tomorrow.
Front bulkhead in undercoat