Colleected the glass from K.W. Glass in Braintree on Monday, then fitted the glass to the frame and started to install it in the bus.  It is a very poor fit around the top right hand corner but hopefully will ease back into place with a bit of careful effort.  I left the remainder of the screws for now.   Next, I continued applying chrome wrap to window components.  Finished one drop light so concentrated on preparing other components for assembling a halfdrop window This meant fitting the top bar to one of the glass panes that fit in the lower falf of the window frame.  Whilst the glazing silicone was setting I applied the felt to the vertical runners, which is another slow job but satisfying.   I completed three pairs then once the silicone was set I started to build up a complete window pan.  I almost completed this but ran out of time.

Started the week by cutting and fitting to the frames  the last of the nylon 6.6 strips for the window frames.  The rest of the week was taken up applying chrome wrap to the droplight guides, a slow and painstaking job which required several to be done twice.  However that are all done to my satisfaction now.  Managed to complete chrome wrapping one of the horizontal bars by end of play but I need to find a way of holding these to make the job successful.

First job of the week was completeing the missing section of half-drop frame, adapted from an aluminium extrusion intended for edging a porch canopy.  This required some very careful work, cutting down to length and size and removing an inner piece which I managed by grinding a slot in it then using a 6mm drill as an edge mill to clean out the slot.  I removed the glass from the from the frame that was to receive the new piece and cleaned up the top rail and the clasp handles.  A tricky job was making the brackets to join the corners of the frame with the new piece, several attempts ensued despite the fact I had made several of these before.  However they were completed and the frame succesfully assembled with new glass and silicone glazing compound.  Although on the surface a small thing, this was a job that I had long waited to do, uncertain of how to achieve it.  So a small milestone!  At the end of the day I started to cut the nylon top strips for the window frames but problems with the bandsaw meant I couldn’t complete this task before end of play on Saturday, however this was repaired on Sunday morning and I was able to cut the remaining nylon strips.  They need tidying up though.