Sunday May 10th
Present were Andy, Stuart Reid, Bill Snowden, Barry Peters, Mike Purslow
and myself. Weather was calm but overcast with a heavy downpour of rain
in the early afternoon.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Barry and I tackled the vacuum brake actuating lever and bracket under
the cab, first prizing off the 2 bearing housings. We then burnt off
the nuts on the left hand side holding the lower spacer plate in
position. Having got this loose we were able to spring the left hand
side of the main bracket sufficiently to manouvre the lever out having
roped it up first for safety.
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- Bill dismantled the main water feed pipe assembly running forward from
the cab under and through the left hand running plate - this comprises
two main sections and two couplings all held together with 5/8" Whit
bolts and nuts.
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- Andy removed the curved section of running plate in front of the left
hand outside cylinder with assistance from Bill. 13 rivet heads were
blown off with the gas cutter and the remains punched through the
supporting angle iron attached to the frame.
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- The left hand front steps were detached by burning off the 4 wasted
bolts holding it to the running plate - the steps came free as the
3/4" bolt holding the support bracket to the frame was undone.
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- Andy and I tackled the rearmost right hand spring hanger pin which
initially appeared to be very solid. Andy applied large amounts of
heat while I bludgeoned it periodically with the large sledgehammer.
Eventually it started to move and Mike's help was enlisted to tap the
pin back through the frame from the outside. This went on for some
time with the team of Andy on heat (!), me on sledgehammer on the
inside and Mike on sledgehammer on the outside - eventually the pin
was won from the frame.
- Mike gave me back some running plate bracketry removed on an earlier
work party for painting along with a brass gauge frame from a Black 5 -
This was acquired by Tom from Crewe Works in the
1960's and may prove usefull later.
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Sunday April 5th- Gala Day
Present were Andy, Hazel, John Hunt and myself. There were a large
number of people present for the Gala Day and a lot of good PR was
done by Hazel and John.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- I cut the heads and tails off the cotter pins in several of the spring
hanger support pins and managed to drift some of them out. The remainder
were filed off flush in anticipation of being able to knock the pins
out through the frames.
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- Andy and Hazel applied a considerable amount of heat to the first one
- the rearmost on the left hand side. Andy and I then gave it a
tremendous bashing with the sledgehammer but failed to budge it at all.
- I turned my attention to two others immediately in front of the centre
driving wheel both of which were eventually dislodged after more heat
application and smothering in diesel. Hazel bravely held a large bolt
which was used to drift the pins right through when they had been
pushed flush with the support brackets.
- A fourth pin was dislodged but could not be recovered as it fouls the
spokes of the front driving wheel. An attempt was made to pinch bar the
loco backwards to re-align the wheels but it failed to respond and will
need live locomotive power to shift it.
- The pins are 1 1/2" diameter by 7 3/4" long under the head. The head is
2 1/4" diameter by 7/16" deep. The pins have a fine finish to the area
formerly in the frame implying that they may be "fitted". This could
explain the heavy force required to dislodge them. The cotter pins are
7/16" diameter by 3 1/2" long.
- The two recovered pins were returned home, the grime cup-brushed off and
the remains of the cotter pins drilled out.
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Sunday March 8th
Present were Stuart Reid, John Hunt and (arriving late) myself.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Stuart and John were busy with general scraping and debris clearance
towards the front of the loco between the frames.
- I removed the damper actuating shaft assembly from underneath the cab.
This was fixed by 2 off 1" whit cotter studs in the frames with 4 off
spring washers and 2 off full nuts plus 2 off 1" whit hex head bolts,
spring washers and full nuts through a large shoe bracket attached
to the frame. The various hanging arms for operating the dampers are
pinned through the hollow shaft with taper split pins in a corroded
state. Consequently they resisted disassembly and will require heat to
complete the job.
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- I turned my attention to the large, centrally placed bracket directly
underneath the cab which supports a heavy shaft and lever, possibly
part of the drawgear. I removed all 12 nuts and washers from the bolts
fixing the two shaft bearing housings to the bracket.
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Sunday March 1st
An "unofficial" work party. Present were Andy, Hazel, Bill Snowdon
and Barry Peters the latter two over from Canada on business.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
Saturday February 21st
Present were Stuart Reid and myself.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Stuart worked at scraping and debris clearance from the frames around the front
left hand cylinder.
- I worked all around the base plate of the Reversing Gear Tensioning Assembly
removing the scale and solidified debris. It still shows no sign whatever of
movement, however.
- Removed the fourth fixing bolt from the Damper Operating Lever Assembly, removed
the two clevis pins at the opposite end of the Damper Link Rods and lifted the
whole assembly free of the cab floor. Chiselled out the rock-solid compacted
coal and dirt from between the levers.
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Sunday February 8th
Present were Andy, Hazel, John Hunt and Chief Security Officer
(the dog) Stanley. I arrived late but assisted in the recovery of the tarpaulin
which had blown all over to the one side of the loco.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Andy extended his experience with the new cutting gear by making several cuts
through the scrap platework in the cab floor area. He blew the tops off three of
the four bolts holding the Damper Operating Lever Assembly to the remains of the
cab floor.
- Hazel removed a large amount of fine coal and dirt from the cab floor area.
- John worked around the damper operating mechanism under the cab on the right
side of the loco, cleaning, scraping and loosening parts ready for removal.
Saturday January 24th
Present were myself, Andy, Hazel, Stuart Reid, Brian Jowett, Ian Goddard, Alec
Oldroyd, John Wade, James Williams, Sean Dowty and Chief Security Officer
(the dog) Stanley. This was the largest work party for some time and was
blessed with a good day weather-wise. Considerable progress was made particularily
with removal of various parts of the inside motion.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Andy and I recovered the final two (rear) sandboxes which were loose in the
tender. These boxes are fixed to the outside of the frames underneath the cab by
three 11/16" Whit studs each which are still in situ. Hazel used the new cutting
gear to heat up the studs in the bottom of the boxes which I extracted with a
Stiltson.
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- The Left Hand Box gave up 3 of the 4 studs o.k. but the fourth severly wasted
stud sheared off.
- All 4 studs came out of the Right Hand Box without too much trouble. The top
tube for this box is severley corroded and will have to be cut off and replaced.
- The remaining parts of the drain cock operating gear proved difficult to remove
but eventually the main cross-shaft, collars, stub shafts and support brackets
were all recovered and laid out on the ground for photographing.
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- The right hand centre driving wheel splasher was removed and stored for patterns.
- The Inside Expansion Link Assembly with its support brackets was removed from
between the frames.
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- A start was made on the Reversing Gear Tensioning Assembly. This was freed at
one end but is currently solid at the other.
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- Two large sections of scrap platework were removed from the front of the cab
floor.
- In the Museum shop Will Atkins sold another of the Galatea models.
- On the home front I have been sorting out recoverable parts from bags of washers,
nuts, bolts and brackets, cup-brushing them to remove scale and dirt. The first
of the sand box tubes is now painted with the green primer.
Sunday January 11th
Present were myself, Andy, Hazel, Mike Purslow and Chief Security Officer
(the dog) Stanley.
The following work was undertaken and completed :
- Andy and Hazel's superb new cutting gear was given its first real-life
task and, with usefull advice from Bob Meanley, was used in the extraction
of most of the studs from the sand boxes. Unfortunately, some of the
studs sheared off although this was not unexpected as they were severely
wasted. The operation was supervised by Chief Security Officer (the Dog) Stanley.
Bad light and lack of oxygen stopped play.
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- Mike continued with general scraping and debris clearance up towards the
middle of the loco inside the frames.
- I removed the sand box tube support brackets for the two rear boxes
from the inside the frames (with assistance from Mike). These were
fixed with a mixed bag of odd nuts and bolts most of which will need
replacing. The two forward brackets are slightly different to the other
six being scalloped out on one side to avoid a large nut on the inside
of the frame.
- I started to prepare the drain cock operating shaft for removal by
removing the split taper pins from the collars which join the main shaft
to the two stub shafts. Heat will be required to complete the disassembly
as they showed no signs of moving when struck with the lump hammer.
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