Saturday 29 March 2014

Today we achieved a lot with many hands coming to assist, word must be getting out that things were happening with the old girl...

We removed the blower and brake exhaust pipes from the smoke box, this was followed by the petticoat also from the smoke box. Doesn't sound like much but the petticoat at my rough calculations is over 150Kg, It was an operation lifting it out of the smoke box and onto a trolley without breaking it (without a crane). We used the smoke box door as the crane. By removing the petticoat it has given us better access to the rear of the spark arrestor segments and super heater elements.