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October round-up.
Progress continued on various fronts during October.
"Libby"
Paintwork has continued on "LIbby" at Peak Rail. After much body filling, rubbing down, undercoating and repeating one cab side now looks satisfactory and work on the other is proceeding. Athough the corroded section of cab sheet has been replaced, there is still some welding to do in this area as well as remove the badly corroded crew cupboard on the inside. Unfortunately, although it had been hoped to move the loco out and lift off the casing tops for treatment of their undersides, it has not been possible to arrange owing to Peak Rail prorities.
"Pluto"
The oil separator was installed and connected, and the drive belts (sectional) assembled to the exhauster (above) and all connected up ready, but when it came to start, Pluto's batteries gave up the ghost and were duly weighed in. It is intended to have the loco available, if required, for DVLR's Santa traffic so new or interim batteries wil be fitted shortly and the loco's exhauster installation commissioned.
D2128
At Scunthorpe, the mounting points for components going in front of the engine (the cooler group, and the PTO shaft that will drive exhauster, compressor, charge pumps and fan) have been made up and mounted.
The centre bracket, mounted on the forward extension of the engine front mount, will carry a plummer block bearing for the forward power-take off (PTO) shaft. The two frame mountings (left and rear right) will carry the flexible mounts for the cooler group.
In addition, the gearbox input flange has been measured up and the drawings for the parking disc brake (which will act as an adaptor from the input flange intended for a Layrub coupling to the Hardy-Spicer type universal flange of the prop-shaft) prepared. The drive adaptor that will fit on the front of the Cummins viscous damper and carry the torsional coupling and PTO shaft is also in manufacture.
Brush 0-6-0DE
Alhough I put in the Brush history page that the battery box had been removed, this was actually a little premature! In fact it came off at the end of October as work starts (again!) on preparing the loco for a return to operation.
Now you see it....
Now you don't. The lean-to "recycling bin" battery box has finally been removed.
The immediate plans for this loco see various bits of component recovery as a considerable amount of wiring and other gubbins was concerned with making the loco inter-operable with Tyne & Wear metro cars, now an unlikely requirement. It is planned to extract the water tank (the locos were originally built with water-wash exhausts) to make better space under the cab floor and probably a location for new, more compact batteries.
4nov11
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