The Engineering Team
We had another weekend of unusually mild weather which saw Matt and the team busy, and they received plenty of help from other loco Department volunteers who happened to be free on the day.
Work consisted of grinding
off the mill scale from the frame plates which were recently split, followed by a coat of bonda primer. Three of the faces have now been painted with just one to be treated.
There are a few holes still to be drilled in the Right side plate which will be done within the next week or so. Once these remaining holes have been drilled we should be in a position to start erecting the new frames!
The frames will, initially, be bolted together to allow for adjustment prior to riveting together once the final alignment has been set up.
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| Plenty of help grinding the mill scale off the frame plates (Matt Holloway) |
Offsite Work
Meanwhile offsite at Statfold Barn the machining of the
cylinder block has been started.
The valve faces and some other flat faces have been worked on and machined to just above tolerance prior to final machining. The remainder of the flat faces will be machined before the bores are machined round. the work can be seenj in the pictures below.
There will be more pictures following a visit to the factory planned for this week.
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| The Left hand cylinder with the joining faces and valve faces machined. (Statfold Barn) |
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| The outside faces of the Left Hand cylinder machined, waiting for a final skim. |
Funding
The sales team attended the West Sussex N Gauge Group's exhibition in Angmering last weekend. We had a reasonable weekend, but the tem members spent more than the stand took in sales! However we had a good time talking to people and spreading the word about the project.
We were located between the Bluebell Railway Shop and our supporters Harrison Brown Models (http://harrisonbrownmodels.co.uk/). Another supporting shop, Morris Models (https://www.morris-models.co.uk/), were also in the same hall.
Progress on 27 is at present going really well but, unfortunately, we cannot hope
to keep up the good work unless the
funds keep coming in! So, if you've enjoyed viewing our progress so far and would like to help
in a financial way then please visit our fundraising page. If you would be interested in joining the engineering or painting teams please email us at thefenchurchfund@gmail.com where we can send you more details.
We have now reached the end of this years programme for sales stands, but if you require any of our items, please contact us at the above address or visit the Project 27 shop page on the Harrison Brown models web site.
Please help us with a donation, to do so, please go to our BT MyDonate page https://mydonate.bt.com/events/27
or use the QR code below.
If you would like to contact us please use the following address:
The Project is entirely self funded and relies on your donations and sales stand purchases
for the work to continue
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