Overhaul update
Graham Bennett, our Team Leader at Bridgnorth, emailed us a list of jobs to work on last Sunday which included the usual painting jobs, especially where Brian Humphries had to adjust or move various bits of pipework during the week; re-fit the mechanical lubricator for the cylinders, find and fit the oil boxes for the upper slide bars, reposition some lubrication pipework in the cab, fix in place lubrication pipework for the Left hand cylinder block and fit the steam brake ’T’ piece under the cab. All this work was completed although the painting will take a while because of paint drying times. The following images illustrate some of the above.
The oil box for the Right hand upper slide bar in firmly bolted down.
And the same for the Left hand one (the white writing will be removed during our next visit).
The newly overhauled mechanical lubricator for the cylinder is bolted down and has had its pipework re-connected, only the operating lever needs to be found and fitted.
A higher view of the same lubricator (the left hand one feeds the axleboxes and was fitted before Covid struck).
This is the steam brake ’T’ piece replaced under the cab floor - the two outlets (for loco and tender) are left and right with the inlet at the front.
Away from the loco and in the machine shop are the two cross-heads, this one has had the upper and lower whitemetal filled faces machined to fit the relevant slidebars ...
whilst the second one is mounted on a milling machine having the same work done to it - the marked out guidelines can clearly be seen on the end facing the camera.