Friday Report

Not many pictures today, but that's mostly because we were doing much of the same things you've seen before.  But good progress was made.

First of all, here's the spindle sander up in its new location on the roof booth scaffolding.  I really appreciate the work that other department members did to get it up here.  But they cleverly located it in a dark corner, where one of the big overhead lights had burned out.  Luckily Tim knew what to do and helped me replace it, so now we have plenty of light in this area.  Fiat lux!

The spindle sander was very useful for improving the fit of all the saddles at the #2 end of the car.  One saddle remained to be made, and all of them needing trimming, but after a few hours all of them were ready for painting.  I put a coat of primer on the surfaces that will be caulked to the roof (or to each other), and after a finish coat dries they should be ready to install.

And then I started making saddles for the #1 end, as seen here.  Three out of the total of eight for this end are well along.

Tim spent the day working on the new blocking for both ends of the 2872.  Here's one which is in some stage of completion, though I can't say exactly which.  This reminds me of having to replace the floor at the #2 end of the 308 about 20 years ago.  But that's so long ago, we hadn't even started this blog yet!  So there aren't many pictures from that distant era.

Other than that, there didn't seem to be a lot of activity.  But I'm sure tomorrow will be different!