Fender Progress

Many thanks to Frank Kehoe, who is working hard on getting the two incomplete fenders for the 18 rebuilt into one good one. He sent along several photos detailing progress he made on Tuesday.

Above, I've been referring to our two incomplete fenders as the "better one" and the "worse one" but Frank pointed out that the "fence" from the worse one, shown here, is in better shape than the fence from the better one. So using the worse one is obviously better. Wait, who's on first?

Oops. One of our nice corner elbow castings is cracked. We'll need to weld or braze this up.

Frank spent quite a while sand-blasting T and elbow castings for the fender. Using the sandblasting cabinet is not most people's idea of fun, but this is necessary work!

And here's the result: nicely primed T castings and an elbow casting! The other elbow wasn't primed because it needs to be welded up first.

And here are the two "car attachment" inserts that I cleaned up and primed on Sunday.

And in other late breaking news, Joel related that the new pipe and steel strap material have already arrived. Wow, what service! Thank you to Joel and Good Nick for ordering these.