Ready for Showcase

Showcase Weekend, known as Member's Day in ancient times, is almost here, and we need to be ready!  There will be a large assortment of interesting equipment in operation, as always.  Among them will be the 309 and 319, so I checked and filled the oil in the compressors and journal boxes.  That's a dirty and annoying job to have to do in the morning of operations.  Now all is well.

Among other things, the guys found a pie-plate lampshade that could be used on the Jewell Road shelter.  I cleaned it up and took it home.  It will need some different hardware to attach to the conduit that will project out over the door, and I can do work on it at home.

Here for comparison is a closeup from 1949:

I suspect that the original lamps ran on 600V DC, but we won't want to try that here.

Meanwhile, Frank Kehoe was hard at work cleaning up various parts for the 1808.

Like these:

And tomorrow, we'll have a surprise (or maybe more) for you.  But you'll have to be there in person to see it.