by Schuylkill Valley
Hello all,
We had our first weekend workday on May 15! We had 5 folks there. We completely finished installation of the smokebox cover. All the bolts are installed and we attached the condo brackets. The marker light brackets need to have the holes reemed out to fit. The grab rail is done also.
We installed the exhaust nozzle to the cylinder. We installed Heli-coils due to the heavy corrosion. The exhaust nozzle bolt holes are damaged so we are going to document it in the records and call it good for now.
--The exhaust muffler is sitting in the smokebox and just needs to be bolted on.
--The smokebox "Pettycoat" lift pipe needs a strap made for it to connect it to the smoke stack.
--The steam pipes are completely connected to the cylinders. Yeah nice big bolts! 7/8" in diameter bolts
Then Saturday June 11 was our second weekend workday for 2011, We had only three members to show. Jim , Matt and I . We had our small meeting before we headed off to work on 565. First we started was to replace the Marker lamp holders back on the smoke box. I took both holders over to Shop Boss Willy and showed him what we needed to be done. He said " Go over to Shop Worker John and have ream out the holes to the right size".
After John completed that. Jim and Matt worked on putting the holders in place. Matt worked on sand blasting more parts while Jim and I worked on stripping the cab of 103 strips of tongue and groove fir. We came across a lot of coal soot up in there. At 12 noon we took lunch and return to work on the cab afterward.
We removed all the top wooden strips up to the vent in the roof. and 7 strips on the Engineer side of the roof. We marked the wood with E -1 or F-1 indicating Engineer or Firemen sides. The rest will have to come out at our the next workday. we had to clean up and be out by 4:30 PM. So we started to clean up at 3:30 PM.
Here are photos of our work
First board comes off of the firemen side of the roof.
We found Red paint under the firemen recording report holder
After wood was removed from the Firemen side of the roof
We had our first weekend workday on May 15! We had 5 folks there. We completely finished installation of the smokebox cover. All the bolts are installed and we attached the condo brackets. The marker light brackets need to have the holes reemed out to fit. The grab rail is done also.
We installed the exhaust nozzle to the cylinder. We installed Heli-coils due to the heavy corrosion. The exhaust nozzle bolt holes are damaged so we are going to document it in the records and call it good for now.
--The exhaust muffler is sitting in the smokebox and just needs to be bolted on.
--The smokebox "Pettycoat" lift pipe needs a strap made for it to connect it to the smoke stack.
--The steam pipes are completely connected to the cylinders. Yeah nice big bolts! 7/8" in diameter bolts
Then Saturday June 11 was our second weekend workday for 2011, We had only three members to show. Jim , Matt and I . We had our small meeting before we headed off to work on 565. First we started was to replace the Marker lamp holders back on the smoke box. I took both holders over to Shop Boss Willy and showed him what we needed to be done. He said " Go over to Shop Worker John and have ream out the holes to the right size".
After John completed that. Jim and Matt worked on putting the holders in place. Matt worked on sand blasting more parts while Jim and I worked on stripping the cab of 103 strips of tongue and groove fir. We came across a lot of coal soot up in there. At 12 noon we took lunch and return to work on the cab afterward.
We removed all the top wooden strips up to the vent in the roof. and 7 strips on the Engineer side of the roof. We marked the wood with E -1 or F-1 indicating Engineer or Firemen sides. The rest will have to come out at our the next workday. we had to clean up and be out by 4:30 PM. So we started to clean up at 3:30 PM.
Here are photos of our work
First board comes off of the firemen side of the roof.
We found Red paint under the firemen recording report holder
After wood was removed from the Firemen side of the roof