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Thursday
Jul142011

As I've been on holiday for the last three weeks cruising round the Med (and riding several tram and  train systems including Tunis) there have been no updates but work has not stopped.  While I was away Jim took all the staircase components home and assembled and painted them in his garage.  This is a major undertaking and each staircase weighs about 90 lbs.  This morning I went and helped Jim load them into my Volvo estate.

As you can see they only just fitted but we got both of them to the tram shed and trial fitted the D end one.  The bottom riser needs to be slightly shortened but everything else looks fine.  I just need to work out Bernard's notes and see where they have to go along with the shape of the landings.

After that we put the stairs away and fitted the second catenary rod. This took three of us and much persuasion with a 2lb "Manchester Spanner", a lump hammer to the uninitiated. I then fitted the remaining torsion lozenge on A side while Jim fitted the door arches.  After lunch we used the Manchester Spanner again to fully seat the screens and fit the arches then found that the pattresses wouldn't fit so we had to take both rods out and start again.  We have now enlarged the holes in the wood that holds the pattresses and filed various bits of them.  Next week we plan to install them again, hopefully for good.  Ian spent the day doing some rubbing down under the D end canopy .  All in all a one step forward two steps back day but lessons were learnt.

 

 

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