Paul and Bob had two work sessions over the holiday weekend. Spent some time cleaning the shop up some. Major accomplishment was cleaning off the entire trailer deck that the boiler sits upon. Stored various bits and pieces that laid about, tossed the scrap, and swept the entire deck.

Here’s the before:

and the after:

Long term followers may remember we had to cut access panels on the new tender. The access panels will allow enough space to hot rivet the tender! One access hatch cover has already been fabricated. Here, you can watch us fabricate the second tender access hatch that goes on the water leg. This hatch is quite a bit larger than the first one we made. To make it, we involved trimmed down the piece cut down from the top of the tank, framed it with a 3” mounting flange with mitered corners and hot riveted the flange to the hatch. The new hot rivet press worked like a dream!

Other work was performed on the cab. A few offending rivets were removed and some of the wall to floor angles were fitted up and drilled for rivets. Front window frames were test fitted! More cab updates to follow.