Cotswold Mainline Diesel
2008
 
Old steel being removed & new steel being cut by fabricators
Wed 31st Dec 2008
Winter 2008 		Parts made by 45 group for 26 power handle
Sat 20th Sep 2008
Summer update 2 		2MM thick aluminium having holes drilled
Thu 4th Sep 2008
Summer 08
 
Generator Bus-bars refitted these were distorted when power unit was taken out of 149 in 1997.& we would like to thank Carl Cox & Mike Hoskin for there help with sorting them out.
Tue 19th Feb 2008
Winter 2008 update 		instrument case & bezels being overhauled.
Tue 19th Feb 2008
Instrument case & bezels being overhauled.
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2007
 
Main news items on this update,are BIG ones! First we have progress on our power unit and secondly we have overhauled and tested our exhauster but we start with an assortment of new/overhauled components just to show its not all about big things. The picture shows, from the top, ETH buffer beam components removed from No.1 end (incidentally the entire buffer beam has been stripped down, needle gunnede and repainted). These components were shot blast back to bare metal, etch primed, resprayed and baked. Bottom left hand corner shows the replica works plate which will be carried on the loco and to the right of that battery box door safety arms (in yellow). These were added to the 45's in later years to prevent the battery box doors falling open and making the engine out of gauge, a failsafe design.
Wed 26th Sep 2007
Summer 2007
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