Tidy Up

Following on from our earlier sorting and tidying efforts this week, today saw us get everything away and packed up.

We’ve got heaps of drums of stuff that we may never use but they’re too good to dispose of just yet, so these have been placed in a small wagon, mainly to keep them out of the weather but also to free up space, it’s a bit tight getting the digger in the door but we managed – good luck to the person who tries to get them out however!

We’ve also finished off getting the similar stuff sorted away, rather than being scattered all over the place, this wagon contains point levers, cranks etc.. The repaint on this wagon by the carriage crew is coming along very well!

After much annoyance with the tipper deciding it wasn’t going to start, it in fact turned out not to be the fuel cut-off solenoid, which was the most likely culprit… it had simply taken in a decent slug of air and needed each injector bleeding – not entirely sure why it’s done that but it’ll be interesting to see if it occurs again, which will probably point to a faulty check valve somewhere in the fuel system.

Next week, we’ll certainly be meeting at Maldon again on Monday and Tuesday at 8am, the exact tasks will depend a little on what issues if any we find on the diggers when we go over them in fine detail, but hopefully it’ll be pretty plain sailing.