in on and under

well today ive been in engines on them and under them
the under was underneath the cric which has a poorly driveshaft
so took off the breakgear and dropped the driveshaft off at the engine end and them at the gearbox
we then realised that the bolts were to say a little slack
so slack that some of the bolt heads had been sliding into the beginning of the hole despite the spacers put inside the hole
so we are getting more spacers made up to fit the outside of the bolts and this will cure the driveshaft bouncing around

the in a loco was fitting a new brick arch into the square
luckily for me richard cleared the broken arch out and even cleaned out the firebox before i was told to get in as im the smallest person, hip and shoulder wise, in the works
it was a sninch to get into the box this time ( i had put in the previous archs into the square and had learned how to get in and out the hard way by getting stuck so flo had to pull me out)
then when i was comfortable marik chucked in the new arch and i stuck it into the right place then smacked some spacers in down the sides of the arches next to the firebox sides and bobs your uncle one new brick arch in the sqaure

on was just on the arrrg doing some shunting good times

another thing done today was the fitting of moelwyns gearbox to the engine after dylan had sorted the thrust plate thing

nice easy job

anyway im off to bed night