ok tuesday morning
moment of truth
filled the tal up with water
and yes it leaked from a stay in the front top corner of the firebox so underneath the tank on the drivers side
so thats going to be a major job
think there going to do the ten year boiler exam on it at the same time as the tanks gotta be lifted and the cab taken off and the boiler lifted from the frames an all the lagging removed
so yeh not goood news
for the rest of the day me and peter attempted to remove the ash pans from the earl it took the rest of the day
firstly we had to take out the short section of rail from over the pit to give us enough space to lower the ashpans off
then we had to take off the hand brake shaft and the brake linkages on the top end
was a little tricky ended up using hammers and whatnot
then we started to undo the 6 bolts holding each ash pan on
only thing is 2 at the very front of the boxes have about 10mm of clearence on them
and they were rather seized in so after some head scratching we managed to squeese in the gas axe and warmed them up then got a bit of pipe over the spanners end to give some extra leverage
after we'd got these out we jacked the big jack up to support the weight of the pan and then with the impact gun we undid the rest of the bolts and lowered the pan
the pan was reluctant to drop tho so got a bar in and jiggled it bannnng oh bother well at least its moving down now lol
shoved a bit of channel under it before lowering fully then we slid it out from underneath
repeated for the second one and then it was time to take the the firebars out
luckily someone who had been on that last time hadnt cleared the fire out and soooooo i ended up ghost like
ash in my eyes
ash in my ears
mouth back of throat
even somehow in my socks
yay
then we put the rail back and went home
fun
nighty night need some sleep
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