uhoh spaghettio

so its tuesday
monday was okish spent alot of time steam cleaning outside though
ended up with wet boots and a wet arm
so had to go create a second pair of boots from the various spares in the locker room
they wernt great if im honest but at least my feet were dry
(spare socks an essential for my locker )
on monday
we lifted the bogie
and dropped the wheelsets out and then it was up onto the wagon
was very straight forward shove it up to the cranes (one at each end as the bottom end with the cylinder block in is much heavier than the other) and then lift it
and drop the wheelsets out (after taking the keep plates off prior to lifting)
then it was a case of getting the truck in to lift the bogie onto
the cranes couldnt lift the bogie high enough to push the truck underneath it straight in so we had to slew the bogie across to the left and then push the truck in and then swing the bogie back over the truck
and lower away
simples!
then i got the less glamerous job of shunting the wheelsets out with the arrrrg and the truck with the bogie on and steam clean them
did this got soaked wasnt particularly happpy lol
during this time bob pete and dylan had been changing oil and fuel filters on moel hebog ( the snt/pway other disel) then they started it up and it was leaking oil and would drive forwards but not backwards hmmmmm strange any way pete just fixed the steam pipe to the cylinder drain cocks on the ricket as it had been blowing through a hole on sunday when i fired it and then it was home time yayy

tuesday
today i spent the day working mainly on the earl
knocked the bushes out of the various arms on the valve gear cleaned it up and took apart the valve gear
had a problem with one of the pins through the die block and expansion link
had to drill out the taper pins that were holding it in and even then it wouldnt come
so a gentle persuaded and a few choice words later and it was out
then we took a look at the hedgehogs (hebogs) problems and the problem turned out to be the brake cylinder on the left hand side had eaten itself
when the brake was released the piston was not retracking back in
we took it off took it apart and cleaned it up and found that it had unscrewed itself
so we screwed it back in and it all worked beautifully
after that me and bob started to set up the parrallels to measure the frames for what needs to be machined off of the axleboxes
then we went and had a gander at the tal which had been failed on saturday with a leaking stay in the firebox and a flexible pipe that had blown
untill we've hydrauliced it we dont know where the stay has gone but its looking like wer going to have to take the tanks off to do this so it was mentioned that we might just do its ten year boiler exam and whatnot at this time
anyway im sleepy
night