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Update August 13, 2013 --
Bill has been working on the pair of roll-up
windows on the cab
sides. We have found it impossible to locate replacement
flexible
window channel that will fit into the window frame and so have been
forced to slightly modify the frame by widening the channel.
We
created a jig into which the frames can be mounted and another jig to
hold a die grinder.
Meanwhile, Dan has been hard at work in the engineer's step well.
He has removed the very last of the old paint and rust and
left the area nicely prepared for epoxy primer and paint. Now
that the step well is completed, we started cleaning the bathroom wall.
The inside was covered with "body schutz" which had grown
really
nasty over the years and needed to be removed. It turned out
that
the easiest way was with an air chisel operating at low air pressure.
And, the rear cab door which had been removed, received
Bill's
attention with filler and sanding.
Elsewhere in the cab, a cover was fabricated for the hole where the
heater had been located. Once it was painted and mounted, the
radio head bracket and head was put in place and the radio wired into
the locomotive. We can't move by ourselves (yet) but we can
listen and talk.
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Update September 06, 2013 --
With the completion of the work on
the right
rear cab door, its edge was painted green in preparation for installing
the new weather seals. The outside of the door was given a
coat of gray and then all of the weather strip was installed.
Once that was finished, the weather seal was masked and the
inside of the door given its finish coat of green. The
outside of the bathroom wall was
also painted and it was then reinstalled. With the cab
interior work winding down, I decided to install one of the perforated
panels on the left side. And we installed the completed right
side rear cab door.
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Update November 27, 2013 --
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