{"id":942,"date":"2016-12-19T13:02:25","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T13:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ngtrains-com.stackstaging.com\/blog\/?p=942"},"modified":"2020-10-31T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T13:02:27","slug":"xmas-coffee-holes-lots-of-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ngtrains.com\/blog\/xmas-coffee-holes-lots-of-holes\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas, Coffee & Holes (lots of holes)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas message time I guess. Lots of them about so I\u2019ll try to be different. Once upon a time before I did EDM Models as a full-time escapade Christmas & New Year was a break from the day job but rarely restful. It usually consisted of the minimum time possible spent doing family Christmas stuff and the earliest possible escape to North Wales.<\/p>\n

In the past I have driven the boxing day trains, rebuilt loco\u2019s valve gear and \"\"<\/a>organised epic working parties to build complete double engine superstructures in ten days flat. More recently it\u2019s been a case of making and packing orders right up to the last minute for all those `proper blokes\u2019 who\u2019ve left their shopping to the last minute.<\/p>\n

Bad news for `proper bloke\u2019 this year, the old days are back. Its already too late for anything that\u2019s not on a shelf as I am not doing any more installs or manufacturing before the New Year. Tuesday the 20th<\/sup> is the absolute last chance you have for `in stock\u2019 items as Christmas in Wales beckons.<\/p>\n

I will wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and I look forward to all sorts of new stuff in 2017.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>OK, so now on to the coffee nonsense. Well it started with a picture on Facebook of this bit with just the caption `Sneaky Peaky\u2019. Friends in the know then commented and the 2nd<\/sup> one was \u201cTaken during your coffee break…?\u201d which was quite a clue really.<\/p>\n

Not for some though as the following guesses were way cold.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Due to a pressing appointment with a pub in Wolverhampton the guessers were left hanging for a day but were eventually given another clue.<\/p>\n

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This gave the game away and the first response correctly sussed the clues out.<\/p>\n

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The crankshaft is part of the engine fastened to the boiler of the Head Wrightson Coffee Pot that runs at Beamish Museum.<\/p>\n

Last summer a boiler tube failed and to get the engine returned to service for this season the boiler was lifted and sent away to the Severn Valley Railway for re-tubing.<\/p>\n

It returned on Friday 16th December collected by the lorry that has taken Glyder’s boiler for attention.<\/p>\n

The lorry carrying it is equipped with a Hiab crane which first lifted it to the ground where the transport cradle and other bits that stick out were removed before then being lifted into the frames. There’s quite a bit of commissioning work needed to put it back together but it should be running next season.<\/p>\n

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So why did I make the special trip to see this?<\/p>\n

I’ll just leave you this clue<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Finally, holes. Lots of holes! \u00a0 The last episode of this blog showed our tacked together new body for the granite tipper with the comment “Lots of holes now need to be drilled”. \u00a0With me making a trip up to Beamish and Matt working in the evening driving a Christmas tram we declared the afternoon a mini BINGE working party and made a start on the holes.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The angles we tacked into the bottom of the hopper were marked for drilling in key locations and then removed from the wagon. Some dodgy maths sorted the spacing for the rivets and more positions were marked and centre popped.<\/p>\n

The angles were then set up in the radial arm drill and drilled through.<\/p>\n

At the end of the day we got the angle back in the body and clamped in place with some bolts ready for the holes to be drilled through into the plate work. 80 holes done, plenty more to do but hot rivetting gets closer.<\/p>\n

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Christmas message time I guess. Lots of them about so I\u2019ll try to be different. Once upon a time before I did EDM Models as a full-time escapade Christmas & New Year was a break from the day job but rarely restful. It usually consisted of the minimum time possible spent doing family Christmas stuff […]<\/p>\n

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