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| Our young cleaners cleaning Cochrane's smokebox & tubes |
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| Logan refitting Horden's remachined steam pipe |
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| Jonny cutting a gasket for Cochrane's blower valve |
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| Oliver and Oliver stripping No2's crosshead for replacement of a cotter |
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| Alex putting oil on Cochrane's plug hole threads to avoid corrosion |
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| Our young cleaners have moved onto 49's smokebox |
The photos above are courtesy of Peter Weightman
2 comments:
Re: Photograph titled "Jonny cutting a gasket for Cochrane's blower valve"
What kind of machine is that in the left background? I don't think I've seen one before
It's a portable drill, rather like an advanced radial arm drill. It has a wheeled base. On the end of the lifting arm the drill head can freely rotate (and lock). For example, it can drill out rivets or stay heads anywhere on a boiler. It's been used to drill out the worn main boom pin on the forklift. It may see use on HC 38's boiler work.
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