LincolnSteve
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Now here's a rarity. Something that went better than I expected it would and was easier to do than I thought it would be.
The sills came off donkey's ages ago and got shoved in the shed. When I went to get them the other week I could hardly remember them. They are the one bit that I didn't really photograph as I took them to pieces. Maybe I thought they were straight forward enough and didn't need it.
Any way I think they must have originally been galvanised but it's gone off the ends and also where feet must have scratched it a million times as people got in and out. It's good to have the opposite side to use as a template and to measure from as you go as long as you remember to make a mirror image version and not make it exactly the same as the other one. I nearly came unstuck there but caught myself just in time. Also nice to work with the thicker steel. You can get away with murder compared to the thin stuff on the bulkhead. I won't go any further with the painting until I've mocked it all up in case it needs a bit of fettling and I've still got the other one to do. I wonder if it will go as well. I hope so as it would be a shame if it was just a fluke.
The steel was a freeby again. It's the remains of some fittings from a shop I worked in just after leaving college. I've only had to wait 26 years to find a use for it. It's moved house with me twice! It's not just steel, it's an old friend.
The sills came off donkey's ages ago and got shoved in the shed. When I went to get them the other week I could hardly remember them. They are the one bit that I didn't really photograph as I took them to pieces. Maybe I thought they were straight forward enough and didn't need it.
Any way I think they must have originally been galvanised but it's gone off the ends and also where feet must have scratched it a million times as people got in and out. It's good to have the opposite side to use as a template and to measure from as you go as long as you remember to make a mirror image version and not make it exactly the same as the other one. I nearly came unstuck there but caught myself just in time. Also nice to work with the thicker steel. You can get away with murder compared to the thin stuff on the bulkhead. I won't go any further with the painting until I've mocked it all up in case it needs a bit of fettling and I've still got the other one to do. I wonder if it will go as well. I hope so as it would be a shame if it was just a fluke.
The steel was a freeby again. It's the remains of some fittings from a shop I worked in just after leaving college. I've only had to wait 26 years to find a use for it. It's moved house with me twice! It's not just steel, it's an old friend.
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