Randomness has landed!

Well.. Kinda!

Just another random update for ya'll, Work on pug has been a little slow recently, too many small fiddly time consuming jobs! but the frames should be coming back together soon! there is only a few bits to do before it can have a test run on air!! once its back at my place i shall probily make up a rolling road for it, and then take it into work and plug it into the air line and let it "run in" for a few hours whilst i cover it in oil every 10 mins. Hopefully it will be lovely and free when it comes to steaming. The boiler has its original gauge glass back, be it with a few minor mods, moving the gauge glass is much more of a technical issue than i first thought, in theory its simple! When you look at it in 3 dimensions .. it aint!.. ahh well, so it looks like i shall have to have a massive go at working the firebox door around the gauge glass, but this can be achieved .... i think!

Other things that have been on and off the project bench.

There is a few things that have come through the workshop recently, the Burrell smoke box and perch bracket assembly has gone back to Will. and swapped for a set of complete front wheels to be cleaned/ tidy'd and shot blasted.




Also the smoke box and perch bracket assembly for the Fowler has been in and is now in the paint shop (yup you guessed it ... the kitchen!!) so thats now starting to look a little more loved than it has for a while!











Here is a few random pictures before / after blasting,

OOOOHHH!! lookie at the shiny!

Ok ok ... so we got a little excited and started putting things together the other night and it looks kinda like a Burrell! 

Well that will do for this week, with any luck next week you can have some pictures of something resembling a pug!!!!

On a side note it turns out Will is keeping a blog too on the progress of the Burrell, had a read through earlier and it sounded a little familiure... but its worth having a look at! hopefully it will spur him onto getting some more work done!!

http://burrellbuilder.blogspot.co.uk/

Laters all!