April 2000 to February 2001
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BR Standard 5 #73096 on 13th September 1999, back at Ropley and ready for its blowdown after a MHR Footplate Experience day Driver Mike Burke in the cab. #73096 stopped for 7-year heavy general overhaul in readiness for re-certification.
INDEX OF PAGES RELATING TO HGO OF #73096
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| 21st February 2001: Leading and trailing drivers for #73096 are back from Ian Riley with new roller bearings fitted. | |||
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| 5th February 2001:
Painter Keith Hoddy during his red phase, framed by #73096 hornguides. |
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| 19th January 2001: Bubs has made new valve-rings for the Standard 5 |  |
| 16th January 2001:
Steve has made these to replace the water links between Std5 tender and loco. The links will revert to standard (from the arrangement made when an LMS Black Five tender was converted to suit #73096), and will make separation of loco from tender simpler and quicker
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| 4th January 2001: The white metal is poured between the brasses and the 'chill', assembled to mould it to the right shape and thickness. The white metal is then machined to the correct radius using the big borer. |  |
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| 2nd January 2001: Frank had been re-tinning these tender journal brasses ready for the white metal and I could feel the heat on my face as I took this. The wire brush ensures complete cover. |  |
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| 2nd January 2001:
John Redgrave was doing a fine and careful job painting the cab window surrounds with black enamel |
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21st November 2000
Dave Sibley trues hornguides by skilled use of engineer's blue and an angle grinder |
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3rd November 2000
Frank Boait rivets the new stretcher to #73096's frames |
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| (Photographer unknown) In October 2000, Rick Walters drove to MHR from his home in Switzerland and spent a couple of weeks as a volunteer in the Loco Shed. |
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| 16th October 2000:
The casings for the driving wheels' roller bearings lie beside the pit. Some wheels will have to be removed from axles for replacement of the main roller bearings. |
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| 27th July 2000:
Blackboard shows current "jobs to be done" on #73096. Exhaust injector had been removed, and front covers of valvechests and cylinders are off.
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28th June 2000: Clive and Jim remove a cracked frame stretcher from the frames of the Std 5 during its heavy general overhaul. You can see where it fitted from the marked horizontal row of rivet-holes (bottom left in the photo.) |
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| 28th June 2000
Here's why - the crack on front left corner. A small patch of rust had formed between stretcher and frame, and had forced the two apart, cracking the stretcher. |
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| 6th October 2000:
The new stretcher, ready for drilling and rivetting in place across #73096's frames. |
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| 19th April 2000
#73096's boiler was removed at Ropley using a mobile crane hired for the job because the 45-ton steam crane's boiler was just out of certification and had been removed for routine maintenance. |
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19th April 2000
Clive burns off the cotters holding the ashpan so it can be removed before the boiler goes to Chatham Steam Ltd for retubing and replacement of about a quarter of the firebox stays. |
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Removing boiler tubes from the Std5. You can see how many were out, and how many had yet to come out, in this photo taken 16th April 2000. This is the smokebox end, and the studs you can see above the tube-plate hold the superheater elements to the header.
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(All photos by Tony Wood unless otherwise attributed) #73096 Heavy General Overhaul other pages Very Latest News from the Loco Shed Very Latest News from Mid-Hants Railway See what's under the dome of #73096 #73096 hauled an excursion to Exeter on 2nd October 1999
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