Rebuilt West Country 'Bodmin' #34016
Progress with Heavy General Overhaul 5
| 28th
February 2000 Steve Humby and Frank Boait drill Bodmin's ashpan. |
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21st February 2000: Bodmin's boiler in yard, accessible for smokebox rivetting (see below).
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| 17th
February 2000 The smokebox was fitted on 15th Feb and about half of its rivetting to the boiler had been done by the 17th. It was relatively peaceful with Steve Humby and Peter Smith here at the muscle-racking task of drilling and reaming the holes for bolting the smokebox to the saddle.
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The result (inside) | 
Afternoon: fitting the crinoline. | ||||
| (Added
3rd March 2000, taken
23rd February 2000 by Geoff Meekums): Bodmin's firebox has a
fire lit for the first time since renovation.
Keith Hoddy and John Cornell |
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shot added 3rd March 2000, taken 23rd February 2000 by Geoff Meekums)
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| 24th Feb 2000
Bodmin's boiler was brought slowly up to pressure with a fire on a steel plate under the firebox, and a makeshift firedoor. Good view here too of the crinoline which will space the cladding over the insulation. A few leaks at stays were remedied by caulking, but in the smokebox (below, rare inside closeup viewpoint) there were blows where tube-plate rivets had not been fully driven. |
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John O'Donnell, coded welding instructor, making up Bodmin's superheater elements.
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