{"id":1305,"date":"2019-06-17T15:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.furnessrailwaytrust.org.uk\/about\/blog\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2019-06-17T15:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T14:05:01","slug":"monday-17th-june-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Monday 17th June 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AlanFR 20’s overhaul continues with Alan carrying out work to reduce the ‘clatter’ from the right hand crosshead. He is seen here removing a burr from the piston rod end. John has continued to clean up components and paint them ready for fitting, including the hornstays whilst Phil Bell has been cleaning the frames and reverser quadrant and Tim has applied gloss Indian Red to the wheels.<\/p>\n

\"JimJim Hanmer and Alan Preston have made a prompt start to overhauling Fluff<\/em>‘s engine in the RSR workshop. Jim is seen here with the engine where all the pistons and liners have been removed.<\/p>\n

\"TheExtracting the pistons from the liners has proved to be a challenge with something like four tons of force being required to remove the first. The piston rings were found to have seized solid.<\/p>\n

\"ThreeThe other pistons and liners await their turn.<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Bradshaw and Phil Scales have continued their work on Fluff’<\/em>s frames.<\/p>\n

\"AdeAde has finally found time away from helping others to apply some gloss paint to Caliban’<\/em>s frames.<\/p>\n

Finally, Keith went back over to Embsay on Saturday to find 5643 chuffing away happily but Cumbria<\/em> suffering from another bout of injectoritis and issues with the steam brake. A plan has been formed which hopefully will see Cumbria<\/em> back in traffic soon.<\/p>\n

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FR 20’s overhaul continues with Alan carrying out work to reduce the ‘clatter’ from the right hand crosshead. He is seen here removing a burr from the piston rod end. John has continued to clean up components and paint them ready for fitting, including the hornstays whilst Phil Bell has been cleaning the frames and … Continue reading Monday 17th June 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/furnessrailway.co.uk\/about\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}