Progress the stairs up to the tank
Extend the tank base
Progress the Generator building
Laurence was being tested again, so just 2 this week.
Geoff finished off the walls beside the tank stairs and glued the units together.
The water tank originally straddled the board joint and was swivelled around for transportation. The tank will be moved wholly onto the Gas works board, so a new, extended base is required (see below). Another wall will be built around the edge, continuing the stair detail. Handrails will be added on top of the walls together with insulated pipework feeding the gas plant below.
Stephen fitted a plinth to the bottom of the Generator building base. The right hand window has a neat recessed wall beneath it, which will have ventilation grilles for the engine/battery fumes.
Some of the brick plasticard is in a bad state, but it will be cut away and patched.
The shell of the extension was created in MDF. The walls will be covered in brick sheet and treated as a 'new' extension i.e. not weathered to match the original building.
The gable end wall will have a pair of access doors and a personnel door with fanlight (see plan from previous week). The doors are made of plasticard, and will be let into holes in the MDF.
The gasifier room will have its internal brickwork painted white (and then dirtied!). Geoff has made a start on the Tangye engine, which will be a working model. The large window and working lights should make the room a great feature.
How the engine room will be fitted out was discussed at length and a preliminary scheme agreed. The perimeter details (wall tiling, battery racks and control panel) will be attached to the walls. The chipboard base under the central floor area will be cut out and a removable floor unit formed. This will have the engine (and electric motor'gearbox unit), the generator and floor tiling. This will allow the engine to be removed, for maintenance, without removing the whole building. Other details such as lighting, engine exhaust pipe etc., will be fitted to the building.
