The Electrical Volunteers Report Sunday 3-4-2011.

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A full team was out today, John, Jonathan, Len, Clive and myself, first job as usual was to check out the fire alarm call points in BBS and The Trackside, new labels were fitted to call points zone 2/4 and zone 2/5 in The Trackside.
The results were logged as satisfactory by Len and Jonathan.

I then set about stripping off layers of paint off four of the carriage plugs that we recovered from the LMS parcels/brake vehicle last week, the easiest way we have found to do this task, is to use the heat gun which softens the paint, this makes it a lot easier to remove the multiple layers of paint from the plug bodies.

Last Sunday we had approached the Station Master at BBS to ask if we could take one of the benches from underneath the canopy at BBS and relocate it at Heywood Station in the waiting shelter.

We decided to have lunch before going up to Heywood Station to install the bench.
I had made two angle brackets at home during the week, these just needed painting, which was done before we loaded the very heavy bench onto the guards van to be transported up Heywood Station.

On reaching Heywood we contacted the Station Master to inform her we had come to install the bench in the waiting shelter, we unloaded the bench along with all our tools needed to fix the bench securely to the platform surface, this took us just over twenty minutes, meaning that we had to catch the next train back to BBS which would not arrive for another seventy five minutes.

The Station Master and her husband kindly made us all a brew and a gave each of us a Kitkat, after we had fixed the bench in place in the shelter.
The train arrived on time taking us back to BBS, after returning to our workshop the four carriage plugs we had stripped clean were painted along with two more brackets which we manufactured for the bench at Heywood.

Roger from the 26B Group paid us a visit in our workshop to enquire if we had the tubular heater and guard, previously recovered from the cafe, this heater is needed for the Cafe extension shortly to be erected on platform 3/4 at BBS. He also inquired if we had any of the retro green lamp shades as fitted to the rest of the cafe.

The Station Master of BBS brought into our workshop a electrical heater which required some attention to the mains lead, a new plug was fitted along with a new restraining gland for the mains cable were it enters the heater.
The heater was tested for continuity and insulation resistance before plugging into the mains to ensure the heater was working.
The metalwork of the heater was cleaned before being returned to BBS station staff.

The workshop was then cleaned up before having a brew and the calling it a day.