Trevor, Barry and Adrian continie working on the lead tub-bot construction. While Barry sets the joints between the bow and side-chines Trevor and Adrian bore and countersink hole through which bolts will pass to hole the joints firm.Barry then sets out the positions where mortise sockets have to be cut to accommodate the rib posts. […]
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Trevor and Adrian visit Barry at his workshop. He has taken on the task of manufacturing a wooden pattern of a tub-boat wheel that can be used to make a mould into which molten iron will be cast. The mould required for each wheel has to be made in two halves which are pressed into […] Trevor, Norman and Adrian continue to work on rebuilding the eastern wing wall. Barry arrives and intends to mark out the places where mortise joints are required to locate rib posts. After some work has been completed and a cup of tea enjoyed further progress is denied by the offset of heavy rain […] Norman joins Trevor and Adrian for a ‘spell’ of work at Sea Lock. Adrian had already removed some of the overburden of weeds and silt depositions on the damaged eastern, outer wing wall. They decide to bring up the inner skin of the wall since that can be acheived without erecting scaffolding. Adrian works on […] Alistair and Adrian spend a lot of time considering how best to stop leaks between the heel posts and the quoin stones in the inner gates. Alistair brought a sample of expanded neoprene rubber which he thought may have been suitable to form of gasket. After cutting the neoprene to various wedge-shapes they decide this […] |
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