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Build Diary entries for August 2018

Here are the diary entries for this month. You can use the forward and backward links to see the next or previous months. Most photos taken before 2018 are small size. From 2018 onwards, most photos you see below will have a link to a full size image by clicking on the photo.

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Machining starts for Cast Steel Stretchers
13/08/2018
  Highslide JS
  A key point in the frame assembly started today when the cast steel frame stretchers went into the machining area. Here members of the Clan Project engineering committee discuss the machining requirements with CTL Seal staff. The cast steel stretchers were a design change introduced with 71000 Duke of Gloucester and specified for the lot 242 Clans. The Britannias had suffered from frame cracking and the cast steel stretchers were introduced to provide more strength in a key area. The stretchers will be machined to ensure that they are completely square to fit precisely between the frames
   
Machining in Progress
17/08/2018
  Highslide JS
  Machining of one of the cast steel frame stretchers is now well under way. Here you can see that the face that abuts the inside of the main frames has been machined. The circular disk you can see on the left hand side is one of two where bearing housings for the brake shaft will be fitted
   
Steady Progress
20/08/2018
  Highslide JS
  Sam from CTL Seal working on the Combined Frame Stretcher, Spring Bracket & Brake Shaft Carrier. There's a lot of work that has to go into the maching of this component and it's got to be right! Meanwhile, the working party today managed to identify more parts required for the frame assembly. Also, we had a meeting to discuss the frame assembly procedure and, more importantly, the alignment checks that we will need to do before the hornguides are machined.