Wends. July27,05Sorry about the Hiatus, was vacation time <G>.Today saw much accomplished, with the Inspection of the valve seat for the emergency fuel shut off valve being the highlight. http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abeThe inspection was accomplished with a viedio camera that was lowered in to the valve well and recorded for our records, the valve seat was found to be in undamaged condition and needs no servicing.Also compleated was much of the prepretory painting for the reassembly of the tender, the exterior of the tender will be painted after reassembly, but all surfaces that will be inaccesable need painting now.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abgThe Foot plate,http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abhThe front of the tender where the foot plate is mounted, and a look in to the Oil Bunker well.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abiThe Oil Bunker, note moved crib work and <not visable> installed brackets for the wood dunnage that seperates the bunker from the water tank.http://www.railimages.com/gallery/kevinevans/abjThe Tool Boxes that mount under the Tender sides, that will be remounted as the last part of the reassembly.Also nearing compleation is the wood dunnage, which has recived its first linseed oil coating, and will get a secont coat then will be stacked until the assembly to prevent warpage.In the Office cataloging and scanning of the Folio drawings continues, with the PDF files of the drawings and Maintence folio being made interactive with our "Parts removed, and location" forms. This allows us to remove a part and tag it <with a metal "Shoe Tag"> and also link it to the drawing and folio pages associated with the repair / restoration of that part. Also the finshing touches were applied to the Hanger that holds the "Claper" in the bell, the fabrication of the part was made much simpler by the drawings made avalible from the folio. Work on the claper continues, with the determination that mild steel is suitable for the part. More to come,Gunns