News 04/03/10
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| Two days before 50008's re-launch in Laira Blue at the East Lancs it is
discovered jack frost has damaged its heat exchanger. RRRG was
contacted to see if we could assist and the following morning part of
50030 was on its way North to help repair 50008. Buying shares in RRRG
payed dividends for the ELR GM !
Thunderer is seen at Rawtenstall on the 13th March 2010.
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News 15/03/2010
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| Three RRRG volunteers attended Booths again, this time to recover the
auxiliary gen armature ex 37077 or 37377. Having previously undertaken
this on 37293 we were well prepared and confident of success.
Unfortunately those little scrapyard knocks and whacks had damaged the
fixing bolts and getting the end plate off was rather troublesome. Once
off the special puller borrowed from our electrical contractors made
light work extracting the armature. The winding case was saved too
being good internally. For those unaware the auxiliary generators in
37's were chosen for the 50 build too. The remainder of the day was
spent recovering various common parts from 3 ex WCRC 47 bodyshells. |
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| The Auxiliary generator end plate is seen above, illustrating the minor scrapyard knock reffered to that caused the difficulty. It should however be repairable. |