Our day out at Norwich for the group's second rally appearance of the year wasn't our only highlight from Sunday 22 March. While your blogmaster and project leader were gallavanting around Norwich and rural Norfolk in 1321 Gary was grafting away once again on 2599, where our attention had returned to the rear brakes now that the battery box repairs had been completed. With Tim's work commitments in the real world and subsequent departure to pastures new in Birmingham to pursue new opportunities in the Railway industry, the brakes had taken something of a back seat so Gary picked up from where Tim's hard work had left off.With a lot of persuasion, Gary established that the bushes in the shoe were not sitting centrally, preventing it from coming off, so he heated them up to flip the shoe over while it was in situ, to then padsaw the ends of the bushes off to finally remove the shoe. By doing this, the axle mounts were not damaged by trying to punch the bushes out, and it means that the shoe is good enough to be relined with two new bushes and can be used again.
A small update it may be, but a massive effort for all concerned! Between Tim, Nik and Gary's hard work, it has taken on and off around ten months, but the shoe was finally off! We could now press on with refitting and rebuilding the rear brakes, but that is a story for a future chapter, dear readers...for now, as they say, duty calls!
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