Glad you like the tracks, I must say I am pleased with them too. The blaster was desperate to paint them, for two reasons it turned out. First he could not believe that they would look right in bare metal, and then he admitted to me that he had to do a lot more work if they were not going to be covered with black paint afterwards. My father was adamant that they were not painted when he was building them in the early 40s and they certainly look better like this in my opinion . Of course they will tarnish soon and turn back to rust but as long as I can get the old girl running under her own steam it will burnish them up again.
Good story Alex. My girls are taking it all in. They have not yet got to the stage of doing any manual work, but they sit and watch and help with tea and fetching spanners. My youngest did hold a spanner the other side of the hull whilst I tightened a bracket inside, so I suppose we are moving in the right direction. Gee whizz I am stiff today after manhandling that track over the rear drive hub! Since I have put the new seal around the rear drum it makes it very stiff to rotate, hence I had to manuallly lift the track one tooth at a time until I got it in roughly the right position to use the track jack. Now, shall I do the other track today, or can I think of a nice easy job, like cutting some stencils!
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