2007 at the Hammond Barn

[Grant Bowker]

By now the temperature had hit 30°C still under a cloudless sky, as far as we could see between the trees, so you know the paint was drying quickly. Terrible conditions if we had been trying for a high gloss show finish, but we weren't.
While Bob was cleaning the spray gun after turning everything green, Joyce came out to the barn to ask if we had seen the evil coloured clouds to the East. Local lore is that if the storm comes in from the east it will be a serios one. Since we hadn't seen the clouds we hadn't been worried but they did look as if there might have been serious wet in them once we looked. More by luck than by skill, the clouds went South around us, sparing the new paint job. We let the paint set a bit more and moved on to small jobs, checking a master cylinder (it'll need sleeving), trying to free up the power brake linkage (limited success), rebuilding the spring linkage for a parking brake, checking bob's Cab 11 pedal cluster (all good), cleaning up more parts etc.
Before and end of day beer or two in celebration, the frames were put back into the barn.
I took before and during shots, Bob took the after. He's probably just waiting for parts 1 and 2 to be posted to put up part 3.