Busy Again

Having removed various inconvenient internal wall concrete footings before Christmas the floor and associated walls have been finished by screeding over. Now we can easily move heavy equipment throughout the workshop.

Nellie's steam boiler is getting cleaned up and painted.

The winter gales had removed the cover we had over our larch planks so this had to be replaced.

Work continues on one of the smaller dinghies.

The 3 phase electrical contactor on the large band saw we acquired late last year is getting refurbished.

Snow

Orkney spent a week covered in snow and with strong winds snow drifts were a problem so only the hardiest crew turned out. 

Evaporating Evaporators

This week we removed a couple of old evaporator units from our machinery area. After disconnecting the units from the electrical and refrigeration systems we dropped the heavy units onto a scaffolding tower then moved the load to our lifting hard point then lifted off and dropped the units onto a pallet.

Scaffolding

Lots of scaffolding in use this week. We completed work on a hard point which will allow us more lift clearance. We have also started work on the removal of a couple of dead evaporator units from our machinery area.

With the new hard point complete we could remove the outside jacket from Nellie's old steam boiler.

Cleaning of the bandsaw table to remove surface rust continued and is now pretty much complete.

Infrastructure work

We undertook some investigative work to prepare for moving some 3 Phase sockets within the workshop. The large bandsaw we recently acquired requires 3 Phase electricity but we won't have any spare 3 Phase sockets available in the area we want to deploy the bandsaw. Consequently we need to reposition some of the 3 Phase sockets that we are not using from elsewhere in the workshop.

Service space between floors

Other work today included installing a hard point for lifting over a raised roof area.

Refurbishment work on the large bandsaw has started. A large amount of sawdust has been removed and rusty areas cleaned up.

More Concrete Smashing

We brought out the big guns to remove some more old internal wall concrete footings that were getting in the way.

After removing the rubble things looked a lot tidier.

Elsewhere Laverne received a primer coat on her deck.

Field Trip

Volunteers were today out on a field trip to recover an old band saw. After a lot of heaving and careful manoeuvring the saw was loaded into a trailer and moved to the OHBS workshop at the Old Herring Factory in Stromness.

The saw requires some restoration and cleaning but should be a useful addition to the society's tool collection.