Wood Shop

Planning

Gwyn Stupar, Victor Humphreys, and Greg Kepka are working on a project to produce new cab windows for Norfolk & Western 2050.  We initially tried to trace the frame outlines on flimsy cardboard, used those to create working drawings, and now this crew is tracing and cutting thin plywood templates.  After those were made, they climbed up on the running boards and into the cab to confirm size and shape.  The result is some minor edits to the drawings, which should make these window just right.

In a Jamb

Buzz Morrisette has made all new jambs and sash trim for the 14 new windows he is making for caboose ATSF 1400.  He painted the red finish color on all those pieces and on most of the new sash.

Clearly

Then Buzz and Frank Sirinek cut twenty eight pieces of glass for the project and washed and cleaned those.

Sharp

Buzz is looking over a new machine recently donated and added to our shop arsenal of tools.  It is a mechanized saw blade sharpener, I think able to take up to 20 inch diameter blades, and it has several settings to allow it to file different positive or negative hook angles on the teeth.  Anyone want to give it a run?