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 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
Posted: 06 Aug 2015, 10:05 

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Thank you, Roger. Extremely useful in helping me to decide.

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Lighting for a Cowans 1931 crane

Peter Jennings
Posted: 05 Aug 2015, 19:58 

Replies: 4
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Thank you, gentlemen. It appears that the aim is to keep the hook illuminated and in the dark days of yore, 4 x say, 40 watt bulbs would possibly have been sufficient. I'll keep my feelers out!

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Lighting for a Cowans 1931 crane

Peter Jennings
Posted: 04 Aug 2015, 10:27 

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I had heard that the Derrick-mounted lamp on a Cowans crane had multiple bulbs. I couldn't imagine just what that might look like, but I recently watched a Youtube film about the relaying of the St Pancras Junction in 1947 and it features an LMS Breakdown Crane with a 4-bulb lamp on the Derrick. It'...

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
Posted: 03 Aug 2015, 09:10 

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Thank you, David. I'm proposing to lubricate the gears with Tufnol Open Gear Grease, which we use on our two smaller Smiths cranes to good effect, and then to keep all the whirly bits covered with a tarpaulin. However, this will still leave the jib, jib-runner and weight-relieving trucks exposed wit...

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
Posted: 03 Aug 2015, 07:59 

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Thanks Pete.

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
Posted: 01 Aug 2015, 10:47 

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Thanks, Stan. The paint-peeling exercise revealed layers of black, grey, yellow, red and black. However, some plastic letters had been fixed, presumably by BR, to the match truck and when we peeled them off (with a heat gun set to coolish), a beautiful shade of red was revealed, painted over black. ...

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
Posted: 23 Jul 2015, 10:47 

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Thanks, Chris. I'm still tempted by RAF camouflage, as I quipped recently to a visitor ..... but I prefer red, but what shade? Ah, there's the rub! I shall be peeling layers away this weekend to see who did what over the years.

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Colour of breakdown cranes

Peter Jennings
 Post subject: Colour of breakdown cranes
Posted: 18 Jul 2015, 09:52 

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At some time in the recent past, the Didcot Cowans 50T crane was painted black. I am leading a small team to retore the crane to working order and, once it's chuffing again (which, I hope, will be later this year), would like to return the livery to what it once was, rather than the faded pinky red ...

 Forum: News and Sightings   Topic: Didcot 50 ton Cowans Sheldon steam crane RS 1054

Peter Jennings
Posted: 24 Apr 2015, 19:21 

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An update: The boiler, still in ticket, recently underwent an annual Cold Exam, which it passed, but then failed an NDT when it was discovered that one of the seam rivets was cracked. It now looks as though the boiler may have to be removed from the crane to enable the rivet to be replaced. That apa...

 Forum: Technical Matters   Topic: Weight of a Cowans 50 Ton Breakdown Crane

Peter Jennings
Posted: 20 Jan 2014, 16:39 

Replies: 1
Views: 12082
Does anyone know the weight of a Cowans 50 Ton Breakdown Crane?
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