British Rail 12 ton vented wagon conversion

[outofthefire]

Hope you don't mind me asking what was the point in putting the window in the back? if it's just facing the fence, seems like a lot of effort for no gain.

 

[Wildefalcon]

You know that look your wife gets when a thought occurs? And she knows you won't like it? I saw that look yesterday morning. I immediately said. "No!".

So we discussed moving the wagon around so the window looks out over the bit of the garden across from the canal.

Background:

There was no plan for a window in my initial thoughts. But the station master insisted that we need more natural light.

And that we have to buy curtains (??!).

The only place we can fit a window without hacking the steel, or the wood, is in the door frame opposite the main door.

Which is, as you say, facing a fence.

Her plan was to raise the wagon until you could see out, but I pointed out that this would block the light on the patio.

My plan is to fit a railway totem and a hanging basket with a plastic flower in it, to the fence.

Life is full of compromises.

I've said that it's too difficult to move it now, as it's too close to the fence for the jack, and thus I need to use the winch from the 101, so I need to get that running before I can move the wagon.

 

[colnerov]

You know that look your wife gets when a thought occurs? And she knows you won't like it? I saw that look yesterday morning. I immediately said. "No!".

So we discussed moving the wagon around so the window looks out over the bit of the garden across from the canal.

Background:

There was no plan for a window in my initial thoughts. But the station master insisted that we need more natural light.

And that we have to buy curtains (??!).

The only place we can fit a window without hacking the steel, or the wood, is in the door frame opposite the main door.

Which is, as you say, facing a fence.

Her plan was to raise the wagon until you could see out, but I pointed out that this would block the light on the patio.

My plan is to fit a railway totem and a hanging basket with a plastic flower in it, to the fence.

Life is full of compromises.

I've said that it's too difficult to move it now, as it's too close to the fence for the jack, and thus I need to use the winch from the 101, so I need to get that running before I can move the wagon.

Ahh, yes, but if you wanted to move it you would find a way. However, she doesn't need to know that.

 

[Wildefalcon]

There is a way! Finish the 101, get it registered and then use the nokken winch.

No OTHER way, mind you.

 

[Wildefalcon]

I'm thinking of putting it across the canal, on two RSJ's. That way she can gaze down the watercourse while dreaming up ways to spend my time.

 

[gaz1]

cafe over the canal

 

[Ton-up]

Put a telly out there with a moving scenery film….

 

[Wildefalcon]

 

[Wildefalcon]

Put a telly out there with a moving scenery film….

I have suggested this. We're going on a scenic train trip across the Alps next week. So I'm to bring a GoPro and record the scenery.....

 

[outofthefire]

If you had a little more space, you could put a mirror or polished stainless at an angle so you got more light and at least had the sky to look at.

 

[Cobbler]

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@Wildefalcon Ryford, Stonehouse?

 

[slim_boy_fat]

cafe over the canal

Off topic, but the couple on the right are both really intent on their phones - a real sign of the times.

Aaand back in the room, or rather, the wagon...

 

[Wildefalcon]

Google search!

@Wildefalcon Ryford, Stonehouse?

 

[Wildefalcon]

I've had a back ache some last March, tentatively diagnosed as a hamstring tendon or something.

Standing is painful.

So I'm not making great progress.

Today I finished painting the window frame, hopefully I can fit the window on Sunday.

 

[Milkybars]

@Wildefalcon bad news regards the back.
Hope things improve ..good news is your still pluging away for the slave driver

 

[Wildefalcon]

It's the most frustrating thing. Walking and standing are agony. Running is fine, and cycling. It's shocking how much I need to stand to do anything. I can still drive, thankfully.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Fitting the window isn't going well. Limited mobility isn't helping. Plan A failed so, I'm on plan B.

Plan A was to just fit the window into the seal. But it's hard to do as the window itself folds slightly along the opening vent. And it's all very very heavy. The seal moves when you don't want it to.

So plan B is to glue the seal in place to the frame, and pray the window will go in with a string.

Frustrating, and wasteful of time, but there you go.

 

[gaz1]

id have gone to glass company that makes them and got them to make a new thin style double glazed window

you see them in many doors and side panels nowadays

the same style as on buses and caravans nowadays

 

[Wildefalcon]

I'd have put a simple double glazed unit there, but the station master had different ideas.....

 

[Pete.]

I'd have put a simple double glazed unit there, but the station master had different ideas.....

I sense some industrial action is requires.....