British Rail 12 ton vented wagon conversion

[Wildefalcon]

The through pipe is sealed in, and the inside finisher is, hopefully, stuck, to the wall. Paint is drying, so I'll tidy up for a bit. I must see if there's black fire resistant silicone to tidy the last bits up.

This is taking too long, but will be solid when done.

 

[reb78]

The through pipe is sealed in, and the inside finisher is, hopefully, stuck, to the wall. Paint is drying, so I'll tidy up for a bit. I must see if there's black fire resistant silicone to tidy the last bits up.

This is taking too long, but will be solid when done.

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Most silicone will be fine esp as that's a double skinned flue but there are a few for sealing stoves. Having said that, the silicone currently sealing the top plate on my wood burner in the lounge is a Granville automotive RTV sealant and that's been fine.

 

[Wildefalcon]

I've used the proper heat stuff, but it's grey. I'd prefer black, but as management wants to paint the oval grey anyway, I'm not too bothered.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Success.

 

[gaz1]

are those houses at back of it ?

if they are you need to change to a smokeless stove as you can be hit with a smoking stove that wasnt there before a house might get away with i but a new install wont

 

[Wildefalcon]

The gutter "clearance" couldn't be worse on this. So I've many doubts that this is going to work.

But it's in place.

And if it DOES work, then hurrah!

I'm going to run the stove up to temp today, expose all the weaknesses. Then co alarm fitting time.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Meanwhile, TV bracket attempt three.

 

[Wildefalcon]

And that's the trick. Third attempt is perfect. The next task is getting the power supply routing for the table, the TV and the dock sorted.

 

[gaz1]

id try the tv on it first before you do anything else and see how things are

 

[Wildefalcon]

I'm avoiding that, as it's still quite dusty. The bracket can take my weight ( 10 times the weight of the TV) so I'm happy with it.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Gah! Cable chaos.

 

[Wildefalcon]

That's a little better.

 

[Wildefalcon]

However the laptop dock, key to the whole thing, isn't working. I've taken it out and tried it away from the wagon and it's still unresponsive. It will charge the laptop, but won't connect to the monitor or keyboard. I've ordered another secondhand unit.

I'll also need to get some wing piping.....

 

[Wildefalcon]

No success on the dock. I bought a new one, but it was dead on arrival.

 

[Wildefalcon]

Anyway, as the depression has been bothering me lately, I decided to work on the luggage racks. These are from a train. No doubt someone knows what exact train but I don't.

The plan is to make two shorter complete racks from two broken ones. Several of the brackets are cracked or broken.

Disassemble, shorten, paint, fit new nets and fit.

But not today, as I don't do important work when the blues are lurking.

 

[Wildefalcon]

A replacement dock arrived this week, which also doesn't work. But I think I've ordered the wrong thing. I bought a thunderbolt stick and should have bought a usb c or three dock. Ah well.

I also bought some fire bricks. The back of the stove is too close to the wall, I'd envisaged putting brick slips at the back but management preferred the panels.

So I insulated the back of the stove internally. I'll see if it works tomorrow.

 

[Wildefalcon]

And on to the luggage racks.

A bit of thinking and cutting and tapping required.

 

[gaz1]

consider a metal plate at the back of the stove it will get warm but if steped away from the wall it will deflect the heat just as good

 

[Wildefalcon]

That's what I'm using at the moment, if be happier if I could do way with that.

Anyway paint is drying on rack one. I'll fit the netting tomorrow and maybe trial fit it.

 

[gaz1]

as long as your aware that the cast stove can crack at the rear as its not being heated the same as the sides and front and top of the stove

so will suffer from fatigue and then crack

option is to also insulate along each side the same