1939 Leyland TD5 [1635 DD]
2022
Body July
Norman Julian 15th jul
After what seems like ages I started this final piece of the rear staircase.
The banister (that's what I call it) as it happens after I got to it with my sander and removed all the bog and silicone revealed more corrosion than I thought.
I figure the reason it is so bad is this section which is at the bottom is hard against the staircase and water can run off the edge of the treads and find its way down and can sit.
After many years this can be the result.
The section marked with a black marker is going to be cut off.
The only complication is it has a rounded pressing in it and also the edge is a wire rolled edge at the bottom which you may or may not have come across before.
I have never done it before.
After what seems like ages I started this final piece of the rear staircase.
The banister (that's what I call it) as it happens after I got to it with my sander and removed all the bog and silicone revealed more corrosion than I thought.
I figure the reason it is so bad is this section which is at the bottom is hard against the staircase and water can run off the edge of the treads and find its way down and can sit.
After many years this can be the result.
The section marked with a black marker is going to be cut off.
The only complication is it has a rounded pressing in it and also the edge is a wire rolled edge at the bottom which you may or may not have come across before.
I have never done it before.
Gregor Neil Robertson
This is a mirror image of the kind of corrosion we’ve all dealt with in wet old Britain!
It’s a constant battle to keep water off.
Add to that the corrosion from salted roads in icy winters and we get galloping corrosion….
And yes wire rolled edging is a great location for salty sludge to sit and do it’s worst.
Norman Julian
If people are wondering why it gets like this on stairs inside a bus let me suggest that upstairs windows can be left open.
People with trench coats and umbrellas when it is raining and most importantly they are hosed out quite regularly.
Gregor Neil Robertson
Norman Julian so careful painting, filling voids with waxoyl, and drainage holes essential.
Bit late for it all now I guess.
This is a mirror image of the kind of corrosion we’ve all dealt with in wet old Britain!
It’s a constant battle to keep water off.
Add to that the corrosion from salted roads in icy winters and we get galloping corrosion….
And yes wire rolled edging is a great location for salty sludge to sit and do it’s worst.
Norman Julian
If people are wondering why it gets like this on stairs inside a bus let me suggest that upstairs windows can be left open.
People with trench coats and umbrellas when it is raining and most importantly they are hosed out quite regularly.
Gregor Neil Robertson
Norman Julian so careful painting, filling voids with waxoyl, and drainage holes essential.
Bit late for it all now I guess.
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