Al Reinschmidt and I spent the day doing surface prep and painting on the 36. We are planning to repaint the car in the blue paint scheme, like the 308 and 309, so we're using brown primer where it will be blue and white primer where it will be red or grey. We found that the red, in particular, just does not cover the brown primer effectively. The most time-consuming part of the task is the window openings. There's just an awful lot of nooks and crannies in a wooden car like this that we need to take care of. But with two people, of course, a lot more gets done. And part of the time while Al was working, I was able to straighten up some of our stuff stored in the barn.
But the most important advantage by far of having two people working on a project is that we can take pictures of each other.
In the trivia department, I'd noticed a while back that one of the side sills on the 36 is in two pieces, patched together with a rivet plate behind the web. I find it hard to imagine the car was built this way, but it's about a third of the way down the car, so how could it be due to an accident? At least this is one thing I won't try to blame on the guys at Cleveland.
And it was a nice day to walk out and look at the wildflowers along the creek. Still rather early, though.