At the Health Club

The weather outside keeps getting colder and colder, so it was another good day to stay inside and work out by lifting weights at the East Union Health Club.   Did I mention that dues are very reasonable?

 

Let's limber up those muscles by assembling a couple of third rail beams.  As you lift the parts into position, remember to bend your knees, not your back.  Then you get to spend plenty of time finding, sorting, and tightening nuts and bolts.  They say it's "aerobic", whatever that means.

To relax, you'll want to make the little wooden plates that cover the bolts holding the heavy shoe assembly.  I imagine they are supposed to prevent flashovers to the truck frame.

 And then the parts get another coat of primer as needed.  We've decided the parts below the beam don't really need to be painted.  The original beams don't seem to have any paint on those parts.  Next time we can start painting them black.

Tim helped with some of the heavy lifting, but was mostly working on the seats for the Bowling Alley.  Frank Kehoe and Jim Heinlein were working with him, but I didn't get a picture.  Sorry!

And you can see the sparks fly as he grinds down some more parts.

Once the third rail beams were done, I did some more surface prep and painting in the vestibule.  These vestibules are small, so a single space heater can easily warm them up to a good temperature for primer. It will be nice when this can start turning blue. 

And then I took the flag box to the shop to finish stripping it, and put on a coat of primer.

And I guess everybody needs to take a break now or then.  Here's an anonymous entry in our modern art contest.

Say, you probably made a New Year's resolution to get more exercise.  Better get down to the health club toot sweet!