Starting to remove all the old varnish off the cupboard doors. locker doors and cabin doors

 I have had a busy few days scraping off old varnish off Chance's cupboard doors, lockers doors and her cabin doors. Some of the doors have had little varnish on them since they were first made over seventy years ago. The inside faces of the cupboards and locker doors especially have had very little in the way of varnish over the many years since Chance was build. Whereas the faces of the doors facing into the cabins have had a number of coats of varnish over the years and there is a fair amount of build up of varnish on these surfaces. So doing one side of the cupboard and locker doors as been a straightforward job of just cleaning the surface and then sanding the surface to get back to the original colour of the timber when it was first made into the cupboard and locker doors. 

The faces of the cupboard & locker doors into the cabin and the cabin doors have had a larger amount of varnish on the doors has these have been varnished over the years. 

The other necessary  job with doing the doors has been to remove all the door furniture and see how much of it can be saved and reused and how much will have to be sourced from places and businesses that still manufacture today. Some of the door and roof hatch furniture which Chance still has onboard and will have to be sourced as the work on her restoration continues and so it will be many hours of surfing the internet to find the parts over the next few years and collecting the parts as they become available. 

 So this next week we will continue to do work on the doors and other items that are in my workshop, until I get a chance to get back up to Woodplumpton and Chance to collect more of the parts that are still on Chance and ready to come down to the workshop and get worked on.