Work being done while not able to get to Woodplumpton and work on Chance's hull

One of the many jobs that have to be done, is the repairing of parts of the interior which can be undertaken in the workshop back in Essex.

One of the jobs is to removing the rotten parts from the many cupboard doors from the interior of Chance which were taken off her earlier in the restoration. Many of the parts were very wet and now have had time to dry out.

Now that the parts are dried out it can be seen what is rotten and what was just wet. 
This galley cupboard door was one that was both wet and rotten and now as dried out we can see what is rotten and how to remove the parts that are rotten and keep the parts that have dried out and will only need sanding and staining and varnishing before they are refitted later on in the restoration.


The first job we have to do is carefully dismantle the frame of the door off the  centre panel using a Squeezy clamp setup in reverse where the feet are set to push parts apart from each other rather than to clamp them together. 


Once the first part is apart from the centre panel then you repeat the process on the other parts until the two parts you need off the rest of the door are done


Then look for some mahogany that is a close match to the original mahogany and then thickness it to the correct size  


Then set up the mortise drill on the large pillar drill to make the mortises
When Chance was build they may have these drills, however, if they did not have these mortise drills, they would have been done by hand with a twist drill bit and a mortise chisel and a wooden mallet and would take a lot more time than using this mortise drill setup on the pillar drill.  


The business end of the mortise cutter


These two doors are off Chance and they are in need of a complete rebuilding as they are rotten in too many places to make repair the way to go



The first of many revisions of the restoration project work list which will be change many a time over the coming months as we  progress on with the restoration  project



 

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