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Today I have a day off which was originally intended to work on Brent, however with no desire to work on the double slip instead I’ve cracked on with the County
I started by unsoldering the slide bars and repositioning to correct the length, along with adding the brackets.
It now needs fitting with spacer washers to stop the drive rods hitting he lead crank pin, I also want to add chassis washers (once I find some) in order that I can get rid of the slop in the lead axle
The next job was to sort out the bogie, the perseverance parts are rather crude compared with the comet (and don’t have an original Hall bogie) so it was lucky I made the mistake or the Saint would be stuck with the Wills casting. 
Fortunately it was an easy job to use the comet parts as overlays on the perseverance frame. It now needs painting before fitting the wheels and reuniting with the chassis 
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I will paint the main frames at the same time so that I can start final assembally.
One problem I have encountered since I went out to Seville is that the previously free running gearbox is now very stiff, not sure what the cause is but I hope some lubricant and running under power will solve. Something to rectify while removed from the frames for painting
Moving to the body, I have roughly painted the black areas in satin black. Once the lining is complete and varnished this will all be repainted as a start of the weathering. Initially in the same grey black I used on the modified hall, with more colours to follow
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