Passenger Compartment Gear

Time to go back to the roof and figure out how the mechanism for the passenger safety equipment (i.e. emergency chain) needed to be rigged. Currently there is nothing but bits and drawings and even some of the bits may not be correct. First job is to make 2 new blocks for the roof mounted equipment to sit on. As you can see we had one block which may have been good enough to reuse but not two, so a decision to make two new ones was taken.

A job for Marcus. The block has to fit the curve of the roof while also presenting a flat upper surface for the mechanism to sit on. Not a quick job, especially as the new wood is a hardwood.