...And then there was the rest of the week.

Oh far out, I can't even remember half the shit I've done this week.

I've been working on Y1 class 610 (1 of only 4 ever built), working on the low voltage electrical gear, which means headlights, taillights, indicators, door control (which is partially an air circuit too), then there will also be the sound system, and fucked if I can remember the rest. So not the smallest job. That's been making progress, and I've been driving the display tram for half the week.

I keep a log book of what service duties I've been up to, and only today I realised I've forgotten to fill it in this week (and last) - and I only remember half of it! That's just service duties too...

Thu/Fri, came into workshop in the arvo to muck with 610 some more, slung some more wiring through, managed a powered test, most of the 2nd console is working, no indicators yet (gotta troubleshoot it - or just shoot it =P ), and wire in the 1st console.

Then there's today (Sunday), which whilst not technically service, was me driving a tram, more specifically the Z class. FKN AWESOME!
Drove that for about 4, 4.5 hours, managed to do 4 trips around the circuit. After I said I wouldn't be able to rack up the trip numbers. It had 8 trips left on it before it *has* to go in for maintainence, now it doesn't. Kept forgetting stupid little things, like pop the side mirror in when switching ends, and then remembering it, and at one point could not for the life of me get the brakes to disengage. Did all my troubleshhoting, reset the system, nothing worked... until I realised the rear door was open.
D'OH!
Oh well, we had a good laugh.
Oh, and thanks to Squiddy, who made the day a lot of fun just by being there, and word to my ninja for making a mystery appearance. You know who you are - hell you've probably read it before it's even typed out, because you're a ninja. =P

So, with today's hours not actually written in my hours, I've done about 35-odd hours this week.
FARK!
Loved it though.

Anyway, me & the boys will be taking the Z out in a few weeks (hopefully) to offically celebrate me getting my full tram licence =D

Huzzah!

Busy day

Monday was another step forward - first day rostered on as a driver in traffic - I had the display car. Most days a tram gets taken down to the gold mine to sit there and look pretty for most of the day. And now the duty to deliver and retrieve that tram is mine, 3 days a week.

Monday had tram 34 down for display tram, and I am reasonably sure that it was 34's first day out since it got the pantograph conversion. So I had the honour of it's first trip since the test run =)
It's certainly a bit different with the panto, obviously it's still the same tram, same handling characteristics, but I had to keep remembering to cut off earlier than usual for the section insulators. Plus, the tram has to sit out in the yard, partly because they're shit-scared that someone's going to flip the panto on the depot door. Until now, all the panto-equipped trams have had seperate accreditations attached to them, and now a 'normal' tram has one too...

So that was about two-half hours of my day.

The rest of the day was spent in the workshop, throwing wiring around under the pits of tram 610, which is my priority project (and now has a deadline =S ), and so myself and a new co-worker got grease all over us & the wiring hooking things up. But by the end of the day, we had a majority of round one wiring done, and on wed. I got to test it - and most of it worked!

So, that was Monday. Driving, getting filthy in the pits (you haven't really worked until you're disgusting after all =P ), getting clean again, and taking a tram home.

I loves my work =D


(yes, this was supposed to be posted on Monday, but I was too busy playing trams =P )