Good progress was made over the last weekend. We now have an 8 by 9 inch hatch in the top of the now perfectly clean diesel tank! Firstly, we had to drill a small pilot hole in each of the four corners for the hatch which we had previously marked out. We then used a slightly larger drill bit to make the holes big enough to enable us to get the jigsaw in to cut the steel. All went really well and alot quicker than I had originally thought but we were interupted by a quick trip to Wilkinsons for some supplies, such as nappies (this was probably the first and last time I’m going to buy nappies!), a double headed brush on a telescopic handle, and some marigolds! I’d picked up the tip for the nappies off The Forums, which were as good as reported. We went through one of the packs, leaving the last pack to be used under the engine. At this point we called it quits as the light was failing and we were getting tired.

We are now at the point where we have a clean tank, with a “hole in the top. We would like to get everything up and running again as soon as possible really, but with only having weekends to work on it we’re limited. A few suggestions have been thrown about for the new cover which we’ll have to either get fabricated or make ourselves, and we’re going through the motions of picking out the good and the bad points. Whether we use a weedhatch style approach or what I don’t know. Suggestions, anybody?