Bells 5 and 6 raised

Bells 5 and 6 have been raised tonight. Here is a video of the 5th swinging in its pit.

The 6th just needs the slider and rope fitting, and it's finished.

The 5th needs the slider board modifying, the slider fitting, and the pulley raising by 85mm before it too is finished.

Great progress on bells 6 and 5

The 6th bell is now in place and the bearings bolted down. This enabled the bell to be raised by the wheel.

In the next pit, the 5th bell now has its wheel bolted onto the headstock. Once the alignment has been checked, it too will be bolted to the frame and ready for swinging up.

Both bells will then need their sliders and pulleys moving up by 85mm, the stays fitted followed by the rope and clapper.

Then onto the 4th which should be fairly straightforward. The difficult bells will be the 2nd and 3rd which will require some extra steelwork to tie the 1911 framework to the rest of the bellframe. There will be more on this when we get there...!

1, 7 and 8 finished

We now have three bells fully ringable!

This is the 7th bell set at handstroke.

And this is the bell being rung from down in the ringing room.

We have now started on the 6th, and the wheel is now fitted to enable the bell to be aligned in its pit.

7th bell nearly finished

The 7th bell is now virtually complete! Having repositioned the slider 85mm higher, the bell was raised by hand to check that it sets both ways.

Everything lined up nicely.

Here is a short clip of the bell lowering itself.

All that needs doing is the pulley to be raised 85mm.