Equipping Tuesday Club's premises at full swing

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Aviation Museum Society Finland rented premises at Puusepäntie (Carpenter Road) in Tuusula to secure the continuity of the Tuesday Club’s work. The Club’s restoration operations drew to a close at the Finnish Aviation Museum’s workshop at the end of 2024, because the restoration space was turned into a workshop serving the Museum’s move.

The premises at Puusepäntie were rented for three years, or for the period of time during which the new Museum building would be completed. Well, if that wouldn’t realize, we could continue at Puusepäntie, until restoration work could be continued in the workshop in the new Museum.

Photos by Jukka Köresaari

Equipment and work machines brought along from the Finnish Aviation Museum have been hauled for the last couple of weeks to the empty hall at Puusepäntie. We obtained a laudable amount of work machines and equipment from there, thanks to the Finnish Aviation Museum. The items include band saws, face grinders, circular grinders, a column drilling machine, a compressor and an industrial vacuum cleaner.

Photo by Jukka Köresaari

Smaller articles have been transported from the Finnish Aviation Museum to Puusepäntie in cars and trailers. To transport big and heavy objects like tables and work machines we luckily had at our disposal a lorry equipped with a rear platform lift. Many of the work machines were manually pushed out of the workshop and on to the lift, but we were assisted in the loading by the Museum’s fork lift.

Simultaneously we have been able to obtain, from a long list of needs, furniture and other equipment to furnish the premises. Fortunately these have been available at a low price or even with no cost. We do still need furniture, such as lockers and shelves, and equipment, e.g. a coffee maker and a medicine cabinet.

The premises rented by the Aviation Museum Society isn’t merely the Tuesday Club’s workshop. It will be at the same time a storage for publications by the Aviation Museum Society and Ketterät Kirjat Oy (a publishing company). A space will be therefore reserved separately for these two storages.

When various pieces of equipment have been brought in through the Puusepäntie door, shelves and lockers are being assembled on the walls for restoration material and tools. So far everything looks quite confusing, but day by day the chaos will turn into organization, and beginning restoration activities will be possible.

It will certainly take some time yet to furnish the Puusepäntie workshop. However, we aim to be able to continue restoration work in the new facility of the Tuesday Club at the beginning of April. Then the members will continue work both on the Myrsky Demo Wing and on the restoration of the Snoopy (OH-XEA). Along with these projects also smaller restorations will be done, such as the refurbishing the pilot’s seat of a Bristol Blenheim bomber.

Photos by Lassi Karivalo except if otherwise mentioned.

Translation to English by Matti Liuskallio.