When your mojo goes AWOL
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mth
Western Thunderer
And it has tacken my mojo with it.
When i first read Mike's bubble idea, I was thinking 'he's been useing the glue again'
but thinking about it it has merrit
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Given the diversity of bubble-mania in this group... anyone got any suggestions for restoration of a fuel tank from a 1943 Dodge WC-51? Symptoms were continual choking of the carb jets with orange sludge. Removed petrol tank and flushed the inside to remove the rust residue. Now need a chemical wash to remove the surface rust before applying an ethanol-proof sealer to the inside surfaces of the tank.
I have drawn a blank in regard to companies who offer such services in the south.. and not sure yet about a supplier for products.
Sheared some of the screws fixing the tank sender unit... think these are UNC no.8 32tpi and Bob Alderman has posted some samples to confirm identity. If thread type is as written, need to locate a taper tap to redo the threaded holes (I have drilled screw in hole to thread depth).
What say you?
I have drawn a blank in regard to companies who offer such services in the south.. and not sure yet about a supplier for products.
Sheared some of the screws fixing the tank sender unit... think these are UNC no.8 32tpi and Bob Alderman has posted some samples to confirm identity. If thread type is as written, need to locate a taper tap to redo the threaded holes (I have drilled screw in hole to thread depth).
What say you?
S
Simon Dunkley
Guest
I wasn't quite, and that's not really an image you would wish to have!I keep thinking that I remember you in short trousers.
Jim.
There was certainly less of me back then, apart from the hair, of course...
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Yes, PM sent.
Osgood
Western Thunderer
Could be your lucky day?
Thanks to a recent posting on a bubble-specific forum (think MVs) I can highly recommend this:
"Put 5 gallons of milkstone remover in it and leave it to stand for a week, turning it regularly to slosh the stuff about. You can let it down a bit with water (say 25%) but I find it works best neat.
Drain, rinse, leave it to dry out. Seal with slosh or similar if the milkstone remover (phosphoric acid based and used for cleaning milking equipment) has removed the rust blocking the pinholes that might have appeared (especially where the baffles are tacked in).
A member of that bubble club has just tried this and the rseults are simply fantastic - the cost minimal. Apparently it is a well -known technique in the clasic car restoration field.
Osgood
Western Thunderer
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Yup them's the ones
, ours look a tad wider...couple of inches....but that might be because they are not mounted and are piled up on the ground with nowt else to reference their size too. Will contact you mid next month on my return from the US and set up a meet with required paperwork so you can collect what we have. Left camera at work this evening but will PM the photos over tomorrow evening.
Eastsidepilot
Western Thunderer
Here's a couple of bubbles I toyed with in the past, now gone
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Took my mind off model making for periods of time
ATB, Col.
,Took my mind off model making for periods of time
ATB, Col.
Locomodels
Western Thunderer
Here's a couple of bubbles I toyed with in the past, now gone
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Took my mind off model making for periods of time
ATB, Col.
Well if we are talking toy bubbles and past loves here are a couple of my aviation bubbles.
Happy days in Prague before the Wall fell. And yes that is an AK47 .
Locomodels
Western Thunderer
It is a Short Wing Piper, a PA17 Vagabond. This one is my beloved 'Yankee Lady' with me driving and in formation with another Short Wing, this time a Tri Pacer. Bought in Peoria, Illinois, packed into a 40' container, with three other airplanes and shipped via Lowestoft, where the well known Mickoo may well have handled the container for me. Currently hanging up in the roof of my workshop awaiting a rebuild after a friend broke it! I will stop there as, with all love affairs, I could go on Ad Infinitum and bore the pants of everyone.
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
Oh, go on... at least post a pikky of your Piper-Clipper.
Locomodels
Western Thunderer
Well you only have yourself to blame now. At least I know that Heather likes airplanes too.
Just before we left Texas to collect the Vagabond in Illinois, a long two day flight across the mid-west. This one came across in the same container, and is also in the workshop for rebuilding. One day...
mickoo
Western Thunderer
I'd be very suprised if the container came through Lowestoft, theres no container cranes there so it'd be a jib crane and wire lift and that'd be expensive, nor do I know of any feeder services which call at Lowestoft, its a trawler and offshore support harbor, maybe some break bulk and animal feeds/fertiliser traffic.
Quite intrigued now as to how it came that way, if it came through Felixstowe on the other hand then yes it would of passed through here, though I don't actually drive to unload vessels, only drive to test and comission.
mickoo
Western Thunderer
Or we need to take lessons, clearly he is doing something right! LOL
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
The difference, if there is one, is that most of us have to contend only with our own bubbles... Paul has to suffer bubbles coming over the channel from other like-minded souls, those "foreign" bubbles have a habit of disrupting the orbit of "local" bubbles!!! For example:- building S7 models of LSWR motive power versus bits and bobs for Gresley designs.
regards, Prof Barking who is worried about a potential bubble bath...
Locomodels
Western Thunderer
It is a while now and I will have to look up the paperwork. I remember that it was LEP who handled it. From Peoria it was put on a train to Canada, then to a ship on the St Lawrence seaway. We flew from Peoria to Chicago to NY and the following day to LHR. About five days later the container was delivered to an airfield at Chessington. The speed amazed me.
Dog Star
Western Thunderer
That explains everything... My Mum had a life long friend who was responsible for the paperwork within LEP circa 1965-1980s and the stories I was told about the impact of computerisation on handling at that time made me
everytime.Are you sure that you got the correct airframe?
Are you sure that you got an airplane given that the crate was delivered to Chessington?
regards, Graham