JimG
Western Thunderer
Your grand-daughter. Last year of college.
I remember when you didn't even have in-laws.
I feel old, all of a sudden.
I keep thinking that I remember you in short trousers.
Jim.
Your grand-daughter. Last year of college.
I remember when you didn't even have in-laws.
I feel old, all of a sudden.
And it has tacken my mojo with it.I don't mind this thread wandering off down by-roads and alleyways. In fact, I actively encourage it.
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.
Yes, PM sent.Picking up speed along the Off Topic branch - Speaking of tyres, I need some 14.00 x 24 28ply tyres. The last lot I got were from dock container straddle cranes being dismantled - don't suppose you know of any at your place do you, Mick?
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 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?
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.View attachment 19908 View attachment 19909 And here's another bubble picture in return :
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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.
For those of us who are familiar only with bubbles from well-known washing-up liquids... what is the aircraft?
regards, Graham
Oh, go on... at least post a pikky of your Piper-Clipper.I could go on Ad Infinitum and bore the pants of everyone.
Oh, go on... at least post a pikky of your Piper-Clipper.
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.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.
Or we need to take lessons, clearly he is doing something right! LOLS7 locos... airplanes... watermills... costly cars... seems that you need some lessons in bubble management!
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.Or we need to take lessons, clearly he is doing something right!
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..
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.I remember that it was LEP who handled it...