DH Tiger Moth Restoration.

I’ve had an email from the Fella who actually wrote the Haynes manual on the Tiggie…….:D He is not a million miles away from where you think he might be. 😀

I have bought one from Amazon for a very reasonable price I must say…. but don’t tell him!…..he assures me he is a struggling author. 😀

As the OP… my interest was that if anyone fairly local to me was restoring a Tiggie then I would like to see what was being done and if possible help out..just out of interest to me…..that’s all.

I could go and buy my own Tiger but polishing hangar aircraft does not feature in my future plans I am happy to report. I do not have a pilots licence either.
I do occasional get the chance to fly in a Tiger but the opportunity is about to dry up I am sorry to say.

I suspect that Haynes looked at the potential market for the fully expanded, complete Lancaster workshop manual, realised that they would sell about six copies, and decided to pitch a potted history/picture book at the enthusiast market instead.

Seems reasonable to me.:D

I think what Haynes did with the aeronautical subjects (spit, lancaster, tiggie) was more of a tribute of their own, although a bit deceiving because of the usual quality of their publications; anyway u can’t really expect much from a 160 pages book, can you? 😉

I have now seen the Haynes book on the Tiger Moth. It is not a workshop manual in the Haynes tradition.

On the cover it says “An insight into owning, flying and maintaining the legendary British training biplane”. Whilst I have yet to study the book in detail, a quick flick through the pages shows that it discharges its remit quite well. There are some good pictures, which give an insight into what a Tiger Moth is, and how it should be flown. It seems to be quite reasonable value at £17.99 rrp – no doubt it will be found cheaper on Amazon etc.

😀 Very Good! I never thought for one moment that Haynes would have produced a maintenance book on the Tiger.

If it’s anything as bad as their auto manuals it has the potential to get you killed. They really are bloody dire.

The “Swiss” manual is not at all as accurate as it is cracked up to be and I doubt that the Haynes Tiger Moth ‘manual’ is anything what you might imagine if you are only familiar with their range of car manuals. If you bought their Spitfire and Lancaster ‘workshop manuals’, and presumably the one for Apollo 11, and you have a fireside picture book, that is all. I doubt that the Tiger Moth book is any different. I do suggest that you join the Moth Club, and find out just how hard it is to find a Tiger Moth restoration project and just how expensive it is to restore one properly.

Agreed, but it’s still an interesting insight.

As i’m unsure as to this original postee’s (Melv ?) actual requirements or intentions are, the Haynes book, Swiss manual and of course Stuart McKay’s book should make a good fireside read.

The latter two were ‘helpful’ with my recent project at least.

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The “Swiss” manual is not at all as accurate as it is cracked up to be and I doubt that the Haynes Tiger Moth ‘manual’ is anything what you might imagine if you are only familiar with their range of car manuals. If you bought their Spitfire and Lancaster ‘workshop manuals’, and presumably the one for Apollo 11, and you have a fireside picture book, that is all. I doubt that the Tiger Moth book is any different. I do suggest that you join the Moth Club, and find out just how hard it is to find a Tiger Moth restoration project and just how expensive it is to restore one properly.

PM me Melv – I’ll empty my inbox

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And track down a copy of ‘The Swiss’ manual.

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Melv,

You really can’t do better than have a look at the de Havilland Moth Club website http://www.dhmothclub.co.uk/ and their quarterly ‘The Moth’ magazine, which lists all the latest news.

The ‘Moth Market’ section on the website lists all recent ‘for sale’ and ‘wanted’ adds, including several projects!

Steve S

No. But I can recommend a good book! 😀

😀 Very Good! I never thought for one moment that Haynes would have produced a maintenance book on the Tiger.
I am off to order one!
That’s the advantage of a good knowledgable Forum….you never know what is going to turn up by way of information.

Hopefully someone will know of someone near to me who is either restoring one or about to undertake a restoration or even better there is a Tiger available in bits in some corner of a run down hangar waiting for a bit of TLC and armed with my Haynes manual I can carry out my own restoration! 😀

No. But I can recommend a good book! 😀