Spitfire suitcase anyone?

Thanks for that Andy.

In the not so distant future we should be sitting on a whole heap of aircraft salvage. No idea what yet but the first look is looking good. 😉

I will look him up.

Have a word with John Manning at Aviation Artefacts about the process of casting models from aircraft scrap.

He has more or less perfected the exercise after much trial and error!

Amazing guys. Thanks for that.

A wide and varied use of aircraft material.

With a lot of the cast I have found I would like to try and melt it down and produce a model of whatever aircraft it came from.

I have no idea how this would turn out or the cost of the procedure but sometimes I feel it would be better than it being thrown out in the bucket when I eventually pop my clogs. If it were in the shape of say a spitfire it would stand a better chance of being kept or sold to someone who wanted it.

Not to detract from the object of the thread but has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece that came from said aircraft.

For instance melted it down and used it to for a toilet roll holder fasioned from cast from the engine. Or plate to form a brush pan out of.

Just curious as to how some material ends up.

On a related note, my main workbench was originally a WWII Hamilton Standard prop stand… I was told “Take this thing apart & throw it in the dumpster”.. which became “take this thing apart & throw it in the back of my truck”

My garage door was made by Westlands using aircraft aluminium

…has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece that came from said aircraft?

I have a booby trap in the bedroom, cunningly disguised as a Varsity propellor blade…:D

…has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece?

Well, I used the very heavy crankshaft balance weight out of a crashed Armstrong-Siddeley Cheetah aero-engine to stop my rather lopsided Christmas-tree from falling over last year! :rolleyes:

Custom model?

Bwloooeaugh! (sound of projectile vomiting:D)

A.

I’ve ordered the custom model to match my baseball cap. 🙂

Not to detract from the object of the thread but has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece that came from said aircraft.

How about cladding a wall in C47 with hints of C119 ?

Bits of the wall 3m x 5m before it left us for installation.

Not to detract from the object of the thread but has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece that came from said aircraft.

For instance melted it down and used it to for a toilet roll holder fasioned from cast from the engine. Or plate to form a brush pan out of.

Just curious as to how some material ends up.

Personally I would like something to be made from all the scrap cast I have found over the years so that it would represent the form of the aircraft it came from in some way or another.

How possible is this?? Does anybody know?

I’ll pass on the suitcase, but do have the splendid cuff-links made from the melted down engine main bearings of Al Deere’s ‘Kiwi’ Spitfire crash. They are, singly, in the form of a small single step ‘Supermarine’ rudder pedal.

Mark

Not to detract from the object of the thread but has anyone used reclaimed material from an aircraft for any purpose other than a collection piece that came from said aircraft.

For instance melted it down and used it to for a toilet roll holder fasioned from cast from the engine. Or plate to form a brush pan out of.

Just curious as to how some material ends up.

Personally I would like something to be made from all the scrap cast I have found over the years so that it would represent the form of the aircraft it came from in some way or another.

How possible is this?? Does anybody know?

Case?

You’d look a case with one of those.

You’d also look more than a bit of a pretentious tosser, carrying that around in public, IMO.

For the chap who has tons of money – and nothing better to spend it on.

Anon.

I will stick with my Rimowa Classic ( Ju52 inspired) suitcase thank you.

Nice 🙂

Very nice…..but I wouldn’t take one of those through an airport…

…one whiff of cordite on the ‘original parts’ and you could see you pride-and-joy blown-up in a controlled explosion! :diablo: