Wasn’t the Meteor a converted Merlin, to be used in armoured vehicles ?
Did a later “Beast” have an actual Merlin ?
The Meteor had about 80% commonality with the Merlin and RR swapped the factory with Bristol for their ‘jet jobbies’.
Wasn’t the Meteor a converted Merlin, to be used in armoured vehicles ?
Did a later “Beast” have an actual Merlin ?
The Meteor had about 80% commonality with the Merlin and RR swapped the factory with Bristol for their ‘jet jobbies’.
Btw.
That last photo of yours I see a Buccaneer. There is a Fox and a 208sqn chevron on the side?
Water wings?
Out of interest Blue.
Do you have access to a sand blaster? Preferably in a cabin.
If you do and you can afford a sack or two of fine, glass bead, that is a good way of removing the corrosion and paint on small components.
Don’t use sand! It leaves a poor finish (porous). See photo for the surface finish after using glass bead. I would point out though that the glass bead is soon a fine powder and no longer of use..
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Hi Ian. Again, thanks for the Lindy calender, it’s great!
Been clearing up here and found these. They’re Victor tools. The blue spanner was also for the PFCU’s, Rigger stuff.
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Loganair. Machrihanish-Glasgow is all I’ve done.
It’s ‘single Dutch’ to me although some might think I speak ‘Limburgs’….
You should watch QI more often, it has been qouted.
Could the GAF paint a few tornados to look like the Luftwaffe?:)
No 6 and 8 unified are normally coarse. 6,8 & 10 x 32 tpi.
I would imagine something in BA sizes. No 4, no 6 maybe?
If the fittings are Unified threads there should be a ‘triple O’ ID on them.
XL232 or XL190 would be the ones I would build. They had some history with me.
And a buried mechanical clock ticking loudly beside it.
‘Gee, I was kinda hoping it was your watch making that noise’…..
A ‘Danger UXB’ sign in the garden would top it off…