Andy, I removed my post, as subtle as it was, so as to revive this discussion; other than the one you have mentioned (and obviously TB382) do you know of any others, there was a photo (I think posted by Mark V) a while ago of the forward section of a MK V looked ’70’s maybe ’80’s.

Yes, actually quite well done (just thought I’d use some classic reserved English understatement, to offset the exuberance from the colonies)

It wasn’t the position of the wavy line that was important; it was that the transition between colours should be as clean a line as possible, with no rough over, or under, spray, since that roughness induced drag.
The instructions said “approximately” to the drawn pattern, and overlaid the drawings with 1’0″ squares to help with the design, but not to be followed slavishly. It was felt that a small amount of rough spray could be tolerated, hence the 1″ allowance between colours (and a whopping 2″ for the demarcation between upper and lower colours) when freehand painting was inevitable. The only precise measurements were at edges of main items, for instance the green, on the trailing edge of the starboard wing, started 24″ inboard of the aileron, and spread out for 31.25″ onto said aileron. On the port wing the measurements were 50″ and 42.75″.
Edgar

That sounds like a job for someone at Boscombe down, paint A/C strictly to Supermarine drg 9999.9, flight test, note top speed, return, paint said A/C freestyle i.e not exactly to drg 9999.9, flight test, note top speed, return; if any difference between before and after,repaint A/C slightly beyond limits set in drg 9999.9, but not as radically different as before, flight test, note top speed, land, return to office to find the war finished last year….

The joke of it all, was when you tried to price your stall items, more in line with with the prices on ebay, people would either literally laugh in your face or throw it down and storm off, sad but true, yet the higher ebay prices still kept being paid ! It was also a shame the few at Shoreham that used to try and avoid paying to get in, sneaking into the marquee etc

I think you’ll find that the said individuals were all ” trade”, and knew the organiser personally, (or at least thats what they told me) me on the other hand, I know no one, and paid full price, and even sat in the car till 9.30 (or what ever time it was) to be allowed into the marquee….

The is the other point that aerojumble sellers go round the stalls of other aerojumblers to pick up cheap bargains to sell on their stalls at a mark up so maybe the fact that people sell stuff on Ebay is just part of the buying and selling process as well.

Quite a large amount goes out of the country, which is in my opinion why prices are so high, it’s a world market.

I’ve sold to AUS, Canada, US, most of the EU, Hong Kong, Thailand and Peckham; try getting a sign writer to put that on the side of your 3 wheeled van….

And of course most A/C wont fit into a blasting cabinet…..

I doubt theres a DVD of one being stripped, as I don’t think the running time is long enough; maybe a boxed set….

Having read through the document thoughtfully provided by TonyT, (circa 1984), it says initially that blasting is the best method of removing corrosion, reducing the time per fastener from hours to minutes, but that the Americans had discovered that using a course abrasive, “peening over” of the metal could occur, trapping corrosion underneath, this was avoided by using softer compounds in the blasting process,(although extending the time taken per fastener); it at no time states that corrosion can be driven deeper into the metal, by this process.