Very nice work Visotka1 ! Having seen some of your creations in your posts to this forum over the last 6-8 months I have to say I’m impressed with your skillsets. Looking forward to seeing your final product.

I recently found/bought this DC-7C wheel with all of its original switches and hole plugs in place. I think it’s likely the original finish too. What’s interesting are the (3) small tapped holes around the hub to attach a retaining ring–which kept the cap from being “stolen”. Most of DC-7 (and DC-6) wheels did not have these holes so the rings might be peculiar to a given airline. Starting wth the DC-8, all caps were mounted with retaining rings. The last of the photos is of my DC-6 wheel with such a retaining ring installed.

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6.26.2018 edit: I guess what I call my DC-6 wheel could be a early DC-7 wheel too. I don’t know for sure if the retaining cap was OEM equipment on any DC-6. Anyone out there know for sure?
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Boeing B17 cap on US Ebay. The cap has some issues but this version is not the easiest to come by…and due to its design, it’s probably the most desirable of the B17 caps.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-U-S-Army-Air-Force-BOEING-B-17-Flying-Fortress-WWII-Steering-Yoke-Emblem/382444913522?_trkparms=aid%3D777003%26algo%3DDISCL.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140131123815%26meid%3D64ad231715734ca0b859abad9062d381%26pid%3D100169%26rk%3D11%26rkt%3D12%26sd%3D253574213360%26itm%3D382444913522&_trksid=p5411.c100169.m2942

I think you will like the product Darrell. A very nice reproduction for the price.

Hi all:

I’m onto my next project, a DH Dove/Heron captain’s wheel (with brake) on a partial column. It has no cap so I’m fabricating a facsimile. If anyone on this forum has such a wheel I’m wondering if you might consider posting a photo of the center hub with the cap removed, and a photo of the back side of the cap. Although my wheel is still mounted to the control head, it’s missing whatever was in the hub for mounting the cap. Photo below isn’t very good but shows what I’ve got….or don’t have…

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“Your Belfast yoke must need an enormous centre cap….”

It looks like the top of the control column in a Belfast is a large clevis affair in which the base of the yoke slides into the clevis of the column and is then tightened up. For display the ideal would be to find a Belfast column that I could cut at an angle 6-10 inches below the base of the yoke. Many of the wheels/yokes in my collection are displayed that way….on a partial column. Anyone know where I can get a Belfast column…..sans yoke…:D ?

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Hi Visotka1…I’m late to the party here but…very nice work on your TU-16 wheel! I’m assuming you produced that cap with a 3D printer? Nice work! And again…nice work with all the buttons for the TU-144 project. I’m looking forward to seeing the wheel/yoke itself. As stated by others here, I too have never seen one for sale. That someone on a Russian forum was willing to pay that massive 14000 euro price for one suggests high desirability. Fly-Buy….thanks for posting the photo.