sorry for the sarcasm ,but !

Another place across town has a complete R4360 stuck in a ditch at the side of the road.. & just up the road from that is a pub with half a Cessna embedded in the roof…& about 15 miles away is a B25 wedged into a canyon…& the engines are just laying there….

So instead of just blowing off my original question with a *(un)witty comeback* you might want to actually look ABOVE ground……. At least from your attitude I can see why you didn’t even THINK about asking your local salvage yards….[/QUOTE]

Ahh now i understand,you are obviously in the united states,that says it all,
over here in the UK, there is not much left of anything (above ground)and the same with german crashsites,the are only a few yards here in the uk,
I know it would be different in the USA as there is a abundance of stuff and various yards.but honestly here in the uk there is very little in the way of ww2 stuff,or piston,also over here any wreck crashsite cannot be touched without a licence from the defence department,tampering with a wreck site can cost you £5000 fine ($10000) or imprisonment, so its not as easy here in the uk, if you have only a little money,and the cost of shipping a engine would be as dear as it was to buy the engine if i was to ship one from the usa.
sorry if i come across nasty, but i really thought you were being sarcastic to me about going to a yard,i never realised you were from another country,please dont take any offence:D 😀 🙂

ok just pop down argos ??

thanks ever so much for that, i just didnt think to go to that scrap yard called “Merlins are us “”:D :confused:

cor whilst i am, at it can i buy a complete He111 fora quid, heard they are going cheep in the costa del sol, and merlins and all this wartime junk ,people just cant seem to shift it, bloody inundated with all this spitfire rubbish,:diablo: 😀 :p
just as if :rolleyes: :confused:

crikey

cripes !! ,it was only a suggestion, and searching with a mag is just as hard as with a detector,but if people dont act soon, it will be lost as the eyewitnesses are all dying off, !!
thats all i was implying

props

am i right in thinking props are just as pricey as the engine, and then i would have to have them machined down so they can spin in the trailer with the engine ,like you lads in carlilse?
also a hercules would be great because we have the RR heritage trust here in bristol, with all sorts of juicy bits and plans to copy,they helped out (i was the middle man) with finding a original ww2 oil tank for the halifax NA337 in canada,for that wonderful resto,and i saw a couple of extremely battered rusty flame tubes on a site i visited a few year ago probaly still there,If i got a hercules i would want to restore it back to ww2 spec, ie 3 blade prop, and flame dampers etc like the beaufighter had , bristols best fighter, would be a dream for me to show a engine like that at duxford legends like the engine boys do,I was more impressed with that than the aircraft ,as you say a buccaneer static is dead, but a engine lives vibrates and finally growls to life
a real show stopper:diablo:

cost of merlin

seeen some on ebay for £17000 from a main dealer in dursley UK
not running but complete,
too pricy really, like i said thats a mortgage for most peaple