Interesting read guys and just the place to post my first bit of nonsence,well not really.At our local museum I am involved in the build of a repro Spit.All alloy,full scale ground runner and so forth.The reason behind the build was bought upon the loss of two such “real spits” that were built or being built as a memorial to the guys and gals who flew,serviced them in the local area.These two projects had canvased the locals getting all the bits and pieces left over from the big scrap drive in 48,49(gotta love those farmers).When enough parts were donated,lent, given projects where readily sold OS.The last one was particullarly badly done as the plane and a lot of parts that where donated ,loaned as far as it remained a collection where silently and stealthily sold to the Uk .Thing is the farmers and collectors who still have parts have given grave reservations in helping our project until we prove that this one will stay at the museum and will not go anywhere.Many of the parts are held by a good mate and currently has them on loan to us as the bad stuff we can reverse engineer and make new copies thus preserving their value.The new museum manager wants them donated in case something goes wrong and if that is (unlikely) to happen they will be returned to said collector.I think this would be the way to go in any museum as if it is donated and the museum shuts the original owner has the right to say what can be done with it.And stuff that goes into storage well a good curator should be able to rotate exhibits,have different themes for times in history.I know thats hard as time and money is short but in a perfect world that would be ideal.Well thats it I suppose I really haven,t had much experience in the political goings on in museums,just a tin basher who loves making bits and pieces.I think the hard to find stuff should go to a good home and if it were not so rare or if you had multiples of said part then stealbay could be an option.Yeah I know there are plenty of crooks around but the community is too small to p#ss off too many people.
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