Still seeking help on this part. I bought a single-seater control box that is 95% complete about a month ago, but found that the most needed part on it is broken too! Adjacent lug for flaps con rod is also broken. See first photo below.
But I should add that I am perfectly happy that I made the acquisition as apart from three broken parts and a couple of missing bits, it is in very good condition so will be the basis of the control box for Mk.31 A79-733. The control box that I do have that was allocated for that aircraft was missing many bits, has a broken L00809 boss, and includes at least one significant trainer part in lieu of the correct one.
I also got to examine a spare one in a museum collection and found that the needed part is also broken – second photo below. That makes five cases of the broken L00809 boss!
Still looking… !
Finally found one late last year! Is this the last one on earth?!
Photo too of what my early Vampire Mk.30 LH instrument panel looks like with it installed; that panel is now close to finished…
Thanks Oracal. Lacquers elsewhere on the aircraft are nitrocellulose. These are waterproof and I understand that nitrocellulose had in a general paint finish sense replaced shellac long before. Is it better than nitrocellulose lacquer?
The investigation began because we were trying to figure out what ‘repellor’ meant in the section cuts that show the application of fabric edging on the fuselage. I have attached one of these cuts. There is nothing in the text of the repair manual that actually defines what ‘repellor’ is. I think that it is this ‘waterproofing paint’ that is mentioned elsewhere.
The Australian manual says ‘reduced 30% with Thinners K3/174 for spray’, so that would give an indication of the type of system anyway.
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