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  • in reply to: First apprentice Spitfire mechanic in 40 years #1121198
    ZRX61
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    LOL! If his intructors read this thread the guy will probably quit after a week…

    in reply to: First apprentice Spitfire mechanic in 40 years #1121206
    ZRX61
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    ……………..and a trip to the parts department to ask for a pair of greased nuts!

    “The foreman said I need to come over here & get some black balls”:D

    Not forgetting….
    Grease for the muffler bearings… blinker fluid…

    Are the blinkers working?
    Yes.. no.. yes… no.. yes.. no…

    in reply to: Spotted #1121210
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    Yesterday, low flying FreightLiner..

    http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v317/ZRX61/Warbirds/Engineshop005.jpg

    in reply to: First apprentice Spitfire mechanic in 40 years #1121306
    ZRX61
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    So by the end of the week he will be well versed in bubbles for the spirit level (certainly, spherical or cuboid?*) bags of sparks for the grinder (they’ll be here after lunch), long weights/stands, tartan paint (MacDougal or MacDonald?), buckets of propwash, yards of flightline, lefthanded screwdrivers, glass hammers, metric AND imperial adjustable spanners…….

    *…Spherical? We only have cuboid ones, we’re waiting on the sparks for the grinder so we can knock the corners off & make the round ones…

    in reply to: General Discussion #311003
    ZRX61
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    Got a bloody *Performance Award” from the wonderful LAPD for 51 in a 35 😡

    in reply to: What made you (want to) Swear Today? #1897541
    ZRX61
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    Got a bloody *Performance Award” from the wonderful LAPD for 51 in a 35 😡

    in reply to: General Discussion #311004
    ZRX61
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    we will just have a generation of stupid adults who really might think Hitler was a football team manager…

    We’re already there….

    in reply to: If a museum isn't for education what is it for? #1897548
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    we will just have a generation of stupid adults who really might think Hitler was a football team manager…

    We’re already there….

    in reply to: Lancaster recovery in Germany #1123383
    ZRX61
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    Err, could you translate that please? I do not have a clue what you are on about.

    Certainly:
    per ardua ad astra

    trans:
    After work, we’re off to the movies 😉

    in reply to: Twilight Tear HL-W #1124393
    ZRX61
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    So this pile of ‘junk’ is now worth more as it is, than the artist formerly known as Twilight Tear 😮

    Well, that kinda depends.. as there is apparently some case to be made that part of the junk pile is in fact part of the other one…. alledgedly.

    in reply to: Classic Wings Dux #1126608
    ZRX61
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    Had a brief drone around the patch in the Rapide back in ’89 or ’90

    in reply to: Does anyone have a present for Just Jane? #1126700
    ZRX61
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    That is a lincoln turret Ben

    So? they can build either a Lincaster or a Lancoln 😉

    in reply to: General Discussion #313640
    ZRX61
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    Found a new leather drive belt just like the original for $19.95 & ordered new felt wipers for the apron/cross slide etc.

    in reply to: Do we have any collectors of old tools? #1899031
    ZRX61
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    Found a new leather drive belt just like the original for $19.95 & ordered new felt wipers for the apron/cross slide etc.

    in reply to: General Discussion #313775
    ZRX61
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    The new (to me) SB had evidently been stood for at least 25 years or more & I just discovered it still had the original (very dry) leather drove belt it left the facory with… which just vaporized itself in a cloud of dust while I was messing about with it. 🙁

    Just as well I planned on fitting a new rubber belt… I’ll be at the auto store in the AM for a 63inch sepentine fan belt which is the standard fix these days.. just takes a bit of disassembley/reassembley to get it fitted… so I can take a look at the headstock bearings while I’m doing that 🙂

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