New (ATS) ones aren’t all that expensive…
http://www.aircraft-tool.com

Altho if you want a spiffy Sioux expect to pay $300…

There’s a T28 shop at Camarillo airport in Calif.. Chuck might have something…

At least now I know WTF it was that woke me up at 4.27am this morning here in LA……Thought it was a minor quake…

So knowing how to do sheet metal work (I have been working as a custom/race car builder/fabricator…shaped just about anything from scratch…done mostly aluminium shaping) and worked extensivly on engines ( I’m currenty working as a full-time race engine builder in my own shop) I can build/restore just about anything as long as I have a certified technician signing it off? 🙂

Absolutely.. & having personally worked on one particular warbird that had been thru an Annual only 2 weeks before I saw it & then sold I can tell you that there are jackasses out there who will sign off just about anything…& that particular Tx based person is very well known in the US….

I’m pretty sure his inspection consisted solely of opening the hangar door & making sure it was the correct type of aircraft….

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,

If I were you I’d drop by Pounds Yard in Portsmouth, it’s right by the end of the M27……

& don’t forget when they scrapped out all those old ‘Ton class minesweepers they had to do something with those Napier Deltics…..

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:

I take it thats a “no” then?:rolleyes: As recently as 10 years back Pounds Yard in Pompey had Napier (sea)Lions laying about. Place near me has at least 6 9cyl radials laying in the weeds, some with mounts etc still attached… & a complete, but chopped up, S2(?) Tracker filling a hole in his fence.
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….