found a few more items to busy the cockpit up, all bought today at the Newark Aerojumble. An Oxy hose for the Flight Engineers’ economiser, a brake relay valve which will fit just under and forward of the 1st pilots rudder pedals, some dumbell clips to stow said oxy hose and finally a teleflex control unit which will be fitted to the RH side of the throttle box to control the Landing Lamp dipping.

John

A quick update on somework that’s been carried out on refurbishing the throttle box. It’s slow going as information in this area is sparse, but in the last couple of weeks the pulley and support plates for the landing light control cable has been installed along with the landing light switch (which looks like a 1930s domestic light switch!). Finally the glider release handle has been refurbished by removing any corrosion and reassembling; this is all original except for some new paxolin washers and a new cruciform spring washer which can be seen at the pivot point. The various dinks and scratches in the handle have been left to show that it’s an original item but the juries still out on that score as far as I’m concerned.

cheers

John

That would be the one Cees

Do you happen to know if there are any larger holes in your support plates as they appear to be shown in the AP extract although they’re not shown on the original drawing?

thanks

John