The thread types and sizes of the strip nuts Matt (Stacey24b) has are all UNF, and range from 1/4″ nut type (48 t.p.i) up to 7/16″ nut type (28 t.p.i) with the majority being 3/8″ nut type (32 t.p.i.)

There are also a fair few feet of piano hinge knocking around too, if anyone needs any of that.

Flipflopman

Slipped in while I was two finger typing there, Plough!! (and no, that’s not a euphemism!!:p) 😀

Flipflopman

DeltaPapa
Hangar visits have been taking place for a couple of weeks now contact details are……

e-mail at [email]thunter@vulcantothesky.org[/email] or by phone on 07957 161192.

You gonna combine it with a closing down sale and will you be selling off some of the tooling??

Seems pretty muc like Delta Papa was the intended recipient to me, Tony. Perhaps I am mistaken though, and the “YOU” in your posts was a spelling mistake for “TVOC”?

I agree with many of your points, and am by no means a TVOC fan myself. I also believe that the time for certain ‘grandiosely titled’ members of TVOC management, to leave has long since arrived, however, I feel that in this instance you owe Delta Papa a full apology.

Flipflopman

I always assumed it was an aerodynamic modification associated with the ECM plate which was attached underneath? Did the fairing not appear on either side (or both) depending on whether ECM plates were attached?

It was indeed! This caused us quite a bit of consternation however when we were refitting the end caps and noticed the difference, and resulted in hours and hours of digging through the Mod leaflets and aircraft drawings as to the reasons for it.

It was indeed due to the Counterpoise panel fitted to the Stb’d exhausts and the vortices it produced. When the Counterpoise panel was fitted to the Port side, as on some Blue Steel aircraft, the panel was shortened, so as not to produce the same amounts of turbulent air aft of the jet pipes.

Boring to most people, I fully understand, but sometimes you have to have something to take your mind off things!! :D:D

*Edit to add …. Chox, that’s all I have at the minute, but I’ll see if I have hard copy to scan, in which the print might be legible*

Flipflopman

Pagen01,

No worries at all mate!

Lindy’s Lad,

Sorry mate, that was more aimed at Chox to see how accurate the resin parts were! Have a hastily cropped picture though, which should hopefully show what I was getting at!

Flipflopman

Tim,

Can’t help with when they were added, but as you suggest, it’s entirely reasonable that the end caps started life without the bulges, but as time went on, and thermocouples were being damaged due to the tight fit, a Mod was embodied to give them a little extra room?

Pagen01,

The thermocouples are actually in the jet pipe. The end caps we’re talking about are just that, end caps. The jet pipe itself is around 23 ft long, and protrudes from the trailing edge by around 3 feet, so the steel end caps simply act as a fairing and tidy the area up. As Lindy’s Lad says, the end of the jet pipe was the fashionable and highly uncomfortable place to put thermocouples back in that era!

Flipflopman

Apologies if I have offended anyone. I certainly have not meant to speculate, but the nerves are still a little raw.

Hopefully, the truth will out…

Cheers Ben, BTW, Sorry for being a chimp!! 😀

Flipflopman

Are you on about my post about XH558 staying at Brize rent free??

The fact that I quoted David Burke in my post, directed my answer entirely in that direction and made no reference to yourself or 558’s stay at Brize should have been a fairly decent indicator, but to set your mind at ease….

…no, I wasn’t ‘on about your post’.

Flipflopman