I like the way you have added the wires as well 🙂
I wonder if it should be one of these calculators as it looks a bit more bomb-aimerish. I haven’t seen a picture of one in situ either. Would be a bit awkward to use in place, I wonder if they clipped in?
It’s pretty much like this one
http://www.enginehistory.org/Wright/Kuhns/CurtissWrightTC18/cylinderholddowncapscrews.html
except that the oil holes on the 3rd and 4th ring are the other way round and mine only has two oil holes in the skirt under the gudgeon pin.
It has 513641 and 2 stamped on the crown, maybe 513641 is the engine number and cylinder no.2 – or would it be the piston serial number?
Looks a lot better now I have cleaned it up anyway 🙂
It’s pretty much like this one
http://www.enginehistory.org/Wright/Kuhns/CurtissWrightTC18/cylinderholddowncapscrews.html
except that the oil holes on the 3rd and 4th ring are the other way round and mine only has two oil holes in the skirt under the gudgeon pin.
It has 513641 and 2 stamped on the crown, maybe 513641 is the engine number and cylinder no.2 – or would it be the piston serial number?
Looks a lot better now I have cleaned it up anyway 🙂
thanks!
I like the way the gudgeon pin is held in just by the aluminium wear button. Looks like it might be TC18 and 146209 could be the Wright part number.
😎
thanks!
I like the way the gudgeon pin is held in just by the aluminium wear button. Looks like it might be TC18 and 146209 could be the Wright part number.
😎
Lancaster Tail Wheel?
Lancaster Tail Wheel?
Thorn
It looks like a control panel for an airborne surveillance radar to me, the threshold is not of the runway variety 😉
Jettison Live
Canberra I think – maybe others. 1950s.
/anorak_on
Probably has the bottom edge curled into a tube and rivet hinge pin; the wartime ones were just bent up slightly and had a split pin.
/anorak_off
Jettison Live
Canberra I think – maybe others. 1950s.
/anorak_on
Probably has the bottom edge curled into a tube and rivet hinge pin; the wartime ones were just bent up slightly and had a split pin.
/anorak_off
Mike, I’d forgotten about those bits – I think Malcolm mentioned them to me. I willl email him myself about that.
It was the sheet metal band that goes across the top of the nose from just in front of frame E following the line of the windscreen back to the cockpit side rails just in front of frame D that I was asking about.:)
(I have got the instrument panel and some copies of the flat front windscreen panels and I am trying to fill the gap.)
After a lot of head scratching, I think we are looking aft at frames 17, 18, 19.
(This is the section of W4964 on display at Newark Air Museum.)
I want to make the complex shaped strip of metal that fits the bottom of the windscreen frames to Frame E – can you help with a drawing?
does this help?
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