Sorry chaps, but I’m new to this cockpit business. Having just bought an original Canadian Hurricane control top (i.e. spade grip), I was thinking about getting it professionally restored for display. I actually have an eye on getting a Canadian Hurricane panel created at some point, but that is a distant aspiration for now. Can anyone suggest with whom and where I can get it done properly (and possibly get an orginial brake lever aswell?

Cheers

Jon

As ZR says….easy to make, the Blind flying panels are available lasercut in the UK for about £50, you can get decent replica brake levers for £15…restore the grip yourself its easy and fun!! I am doing some dimensions for someone fot the port & stbd panels.

So long Stewart…don’t ever lose that infectious enthusiasm for warbirds old fruit…. 🙂

Feel it would be best to cancel another major event this weekend as a mark of respect. You all know what im talking about.

Rubbish….Your Grandfather and my Grandad (and many like them) fought to keep this country free from wicked tyranny, cruelty and terrible acts…to do what you suggest would be giving into these cowardly scum who do acts of terror in the name of a cause that does not want these events to happen. Can’t you smell the Dunkirk Spirit?….I know I can….I can see it in the faces of Londoners and other British people the length and breadth of this great country.

Like many others on this forum, terrorism has touched my life too many times..be it the IRA blowing up my cousin or the cowards hitting the twin towers….never give in to terrorism…

David, it’s always completely amazed me that aircraft restoration attracts such a terribly low hourly rate when compared to car servicing. We should all abandon our qualifications and retrain as plumbers, it’s far more lucrative.

We have never valued our engineers (either professional degree/chartered) or the chaps who restore/maintain/build etc. This is why we have good thinkers who come up with innovative stuff like the microchip, jet engine, Harrier etc then bog off to the US later.

Where I work, lots have suggested that electrician and plumber stuff would be better paying than what we do….shame and scandalous…. 🙁

News! Not History Please. :dev2:

According to my profanisaurus dictionary….Hi-Octain is another word for a muppet who is high on 8 cans of fanta! 😀

Well done Moggy for providing more news of this event….should be great. Though not sure ‘compexity’ applies to a Spitfire!!

Sad story, though nice relic…..I was looking forward t posting the correct answer but sadly could not (work computer/net does not allow forum posts!!).
The spade grip being a AH2040 was/is Hurri/Swordfish/Battle type…never the type fitted to a Spitty…..A Typhoon would not have had an ally grip….was mag alloy (elektron!) and would have corroded to nothing. As would a Spitty grip…..cos other than the prototype they were all mag alloy.

Nice dig….nice Merlin too.

Just had a looksy….of course Elektron is spelt that way!!!
The company Magnesium Elektron still exists….here is a great link:-

http://www2.umist.ac.uk/material/rip/profiles/academic/New_Folder/gl_copy(1).htm
and
http://www.magnesium-elektron.com/data/downloads/DS478WroughtWE43.pdf
and
http://www.magnesium-elektron.com/data/downloads/DS480WroughtWE54.pdf

a question direct to http://www.magnesium-elektron.com should help if the other links do not