Hate to tell you this, but exceptionally few parts are interchangeable between the Wirraway and T-6 series. They look similar from the outside, but that is about it…

Oh man, the corrosion is pretty savage! I hope something is done with it before it fizzes away…
Thanks for posting Don. 🙂

^^^ You really are barking up the wrong tree doing that son! Filling a tank up without out any support with several hundred litres of kerosene will damage it. Inflating an empty tank with enough air pressure to partially inflate a party balloon will not.
You must be thinking of hydrostatic testing of high pressure bottles where, yes, to prevent explosive failures, they are filled with liquid before pressure testing.

The simplest and safest way to pressure test your tank is to hook up the shop air via a regulator and shut off valve to the fuel outlet and to tape a party balloon to the tank vent. All other openings are to be sealed. Allow shop air into the tank until the balloon is inflated to no more than normal size and the shut off the air. The couple of PSI it takes to inflate the balloon is more than enough to enable leak checking via the previously suggested soapy water mixture applied to seams, fitting, etc, without running the risk of damaging the tank by over pressure. I do know of one fellow who managed to turn a Piper Cherokee wing leading edge tank into a football by applying straight, unregulated, shop air to it…. 🙂

two Vintage Aviator-built Fokker D.VIII Replicas

Umm…. I beg to differ on that point Peter.
The wings were built by Koloman Mayrhofer in Austria and the rest of the airframes were built by Achim Engels, who is unfortunately now out of the business. The mighty fine engines were furnished by the Vintage Aviator. The airframes were assembled and finished by TVAL.
Do I get part of the choccy fish? 🙂

What’s a Donk??

Donk is short for Donkey, as in animal to pull your cart, or in this case your kite, along. 🙂

Some ADC Cirrus engines were painted blue also.

Lockheed Model 33 Little Dipper 🙂

That is Kermit’s first Wirraway, bought from the Moorabin Museum back in the ’80s. Kermit has recently obtained Murray Griffiths’ airworthy Wirraway, A20-704, registered VH-BFO, so I assume this is why this machine has come off display and into storage.
Kermit also has a Boomerang project A46-146 in storage. The wings are a new build set, part of a batch of wings built by Matt Denning and crew in Brisbane a few years ago.