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Re: Restoration remains......opinions?

Posted by MIKE on Thu Apr 29, 2004 10:30:14 AM

In reply top Re: Restoration remains......opinions? posted by Steven M Dennis on Thu Apr 29, 2004 08:11:12 AM

: I think this is a great question Stephen, thanks for bring
: ing it up.
:
: I too have thought about this, but as in most things, ther
: e are many ways to look at it. In my case, I have been in
: volved in the much less glamorous side of "Warbirds" for a
: while, dealing in Primary Trainers. I have been involved
: with mostly Fairchild PT-19/PT-23/PT-26's, but have also
: been collecting parts for a Stearman restoration.
:TO SEE WHAT CAN BE MADE FROM PATTERNS!!!GO TO MIKE RAWSONS SB2C PROJECT THIS HAS BEEN MADE FROM STUFF MOST WOULD HAVE SCRAPPED THERE IS ENOUGH TO BUILD 4 SB2CS I FIND IT HARD TO BELIEVE PEOPLE HAVE A PARTS AIRFRAME IF THEY HAD ANY SKILLS THEY WOULD BUILD UP TWO INSTEAD OF ROBBING ONE AIRFRAME TO REPAIR ANOTHER AND AS FAR AS SCRAPPING THE REMAINS PUT IT UP FOR SALE!! ID LOVE TO GET ENOUGH PATTERNS TO BUILD SAY A HELLCAT!!P-40 ECT!!IT CAN BE DONE SOME OF THE PARTS FOR THE SB2C WERE ROUGH TO SAY THE LEAST!!SAME WITH A/C THAT ARE RECOVERED IN VERY DAMAGED CONDITION THE TREND SEEMS TO BE DISPLAY IT AS IS THIS IS A COP OUT GO TO WORK ON IT ONE PIECE AT A TIME!!I INCLUDED IN THIS THE JUNGLE WRECKS LEAVING THEM THERE IS NUTS THEY WILL BE GONE FOREVER SOON WHY LOOSE THEM WHEN THEY COULD EASLY BE RESTORED AND PRESERVED LETS PUT DOWN THE EGOS AND MAKE THIS THE PRESEVATION GENERATION!!!IT CAN BE DONE!!
: Let's take the Stearman for instance. In the process of a
: cquiring parts I have obtained a couple of fuselage sectio
: ns that were badly damaged in crop dusting accidents, and
: after pulling all of the pieces I needed off of the frames
: , there are still some good "sections" of tubing, mostly t
: he cluster welds and attach points, etc. that weren't dama
: ged in the crashes. Now, I don't need these pieces, nor d
: o I want to store these bent up frames "just to have them"
: , but I will not throw them away, or take them to the scra
: p yard to be recycled, as they may be of use to someone el
: se down the line.
:
: So what I will do, is offer to give (ie. donate, no money
: transfer, etc.) these frames to anyone that can use them f
: or whatever pieces there are left, or for patterns for the
: ir restoration. In this way, hopefully they will be ultim
: ately consumed into other projects until there really is n
: othing left to throw away.
:
: Now realize that there is no identity that can be assumed
: from these sections, as the aircraft that they came from a
: re flying right now after these pieces were replaced with
: new a long time ago. So we aren't "losing an aircraft" in
: this "consumption process", and are probably preventing a
: "double identity" problem in the end. ;o)
:
: Well anyway, enough rambling, and I know I am not addressi
: ng your real question which I'm sure concerns the more "gl
: amorous and valuable Warbirds", but I think I would do it
: the same way if I was rebuilding one of those too. ;o)
:
: Great topic!
:
: Steve :o)

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