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Re: Restoration remains......opinions?
Posted by Steve T on Fri Apr 30, 2004 07:36:37 PM
In reply top Restoration remains......opinions? posted by Dan Jones on Fri Apr 30, 2004 03:02:16 AM
Hi Dan--Thanx for the post...
: Who wants to do the marketing? (I'll supply the "junk").
: :-)
:
: We'll call the business "Warbird Paper-Weights"!
Hmm. It'd genuinely interest the likes of me: there is NO WAY I'll ever own such a thing in toto, but little "souvenirs" are attainable and still offer that link with the past.
: Seriously though, it's a great question. I've thrown away
: stuff that was literally just scrap (old rotten wood, cru
: shed steel tubing, etc) but anyone or any organization tha
: t just scraps whatever is left over once their project is
: finished isn't really into preservation. I've seen comple
: te radial engines (!) tossed into a certain museum's scrap
: bin here in Alberta after they got their Anson project fi
: nished. They gathered up stuff from farmers for years for
: their project and then once they were done EVERYTHING tha
: t was left over went out the back door and into the scrap
: bin. That was just criminal.
Geez. I'd have loved a "pooched" Jacobs L6MB to go behind the Anson II prop I actually have. And there are any number of real museums and private collections that would too. At least two early mark Anson projects are in the early stages in southern Ontario...
: (alot of it had "disappeared" again by morning however...)
Since you seem to know...you must've been connected with this second round of "nefarious doings"...Bravo! :-)
: Alot of stuff gets recyled too. You have to keep in mind
: that as passionate as we all can get about these airplanes
: , they are just man-made machines, and fairly recently man
: -made machines at that, and when you re-skin a baggage doo
: r for a Stearman, for example, the piece of skin that you
: took off is just an old sheet of anodized alclad, all shot
: full of holes and dings and dents - if it were still any
: good you probably wouldn't have replaced it in the first p
: lace, right? But it gets recycled into little doublers an
: d brackets, or sometimes into a tool too.
To honk my own horn momentarily...Hmm, what to do with a roughly rectangular hunk of old aircraft aluminum? How about slap a painting on it of the Stearman or whatever that the piece in question came off of? Have always wanted to give that a try...
: Hopefully with the better communications that we have nowa
: days and with sights such as Barnstormers, ebay, or even t
: his one, more "leftovers" can find their way to more suita
: ble homes. Maybe we could even add a "Leftovers Clearingh
: ouse" to this site Scott? Nothing fancy, just say by a/c
: type and with an email address? Something like:
:
: Bristol Balderdash leftovers - John Biggles - siskin@raf.u
: k ?
Excellent idea. And it's interesting to hear of some Bristol Balderdash bits possibly being available. The poor old "Baldy" gets short shrift so often... ;-)
S.