Thread: Mud, Beets and Diesel

Oooh! A tipo 51! Now I can go to bed happy, and dream of heroics at the end of the Mulsanne straight.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

Nope.

Oh wait! Maybe a Junkers 52? How about a Fieseler Fi 156 Storch? (I am thinking of making a modern version when we move to Tassie...cheaper than a helicopter)

GQ

Gregor.

The best I can do is a comprehensive selection of photos of a Junker A - 50ci Junior from 1931 and a 1962 Dornier Do32. There was a JU-52 and a Stork, both awkward to get successful photos of.

The Dornier would lend itself to being a handyman's back shed project. A bloke with your procurement skills wouldn't find sourcing a BMW 6012 gas turbine a problem. Just about hand luggage size.

And think of all the rivets in a Junker look a like.

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Talking of Bugattis, naturally the Czechs had one and what a one! A '31 51.

Wow.. the Veyron of the 1930's..... all horsepower and zero safety...

Ahh... a time when men were men, and small brown furry creatures from alpha centauri were...... well you know the rest... (with apologies to Douglas Adamski)

Fiesler Storch, Erwin Rommels favourite substitute for spy satellites.. a true classic,

I'm getting increasingly despondent BT, ... when I was in Prague 2 years ago I missed all of this, too much beer at tourist prices in Wenceslas Square I suspect..

Now I have to go back!...

Regards
Ray

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

When I was searching for a bit more info on the Museum's locomotives last night I found a brief mention of a recreation of the railway workshop that incorporated a number of machine tools.
BT

I don't remember seeing that, or any "modern" machine tools, apart from the Atlas lathe. The basement area had some very old iron working machinery, like large timber framed forging hammers. All black and looking very old and sinister. Alas, I had a crappy camera and didn't get any good shots.

Jordan

Now I find out there was a basement! The photo that accompanied the comment showed an old line pulley lathe sitting outside in a yard. Nothing new.

BT

Originally Posted by Greg Q

Needs Schmeeds

I had grand visions of cultivating the crap out of our rented block in a revisitation of that whole 60's back-to-the-land movement. I have a pair of denim overalls and line on a VW microbus with flower decals.

Alas, my dream of growing organic durian fruit here in frosty Victoria is at least a decade ahead of the global warming thing. So, my co-conspirator is going to collect it so that he will have a lifetime of spares. (We bought both on a collective ebay deal and shared a ute drive to Geelong to collect them)

It is a Howard Junior...a heavy brute of a thing, complete with cast iron wheels and hand crank starter. My sense of humour with old, British inspired "engineering" has waned all the way to zero, I'm afraid. Magnetos and 1930's carburettors are a bridge too far. I'd really like to have a Howard Bantam like Dad had, but the Junior is just way too big for my (theoretical) needs.

Greg

Greg,I'd take the Howard junior off hour hands in a flash. They make a marvellous noise. I have a bullfinch with non original motor.

If you're serious let me know...it's been sitting here for three months waiting for my friend. I'm sure he'd let it go if you were really keen for a restoration project.

Greg

I'd come an get it if you were closer unless there's an easy transport option.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

If you're serious let me know...it's been sitting here for three months waiting for my friend. I'm sure he'd let it go if you were really keen for a restoration project.

Greg

I'd come an get it if you were closer unless there's an easy transport option.

Originally Posted by Greg Q

If you're serious let me know...it's been sitting here for three months waiting for my friend. I'm sure he'd let it go if you were really keen for a restoration project.

Greg

I am unaware of any transport that would be cheap enough to make it worthwhile. It is a rust bucket machine needing much repair, paint, etc. That's the major reason it sits under the tarp: I haven't the time right now to to a complete resto, and I don't know how to go halfway.

Greg

Originally Posted by Greg Q

I am unaware of any transport that would be cheap enough to make it worthwhile. It is a rust bucket machine needing much repair, paint, etc. That's the major reason it sits under the tarp: I haven't the time right now to to a complete resto, and I don't know how to go halfway.

Greg

Just a can of wash and wear Dulux and a brush, GQ. The halfway mark is easily attained.

OK sounds good. One question though: Does the Dulux go in the gearbox or the engine sump? I've never been clear on that.

I am having a hard enough time making progress on the projects that are actually officially underway. I think I just spent three hours making a switch plate for the Deckel to replace the piece of colour-bond bashed flat that the previous craftsman fashioned for the switch.

Tomorrow is a chore day that will get eaten up by a simple thing like buying steel for my surface plate stand and trying to find my stick welder in my kid's room where she was fabricating centrifuges for a client somewhere.

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

Just a can of wash and wear Dulux and a brush, GQ. The halfway mark is easily attained.

Something just like this beautiful restoration, I think the lathe is now feeling blue.
I like the attention to detail of the cross slide ways being painted.





Dave

Thanks dave, you've rendered me speechless. I guess that's what happens when you get too close to that open can of Imron for too long. I'd like to see that ebay seller (has to be, right? "ebay blue" paint and all?) do up a car. I bet that blue paint preserves the tires and chrome very well. The interior too can be freshened up the same way.

Getting back to the Howard...there are places online that sell the original decal set. Which only propels certain people even farther down the concours path. (Me I mean)

GQ