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11th February 2012, 08:01 PM #31.
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Hello Jordan,
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. I imagine they change some of the exhibits, maybe the Atlas lathe you mentioned when I was over there was part of that exhibit. I had gone to the Technical Museum under the impression they had a comprehensive machine tool collection on display. They didn't but I wasn't disappointed.
BT
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11th February 2012, 08:04 PM #32
Oooh! A tipo 51! Now I can go to bed happy, and dream of heroics at the end of the Mulsanne straight.
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11th February 2012, 09:06 PM #33.
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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
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11th February 2012, 10:25 PM #34
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
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11th February 2012, 11:06 PM #35Mechanical Butcher
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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
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11th February 2012, 11:11 PM #36.
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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
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13th February 2012, 03:39 PM #37Senior Member
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13th February 2012, 03:48 PM #38
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.
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13th February 2012, 07:15 PM #39Senior Member
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13th February 2012, 09:44 PM #40Senior Member
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13th February 2012, 10:31 PM #41
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.
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13th February 2012, 10:35 PM #42.
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13th February 2012, 10:45 PM #43
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.It's all part of the service here at The House of Pain™
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13th February 2012, 10:55 PM #44Dave J Guest
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13th February 2012, 11:12 PM #45
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)
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