Among other things I have been working on a building project for my son's kinder which is such a massive red tape affair that I think I've aged 15 years in the last five days ....
Oh yes, and I have had to catch up on the washing - I am a house dad after all !!!
But also, I have simply been flat out on a number of clearances. The shed and house are settled in three weeks. The end is upon us, yet I am still finding little bits in the dust on the floor - crazy !
Here's a selection of the best stuff over the last six weeks...
I often wonder why I did this for a career change ! - Now you see it......
And now you don't ! Around seven tonnes out of this aisle !
In among the stuff we found these things - the two on the right are quite dangerous things, used on aircraft years ago, but contains barium chromide - nasty nasty stuff...
I am stumped by this as I really don;t know the application other than it was used as per instructions for gapping aircraft sparkplugs...
There is still demand for tins of this type and in this condition. I would think that most are pretty ruined these days, and that this is older...not bad given its been in the garden for years!
This is pretty nice. Its a jet engine cover, certainly post WW2 with both RAAF and CAC badges on it.
No its not a self portrait (I'm much prettier than that) but a shot of a pile of aircraft batteries sitting in the sunshine. The ones at the top (smaller ones) are Exide Batteries used in RAAF Wirraway aircraft, the big ones are unknown (I'm guessing Liberator or other such bigger craft) There is a badge on the side that says
AN Part 3150 (So its US - which it also has stamped on a different part of the body)
24V 34 A.H at 5 HOUR RATE
WT FILLED 76 LBS
SPEC GRAVITY FULL CHARGE 1.285
THE ELECTrIC STORAGE BATTERY CO
Anyone able to ID these?
Initially I thought these were just hand fire extinguishers but then found a metal tag on them and in fact they are Country Fire Authority. Only a couple in boxes and age has not been kind to them but no matter, still a nice piece of history from the late 1950's.
When I first picked this up I thought it was something from a toilet system ! It had the floater part attached to the rear. When I turned it over I still didn't think much until I saw the 01- part number. Its a floor gauge for fuel from a Wirraway ! Glad I hung onto it !!!
Yes its a wrapped package - and I have many in different sizes! Most contain Fuzing shutter springs - they are tiny and generally there are between 10,000 and 70,000 (yes thats right) in each pack - and no I'm not counting them !~ Some are addressed to military, others to RAAF and ones like these to the Navy.
This was a bit of a find. In amongst a whole load of fencing wire and old phone line wire (complete with ceramics) was this box. I spotted a DAP tag so got into it further and discovered this is a box full of Bristol Beaufort 200Lb Bomb Cables !
Here's a prop governor made by Hamilton. Unknown as to what aircraft this was from....
These next couple of things take up far too much space. They are ENORMOUS ! This one took a while to ID but very sure its an Avro Anson undercarriage wheel (main)
For quite a while I had been told that these were Mosquito Wheels. At some point they have had an axle added to them - easy enough to remove but they are not Mosquito. In fact after a bit of chasing around and some great assistance by a customer, they have been identified as Beaufighter Wheels. Incredible to be able to find a pair still together and in pretty good shape after all this time....but boy are they big !
OK I know this is a sodium valve, and thats about it. I have plenty of them but no idea what engine they are off....anyone recognise this and what engine it could be from?
I can't put into words what I;m thinking just looking at this picture. In fact I'm getting a headache from it !
So on that note I must jump back into the sheds and get discovering ! More stuff to follow as there is a lot of things being found - its just finding the time to post it up here....!
