The end of the shed - but theres more and more being found !

I have honestly been up to my ears with sorting a massive amount out since the last post.

The main thing was that we finished clearing the shed :-(

After months of good solid slogging away, some 16 tonnes was sent off to be recycled, and the rest was sold or added to a rapidly growing collection. House has been emptied and settlement taken place, so theres no returning anymore.

Heres the final photos from the shed - Grandad, its been an honour to do this, and I hope you are proud of what we have achieved here

This is how I will always remember the shed, even from my childhood - that door !  In fact I reckon a few of you out there would recognise it too !

Just inside the door -

To think that was a huge mound of stuff chucked in there originally

Once full to bursting, now, no more

 Those boxes up in the corner we simply could not move, too heavy and required a forklift or something similar so we had to leave them. When the place is pulled down they can sort it out then !

 One lot of skip bins on the very last day - we had two lots in two days

 Useful member of the public decides to park almost in front of the shed door (the black car, white one is the scrappy's van)  Somehow we managed to not damage the car at all (came close a couple of times)

So then is that the end ?  OF COURSE NOT !!!!!!!!!

As I have mentioned before I have been working on another property recently, and in the last few weeks have started on a country property as well !  Yes, there is more stuff to be found, but as the pic below shows, where the hell am I going to put it ?  This is my shed on Xmas morning - no, Santa is not stuck in there, nor did he leave any presents, but somehow I am going to get that all sorted out soon.

I'm happy to report the inertia switch breeding program is going well, there is a very large family of them residing in my shed, heres a little group of them....

What you can see in the pic includes  - big wheel (Beaufighter), F86 Sabre Tyres, Vampire Tyres, RAAF / CAC Ceres Wing Flap/Centre Spar Ribs, Boxes contain Beaufighter cutoff throttles, torpedo and bomb cables, phone exchange wiring, aircraft rivets and a couple of hundred gauges.**NB CLICK ON THE PIC FOR FULL IMAGE***

The Beaufighter wheel is one of a pair, and you can see that I am doing some work on it, cleaning it with a toothbrush (literally) and silicon to soften it up as there is a flat spot that I need to ironed out when I inflate the tube eventually. As there is no room for the other wheel, it lives in my car at the moment !

I have been also travelling out and about and occasionally find some stuff destined for the scrapyards. One such trip recently netted a big box of stuff that I wasn;t paying too much attention to, other than it had an original CAC Boomerang ammo chute from the Tocumwal scrapyards and also three of these panels 

These didn't look like anything at first until I saw the second one which helpfully had "NEPTUNE" written in texta on the front !  That washed off easily enough, and I was excited to find the aircraft number on the underside as well... so yes its from a Lockheed Neptune

In the box was a load of parts for engines etc, which all turned out to be from a Cheetah engine - heres a bit below :

This monster is an Avro Anson Carb unit - from the box !

This part I got the week before, and was excited as it had the valve assembly on the rear still attached

But this was the big suprise in the box - an original KiGass Primer dated 1942. Never saw this at the time, and in fact didn't find it for a couple of days !

 So there we are for now, plenty more to come, including a small cache of Sabre parts, radio parts, and my attempts to restore an ejector seat that I found in a chook shed on the edge of the desert !

Have a great New Year, and keep reading !