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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: G0ALY on May 29, 2017, 02:27:29 PM
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I bought this wrecked RC B-24 Liberator at a local auction for $10. It has a 8 foot wingspan and 4 gas engines. It will never fly again, but I pieced it back together to display.
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/b1_zpsc6f501fv.jpg)
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/b2_zpsdzmgjvhq.jpg)
CHEERS! goaly
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Such an awesome and unique garage you have Goaly, it is damn close to being a museum. Cheers!
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I was thinking the same thing. Nice pilot-cave... Very cool. :cheers:
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Thanks, I find most of the items at local auctions, I help them out when they need an extra hand. So I get to talk to the people who are selling their stuff.
I heard the story about the hunt that got this deer, so I bought it for $25, and it road around propped up in the passenger seat of my car for a couple weeks. (The wife was not impressed.) But I find his necklace most interesting. A Vietnam Vet who had an auction showed me this chain made out of the bail-tops from German beer bottles. He said he saved the top from every beer that he drank during a leave to Germany. I bought them for a couple of bucks and put them on the deer. The white item in the frame is a hula skirt made form parachute cord during WWII… Odd stuff.
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/b3_zpsd1ibltmz.jpg)
There is a website called Auctionzip.com. You enter your address and it lists the auctions in your area. I use keyword searches such as “Airplane” and “Propeller” to find a lot of these items.
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Great garage there goaly! I notice the sheet metal to left of the deer, looks like something from an aircraft. Story?
Thanks for the pics. <Salute> Memorial Day.
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Nice find! I agree that is a cool garage :aok
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Need a video tour of the garage :aok
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That thing is a beauty. At $10 a steal of a deal. Since it'd never fly again, I'd change the props to a something more scale looking (4 bladed painted black) if you have extras of the props it uses you could just cut out the middle and affix 2 together crossways. At any rate that's quite a find, what kind of engines did it use anyway?
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I have no idea about the engines. So I went out climbed a ladder and pulled a prop & cowl to get a peek at one… I still don’t know anything other than it appears this plane sat in storage for some time after the crash. The photo also shows I didn’t spend much time cleaning it.
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/DSC01000_zpsjrbd65jx.jpg)
From one of last week’s auctions (there were 3!) I helped clean out the house of a WWII vet who was 93 when he passed. In the garage we found he had started making P51 Whirligigs. I bought this lot for $5 It included his patterns. I’m going to finish one of the Mustangs and mount it on the fence out back. I may use a modern plastic prop on it instead of the huge wood prop though.
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/DSC00984_zpsik2ycqmh.jpg)
(http://i1291.photobucket.com/albums/b551/morecowbell3/DSC00986_zpshteh3xjs.jpg)
Cheers, goaly
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Awesome garage.
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Any motor cycles?
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No garage is complete without a minimum of 2 motorcycles. 1 old, and 1 new.
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10 years ago I remember seeing what I recall to be a blue-nosed FW190 hanging in a window of a local antique shop. Everytime I passed by it I had something pressing and couldn't stop. I finally made a point to go get it and they had sold it.
Still kick myself!
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I think those are K&B 40 engines. The exhaust was a common add on of the day. The black carb was a major break through of that era.
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That thing is a beauty. At $10 a steal of a deal. Since it'd never fly again, I'd change the props to a something more scale looking (4 bladed painted black) if you have extras of the props it uses you could just cut out the middle and affix 2 together crossways. At any rate that's quite a find, what kind of engines did it use anyway?
B-24 should be a 3-blade prop.