Dick;
Those wonderful aircraft scrap yards are not completely gone but 90% of
those old "goodie piles" are, indeed, closed now. One of my favorites was a
place where I could wander around as long as I wanted, and at the end of the
day bring a good-sized box into the office where the fellow would go through
a charade of looking into the box to see how much it was worth. It was
always about ten bucks. I found out early in the game that if you brought in
one piece, a handful, or a whole box, the price was always around ten bucks.
Those aircraft salvage yards were a great source for hydraulic stuff--
particularly AN fittings!
I even saw an Apollo space capsule in one yard-- stenciled Boilerplate #14.
I bought a few electronics items out of that capsule just to have something
with an "Apollo" nameplate on it. ...sort of like having a piece of the
Wright Brothers airplane.
Regards, Neil Tucson, AZ
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick J [mailto:lsr_man@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:10 AM
To: Albaugh, Neil; 'Russel Mack'; Richard Fox; land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: aaircraft scrap yards
"Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com> wrote: ... You should have been in
Tucson a few years ago-- big radial engines were a dime a dozen. Aircraft
scrap yards were a treasure trove of goodies back then but they're mostly
gone now. : (
That's a shame. I remember going there on a TDY about 1982. I had a day
off and spent the entire day roaming scrap yards looking at big piston
engines, radials, inlines, some turbines, belly tanks, missile fuselages,
plexiglas canopies - - - -all kinds of neat fittings for tubing and cables.
Ahh, it was better than a tour of a museum. All gone now. What a shame.
Dick J In East Texas
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