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Post by suthg on Jan 31, 2013 20:22:41 GMT 12
You just have to watch with the extra rear length overhang of the frame and beavertail drop that it will belly a bit easier at the rear and the overhang gives you more worries with the rear swing arc when driving in tight locations. A bold set of design changes and paint scheme though! Keep it up - another great rebuild / restoration project!
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Post by baronbeeza on Jan 31, 2013 22:47:17 GMT 12
Thanks for the comments and encouragement. The trailer is by far the most difficult one I have to move around. It was difficult before though with all the weight being so heavy on the drawbar. It handles fine behind the car now but the beavertail does hit the ground when dragging the rear around by ground handling. It is more of a transporter trailer now rather than the digger trailer that it had been in a previous life. Here is another recovery using just a standard 10 x 6 trailer. A Cherokee and engine complete can now be moved on the new trailer. The trailer I was forced to buy back during Operation BRA turned out to be ideal for a rebuild. Of the options available to me during that Thursday night this was the one that I thought I could work with and turn into something. The original galvanised trailer that I had 'bought' would still have needed some rework also. When I compare the two now I don't feel quite so p*****d off. The end price of each would be the about the same. I think Team Auster have a half decent trailer for the job now. You can see Ray seems to think it is up to the job. We just need to work on the backload out of Auckland now....
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Post by baz62 on Feb 1, 2013 11:53:22 GMT 12
Well done Kevin that Trailer looks a million dollars! Yeeeeeeeess I pity the poor CAA Inspector and LAME who has to approve an Auster with that powerplant!!!! Trust it will yake the standard Tiger Moth prop without many modifications?? ;D
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Post by ngatimozart on Feb 1, 2013 13:19:30 GMT 12
The trailer looks really good. Well done. It'll be truly versatile.
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Post by ngatimozart on Feb 1, 2013 13:22:36 GMT 12
Well done Kevin that Trailer looks a million dollars! Yeeeeeeeess I pity the poor CAA Inspector and LAME who has to approve an Auster with that powerplant!!!! Trust it will yake the standard Tiger Moth prop without many modifications?? ;D A bottle of squirt (Navy rum) Baz. 1/2 fill them on that get the signatures whilst they still partially capable of signing, then leave them with rest of bottle ;D ;D
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 9, 2013 18:10:46 GMT 12
Well another sunny summer's day in the SI and Baz will be slaving away on the Auster fleet. We all like seeing progress pics so here is a little update. VP for sure but there is still a bit to be done. The trailer is not far off being ready for the road again though. I am guessing the next aircraft move will be shortly afterwards, there seems to be plenty on still. Oh, and the wheel rims are yet to be painted white.... with that and the lights, reflectors and number plate fitted the green will be toned down even further. Anyone noticed how the fluoro flag had faded in the last few weeks ? This is the same trailer that we all first saw on the main road in Carterton. Myself as it rattled past, Baz and Johnny as they pulled in behind it in the early part of the road trip. The rest here would have seen the pics shortly afterwards as we made our way North. Not much of the original did not make it back onto the rebuilt trailer, - even the bit of plywood that Jodie and myself pulled up from over the cattlestop found it's way onto the new job. I must have some Auster parts in there somewhere also as it seems to have put on a little weight. At least it is not all on the front as it was before. I have to wonder how BRA and EYG would get packed onto it now. Johnny will see that I was so impressed with using the vertical supports previously that I have had to incorporate something similar into the redesign.
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Post by baz62 on Feb 9, 2013 21:26:08 GMT 12
Great job Kev. Yes there must be some Auster DNA in there somewhere!!
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Post by baronbeeza on Feb 9, 2013 23:37:15 GMT 12
It could do a trip to the north.... Looks great and nothing like the original!! I have been studying this pic to see how much room ADX takes up. We did manage to get BRA and EYG onto a 10x6 trailer. www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=565285132Perhaps it could go to an Auckland buyer and we could do a deal on a load going up....
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Post by baronbeeza on Mar 15, 2013 17:42:31 GMT 12
I still have to go over and fit the lights and finish the trailer off. Another step closer today though with some mag wheels being fitted.
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Post by johnnyfalcon on Mar 15, 2013 17:46:47 GMT 12
Well done Baron, that's a mighty fine looking wagon you got there pardner...
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Post by raymond on Mar 15, 2013 18:32:09 GMT 12
Looks great, just a thought about some accessories that you might think of for aircraft moves would be padded planks/poles to sit under fuse and in-between fuse & wings
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Post by baronbeeza on Mar 15, 2013 19:00:07 GMT 12
I added those 3 sheaths down each side thinking that some 1" water pipes would give me something vertical to work with. I am thinking like you that another row of stanchions could run down the length about 600mm in from the sides. I will measure up and make sure there is enough room down the middle for a fuselage. I can see that some extra sheaths can be welded to that bearer, either on the inside or outside surface. I am still trying to find some more pipe for the stanchions as it is. I am hoping that a pipe arrangement can form some kind of tail door also. Like two stanchions with a few inches of an angled head could be used to run across the rear, between the tail light housings. I will be making a stirrup up to fit in the winch post. It will support the tail of any fuselage and stop any weather-cocking movement. The plan was to paint the wheel rims white but sometimes there comes a point. The mags came down from Akl and were only bought Wednesday afternoon. Narrow 13" mags are not the easiest to find in this day and age. Those came off a VK Holden.
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Post by agalbraith on Mar 15, 2013 19:41:30 GMT 12
Great work there Kev! I can already think of a maiden voyage at Rangiora with a certain T7.....
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Post by baz62 on Mar 15, 2013 21:58:33 GMT 12
Yussss!!!!
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Post by suthg on Mar 15, 2013 22:47:53 GMT 12
Looking good with those mags on! Could have fitted rollers down the centre and would be great for boats too J/K... Certainly keeps getting better and better!
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Post by ngatimozart on Mar 16, 2013 18:33:16 GMT 12
Baron, rubber like they use for sleeping rolls. or jandals. When I worked on the freight at Tranzrail we used it to protect steel surfaces etc., and to place steel on steel so it wouldn't slide all over the place. It also protects strops ropes from shape edges and adds gripping strength for strops to steel, metal when you ratchet then down.
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Post by baronbeeza on Mar 17, 2013 10:37:26 GMT 12
I had a roll of that here somewhere. My flatmate wanted to go camping the other week and I went looking for it. It was doing a good job keeping two Cherokee wings from getting too friendly.
It must be good stuff, - there is a chunk missing from one corner of my sleeping roll that was obviously required elsewhere.
The roll is currently sitting in the cabin of the new Tomahawk arrival.
I could do with more of that stuff that is for sure. I have any number of aircraft in storage/undergoing maintenance at the moment.
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Post by baronbeeza on Sept 23, 2013 17:41:47 GMT 12
Just to breathe a little more life into Baz's thread here. I have been working through trailer options with regards to some more tasks coming up. I am not sure if I have posted this pic here before. I had a longer look at it and realised that the blue thing is actually a trailer. Perhaps I have been wasting my time converting the old digger trailer, Baz's Mondeo may have possibly managed with something a little less 'conventional' tacked to the back. I still chuckle when I see a pic of the other Tomahawk on the dolly there. It is only just a cockpit section and measures a little over a metre square. It was actually elsewhere when we loaded EYG onto the trailer and just as we completing the stropping a club member appeared wheeling it into the hangar. Very timely and a great chance to have a little kidding. ' Yep, that will fit up on top of the wagon okay"........ The look on Baz's face..... priceless. Acknowledgements to Mr Clegg and Peter, as copyright holders of the pics.
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Post by suthg on Sept 23, 2013 19:29:46 GMT 12
US picture above of blue two door - might have been lowered boy racer style (big fats on the rear) or it may have been the weight of the load! Obviously had to be a bit of clearance for turning for the rear of the fuse. The old F100 put to good use!! See you didn't need to stress the Mondeo out, just needed an old F100 (and a good checque book for fuel!!) Most impressed with our new Mondeo and fuel economy. Latest trip indicated 820km full tank! 2.3l 6 speed auto, very good and sensitive and stroppy when it needs to be.
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Post by noooby on Sept 24, 2013 4:16:13 GMT 12
The "Blue Thing" is a Corvair. My father-in-law has 7 of them. Yes, 7. Rear engined, powered by an air cooled flat 6 engine, some with a turbo. The one he drives the most has been slightly modified, with a 455cu/in V8 in the back!
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