This will be a good test... Just rediscovered on "that shelf" my wife wants cleaned up!
I will attempt to refit with an LED and add it to the museum.
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A buddy of mine had a used car lot and ended up with a Ducati 908 that looked like it was hand built, I only rode it a couple times, but that, I think was the beginning of the end!
I beat the hell out of an old softail Harley as my last road bike, we live in a small village now and look forward to toodeling around to the slip on little bikes.
Today I ride a CT 70, I built this one around the time I did the Ninja, It gets a refresh as well as the Wife's new ride. Her first question was "do I get to shift it?" View attachment 79437 View attachment 79438
My Wife will get a kick out of this! Mine was a Benelli 65.I've got two of these that came out of my 182, they look good on the shelf...
KM100 was my first bike, I haven't seen one in years...
Love the 3 miniature guys theory, maybe add a miniature John Harrison longitude clock, and off you go.
A bit of searching found this link for the Air Position Indicator:
https://aeroantique.com/products/ai...b-manual-t-o-5n-3-1-31?variant=12200532312153
Sounds like it was pre-cursor to modern inertial nav systems, using airspeed and heading information to calculate long/lat assuming no wind, then the navigator would apply a wind vector correction. All mechanical analog, too.
OK, a bit off the thread track, but anybody remember the Curta Calculator?
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I did find this old relic I should break out once in a while as a response. I spent many a day tearing myself up removing a lot of wire and building a new panel on one of these... On Mark, with the clear nose. What aircraft? What did On Mark do to it!
Though I would have posed for this in a heartbeat, I never got to fly in the one I worked on...
There's a wiki page that tells about the mods On Mark did on the A-26 Invader.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Mark_Marksman
My mooney autopilot still works that way today. I only have one valve though to fine-tune the roll axis.
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DH 841A I would wager
It was a tiny little add on box to the M4D autopilot. To hand fly it you had to engage the autopilot and flight director, then disengage the autopilot. I liked it........but the M4D was unreliable.
Finally back in heaven and looking for the finished pic of a panel for another thread, can't find it, gotta wait on my Sweetie to look further.
I did find this old relic I should break out once in a while as a response. I spent many a day tearing myself up removing a lot of wire and building a new panel on one of these... On Mark, with the clear nose. What aircraft? What did On Mark do to it!
Though I would have posed for this in a heartbeat, I never got to fly in the one I worked on...
Spent numerous weekends in the tail of a B model pulling junk wiring out. I filled a refrigerator box with what I removed. I'd lose about 10 pounds of weight every weekend I was in there, as the summer of 1980 was one of the hottest on record in central Texas.
For that matter, this one, too...but it's missing a knob.I'm trying to figure out how to hook this up in my Fly Baby.
For that matter, this one, too...but it's missing a knob.
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I'd like to 3-D print a knob to fit it, but can't get find any images of what it originally looked like. From the size of the fitting, this actually looks like it takes a tachometer cable rather than a knob.
Label says "Closing Speed Control Ind Type No. 841 BK-01-883". The "883" is in slightly different characters, so I think it's a serial number. Manufacturer is "Kollsman Instrument Division of the Square D Company."
Ron "One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or beer" Wanttaja
Yeah, that seems logical, considering how big the fitting is. Probably kluge up something that fits and looks halfway original.That looks like a remote cable type set up there, I would guess it ties that indicator to a large box that crunches God knows what information.
That's a cool old relic in good shape, what is it?