Look What I Got...(Aircraft related Thread)
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Look What I Got...(Aircraft related Thread)
This morning on my local dog walk I met the local farmer who was clearing out some land.
He had a couple of wheels that had been used as a farm trailer.
They had been slowly rotting away.
Can you guys help me identify them please?
They look like the style of wheel from a Hurricane, however they may be a little to large for that aircraft.
The approximate dimensions are
28inches across (Tyre)
17inches for the wheel
7.5 inches wide
Unfortunately, the identification on the tyre has long since rotten away.
Cool items that I am now wondering what to do with them.
He had a couple of wheels that had been used as a farm trailer.
They had been slowly rotting away.
Can you guys help me identify them please?
They look like the style of wheel from a Hurricane, however they may be a little to large for that aircraft.
The approximate dimensions are
28inches across (Tyre)
17inches for the wheel
7.5 inches wide
Unfortunately, the identification on the tyre has long since rotten away.
Cool items that I am now wondering what to do with them.
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Might be Sea Fury or Tempest - certainly look familiar.
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Sorry to disagree chaps, but the Spitfire wheel shown in the above post is fitted with a tyre marked up for a 10 1/2 inch rim, the OP's measurements give the rim as 17".
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Thanks for your answers guys.
I think they are far too large for a Spitfire, however following Trendigraph's post I did a search on the Sea Fury and the Tempest and I feel that they could belong to the Tempest.
Here are some on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/30357906528...SABEgLnV_D_BwE
If you notice the 4 bolts in the middle of the hub and the 8 nuts in the recesses, set in pairs.
Any other ideas most welcome.
(Wooden Oleo! haha!)
I think they are far too large for a Spitfire, however following Trendigraph's post I did a search on the Sea Fury and the Tempest and I feel that they could belong to the Tempest.
Here are some on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/30357906528...SABEgLnV_D_BwE
If you notice the 4 bolts in the middle of the hub and the 8 nuts in the recesses, set in pairs.
Any other ideas most welcome.
(Wooden Oleo! haha!)
Whatever A/C they come from, they look like a brilliant find. Be interesting to find their history, and how they ended up being used on a farm trailer of all things.
Thanks for your answers guys.
I think they are far too large for a Spitfire, however following Trendigraph's post I did a search on the Sea Fury and the Tempest and I feel that they could belong to the Tempest.
Here are some on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/30357906528...SABEgLnV_D_BwE
If you notice the 4 bolts in the middle of the hub and the 8 nuts in the recesses, set in pairs.
Any other ideas most welcome.
(Wooden Oleo! haha!)
I think they are far too large for a Spitfire, however following Trendigraph's post I did a search on the Sea Fury and the Tempest and I feel that they could belong to the Tempest.
Here are some on ebay - https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/30357906528...SABEgLnV_D_BwE
If you notice the 4 bolts in the middle of the hub and the 8 nuts in the recesses, set in pairs.
Any other ideas most welcome.
(Wooden Oleo! haha!)
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Looks like it might be Hawker with those square ended tubes - my guess would be one of the several biplane fighter restoration projects still under way.
PS I love "Trendigraph" - I've never ever been described as trendy before!
PS I love "Trendigraph" - I've never ever been described as trendy before!
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A good start would be to make sure they're not under pressure. My mate Paddy was shown into a back room in an Irish pub on the west coast. There was a sizeable wheel from WWII. 'Have you pumped it up?' asks he. The answer was no. Never had air added and it was as hard as rock. 60 psi? Perhaps more.
Be interesting to find their history, and how they ended up being used on a farm trailer of all things
A good start would be to make sure they're not under pressure. My mate Paddy was shown into a back room in an Irish pub on the west coast. There was a sizeable wheel from WWII. 'Have you pumped it up?' asks he. The answer was no. Never had air added and it was as hard as rock. 60 psi? Perhaps more.
You mean that we were wasting our time, in my airline engineering days, doing tyre pressure checks on the fleet every third night ?
I suspect Paddy was simply looking at a tyre that had hardened with age, as they do.
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A lifetime ago whilst working at SAA I had the pleasure of flying on BSST. During a photo shoot sometime later a Spitfire SAA apprentices had rebuilt was positioned nose to nose with Concorde. The wheels for the Spitfire were found on a cement mixer in the bundu!