Firewall needed

[flylo]

I know there was a firewall just sold on Ebay but I missed it.ops: I need one for my float plane project. Anyone have one available?

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Firewall needed

Forrest has some. I was bidding on the one on eBay so I could make drawings of the actual parts (REAL firewalls don't necessarily match the factory drawing) but lost out. Give Forrest a call and if you have some drawing skills make us all a good drawing.
Hank

[tim]

Re: Firewall needed

hey hank if i can get one from my friend and ship it to u could u make the drawings ??

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Firewall needed

I can, but you can ask most anybody on the list, I am GLACIAL SLOOOOOW. How far away are you? I am in Virginia Beach Virginia. The shipping could be painful. There is one here in the area but I haven't dug it out and it is part of a boot cowl assembly. I was just going to buy the eBay one for yet ANOTHER project and would have passed it along if someone else needed it. I have BOXES of that kind of stuff. You know, the things you end up with two of when you do a restoration and you use the best one. The second best is always better than someone else has and I have a lot of parts that are someone else's "second best". When they get too bad, you draw them up and make one from scratch. That's why the 45 has been in work for over 20 years. I am making just about everything because I wanted it perfect. I'll die first and someone will get a really nice project. I wish I had an inventory of what I have and don't have.
Hank

[Skybum1]

Re: Firewall needed

Gents,
I was the lucky winner of the firewall on ebay. It should arrive in a week or so. Someone posted they needed drawings, let me know what I can do to help.

Brian
Clinton, UT
801-499-6210

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Firewall needed

That was me, but I don't actually need them for my planes, I was just going to draw it since the factory drawings were used (roughly) to make the tooling and the tooling was used to make the parts. The original factory drawings do NOT represent what the firewall actually looks like! That is just a fact of life in manufacture. What I was going to do was draw what the part really looks like in case someone else ever needs to pound one out from scratch. If you make a lot of parts from the drawings they won't fit on the plane because the parts from the factory were made on TOOLS, not from drawings.
I have a friend in Germany who is doing drawings of all the parts of several WW-I planes and building replicas. Factory drawings are great as a start, but nothing beats measuring the actual part.
Hank

[tim]

Re: Firewall needed

ya hank im going to need a new one for my plane so ill look around and see what fits my plane and see about makeing a new one and ya my friend bob has tons on tcraft parts so if any one ever needs a part just ask

[flylo]

Re: Firewall needed

Tim,see what your friend Bob wants for a good firewall for a BC12d. Thanks!:joy:

[Hank Jarrett]

Re: Firewall needed

Guys, look at one of the other messages. Forrest has factory firewalls in Ohio. When you figure in the labor you can't beat buying one. I didn't know they were still available when we started this thread.
Hank