NC24371 in Vintage Airplane

[DanBrown]

I got my issue of Vintage Airplane today. The cover and lead story is on Mark McGowan and Ken Kruetzfeld's beautiful restoration of a 1940 BF. Wonderful!!

[wmfife]

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Hats off to Mark and Ken! For showing us all how it's done..
Wonderful job. Beautiful ship.

[jim cooper]

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Also in this same edition: An excellent article on bearing failures in the 670 continental radial, an engine used in the Stearman.In 1985, I flew a National Geographic Photographer in my Stearman, out over the Chesapeake Bay to Annapolis to film the Annapolis to Oxford Maryland sailboat race. Eventually, we dropped down to about 100 feet, (no life jackets and little common sense). Later after refueling at Easton Md., we went down to Oxford and filmed them as they arrived. My Stearman was not Oshkosh material but it looked pretty good, stars and bars and U.S. Navy markings.( The 670 continental was used in Sherman tanks, military boats, power plants, etc. in WW11, speaking of non certified parts!) He promised he would send me stills but called me 2 weeks later to report that 2 of his 3 cameras were not loaded as he had gotten super loaded the night before himself, and forgot to load them! Two weeks later, over Centerville, Md. it quit and I had to land in a corn field. Very fortunate! On top of that, it probably had a bad main bearing! JC P.S. The BC12D I have now is very close in quality of rebuild to the one on the cover.

[bashibazouk]

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Does anyone know how to get in touch with Mark? My ship is NC24369-- not that many numbers off of his. I'm trying to figure out all the placards for the panel. I've got a big tach, two-hand altimeter with 6 o'clock knob, 140 (not 160) mph airspeed. I'm trying to sort out the rest of the placards, but I can't see detail in the halftone pictures in the Vintage mag, even with a magnifying glass. I have downloaded a copy of the throttle/fuel shutoff etc placard from postings here, but the two placards on the left side of the panel are impossible to read. Is it cabin heat, carb heat, and parking brake over there? Is mixture there, too? I have some screen printing supplies here on my desk and I'm ready to start mass-producing prewar placards for the HUGE market that's out there. Me. Just need some more info. Chet's book is a great resource, but I can't find any specific pictures of my panel there. Forrest is a busy man. I can appreciate that.

Anyone with some free time and some prewar experience who can help a brother out?

Josh

#1705
TF #1013

[Hank Jarrett]

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I was really getting into the placards when I found some problems on my plane and shifted priorities. I think I have a lot of the 41 stuff figured out and hopefully some of it is right for your 40 too.
Let's see which photos we both have and start tapping that huge demand for Taylorcraft "stuff"!
Hank

[bashibazouk]

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Well, Hank. I can't figure out where I found this now, but this is what I'm scaling up to screen onto a placard:



My mind is mush at the moment. Too much Qcad and trying to scale the holes to match my panel overlay. Forgive me. Mine will be 129 mph of course.

(I've uploaded a different pic with the rule at the bottom. That makes scaling it easier, but it's still not as easy as I thought it would be. Nothing ever is!!)

I hope the person who uploaded this originally will take credit for it. It's going to be a huge help to me.

[Hank Jarrett]

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I have a pre-war primer, light switch, and fuel shut off I can measure the diameter of the threaded shaft on. That should help lock down the size.
Hank

[bashibazouk]

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Here's the first attempt. I'll try making a screen of this today if I get a chance. On my panel overlay, the mounting holes are 7.25" apart. That's what I'm basing my scaling of the thing on.

[Hank Jarrett]

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Matching hole center to center distance will get you much better accuracy than hole diameters! You may have to drill the holes undersized compared to the holes marked in the graphic. I would suggest you add a "+" at the center of each hole to make it easier to drill the holes dead center.
Looks really good!
Hank

[bashibazouk]

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There you have it. Thanks for the advice, Hank.

[3Dreaming]

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On my 41 BL there were only holes for the 2 placards you showed. I hand painted the carb heat and cabin heat. It has been a while since I did the research, but that is what I come up with for the way it was done. Tom

[1938BF50]

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I took that pic. It was off a instrument panel that was cut out of a fuselage and was tagged " Taylorcraft wrecked in tornado". I am fairly sure it was a 1938 but still am not sure whether it was a "A" or "B" model. Based on some odd looking tubing intersections.....I supect an "A"(though I have never seen one) because it is different from my 1938 B.

Bash....why did you lower your Vne to 129mph?

[bashibazouk]

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Hey Mike,

thanks for the picture. It is a huge help. Brain fart on the Vne. Should be 131. I was looking at the seaplane limit in the TC.

Seems so odd to have a single ignition system on an airplane, doesn't it? I think I may modify my placard a little to put the keyed switch in there. The hole in the panel overlay is 7/8" anyway, so that's not a big issue.

[Tom Baker]

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Here's the first attempt. I'll try making a screen of this today if I get a chance. On my panel overlay, the mounting holes are 7.25" apart. That's what I'm basing my scaling of the thing on.

the plate is for single ingnison b model tom baker