B24 LIBERATOR RELICS?

[frenchie]

Hello everyone,
I'd like to thank you for all the help you've given me regarding my posts on this fantastic forum—the specialists here are truly excellent.
So, what are these relics? They supposedly came from a B-24 Liberator, according to the person who gave them to me—someone who actually removed them from the aircraft back in the day. Then again, memory can play tricks on us! That person remembers a large, four-engine American plane made of aluminum.
That's the story, friends; thanks for your help.
Have a great day.
Laurent

 

[MiTasol]

Good photos of two heat treat stamps. The one part number I can see on the hydraulic component is not Consolidated so probably a vendor part. Look for part numbers that start 32 followed by letters then numbers.

 

[frenchie]

Good photos of two heat treat stamps. The one part number I can see on the hydraulic component is not Consolidated so probably a vendor part. Look for part numbers that start 32 followed by letters then numbers.

Hi,
I've examined this part from every angle, and there is no number 32. Hence my doubts about it being from a B-24 Liberator.
Thanks for your reply.
Laurent

 

[MiTasol]

There were a lot of vendor parts. Bendix brake hydraulics for starters and I have a suspicion that is what the valve is. Also all turrets, autopilot system just to name a few.

 

[Wurger]

If I may .. the two heat treat stamps seem to be of the Lockheed factory. The manufacturer used a such looking ones ...

 

[frenchie]

If I may .. the two heat treat stamps seem to be of the Lockheed factory. The manufacturer used a such looking ones ...

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Possibilité d'un Lockheed P38?

Possibilité d'un Lockheed P38?

Oops, sorry.
Possibility for a Lockheed P38?

 

[Wurger]

Oops, sorry.
Possibility for a Lockheed P38?

Rather not for P-38. Here below the stamps used for the plane type. These on the part look like being for the Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon/ C-121 Constellation/ P2V Neptune.

 

[cvairwerks]

One thing to remember is that during the war, there were many vendor items that were initially designed for one program, but got used on others. They can look the same, but occasionally have slight differences for the various usages.

 

[MiTasol]

If I may .. the two heat treat stamps seem to be of the Lockheed factory. The manufacturer used a such looking ones ...

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That heat treat stamp was pretty much generic and was also used by Douglas, Curtiss, GAF, CAC and others.

 

[MiTasol]

One thing to remember is that during the war, there were many vendor items that were initially designed for one program, but got used on others. They can look the same, but occasionally have slight differences for the various usages.

Many small made "generic" parts well pre-war that were used by multiple manufacturers, especially hydraulic and landing gear components including brake systems. Using the P-36 as an example this included the Gadsen brake master cylinders and using NAA and others Bendix struts, brakes and hydraulics.

 

[MiTasol]

Possibilité d'un Lockheed P38?


Oops, sorry.
Possibility for a Lockheed P38?

Lockheed built B-17's which fits with the USAF 4 engined aircraft.

 

[MiTasol]

Hi F frenchie

Can you have a hard look in the area where the data plate was on that hydraulic valve holding the light off to the side so as to show shadows of any stamping done post installation of the plate and see what shows up.

I am off to Brisbane tomorrow to see what can be recovered from two of my hard discs. I parts catalogs for both the B-17 and B-24.

Just a warning to those that do mirror backups of your data like I did. If you do hourly or daily incremental backups and your data drive starts to fail then any file or directory that is damaged on your data drive will be wiped from your mirror drive. I had an intermittent power supply failure that has wiped a lot of data off all my data drives. I am hoping they can recover the files from the mirror drives but not confident.