Just thinking about the gun sight Gary. What's the problem about getting it working? If it's due to being 24 Volt, then car bulbs are available in 24, and the bulb holder could be maybe be adapted if required. It could be run of a 12 v battery, via a 'redcuer', as used on car stereos when the system is 24 v, or dual system, like my old Landcruiser was. Just a thought
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Terry, the only problem I have with getting the gunsight working is the wiring !. Give me one red and one black wire and I can just about find my way about....compound that with 12 V batteries wired in series / paralell ?....and I'm right out of my comfort zone !. It's smoething I will have to get to grips before much longer, so I'll keep you guys posted. Need to get some pics looking through the gunsight with her all lit up !!
Just an idea that popped into me noggin. Hope it works.
Aaron , its on the back burner at the moment but will incorporated very shortly. Heck, you should start on your own one now and then you can make a spare for me !!
Okeydokey chaps, been a bit busy this last week...actually, cos of the frigging awfull weather, I've managed less than 6 hours work on her this whole past week, not impressed I can tell you. What I've managed to cobble together is a set of side-screen / quarter-lights...whatever you call 'em !... out of some perspex. While both sides are in on the windshield area, I'm not happy with them because the only perpex I could get is quite thin and so fragile you wouldn't believe (I made 4 screens for the left hand side before I could get one installed without cracking and breaking. I've been using a hair dryer to try and warm the perspex so it'd go inside the compund curves....but that wasn't very good.
Then I upgraded to a paint stripper heat gun... and promptly melted one screen. You can see on the left hand side screen at the top, I started to melt the 5th one as well, but as I was soo bl**dy annoyed at that time, and I really didn'y want to make a 6th one for the very first side, I've left it in. If you look closely (please dont !) you'll see where the perspex doesn't quite fit in some places, but if I do any more to the screens, they'll just throw Teddy right out of the cot and break into loads of shards. Heck, I'm even scared of closing the Shangar door too loud incase they get scared and crack even more !!
I'm sure they never had this hassle back in the last Big One !!
End result at the moment, is that the screens are in, but are only temporary until I can get some decent perspex to replace them (they'll do for Cockpitfest this weekend). I also took the opportunity to give her a respray as the top decking paint was getting tatty.
And I hope to have some exciting news regarding her, in the next few weeks, but I wont say anything at the moment
Right, here's the pics....