What Cheered You Up Today? (7 Viewers)

[PlasticHero]

Just got back from getting my broken collarbone fixed. No complications and good prognosis. So this didn't win and I'll have to get another for Friday.
Top prize is just over 1 BILLION $.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Just got back from getting my broken collarbone fixed. No complications and good prognosis. So this didn't win and I'll have to get another for Friday.View attachment 679593
Top prize is just over 1 BILLION $.

Sorry everyone, I bought the winning ticket.

 

[SaparotRob]

crap

 

[Greg Boeser]

Sorry everyone, I bought the winning ticket.

Can't wait to see your next post in "a new book in my library".

 

[at6]

I didn't buy a ticket. I don't want to be cursed with relatives I've never heard of.

 

[Snautzer01]

Can't wait to see your next post in "a new book in my library".

Would be like this: hi guys today i got a nice suprise in the mailbox, the Library of Congress. All of it.

 

[SaparotRob]

Hardcover edition.

 

[buffnut453]

Would be like this: hi guys today i got a nice suprise in the mailbox, the Library of Congress. All of it.

I'm not that greedy. I'd just take anything related to military history and aviation.

I'm a man of modest (and rather boring) appetites.

 

[SaparotRob]

I'm just boring.

 

[at6]

I'm not that greedy. I'd just take anything related to military history and aviation.

I'm a man of modest (and rather boring) appetites.

I'm just boring.

Thank you. Now I'm just bored.

 

[buffnut453]

Thank you. Now I'm just bored.

That's what I do.

 

[Shortround6]

That's what I do.

As long as you are good at it.

 

[MIflyer]

Can't wait to see your next post in "a new book in my library".

It'd be more like "a new library for my books."

I've often thought it would be so neat to set up an aviation and military subjects library at an airfield near a small town and just let people come in and read. Hire some Kate Upton look-alike to be the librarian. Hold movie nights on Wednesday and build-a-model airplane sessions once a month on Saturday mornings.

At Aiken SC they have a small library with easy chairs and couches in the lobby of the admin building, with a lovely young lady manning the info desk. Like that, but more extensive, would be fine.

 

[MIflyer]

Well, today I FINALLY got the seat pan installed in my Ercoupe. The old one was torn up from climbing in and out a zillion times to do work under the instrument panel. I bought a used seat pan for $250 and reinforced it in the areas that have proven to be too delicate. Then I found that while the old one did not fit very well the new one was much worse. The front that sits along the main spar is fine, much better than the old one, but the piano hinge that attaches the trailing edge of the pan was way off from the other half in the airplane. I finally resorted to removing the old hinge half from the seat pan and using a new milspec hinge that is the modern version of the WWII one. I do not know if they had to custom fit the seat pans in the factory in 1946, I would doubt that. But that is what I had to do. Now the replacement seat pan practically drops into place and the hinge pins slide in smoothly and securely. All that took over a week, including downloading the original drawings to studying them and researching the hinge specifications. I really lucked out in that years ago I had picked up a new length of piano hinge someone was throwing out and it turned out to be the exact milspec I needed. Hooray! It's done!

 

[buffnut453]

As long as you are good at it.

One excels!

 

[cvairwerks]

Mi: I would suspect that the hinge pair was drilled and riveted to the seat while on the bench. Once it was assigned to an airplane, it was then drilled the fuselage.

 

[MIflyer]

Mi: I would suspect that the hinge pair was drilled and riveted to the seat while on the bench. Once it was assigned to an airplane, it was then drilled the fuselage.

That would be a reasonable assumption, except when you look at the drawings there is no way to do that. It pretty much had to be installed in the airplane structure and then the other half rivited to the seat separately. I was amazed when I bought new side cowls and the hinges fitted to the rest of the cowl just fine. How they managed alignment that well, I have no idea. I pretty well figured out that the only way to get the seat pan hinge to match up with the airplane was to cut the new hinge to length, install the pins and then use glue to hold the hinge to the seat pan long enough to drill the rivet holes.

 

[Frog]

My son has finished his reserve military summer training courses and has earned his corporal stripes.

 

[Wurger]

Congrats !

 

[special ed]

My son in law (3rd daughter) has been accepted for officer school USCG. He has been enlisted four years although he had a college degree when he enlisted. When I suggested the recruiter sold a bill of goods, he insisted it was OK and don't worry about it. His plans are pilot training eventually. When I asked, "Fixed wing or rotary?" He said it didn't matter, but since I like the guy, I hope he goes fixed wing. The Coast Guard has a good heli record, so it's OK.