F-86 Panels and Parts Restoration

[Andrew Semon]

How you come across any asbestos covered fuel or service lines yet?

[cadet77]

None seen so far in the open compartments.

[cadet77]

Another B-8 control grip installed.

Now on to other parts.

cadet77

[cadet77]

Hydraulic access panels removed and cleaned. PN 187-31039-3
Panels are 0.071 7075-T6.
"ACCESS TO:
HYD. HAND PUMP
EXT. SOURCE DISC.
HYD. GND. TEST
PANEL"





Marking indicates Ship #105
Early paint marking now covered over with layer of paint is "079", wonder if it is the same aircraft.


This panel is marked # 452

One panel is bare aluminum on outer surface the other is painted. Paint likely hides all or the slip marks around the fasteners.

cadet77

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[peter]

The polished aluminum part on the left in the first pic.. is there writing scratched into it?

[cadet77]

Peter,

No writing scratched on the panel. Many scratches from screw drivers used to open the panel at each fastener. There is a portion of a decal and letters left from a stencil giving information on the hydraulic access.

cadet77

[Andrew Semon]

Are those access panels interchangeable between the two different cockpits?

Andrew

[cadet77]

Yes, these panels are interchangeable even though the newer panel has a doubler on the upper edge inner side. Differences in panels are at the air start, gun, and ammunition doors.

cadet77

[cadet77]

Test fit of air condition control panel in cockpit.



cadet77

[Andrew Semon]

Nice to see some pieces going in rather than coming out (even if it is just test fitting).

Does the F-86 have any insulation between the outer skin and the internal cockpit side panels?

[cadet77]

No insulation.

[cadet77]

Always finding things that have been removed or left intact, in this instance the right landing lights on both fuselages have been removed. The left landing lights are untouched except for damage to one. Any guesses on why one is removed and the other is left. The following photos show the landing lights on each fuselage.





Now the search begins to find the missing landing lights PN 161-54118-31 (Grimes PN D5530) to install.

cadet77

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[Noha307]

F-86H 53-1512

I apologize if this is a dumb question, but in the above picture what are the 3 "brace" looking strips of metal in the gun muzzle area for? (My best guess would be that they would be some sort of gun blast deflectors?) I noticed they were absent in the other airframe - does it have something to do with the armament change between the two variants you noted earlier in the thread:

The big difference between the F86H-1 and F86H-10 is the armament. The F86H-1 had six 50s and the F86H-10 had four 20 mm cannons.

Data plates were removed. Either collected or demil.

How did you determine the identities of your airframes then? Some form of circumstantial evidence?

[cooper9411]

Data plates were removed. Either collected or demil.

How did you determine the identities of your airframes then? Some form of circumstantial evidence?[/quote]

Used to be by blood tests, now it's by DNA samples!!!

Thank you, I'll be here all week!

[Noha307]

Data plates were removed. Either collected or demil.

How did you determine the identities of your airframes then? Some form of circumstantial evidence?

Used to be by blood tests, now it's by DNA samples!!!

Thank you, I'll be here all week!

What I meant was: Plane stored in spot X. s/n of plane in spot X recorded. Data plates removed. ...10 years pass... Plane removed from spot X for restoration by Mr. Cadet77.

...or something like that. (I remembered someone mentioned sand and dry conditions earlier in the thread, so I started thinking AMARC.)

Jeez. (Seriously, though, no biggie.)

EDIT: Swapped the BBCode for the quote boxes so they correctly attribute the quotes.

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