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Need help identifying this gauge...

Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:52 pm

Anybody know what it came from?
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Fri Apr 22, 2005 1:59 pm

I'd say the silhouette is a dead give-away. P-38.

Martin

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:04 pm

P-38G

see upper right corner of this P-38G panel

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Martin

Thanks Martin!

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:04 pm

I was trying at dry humor. I wonder if anybody who frequents here had any doubt of its use?

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:11 pm

okay :oops:

shall I delete my photos ? :roll:

Martin

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:14 pm

No
they are pretty.

I was hopeing that it was a joke, but i hate to assume. :D

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:24 pm

TimApNy wrote:I was hopeing that it was a joke, but i hate to assume. :D


Yeah you don't really want to stick your neck out around here! You might do something really silly like mistake an F4F-3 for an FM-2! :wink: :roll: :oops:

I just received my 20 lashes for that mistake. :cry:

Mike :wink:

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:30 pm

Mike
I think I need to go home and study up on them. I'd fail any pop quiz on the differences right now. Other than my name and who made which. :?

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:58 pm

Is it on sale for $25?

Fri Apr 22, 2005 2:58 pm

Does it Glow in the dark?


:lol:

All the flap over this gauge...

Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:56 pm

...pun intended...

Martin,
I am sure there is someone out there who didn't know what this was right away. Thanks much for posting the ID and photos- I didn't have one or I'd have put one up. Appreciate your contributions much.

Now for the "Top 10 Reasons" it's not for sale...

1. I haven't broken out my Geiger Counter yet.

2. It is not for sale, it is for trade...

3. I wouldn't want Harvard IV building a project around it... or welding it up into a T6 flap and landing gear gauge (Hey Harvard IV, look for the red dots on the wings)

4. It looks too cool.

5. It generated positive interest and I think people like looking at this stuff...

6. I'm awaiting Rob Rohr's comments on it...

7. I hope to own a P38 once I get the Duck finished... I might need it for a spare.

8. Might have been on Rex Barber's, Tommy McGuire's, Tony Levier's or Richard Bong's airplane...

9. I might never find another one...

10. The USN will not come to claim it...

Fri Apr 22, 2005 6:09 pm

. I wouldn't want Harvard IV building a project around it... or welding it up into a T6 flap and landing gear gauge (Hey Harvard IV, look for the red dots on the wings)


Thanks Forgotten Field:

Actually I was thinking about putting it in a fixed gear Cessna. Just Kidding :lol: :wink:

Fri Apr 22, 2005 10:25 pm

never seen 1 like it. very cool!!!! uncle sam will trade you nothing for it, they'll just confiscate it as haz mat. total bull cockadoody
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