Turret parts for sale/swop , 1000's of NOS & used parts

Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:17 am

Thought I would crosspost this as it might be of interest to some of you

Flypast forum thread wrote:The Historic Aircraft Restoration Museum at Creve Coeur Airport in St. Louis, Missouri has acquired 275+ 55 gallon drums (U.S. not Imperial) of assorted turret parts from the former Emerson Electric Mfg Turret Division. Most of the parts are for Sperry ball turrets, Sperry upper turrets, Martin upper turrets, Emerson A-15 nose turrets, and some TBM/TBF turrets. Some of the parts are NOS, some are "as removed" , and some are unfinished from the factory. Most of these parts are small, the bigger bits were probably melted down at the end of the war. We are working on sorting the parts and hope to have a basic inventory completed by the fall of 2006. At that point, we would like to start selling and trading the parts to qualified museums, collectors, and restoration shops who need the parts for a specific project. Our museum's primary focus is on antique aircraft so if you have some parts that you would like to trade, please send me a PM. A good start would be some spare engine parts for our DH Dragon Rapide or maybe some parts for my 1967 Austin FX4 London cab . Here is a link with a few photos of some of the parts. As you can see it's a real jumble but if you need some turret parts, we might have what you need. Please do not send email requests to the museum, send me a PM and I will give you a direct contact email for myself. I look forward to your emails and will do my best to reply quickly.
Thanks,
Albert Stix Jr.

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c...Turret%20Parts/

Our Homepage

http://www.historicaircraftrestorationmuseum.org/

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Thu Aug 17, 2006 5:28 pm

...the...Holy...Grail...at last...

Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:24 pm

Now that's impressive.

Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:57 pm

Hope the STL flood waters aren't a-rising anytime soon!

Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:07 am

Very impressive. It will be fun to see lots of warbirds with working turrets in the coming years.
If I could make a suggestion, it would be to go to a salvage lot and buy metal shelving. Once it's inventoried you can sell "kits" for one set price. The easier it is the more $$ people will pay.

Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:37 am

See also this topic:
Emerson Electric Mfg Turret Division
by astixjr
http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7936