Super Guppy Restoration

[Xplumberlives]

Onwards and upwards!

[Gaz]

Onwards and upwards!

Bit of a way off that mate

[Xplumberlives]

Stationary with a few lights?

[Gaz]

Stationary with a few lights?

Oh, we can manage that!

[Xplumberlives]

reached your pinnacle

[Gaz]

Not yet mate, not by a long shot!

[Wedgy]

Ad now live

[Gaz]

Nice one!

[Sickbag_andy]

Ad now live

many thanks Wedgy.

Just looked at the website and is at 1981 hits, I'm off to a meeting in a minute so I wonder if it will reach 2000 by the time I get back?

[Dan4th]

Andy and Gaz::::::::::::::

I tried to sign up for your forum, but
the dad blasted thing refused my birthdate
no matter how I put it in..........

Danf.

[Xplumberlives]

ONLY for youngsters!

Surely that's AGEIST!

[Sickbag_andy]

Dan - was that as you were signing up for Yuku as that would be when you enter birthday details - this is the page:
http://www.yuku.com/signup/me

I just tried entering month 03 slash / day 11 slash / year 52 i.e. 03/11/52 and it worked fine so now I have a second account!

once you're past that stage you get an activation e-mail link to click onto (mine was through in minutes ) and then it's just a case of going on to one of the areas where you need to apply for posting permissions then I just open up the permissions for you.
Just noticed that it gave my age as 1957 though!

If you still have problems drop me an e-mail and I will transfer the account I just set up but you would have to take the name 'guppyman' as I don't think you can change the name!

[Dan4th]

Well, about the only thing I didn't try
was slashes in between. Used spaces,
no spaces, dashes, with zeros and
without. I'll do it again with slashes,
and a mini tutorial about how to do
it would be good, because all over the
internet there are different requirements....

Month first? How Un-British!

(but I did do it both ways....)

Danf.

[Sickbag_andy]

Dan - it is straightforward, just go onto this page and complete the 6 boxes

http://www.yuku.com/signup/me

then when the confirmation / acticvation e-mail comes through just click on it and it activates your account. Log in and try to write to one of the restricted areas (eg project team discussions ) and it will say you need permission, click to apply and I will then need to set up permissions for you which takes me about 5 minutes once I see your request ( but I wont be around from about 4.15 today as I'm going to the Arsenal - Liverpool match so it might be tomorrow ), then you're away.

[Dan4th]

Gotcha. I'll do it later as I'm bizzy right now...

D.

[Gaz]

10.02.10

Nice and sunny, if not a little cold, at Bruntingthorpe today, so, I finally got the props finished!







You'll have to forgive me for the photos, the sun was in the worst possible place to get a decent shot!


I've also delivered the gubbins for doing the radome, so, once the weather improves and, at least, three of us are there, we'll make a start on that.

The aluminium patches that Dickon cut, have been drilled ready for riveting.

Whilst trying to get a decent pic of the props, I accidentally took this...



I think it looks quite good

[Hihonyr8811]

Actually Gaz, I personally think the pics are great (and great work too btw ), I love that last pic!!

[Xplumberlives]

Well I suppose you could say quite good!




































Personally, I would say the prop blades look PINGING SUPERB mate!

[Gaz]

Cheers!

Haven't done the backs of em yet, took 6 cans of spray paint to do the fronts and at £7 a can, it's a job that can probably wait.

Going to try and get 4 tins of paint, in the livery colours, so we can get the nose section livery painted before CWJ. We're looking at about £50 for that though so we'll have to see

[Xplumberlives]

Good luck!

[Mackrick]

Nice photos and thanks for the update Gaz...

[RLN]

Well done, Gaz. Good job.

[Gaz]

14.02.10

Really productive day today! First off, it looked like I would be there alone but Gregg and Dickon turned up so I was like "Right, there's three of us, lets get the radome off!"

So we set to it:



It came off without too much persuasion and was in cracking condition inside, no radar, but it had been lovingly removed:




So we covered the hole with plastic and moved the radome inside, ready for repair.


Also, we got the nacelles open!



And again, we were surprised by the condition of the insides:



We think it's the anti-icing gear and it's in perfect condition on both sides. Although the port side nacelle door will need a bit of work, it jams on something inside, but that's a job for another day.

We also did some housekeeping on the new steps. Gave the levers some WD-40 action and explored all of its features.

So, what was going to be a cleaning day, turned out to be one of the best we've had for a while!

[Xplumberlives]

Well done Team Guppy!

[Mackrick]

Well done Gaz and team ....