[ARC5] BC-458 and 696 parts question..

[Craig]

J: Doing restorations there is accuracy and then there is ACCURACY!  The 
guys who do ACCURACY, go to the n'th degree...down to having AN hardware 
made up with the correct Type 1 Silver Cad plating, and so on. I go for 
accuracy, but can't afford to drop kilobucks on things like having 
hardware runs with the correct plating, or even having custom sheet mill 
markings done on the sheet metal.

Where I compromise is safety items and things that are visible. Worked 
on an L-5 for a friend and he spent almost a year tracking down and 
buying all the Type 1 Cad plated AN hardware he could find for the 
project. It all got installed where it was visible, and regular Type 2 
Cad hardware where it wasn't, or would on and off often. Much of the 
Type 2 stuff got painted to look like Type 1. Brakes were another area 
we compromised. He had a couple of sets of original expander tube  brake 
sets we used for the initial installation, but after the 2nd tube  
failure due to age, he relented and went with modern brakes.

One of the things I'm looking at, is getting set up with a braider to 
overbraid my wiring for the airplane. Lots of it is visible, so would be 
a good item to do. I've got to dig thru my parts pile for the Fairchild 
and find a couple of wires that haven't had the cotton rot off so that I 
can figure the thread count and start looking for a decent maypole 
braider and bobbin winder.  I'll use modern wire and overbraid with 
either Nomex or Kevlar thread, of the correct color so that it will look 
right.

I'm also waiting on some photos from another restorer of some inspection 
stamps from Fairchild from the correct time period. I've got a couple of 
Bellanca ones on some of my parts, but as my airplane was the 2nd build 
by Bellanca, I know some parts at that point came from Fairchild.

All in all, it's both frustrating and fun at the same time chasing parts 
and information for these projects.

Craig



On 11/30/19 7:04 PM, J Mcvey wrote:

> Oh, you are going for 100% original look!  I'm just at "good enough".
>
> On Saturday, November 30, 2019, 7:02:48 PM EST, Craig via ARC5 
> <arc5 at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
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>
> Physical size is not the problem, the face markings in the window are. 
> Every one I've seen, they are distorted and getting accurate sizing 
> and spacing was impossible.
>
> Craig
>
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