Scrap hunt

Have you tryied a google search for businesses near Arizona and Chandler area? A lot of aircraft disassembly there.

thanks for that, I have been hunting Google with the wrong words, aircraft disassemble got me to a place right away, I called them and they have a couple old aircraft about to be scrapped, very cool.

I called an extrusion manufacturer long ago to ask if they could make curved extrusions of varying radii.

After being sorta "cussed out" by the engineer who explained to me that they had spent years trying to figure out ways to NOT get curved extrusions, he and I concluded that, yes, it could be done, but the die design would be prohibitively expensive.

The bottom line is that they don't produce much scrap at the manufacturing level, as they remelt it and try again.

There are tons of beer cans available around here, of which I'm personally responsible for about 10%. Is that a suitable type of aluminum?

Surely you haven't put poor Del in some sort of bag???

He will be upset, watch out for his claws when he extricates himself......

No not Del, the generic cat.

I have some fresh fish ready for the relase.

Thats a great idea, you can cover the claw wounds with it to stop them getting infected!!

I saw a nice large aircraft fusilage from a First Air, twin turbo prop, that still had about 40 seats left in it. It was at a scrap yard outside of Pakenham, Ontario. Ed's Salvage.

What are you planing on making ?

I spoke to First Air earlier this week, I have to get out to Ed's one of these days, quite the character Ed is.

Can't say yet what I am up to, still looking for a suitable chassis.

Ed will probably ask you to put it on a scale and sell it to you based on the current price of Aluminum. Aircraft grade, primo prices.

Hope he hasn't scraped it yet.

I live in Ottawa as well. need a hand with your project ?

Knowing Ed the way i do i would expect him to have one foot on the scale as well.

Al has dropped through the floor with the current down turn in manufacturing of everything, so he may want to keep it until the price goes back up.

First Air offered me a 748 that is at the end of service, I may have to make them some sort of deal to fet it flown into Carp, it is in trois rivier currently.

Once construction starts i am going to need lots of help, always good to have extra hands and an extra brain working on the project . Drop me a line off list.

I seem to have run into a small bit of difficulty, some of the companies I have called are not taking me very seriously. No one will return a call!!!

OK granted calling aircraft dismantles asking for wing sections is probably not a call they regularly get. I need a wing section, two actually, that are 20 feet long from the wing tip to the cutoff point.

Wings are normally thought of as scrap and i thought I would not have any problems finding a set. Who knew???

I would prefer the wing to be at lease 10 feet wide at the cut point but that is not a necessity, I can work with a slightly smaller section.

Anyone out there near a a company who dismantles aircraft?

Maybe you could try the National Aviation Museum there in Ottawa?

Or here is a link that contains contact information for the Alberta Aviation Museum exec director (similar to CR4).

I suspect that such people may be able to point you in the right direction ... other than that, I have no idea.

Chris

I will give the museum a try, you never know they might be helpful.