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A place where restoration project-type threads can go to avoid falling off the main page in the WIX hangar. Feel free to start threads on Restoration projects and/or warbird maintenance here. Named in memoriam for Gary Austin, a good friend of the site and known as RetroAviation here. He will be sorely missed.
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US Govt Spark Plugs for a Radial

Sun May 04, 2008 8:16 pm

I just bought 16 brand new and sealed AC Delco LS-85 spark plugs today. I also got one LS-465A and four AC-271. All the LS-85 plugs are marked "US" and the LS-465A is marked "US Govt". A friend of mine looked up the LS-85's in a WWII manual that shows all the applications of different parts on military planes of the day and he said, among many others, that they fit all B-17's except the G model, P-38's and P-51's with allisons, the C-46, C-47, etc.

How much are these plugs worth? Can they still be used? Are they rare/uncommon?

Kyle

Sun May 04, 2008 9:38 pm

i had 8 of them, all new old stock condition, packed in a cardboard tube covered in cosmoline preservative. i sold them for 8 bucks each. i opened 1 tube, & it was still in cherry condition. i sold them within the last 10 years.
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