Warbird Information Exchange

Rich,
Is there anything P-51 related you don't know???

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Yes, but I sure won't tell him or then he really would know everything!

Does that mean I get an angry Lizard?
I have an idea for the Geico commercials using the angry lizard- Buy Geico or else type of thing.
Do I Jack? do I get one?

Actually I continue to find out things to learn about. This board sure helps. The pics you share really add a touch of operational history to the aircraft. At Chino I really enjoyed talking to pilots, crew and the workers who built them. The east coast, isolated airport environments and time marching on has all but cut me off from that aspect of the history of the WWII period. So thanks to you and the others who keep that alive.
Rich

My angry lizard is going to make you spill the beans!
Rich

I know (or knew-past tense RIP) a lot of 20th FG pilots and crew guys. They were a mighty fine bunch of joes and completely bonded by their experences. A finer bunch you'd be hard pressed to find!!

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Read T.O. No. 01-60J-33

Martin

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I'll check that out at lunch

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If recall for Rolls Royce technical papers on radiator care there is a chemical, sodium (something? that is use to clean or preserve the cooling system and radiators on the Merlin in British planes. This may be the NaMbt. After I read the papers some years ago, I tried to buy some to the chemical and found it must also be used in meth labs, as the company was very unfriendly and suspicious, and would only sell it in a 55 gal. drum.
Regular flush out radiator cleaner will not clean the metallic salts and scale that deposits in radiators, Ray had to use an acid bath for that, I think it was HCL, and it is a stinky dangerous mess, but does leave the brass coolant pipes clean and a nice bright color. I think I remember they said that aluminum radiators can be cleaned with sulfuric acid. Caution if you are doing this, as I not real sure and might have the acids reversed.

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Bill Greenwood
Spitfire N308WK

NaMBT = 50 % aqueous solution of sodium-2-mercaptobenzothiazole (NaMBT)

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I don't know the answer but I want a pony anyway.

Pony up for the pony thread.

I ain't got a pony or one of those super lizards yet. I guess I'm just not worthy.
But I do have 2 1/2 Mustangs in the hangar.
Rich

The Lizard ate the pony and left

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And I thought strange things only happened on the East Coast.
Rich

As my friend Bill pointed out ( ) NaMBT is a chemical that is an antimicrobial. It kills little "fungus amoungus" that could live in and clog your coolant system. Not a good thing in your aircraft systems.

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We have this P-51D aircraft marking blueprint hanging on the lobby wall.

Coolant filler is located behind a panel which is marked as the following;
External-

Internal- Hard to read- see internal aftercooler markings

Aftercooler access is marked as follows- (Should be similar to main coolant)

View of main coolant access markings on print-

Note that NaMBT is mentioned on the internal panel markings of the main system and mentions a TO. I didn't see any external marking on the print for NaMBT as shown in Jack's photo.
Nor are the gun camera prop spinner markings shown on this print.
Rich