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Hello to all Navy warbirders. I'm looking for a photo of a cockpit with an Elgin-Hamilton 37500 five-dial, eight-day chronometer installed. Forgotten Field and Mike Furline have told me that they were inst. in Avengers, Sea Wolves, PBY's, Corsairs, and 'various other carrier aircraft'.
Anybody got one of these in their warbird? Mine is in fairly good workiing order but I'd like a photo of it in it's element.

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whats it look like, I think we might have one in our N3N

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Huh? ... Wha? ... Oh yeah, Sea Wolf... I guess you're talkin' to me. :roll:

The Ginter book on the TBU/TBY has a period panel pic, but it must be from a TBY pilot manual or such as it has those annoying number tags on everything. Unfortunately, I don't even have a working scanner to show you just how annoying the pic is.

I haven't managed to convince SWMBO yet that I should drop $1100 for a reconditioned one (I currently have a different model there to fill the hole).

I would think your best bet would be to search for F4U panel pics (as has already kinda' sorta' been suggested already.

Happy hunting. :wink:

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Okay guys, Hey I did something techy on a computer- go to this thread also by me with the info and good pix of it by Forgotten Field.
I havent' found it in any cockpit photos except a maybe in a grainy old Corsair pic. I was at LS Saturday and the Corsair, F6F-5 and the PB4Y-2 all have plain little clocks. I doubt it's even there on the PBY- but it was RCAF not USN. I didn't have a chance to look at the TBM. It's keeping good time but I'm still going to send it to Forgotten Field's partner for a checkup and new mainsprings.

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us cockpits.com :wink:

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Inspector, I tried us cockpits.com. It used to be listed under another name but I had the owner's email. That site has a Corsair cockpit with what looks like a 37500 but the photo isn't real clear. Thanks for the heads up just the same.
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