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Where are you located? Could you tell how it was painted- see any of the numbers or the nose art? There are only 13 of those aircraft left flying in the world today. Several tour the country, three ( that I know of) carry passengers, sell rides at their stops. Interesting to know which one it was. (Your pic is of the Sally B, in the UK, I think. ) I've been aboard the EAA's Aluminum Overcast twice, and ground-crewed for it a few times. It is an awesome experience to spend time around one of these birds at their tour stops- just sitting under the wing and listening to snippets of conversations, watching the faces of some of the folks visiting who actually flew these craft in the forties. And then watching as a 65-year-old bomber fires up and takes off... there ain't a match to the sound of a round engine, unless it's four of 'em flying in tight formation!

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight..... * If you grow up in Hawaii , raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different." * If you grow up in Alaska, shooting bears and eating moose stew, that's a quintessential American story. * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim. * Name your kids Willow , Trig, and Track, you're a maverick. * Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable. * Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well rounded. * If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience. * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive. * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian. * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian. * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society. * If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible. * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America 's. * If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable. OK, much clearer now.

Yeah.... I still have the vinyl for this... one that always gets me is Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon... and yup, I got vinyl for this too, original as well as the "audiophile release" remaster, still on vinyl. They sound good, too, on the Klipschorns! Brain Damage The lunatic is on the grass. The lunatic is on the grass. Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs. Got to keep the loonies on the path. The lunatic is in the hall. The lunatics are in my hall. The paper holds their folded faces to the floor And every day the paper boy brings more. And if the dam breaks open many years too soon And if there is no room upon the hill And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. The lunatic is in my head. The lunatic is in my head You raise the blade, you make the change You re-arrange me 'til I'm sane. You lock the door And throw away the key There's someone in my head but it's not me. And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear You shout and no one seems to hear. And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes I'll see you on the dark side of the moon. "I can't think of anything to say except... I think it's marvelous! HaHaHa!"

Howzabout Ioway?

Yodap- The minute totalizer advance mechanism on the 7750 isn't a really precise one. To change the trip point would be a tough job with a very fine pair of tweezers and an even finer touch, under a loupe or a microscope, after you take off the rotor and the winder plate.... if yours trips at 58-59, I'd say it's good and leave it alone! .....More on topic with the original poster- I'd be curious as to whether ViceAdmiralJon ever resolved his problem with the chrono reset. What happened, Jon?

The Antikythera First, view http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/antikythera/ ...then take a look at Tatjana van Vark's work, http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/antikythera/index.html And then- but only if you have the time to get utterly lost in the mind of one of the most amazing people on this planet, go to http://www.tatjavanvark.nl/index.html

Yup, a darn nice watch... and a nice R-388, too! (good taste in watches, good taste in boatanchors! ) - de W5GNF k

WOW. That hurt!... my worst nightmare is having something happen to my vision. Take care of that well, Zig- hope it heals soon. Damn, what a halloween photo....

And, dammit, ANY of the Navis with an accurate SLIDE RULE SCALE!!! :please:

An interesting quote from the thread mentioned at the bottom of that post- ============== [*] rob Posted April 26, 2008 at 11:39 pm with all the fakes coming out who wouldn

But if you find a twelve-step program for rep addiction, I'm in.... just let me pull the trigger on this SFSO, and maybe the Slovin I'm looking at, and then......

MG, all the quartz movements you're looking at tick at one per second. Except for the Beta 21 and the new Seiko Spring Drive, I'm not aware of any quartz movement that ticks more than one per sec. The "sweep second hand" that they advertise is simply a center seconds hand.

I'm curious... What case did you use? That's really a nice combination!

BRAVO Bravo bravo.... now THAT is a very nice combination.. it will be a stunning watch!

Man, I love that hand! erm, in a brotherly, platonic way, o'course. And you're right, the bars do make a difference.

Sent a bunch of crystals off to Chieftang for AR, and got em back last weekend. Beautiful! They all went back in jes' fine except for one, a Navitimer... I can't get the damn thing back in! Need a fresh xtal gasket, it seems that with the pressure of the crystal off it has "grown" a bit and even with the greatest care (and I have some good crystal press tools) it won't pop into place. And now the gasket has deformed with my attempts to nudge it in.... question is, do you guys have a suggestion as to who might be the best source for a new gasket? I asked Offshore about this, and he suggested that I might simply use crystal cement without a ring- sez he has trouble with them, too- but I think the clearance is a bit much. I've looked at some of the usual sources- cousins, borel, ofrei, a bunch of others and can't find gaskets this big. Also, none of the gaskets or assortments I've seen has cross-section dimensions listed. I have not found anything above 36mm. And while I'm at it, I need a crystal gasket for an IWC Portuguese that I got as a "watch kit". Here are the measurements: Navitimer- 38.22 bezel ID, 37.48 crystal OD- side clearance 0.37mm IWC- 38.46 bezel ID, 37.90 crystal OD- side clearance 0.28mm Help! I promise I'll post pics as soon as I get this one installed.... because these chieftang AR jobs are absolutely beautiful!

It's out far enough that it's annoying to me. I do use the slide rule- not often, but often enough to notice. Grumble grumble.

Well now, look on the bright side. Is it possible that these puppies have decent quality cases/crystals? If so, are they cheap enough to serve as a source of spare parts or projects? That being said, it's hard to get around the emetic quality....

Pug- You said it perfectly. Thank you.

ummm- meaning you don't, ajoe? I was a project engineer on the Apollo program in the late 60's, at NASA HQ in Huntsville. And yup, they did. Ain't no question about it as far as I'm concerned. And Ah ain't no NASA shill.

Saw this thread last year, and I am even more impressed seeing it again and hearing your plans for it... only thing I do NOT like about this project is that the damn thing is not on MY wrist. I'm just positive it would look a whole bunch better there! This is a beautiful watch. Well done, Phoband!

I watch them on the bay, too- have bought gen Navitimer dial, and also a NOS Omega case for an F300 tuning fork movement from them. They're legit. I'd like to raid their parts department...

oh lordy- give a guy some warnin' afore you pop up this kinda pr0n.... ah almost fouled mah nest!

Pug... tsk, tsk. What *can* you be thinking?? :blink: they are more than a minute apart! which one is korrekt?