Greetings Robert! I agree - da bomb! I did not use it at the parade as I gather that may be kinda frowned upon (maybe local?) at the Memorial Day parade. That being said - it is installed and working. I ended up mounting the push button on the bottom flange of the dash...invisible, but easily accessible. I powered it up using the horn circuit breaker and the switch goes to a ground strap on the dash. Funny thing about motors - when I was a kid, I used put together these model airplanes with a little electric motor that you had to wind. They never worked. One of my parent's friends was an electrical engineer and came over for dinner. He and I tried to get one working and he could not do it either :-) Made me feel better! More next episode! Thanks as always for being so supportive!

Agreed Nick - great weekend! Look forward to doing it again!

Greetings Pierre. You have me thinking and doing some research. When I learned to gas weld, I was given a stack of coat hangars and learned to weld using them. They worked fine. Technically, R45/R60 are oxy/acetylene rods and ER70S variants for TIG - both mild steel applications. The TIG rod is common now and has more "cleaning" action and relatively different composition. That being said, it works fine to gas weld too. I have a mix....and often forget which I am using, although for a certified welding application, the RG rods should be used. I am going to do a comparison soon and will share if I can tell a difference. I am using a Smith Airline torch (acquired by Miller now...AW1A is model) with their smallest tip (201) for thin sheet metal. They are beautiful little torches and common in the aviation industry. The MFR pressures per their manual are 10/10 psi. I was taught to run it 5/5psi, but I think somewhere in between is best - 10 is a little high and will extinguish the flame with the small tip while 5/5psi feels like you have to run it a little too open to get good penetration and quick enough heat application. I am going to be experimenting with some filters to see if I can get a clear shot of the weld bead - hard to film welding. If I can, I will do a quick tutorial. Cheers!

You got that right! Thanks for fixing my siren Mat!

Thanks for joining Scott!  That is a great idea.  We do have a private Facebook group....but I would love to cultivate more interaction here....away from the drama.....

Doesn't sound like luck Robert, but I totally understand the feeling. The lack of complete information makes it seem like a bit of a crap shoot. I have been able to chat with a bunch of folks with lots of expertise with these transmissions - lot of good perspectives. I will jinx myself, but I think there are a finite number of things to check....and once checked out, you can be pretty confident in your rebuild. I am filming tomorrow...so hopefully will have the video up soon.

Cheers Tom! I guess it made sense in 1960 to grab the torch and get after it, but sometimes......!

Thank you for the support Adam. The T84 is a simple transmission, but the lack of published standards on several clearances means we are all test pilots when we rebuild them. I keep polling folks who have rebuilt lots of them...and get different answers....so....hopefully we can get this narrowed down and help everyone out.

Very nice. I have time in a stock Stearman, but the 450 always looked like a blast! Beech 18 is a beautiful airplane. Great project.

Great feedback Jeff. We can definitely do walk arounds of both the Weasel and jeep family and several other very interesting military vehicles that we have easy access to. Let me think about what we could cover in one video - we may end up breaking them into a "walk around" and buyers guide. There is definitely a lot of ground to cover. Love to hear that you get inspired to get to your shop/hangar. You piqued my curiosity...what lies in that hangar?