Crankshaft table

[bchee]

http://cgi.ebay.com/Curtiss-Wright-...300568564460?pt=US_Tables&hash=item45fb4852ec

 

[A_Pmech]

I like it!

 

[bluebolt]

I have some Hartzell wooden propellors I have been wanting to turn into tables. They are more accurately called "test clubs" and were used for ground testing of engines that were removed from the airplane. I want to build a base with a shaft and have the prop at the top with glass on it. Got a few ideas from this Ebay table!

 

[ldim]

This brings back memories. I was a Navy Mechanic on the SP2H anti-sub planes, P-2's back in the early sixties. Two of these Wright R3350's engines were on those planes. Very very large radial engines. Even back then parts were getting hard to come by and we always had planes around which we cannibalized. Still have the scars from all the safety wire.

 

[cool50]

Is that from MOTO ART?

 

[Weps]

i thought the crankshaft was interesting visually and the overall design was ok, but the silver dollars make no sense to me. i was just left thinking...wtf. that kills in the whole project, imo.

 

[btbsandman]

i thought the crankshaft was interesting visually and the overall design was ok, but the silver dollars make no sense to me. i was just left thinking...wtf. that kills in the whole project, imo.

I just dont see the art in that. The crankshaft was cool, and thats about it too.

 

[cnc-me]

I think it would look better with wood.
The crankshaft kind of gets "lost" with all of the other metal.

 

[Davo J]

For that price, you would have thought the left coin in picture 5 would have been centered.

Dave

 

[whelenfan]

bluebolt - keep us posted on your table!

 

[Jzytaruk]

I should make something like that out of a final drive from a CAT D6/7/8 dozer

 

[ZRX61]

$30K for that??? I know where I can lay my hands on a bunch of those cranks...

 

[Skyline]

I remember a few years back seeing a TV show about a firm that made all sorts of furniture out of used airplane parts. It only lasted a few episodes as I recall, but they made some pretty cool stuff. A lot of airplane parts are pretty cool all by themselves, so these guys didn't have to work too hard on that aspect...their business was really focused on just converting them into something functional.

 

[blue dog]

Is that from MOTO ART?

Moto art just moved in 2 doors down from a friend of mines shop in El Segundo, have not had time to go in and check it out, but it is high on my list when i have the time. There stuff is amazing. And $$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Buxfan]

Cool- not 30K cool

 

[930dreamer]

We just added another one to the $22 million garage we bought.

 

[Timpala]

I remember a few years back seeing a TV show about a firm that made all sorts of furniture out of used airplane parts. It only lasted a few episodes as I recall, but they made some pretty cool stuff. A lot of airplane parts are pretty cool all by themselves, so these guys didn't have to work too hard on that aspect...their business was really focused on just converting them into something functional.

That was "Wing Nuts". One of the main characters died suddenly and the whole thing fell apart. The company is still going http://www.motoart.com/

 

[ZRX61]

Moto art just moved in 2 doors down from a friend of mines shop in El Segundo, have not had time to go in and check it out, but it is high on my list when i have the time. There stuff is amazing. And $$$$$$$$$$$$

That's because the public don't know you can go to aircraft scrap yards & pick up the stuff they use for pennies on the dollar....

 

[csp]

Even if they did know, how many people in the US actually live anywhere close to where the majority of the aircraft scrap yards are?

 

[nismomans13]

For that price, you would have thought the left coin in picture 5 would have been centered.

Dave

for that price you'd think it comes with 29,000 silver dollars.

 

[2oolhound]

If the engines are that rare I think it's a shame it was scrapped and not restored and admired for what it was. If it was beyond that condition it could have been made into a cut-a-way working model so you could see the moving parts as it was slowly turned by an electric motor. It would need to be in an aviation museum.

 

[woody 73]

If the engines are that rare I think it's a shame it was scrapped and not restored and admired for what it was. If it was beyond that condition it could have been made into a cut-a-way working model so you could see the moving parts as it was slowly turned by an electric motor. It would need to be in an aviation museum.

I can see your point and I was also thinking along the same lines;with that being said the table is something different and unusual but only a wealthy person could buy it.

Since I do not use the E-bay how do these things work does some wealthy patron of the arts or business see this item and say that is just what I need in my home/office and I should place a bid asap?

Don't get me wrong it is their money and they can do anything they please but I would rather buy other things for that kind of money.