I don't know bout the price, but the seller is just an old guy who
cleaned out a barn. He will be hopefully putting up more photos. He
says the drum center unit is missing, but I want to verify that.
He didn't know what the term "demil-ed" meant, nor inferred it from
being at DRMO auctions, so I'm inclined to believe it is just a "found
in the barn" situation.
I'd be guessing he wants piles for it, and may get it from the types who
like to have weird and sad relics like converted parts of classic
aircraft as furniture in their houses (sad because the ones who started
the business destroyed working aircraft).
In this case it would be a conversation starter, but as one with way
more of those in the house than any wife should (and does) put up with
it will get old fast.
I'm only ranting and apologize to DC, to who I should have thanked for
putting eyeballs on something I missed, because I'd really like to find
the drum.
There are sets of documentation and machine and carcass of the drum unit
out there, but nothing recorded electronically of what was run on them.
And I don't mean outbound to their destination, but in the schools where
most of the resided.
I'm hoping to get some history, as i suspect it ended up in the "barn"
when someone took it from a local school. It might be tracable, as I
think I saw a list somewhere exchanged between owners of these as to who
had them. It may be too late to find other bits of it he had and didn't
recognize.
thanks again DC for spotting and posting, you are coming at it from a
different angle than I am, and have a valid point.
And it is a lot of magnesium, if it lights off in your man cave it isn't
going to be pretty. I don't think it's the alloy kind used in wheels,
but a large chunk of fairly pure magnesium.
Jim
On 3/5/2012 10:04 AM, DC wrote:
I don't think anyone would pay 100k for it but, it
certainly isn't
just magnesium scrap. Having a fake made out of plywood is not the
same as telling people you have an actual piece of a missile. The CHM
would be nothing but, plywood mockups if it was. What would be the
difference ?
Anyway, it's worth as much people are willing to pay for it. I am
constantly surprised. I am sure I will be for this too. Someone should
forward the auction it to Paul Allen.
On 3/5/2012 9:21 AM, Al Kossow wrote:
I agree with Jim. The seller is delusional. There are several
pictures on the web of what it
should look like with all of its covers and cards on the web. You
could make a better looking
coffee table out of plywood.