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Hello again Six Nifty .50s
i had to do some work for a while but now one more comment. I'm not sure if this is relevant, but I once read that there were problems with the bearings of the Pachard Merlins and the the reason given in the article was bad quality control at Pachards or at one of its sub-contractors or to be more precis the reason given was the place where the machine-tool operators poured their stale Coke.That isn't relevant to Merlins of the Hurricanes of the 43 Sqn but maybe to the Mustangs and to the Spits, if they were Mk XVIs and the failures happened in certain timeframe. And I'm not absolutely sure of the truthfulness of the story, maybe the British only tried to put the blame of the bearing failures on Americans.
And thanks for the info on engine failures. I'd like to know the timeframe, if possible.
Juha
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