March 2003
Here's a turbine disk from a Rolls-Royce Spey jet engine - probably from an RAF
Phantom. Cute thing, but a bit of a hazard around the shed. So it had to go.
I'd stripped the turbine blades off and was happily eBaying them to
collectors. Now I had to dispose of the disk. Two foot diameter of heavy,
extremely tenacious top-quality steel. Too thick for the plasma cutter, too
tough to angle grind, so it was time for the old gas-axe.
Plan was to slice the mounting ring up into sections, and use it to display the turbine blades.
I might even eBay a few chunks.
Time to mask up. The Fedayeen destroyers of Imperialist Yankee aircraft
salute you (although this plane was well beyond help anyway). As I usually set
fire to my hair when cutting, this time I went for an ex-Navy flash hood. If you
like sticking your head in a sailor's aertex jockstrap, it's ideal.
Chopped. Eventually.
