Spherical aircraft hydraulic accumulator by Bendix Aviation Corporation's Pacific Division. A heavy steel ball on a machined neck, with the original red-lettered warning ring and the charging valve still fitted.
Maker: Pacific Division, Bendix Aviation Corp., North Hollywood, California
Type: hydraulic accumulator, spherical shell
Data plate fields: A.N. NO., ASSEM., SERIAL and a stamped PSI AIR PRESS box - the values sit on the curve of the neck and do not photograph legibly
Warning ring reads: RELEASE FLUID PRESSURE ONLY BEFORE ... RELEASE AIR & ...ING PRESSURE LINE ... BEFORE DISASSEMBLING ACCUMULATOR
Dating
The plate says Bendix Aviation Corporation. That name was used until 1960, when the company became The Bendix Corporation, so this shell was made no later than the end of the 1950s.
Sold vented - it carries no gas pre-charge. Handle it as what it is: a heavy steel vessel. Do not pressurise it, and do not open the neck.
Sold AS-IS / as-removed. UNTESTED. No current airworthiness tag / no 8130-3. NOT for aircraft installation / not approved for return to service. Not sold as an aircraft part. Sold for display, collecting, flight-sim, study, or repair/overhaul. Buyer assumes all responsibility for any use.
About the source of this item
From the leftover stock of an aviation repair and certification shop; when the company closed the remaining inventory went to sale. That origin is real, but it does not mean this unit is approved for flight today.
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