1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

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1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby guyburns » Tue 13 Jan, 2015 4:19 pm

I have two slides from a 1969 trip into the Vale of Rasselas that were taken at the Gordon Bend. The slides are labelled "HEC Test Rack".

Testing what?
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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby Strider » Tue 13 Jan, 2015 4:44 pm

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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby gayet » Tue 13 Jan, 2015 4:56 pm

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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby guyburns » Sun 18 Jan, 2015 11:36 am

Thanks for the responses.

Strange place to put a paint test rack, miles from anywhere. Was the HEC worried about vandals?

The rack may not have been at Gordon Bend (at the flying fox on the way to Gordonvale), but could have been at the end of the Bombadier Track a few kilometres west.
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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby FLICKIT » Wed 12 Jan, 2022 9:10 pm

could have been at the end of the Bombadier Track


Old thread but... It's at the end of the Bombardier track close to where the old hut ruins are, up on the slope above where the cableway was at the eastern end of the gorge..

53 years later, it's looking a bit rough but the frame is still intact: (photos from yesterday)
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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby guyburns » Thu 13 Jan, 2022 3:33 pm

Amazing find. Thanks for that. If ever I'm up that way again, I'll go looking for it.

How did you get in there – from Timbs track or the Florentine track?
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Re: 1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

Postby FLICKIT » Thu 13 Jan, 2022 3:57 pm

I went in via Timbs, Adamsfield, & Bombardier tracks, heading back I skirted around the top of Gordon Plains and then down the Rasselas track, a nice ~35km loop of Gordon Plains basically..

Such a lovely area out there..
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