1969 HEC Test rack at Gordon Bend - testing what?

[guyburns]

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?

[Strider]

Paint colours resistance to fading?

[gayet]

weathering and corrosion comparisons of different materials/coatings as per Strider? Looks to be both base material and coatings with surface imperfections to facilitate corrosive action

[guyburns]

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.

[FLICKIT]

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)

[guyburns]

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?

[FLICKIT]

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..