Comments for Okay, let's get back to basics.

Okay, let's get back to basics.

2007-01-27T17:12:38Z

First - the answer to the cockpit whatzis was... Yak 3. Congrats to Gwedd and HomeFrontSix(!).

Turn yourselves loose on this one.

Comment from Steve P on 2007-01-28

2007-01-28T22:18:41Z

Methinks it's a telescope sight for an A/Ik gun, maybe post wwII. It looks very similar to a No 43 Mk 3 Firefly scope.

Comment from SangerM on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T04:14:10Z

Or maybe I should collect myself and think about it for, oh, another 58 minutes or so... I think I need some sleep....

Comment from SangerM on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T04:07:33Z

Hmmm... thinking with my fingers here: If it's not a barrel off some kind of gun (which it looks like it could be, can't tell what those dark spots are on the thicker shaft, greasy fingerprints?), then it looks like it's designed to be an axle. If it's spring loaded, maybe that nub on top is how you take it apart, in which case it's got to be something that is held in place by compression, Unless a bolt comes in through the seating bearing, but even then it couldn't take much torque without breaking or bending the bolt, so it's got to be something relatively lightweght and I would guess used as oriented, like an antenna base for a wind sensor or some such or a rotating wheel of some kind, but being here, I am going to gusss it's a barrel for some kind of heavy gun... And since BillT knows what it is, maybe it's some aviation kind of gun--from the civl war. Or it's just some old machined piece of crap put up here to me crazy again... See, that's how my mind works (or doesnt)...

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T03:54:14Z

Well, in my defense, Bill essentially *works* with one... it would hardly have been fair. And, um, for 95% of you, that is *really* a huge red herring.

Comment from BillT on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T03:28:32Z

Heh. *I* know what it is, but I had to recuse myself. Actually, John had me recuse myself. Didn't Fontella Bass sing something along those lines?

Comment from Pat on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T03:19:28Z

The CDN version of the LAV-25 uses a pneumatic cylinder to raise and lower the driver's seat. My official guess is this is out of a USMC LAV-25.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T01:56:15Z

Sanger is good on scale - and the seating portion.

Comment from SangerM on 2007-01-27

2007-01-28T01:38:52Z

Looks about 1.5-2' feet long, maybe longer. Bottom clearly seats into something, like a chair base - seat pipe for some kind of armor vehicle - pedestal mount of some kind for a gun - If I've got the scale wrong, then it could be charging handle or a firing pin for a really big gun... - Tank track pin remover (a punch of some kind).

Comment from wolfwalker on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T22:58:40Z

Armorer, have you been digging around in the OSS's toybox again? :-) This looks rather like the Spring Cosh that OSS spooks used in WW2. Press the button on the butt-end, and it telescopes out to double its length. A handy concealed club.

Comment from John of Argghhh! on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T22:34:24Z

Nope. Nope. Nope.

Comment from Rod Thorsen on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T19:32:47Z

shock absorber?

Comment from Eric on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T18:32:26Z

Cut down M2HB barrel

Comment from Old Fat Sailor on 2007-01-27

2007-01-27T17:42:01Z

subcalaber device?