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By The Armorer on May 24, 2007 | | Comments (27)

This one will be painful. Maggie won't like it at all. Prolly take us into the weekend for those who wish to play.

I can't wait to see how inventive you clowns get...

A small, but key, section of the gizmo. Without it, well, that would be telling.

No, I don't really expect you to get it from this clue. I just want to see how imaginative you guys get!

I'm pretty sure you'll think it's kewl when it's over, though.

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By BloodSpite on May 24, 2007 8:18 AM
World War 2 Radio Set
 
By Maggie on May 24, 2007 8:20 AM
I'm not playing. I'll be over at the bar.
 
By Pogue on May 24, 2007 8:34 AM
Gyroscopic stabilization platform for a WWII era 5" 54 caliber Naval gun...
 
By leavenworth centurion on May 24, 2007 8:59 AM
This is the famous Grafenwoehr "Grid Light Generator" It sits behind Range Control at GTA and is only activated when 2LTs call Range Control on the Range Control freq during night firing exercises and ask to have the grid lights turned on. This grid light generator has never been known to be operational, as Range Control usually responds to such requests with: "Negative, the grid light generator is down".
 
By Oldloadr on May 24, 2007 9:03 AM
It's a training aid...
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 24, 2007 9:21 AM
Oldloadr is correct. You're that much closer.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 24, 2007 9:28 AM
Oh, and Maggie - the bar is newly stocked, you should be able to find just about anything you're looking for.
 
By bad cat robot on May 24, 2007 9:41 AM
It's a comms static generator for really accurate wargaming. No more of this completely clear communications nonsense -- the trainees have to contend with barely being able to make out the words and sometimes making hilarious mistakes.
 
By MajMike on May 24, 2007 12:02 PM
Aux Power Unit for Iranian sub/sharks.
 
By Oldloadr on May 24, 2007 12:58 PM
How about a training aid gyro for something "old" that needed a gyro (e.g. Navy deck gun, WWII era fighter/bomber...) Am I getting warm?
 
By concretebob on May 24, 2007 1:00 PM
Its the prndl assembly, minus the kanibbling pin and muffler bearing. Used to adjust range of motion when AO is located in regions where the right to keep armed bears is exercised.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 24, 2007 1:01 PM
It served a purpose similar to a gyro, though that is not what it is.
 
By Maggie on May 24, 2007 1:04 PM
You stocked the bar with Sailors? Excellent! Thanks John.
 
By Oldloadr on May 24, 2007 1:10 PM
Maggie sure likes a lot of salt in her diet...
 
By NevadaDailySteve on May 24, 2007 1:11 PM
It served a purpose similar to a gyro, though that is not what it is.
A bar stool stabilizer at the local officers club
 
By jim b on May 24, 2007 3:06 PM
It's the balance stabilizer from the Rita'O'Matic. It helps wimins keep their balance when over indulging. I don't need em, Scoresby is a stabilizer all of it's own.
 
By Pogue on May 24, 2007 3:56 PM
Hmmm, an accelerometer maybe? I'm sticking with Naval gun platform stabilization. And, yeah, a training aid...
 
By Toluca Nole on May 24, 2007 4:39 PM
An Edelbrock...nevermind.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 24, 2007 5:06 PM
Snerk! Hadda look "Edelbrock" up!~
 
By Trias on May 24, 2007 7:45 PM
Perhaps it measures accuracy of fire or something.
 
By jim b on May 24, 2007 9:13 PM
Well crap I knew what Edelbrock is. When do you do a Mopar Whatzat?
 
By BloodSpite on May 24, 2007 9:35 PM
Ooo good call Jim. Or maybe a Carter AFB whatzit? (That ought to send the Zoomies in to a tail spin...)
 
By J.M. Heinrichs on May 24, 2007 9:38 PM
"Hadda look "Edelbrock" up!" - Snort! I guess that eliminates Amal, or a Miller-Offenhauser do-dad ... Cheers
 
By Rivrdog on May 24, 2007 11:26 PM
Must be Army, Arty. Neither Navy or Air Farce painted parts red. It's a Redleg Retread Pegleg Stabilization Unit. The wiring on the yoke axis is for sensors to pick off the pegleg angles, so it's tied into an analog computer, the Redleg Retread Pegleg Stab Unit Mainframe, which weighed 5,414 lbs and required the use of an M35 Redleg Retread Pegleg Stab Unit Mainframe Hauler (and trailer to carry the Mark VII (mod 2A6) Redleg Retread Pegleg Stab Unit Mainframe Generator Unit (Sled Mounted). I could go on, but you will find all of this in FM 0-25-106-90(A), annotated. The history of the RRPSU was short and sweet. In 1950, the Army found itself short of Arty officers, so it "retreaded" 29 of them at a previously unknown annex to Ft Sill, OK. The RRPs, all single leg amputee veterans from WW2, were outfitted there with the RRPSU, given a 5-hour refresher course in the advances of arty science, and sent to the war zone. The RRPs were all assigned to the Second of the First of the Thirty-Ninth (Field Artillery, Light) where they became known for their hospitality on and off the battlefield, since the contractor for the RRPSU had generously made a liquid container out of the whole lower half of the Pegleg, which container soon found use as a liquid refreshment container. Since the RRPSU had NOT been designed to operate properly in an alcohol environment, the sensor output to the RRPSUM was frequently out of calibration, with the result that the Redleg Retread Peglegs found themselves directing arty fire from the seats of their pants. The Army found that such battlefield deportment was not in the best interest of fire discipline, and soon cancelled the entire program, and all the Redleg Retread Peglegs were returned to the CONUS and re-retired. They are now known as the Redleg Retread Re-Retired Peglegs (RRRRPs) and they have their very own corner of the Officer's Club Bar at Ft. Sill, where their signature food and drink is Beer and Bean Dip. No one drinks with them much, because, of course, they do a lot of RRRRP-ing.
 
By Justthisguy on May 25, 2007 3:35 AM
Dammit, Rivrdog, this is serious! I thought I almost had it, and then I read what you wrote, which completely erased my forebrain! And gave me diaphagm spasms! You bastard! You killed my mind! BCR, he knocked me back to safe mode. I see only crudely-rendered images! I needa reset!
 
By Trias on May 25, 2007 3:37 AM
I do believe rivrdog wins the Artiste Prize of Australian Manmoo Fetiliser.
 
By John of Argghhh! on May 25, 2007 9:31 AM
The adventure continues in a new post - right here. Rivrdog, I am in *awe*. I'm closing comments on this post to force you fellers up top.