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Heh. A double-dog dare, eh?

By The Armorer on February 28, 2009 | | Comments (25)
By HomefrontSix on February 27, 2009 8:24 PM
Yes! Yes it IS a challenge. I double-dog dare you!!! (can you tell I'm in need of a distraction?)
 
Who am I to turn her down?
Okay, HFS, impress me.

Anyone can play, of course.  So, HF6, whatizzit?

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By BillT on February 28, 2009 10:35 AM
Hint: They're not allowed to use it at Gitmo.
 
By Argent on February 28, 2009 10:40 AM
Dial a Pizza, Hot Man Autofinder, Politician Promise Breaker, UN 'right tone' Calculator, Carborundum Stress Meter.
 
By JamesLee on February 28, 2009 11:18 AM
Can't use it at Gitmo.... hmmm, must have something to do with iguana then, right?
 
By John (not the armorer) on February 28, 2009 11:27 AM
Some sort of erection set for artillery guys tyring to get it up?

Or maybe one of those aircraft weight distribution calculator thingees, so they keep cargo etc all distributed so the plane she no fall outta de sky, or fails to fly in the first place.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 28, 2009 11:49 AM
Ya think so, J(NTA)?  Looks to me more like something you sailors used to that purpose...
 
By Maggie on February 28, 2009 12:23 PM
Armorer - That's ridiculous!  Everyone knows what gets Sailors excited.........and it's not in either of those pictures.
 
By BillT on February 28, 2009 1:35 PM
Everyone knows what gets Sailors excited.

Yup.

 
By HomefrontSix on February 28, 2009 2:04 PM
*trying depserately to drag my mind OUT of the gutter*

Um...hint please? I'm thinking...aw, hell I got nothing.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 28, 2009 2:28 PM
Hmmm.  A hint, she sez.

Okay.

Festung.  Geschwindigkeit.
 
By Neffi on February 28, 2009 3:26 PM
Flak predictor?
 
By Tom Goering on February 28, 2009 3:34 PM
Why, everyone knows that is a left handed, multi-function discombobulator used by the Army to unclog toilets.
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 28, 2009 3:51 PM
Good stab, Neffi.  Not right, but closer than anyone else.
 
By Neffi on February 28, 2009 3:56 PM
OK, fire  predictor for shore-based artillery lobbing big honkin' shells at enemy ships...
 
By heatha on February 28, 2009 4:07 PM
analog artillery -Fire control system computer/plotter?.  For which piece I do not know.
Heath

Fire Control Systems tech, Canadian Forces, 1986-2006
 
By John of Argghhh! on February 28, 2009 4:10 PM
Neffi, Heath - you're putting the cart before the horse.  Heath - how many settings do there appear to be?  For you, the key may be the dial on the upper right. 
 
By heatha on February 28, 2009 5:10 PM
Protractor for wind corrections, or correction of movement plotter.  this was laid over a datum sheet for the type of gun/shell.  OR, it's a displacement calculator for registering guns relative to a central location in the bty position.  I can't read the dial, though it looks like compass dial, with perhaps declination correction in the middle.

Heath
 
By Argent on February 28, 2009 7:21 PM
A radial accelerometer?
 
By Neffi on February 28, 2009 7:26 PM
Analog-to-digital TV converter of the type that seems to have confused so many people, they not having paid attention these last three years?
 
By Cpl Mongo on February 28, 2009 10:53 PM
This is in fact a "left handed wind shifter", I know 'cuz I sent a PFC to find me one in 1986.
I think he might still be looking for it. He was motor T after all.

 
By John (not the armorer) on February 28, 2009 11:24 PM
Gizmo for couputing initial velocity by factoring in stuff like powder  temperature, barometric pressure, charge weight, projectile weight?
 
By Maggie on March 1, 2009 1:18 AM
My Darling Chief.....no need to be unkind, I love anyway.

I can be cold, but I am not an iceberg.
 
By HomefrontSix on March 1, 2009 3:13 AM
Mongo ~ I think I saw that guy. He crossed paths with another guy looking for a can of engine compression and a box of piston return springs and I've not seen them since.


However, I am stumped on this one. But it *is* a nice distraction so thanks, John!
 
By Old Fat Sailor on March 1, 2009 6:48 AM
LL an XYZ axis analog mechcanical computer, but w/o a good look at the inputs-don't know. John, I think it is related to the fire control computer (MK37 system?)in your pic. R
 
By cannonball on March 2, 2009 1:06 AM
A graphical Met Data Correction Sheet?
 
By Navig8or on March 2, 2009 1:47 AM
A gizmo for use in the FDC for converting back and forth between the observer-target line frame of reference and the gun-target line frame of reference.