Purchased this one from Beltring 2011, did anyone spot it? I felt sorry for it so did the deal, I also thought it would be a bit of fun cleaning and restoring it. Ok, so it is a bit of a relic, but at least it is in one piece - no damage etc. Was anyone concerned about the fuze still located in one of the Fuze pockets? :tinysmile_shutup_t: no need to worry, this is the charger fuze that was responsible for arming the main explosive fuze (not fitted) at the front of the casing. The fuze was marked "laderkopf" with no circled code denoting type of fuze.
First job was to crack her open, easy when you know how, discovered a bolt passing passing through the outer casing into the bottom of the Fuze pocket, once this was undone (with a lot of effort) she finally cracked open, I persume the metal straps inside were part of what secured the little Sd1's inside the container?
So what's next, well I have aquired a dip tank and plan to soak in lots of evaporust, I may repaint or just preserve as is - I am not sure yet.
Thanks to Waff and Satan for their help, also Waff for sorting me out (I hope) with a nice fuze to pop in the front fuze pocket to make her complete. Also thanks to one of our Aussie BOCN friends who helped me back to the car, it did get people moving out of the way!! :tongue:
Ok, this leaves one question, I know very little about these Sd1 bomblets, what areas of combat were they used in? also what sort of dates? and one last thing, what is the official name for this container, I have not found it in my books, the only examples I can find only have the one main fuze?
Thanks for reading.
Dan
First job was to crack her open, easy when you know how, discovered a bolt passing passing through the outer casing into the bottom of the Fuze pocket, once this was undone (with a lot of effort) she finally cracked open, I persume the metal straps inside were part of what secured the little Sd1's inside the container?
So what's next, well I have aquired a dip tank and plan to soak in lots of evaporust, I may repaint or just preserve as is - I am not sure yet.
Thanks to Waff and Satan for their help, also Waff for sorting me out (I hope) with a nice fuze to pop in the front fuze pocket to make her complete. Also thanks to one of our Aussie BOCN friends who helped me back to the car, it did get people moving out of the way!! :tongue:
Ok, this leaves one question, I know very little about these Sd1 bomblets, what areas of combat were they used in? also what sort of dates? and one last thing, what is the official name for this container, I have not found it in my books, the only examples I can find only have the one main fuze?
Thanks for reading.
Dan