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hi Doctor & TimG, I'll get back to you with measurements, the band is solid lead that can be marked with a finger nail, definitely not plated or...

These Nato symbols are also found on the packets as shown here. 9mm SMAW showing a combined Spotter-Tracer symbol.

Have a friend who just went through a "revision" hip replacement because the cobalt ball was eroding the cobalt socket, giving him a higher than...

I first encountered these in 1976. Each half of those tops and bottoms contained 3 x individual aluminium wrapped PE4 slabs each about 1kg. They...

The centre piece is made by Oritur Manufacturing Co. Ltd. and bears the patent application number 9614 of 1916, which was duly granted as Patent No....

Here is the picture - hopefully works this time.

Little bump for this... anyone? Thanks :)

A Dull Key hole saw with some missing teeth ~ :xd: I've seen heavy Orthopaedic instruments come back all bent to hell- the poor patient , one...

I was actually thinking of a cigar hole punch, before Rick got me on that "ass-backwards" type of thinking:tinysmile_shy_t:

Add a saw, pinchers and some leeches and you would have a medical kit any Medieval barber would be proud to own.

This thread has pictures of my projectile. http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/89974-Canadian-M62A1-3-inch-AP-Round?highlight=canadian+inch

I know Canada was making 76mm ammunition during the war, I have a 1944 dated Dominion Bridge case. We're they just making cases or complete...

We might have gotten them with the up gunned Shermans we bought for the Korean war along with Hyper velocity rounds, that would be my guess.

A better quality picture of the effect in air-burst mode against an aluminium alloy plate. Plus the effect of the 35 mm ABM/KETF projectile against a...

I have only seen three such examples with aluminum noses, and they all came out of Canada. I have one such green projectile with an aluminum nose,...

Not much help so far but the marking IZ stands for the factory mark of United Izhorsk Factories (Izhorskie Zavody) St.Petersburg. Possibly a...

very nice,i would like one myself if you find another

"This is the end, my only friend, the end...":rock:

They had both aluminum and steel. The ones I have are steel.

I posted picture of centre tube via attachment{which now will no longer open]. i will try to re post,,,but it definatly is magnetic..thanks for...

Good thing we have experts here who know (should I say) both ends of a coin.

Steve, look at the "stickies" for projectiles, then "37mm, all others", that Gordon put up. It covers a lot of the fuzes. Most of the internals are...