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I forgot to mention the proper designation for the above pictured cartridge. It is "2cm Brgr.Patr.L'spur 151 o.Zerl.". It was ment to be used only in...

no luck so far

Have I achieved a first on this website-not one single person has proffered an opinion as to the reasons behind the choice of single v twin shackles!...

yes its totally correct

No this is the Hotchkiss 75mm L13 Mountain gun. Tin plated steel, just like commercial household products of the time. Case is 212mm long, base...

Just what I was looking for!

Thanks - most interesting!

Weberoed-Did you strike gold in obtaining a copy of a manual?

Closing this thread as closer inspection (thanks Dave for pointing this out) has shown this actually is a P59. So the mystery is solved. Sent from...

So is this the 2.95" mountain gun With 75x166R x85 ctg case? And when you say "tin" ....is that tin-plated steel? Thanks very much

Here are the finalized drawings. The actual 3d print to follow in the days to come. The length of the HE shell is indeed 196.85mm, but the...

Welp, I think I cracked the mystery - Both @Snufkin and @Alpini are right in saying that this fuze is deformed, but I was also right in insisting...

The fuze's base is hollow so you don't have a perfect force in one direction. It's blown up like a balloon and you see this effect on so many other...

Hallo, the "Leuchtspurbrandgranate"(Incendiary Tracer Shell) seems to be a late war introduction (1943). It was supposed to be used together with...

No. You CANNOT have deformation in one direction without deformation in the other direction, because that's just simple physics - if you squish...

Here is some more information. The Tin case was replaced by a brass case certainly by or before this book was published in 1896. There is also a...

I have the exact same drawing and what you posted here is the blank from which the adapter/socket is machined. You should have posted the one below...

The 0.75" dimension is from the top edge, or rim, of the socket to the inside surface of the base of the socket, as per the attached image. The...

It wasn't just heated. It was heated and - if a No.80/44 + No.44/80 combination - subjected to an explosive shock wave, followed by the impact of the...

Looking more closely at the mess of numbers on that plan it turns out we both might have read it wrong and the "0.75 in" could be the depth of the...

Now it being a No.80/44 makes sense and I also thought of it, although i'm not sure how to tell a No.80/44 apart from a regular No.80 in the absence...

This is on eBay - not sure if it’s the right thing or not ...

A good expertise here, and nothing about a M39 https://www.bergflak.com/index.html Moreover, there is a contradiction in the documentation...

Thanks so much guys for sharing the pictures! I have never seen one before. Jason

Not necessarily. This No.80 doesn't show the usual marks of functioning of a Shrapnel shell, but more those of a timed HE. So a possibility is it was...

The 0.75" dimension is from the rim edge of the socket to the inside surface of the base of the socket. For the 18pr Shrapnel shell, the height of...