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Favourite Gaines...

waffenamt

waffenamt

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I acquired these gaines from our man fjordhouse earlier and im that chuffed with them,they are now displayed on some of my favourite fuzes.
All dated 1936,in beautiful condition.:tinysmile_shy_t:

best

waff
 

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Hi Waff,
They are in cracking condition, just whats needed to finish those fuzes off, well done on sourcing those as i reckon they are harder to find than the fuzes ? Did they all start off being steel and then switch to bakerlite later on in the war or were only some gaines made of bakerlite. Thanks for showing us, Best regards Weasel.
 
Cheers Weeze,
As far as im aware,all the ariel bomb gaines were made of steel?
Ive examples of the smaller gaines like the ones found on SD2's that are bakelite.
Maybe one of our colleauges in here might have a bakelite ariel bomb gaine to show?

cheers

waff
 
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The slots are too thin for a standard bomb fuze gaine.

I also have a bomb fuze gaine tin (from Fjordhouse) - same length and width, same green felt and wooden interior, but shorter and with only 4 holes.
 
F0031 said:
The slots are too thin for a standard bomb fuze gaine.

I also have a bomb fuze gaine tin (from Fjordhouse) - same length and width, same green felt and wooden interior, but shorter and with only 4 holes.
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Thats the one i was getting mixed up with.. Oops. :tinysmile_cry_t2:
It is my old friend MB who is correctomondo and not me.
cheers

waff
 
waffenamt said:
Cheers Weeze,
As far as im aware,all the ariel bomb gaines were made of steel?
Ive examples of the smaller gaines like the ones found on SD2's that are bakelite.
Maybe one of our colleauges in here might have a bakelite ariel bomb gaine to show?

cheers

waff
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Some very nice gaines there paul and by chance i to have a minty boxed set of steel bomb fuse gaines courtousy of Ben:wink:

But another nice little addition are these full size bakerlite bomb fuse gaines complete with the capsule that contained the explosive.
All now very empty and FFE but nice to have the inerds as they are fragile.

This type of gaine was used on most of the short container fuses.
 

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Very nice Phil,
I really did not know they made bakelite gaines but it does make sense. :)

cheers

waff
 
waffenamt said:
Very nice Phil,
I really did not know they made bakelite gaines but it does make sense. :)

cheers

waff
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We must have all jumped on this thread at the same time like fastest finger
first:wink: but nice to see some more examples to.

Best phil
 
And for the record, here's my gaine tin from Ben at Stoneleigh. Yet another different maker mark I notice.

T.
 

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satan18 said:
But another nice little addition are these full size bakerlite bomb fuse gaines complete with the capsule that contained the explosive.
All now very empty and FFE but nice to have the inerds as they are fragile.

This type of gaine was used on most of the short container fuses.
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I have seen several of these small capsules in AB70 dropping container fuzes, together with bakelite gaines. There was only on capsule in each gaine and filled with rifle powder - not too large load to break the container but just to push it open.
 
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