BruceLee230
Well-Known Member
More flea market finds.
B167 Mark I FM 1942. Converted to a tool box so holes to weld up and the third out of four I've had where the separating plates have been hammered flat. So have to drill out the rivets, reshape the plates and rivet back into place. I use aluminium rivets which I dome over with a homemade punch, no heating required. It has the original bronze green paint but can't see any stenciling.
As I was carrying the B167 a guy asks me if I collect ammo boxes. (I regard myself as a rescuer rather than a collector!) He has a stall and sells most of his digging and detecting finds. He pulls out the P59 out of his ruck sack. Again a tool box conversion and in a rough but solid condition but an early date 1940, JSB. Needs three or four layers of paint to strip and originally bronze green.
Both a fiver each and guy says he'll bring a B167 next week. That'll make thirteen altogether. Is that unlucky!
B167 Mark I FM 1942. Converted to a tool box so holes to weld up and the third out of four I've had where the separating plates have been hammered flat. So have to drill out the rivets, reshape the plates and rivet back into place. I use aluminium rivets which I dome over with a homemade punch, no heating required. It has the original bronze green paint but can't see any stenciling.
As I was carrying the B167 a guy asks me if I collect ammo boxes. (I regard myself as a rescuer rather than a collector!) He has a stall and sells most of his digging and detecting finds. He pulls out the P59 out of his ruck sack. Again a tool box conversion and in a rough but solid condition but an early date 1940, JSB. Needs three or four layers of paint to strip and originally bronze green.
Both a fiver each and guy says he'll bring a B167 next week. That'll make thirteen altogether. Is that unlucky!
