Armourer's tools - recent acquisitions

[BOUGAINVILLE]

Hi All :tinysmile_grin_t:

Here are a lot of armourer's tools that I have recently acquired. I do collect some non Japanese items after all!!!!!!!!

There is a 40mm Bofors mandrel for reshaping the mouth of the shells as well as a tool for inserting and removing primers from 40mm Bofors cases. There is also a tool for profiling and aligning M3, M5 & M6 rounds for the 37mm Gun.

The fuze spanners and gauges are labelled. The ones that I am not sure on are marked with a ?. Would be grateful if anyone could ID them for me.

Cheers,:cheers:
BOUGAINVILLE

 

[Falcon]

Nice finds. If I found those tools I would have plenty of use for them.

 

[Darkman]

Gee Robert, I really like the Bofors tools!

The case neck reshaper is a beauty. I have about 40 Bofors cases that could use this treatment! I usually "panel beat" them on a large piece of solid round bar. The (Mk 4) primer remover seems overly complicated. The Mk 2 primer tool is a simple spanner.

Nice pick ups.

Cheers,

Graeme

 

[BOUGAINVILLE]

Gee Robert, I really like the Bofors tools!

The case neck reshaper is a beauty. I have about 40 Bofors cases that could use this treatment! I usually "panel beat" them on a large piece of solid round bar. The (Mk 4) primer remover seems overly complicated. The Mk 2 primer tool is a simple spanner.

Nice pick ups.

Cheers,

Graeme

Hi Graeme,

All the more reason to come up to North Queensland for your next holiday and bring the cases along with you.

Thank for the tip off on the 25PDR box. I was lucky enough to scored it at a reasonable price.

Cheers,
Robert

 

[Darkman]

Hi Robert,

Would love to go up to FNQ one day for a holiday. Furthest north I have been is Rockhampton and that seemed a very long way. (Rode a motorbike up from Melbourne in the 80s. Talk about a numb bum!) I wouln't be able to handle the warmth though - it was 2 degrees here this morning!

No problems on the 25 pdr ammo box. It had some great stencilling, and I thought about bidding on it but 25 pdrs are not really my thing. I prefer fixed QF ordnance not separate loading stuff. (Funnily enough I am chasing a No. 117/119 fuze for a projectile I do have though.) Good to hear you won it.

Cheers,

Graeme

 

[Dronic69]

Hi Robert,

You have been finding some treasures lately!

Keep it up!

Cheers
Drew

BTW - The furthest north I have been is Cape Tribulation.

Graeme - Sydney is closer - u can stop off on yr way up and then gunned it to Townsville (24hr straight drive from memory)

 

[BOUGAINVILLE]

Hi Robert,

You have been finding some treasures lately!

Keep it up!

Cheers
Drew

BTW - The furthest north I have been is Cape Tribulation.

Graeme - Sydney is closer - u can stop off on yr way up and then gunned it to Townsville (24hr straight drive from memory)

Hi Andrew,

It sure is a hard slog finding anything here in Australia. I was just lucky that a long time collector had decided to let some things go to make room for other stuff. The ACCA auctions and meetings really help me out, if it was for that it would be a hard slog. As you already know, it really boils down to networking together and looking out for each other.

Down south in the big urban centres I can imagine that there is a wee bit more stuff around. I just envy all of our collector mates in the US that find it by the lorry load and don't have to put up with a restrictive government full of egotistic self serving ignorant bureaucrats. Even our brothers across the ditch in New Zealand don't have to put up with all the bureaucrats shit that we do and even though they might not have lorry loads either, at least they can freely source from overseas.

I can imagine that the 24 hours plus from Sydney to Townsville would be non stop with two drivers. It used to take me 10 hours plus just to hoof it from Sydney to Brisbane without breaking the speed limit. It would take me at least 24 hours from Brisbane to Innisfail with a second driver. Just think with that distance in Europe one would've passed throught a good handful of countries.

You will have to come up this way again but this time have a stop over at Innisfail and then you have all of the other ACCA members around here that would more than make you welcome.

Cheers,
Robert

Graeme - you are welcome up here anytime. There are a few interesting ACCA members up this way that I'm sure you would enjoy meeting.