BOCN Guess what it is

[kahu1]

how about this?

 

[glevum]

Is it a lug inside a smoke float?

 

[HAZORD]

It looks like the inside forging of the insert welded into a bomb casing for the lug to screw into, or the inside forging where the conduits to the fuze wells attach. It looks most like the conduit attachment well, with the conduits broken off.

 

[kahu1]

Spot on Hazord, the inside of a Mk83 1000lb bomb showing the lug and safety switch pocket.

 

[HAZORD]

I was going to venture around a Mk. 83 size. OK, I will find something to post.

Try this one.

 

[spotter]

rocket motor cross section ?

 

[HAZORD]

Sorry Allan, a logical guess, but no.

 

[paul the grenade]

is it part of the packaging for a tin of detonators?

 

[HAZORD]

That's an interesting one Paul, but no.

 

[hangarman]

Multi shot pyroctechnic device cross section?

 

[HAZORD]

Sorry Hangarman, no.

Here is another view.

 

[sudelmuk]

Hm..:hmmmm2:, possibly part of a Gatling-gun ?

 

[Darrol]

Part of a cluster bomb container?

 

[millsbomber]

Pusher plate from a shrapnel shell...... Dave

 

[HAZORD]

No, no, and no. Millsbomber is almost getting a little warm, Happy Birthday by-the-way.

 

[millsbomber]

Thanks Hazord, its out of my collecting zone i think,,,,,, Dave

 

[pzgr40/42]

Top/holding plate for a very large calibre (in the range of 20 cm and upwards) shrapnell shell ??

 

[Jawasinger]

plate in a shrapnel shell to hold balls in alignment I cant remember don't have my pubs with me 6" 8"

 

[HAZORD]

OK, pzgr40/42 is mostly right, so I will call him the winner. It is the top plate to hold the shrapnel balls in allignment for an American 3.2 inch bag loaded High Explosive Shrapnel projectile. For some reason both people that were close over guessed the projo diameter.

In the disassembled projo photo, all of the red ogive part is the explosive filled (Black Powder) burster chamber. Percussion-powder train time fuze detonates the nose opening everything up. The balls are lead about 1/2 inch in diameter, stacked in layers with metal dividers keeping everything on it's own leverl, and no ball touches another ball.

So, photo of what the balls look like in the top layer (what the piece rests on). The other smaller piece is a central layer divider and is actually two 1/2 pieces.

pzgr40/42 over to you.

 

[pzgr40/42]

Hello Hazord,

The reason for my overestimating the calibre I guess is that, usually, the shrapnell balls/shot, in the "smaller" calibre shells, are contained in some kind of "matter" filling the space between the balls/shot, reducing/taking away the need for a spacer/aligner. Thus I figured on a larger calibre...............but I'm glad to have been wrong......learned something today

Here's my contribution: