Hi all,
This rather pitted 50kg German bomb case came in with some other items, at first I thought it was a bog standard SC50 but there is something odd going on around the base collar that I have not personally seen before.
There is what appears to be a seperate sheet steel collar that extends beyond the bomb casing for the tail fin to fix to. Normally the tail fin locating screws, screw directly into the bomb casing.
It is simular to a Brandbombe C-50 but I have not seen a C-50 that has the standard filler plug that would be found on a normal SC50. Also the metal does not seem to be thick enough to take a thread for the screw? The nuts welded on the inside of the steel collar I guess have been added recently? they certainly do not look very old or very German to me!
Can anyone please confirm which type of 50kg this is a drawing would be great if anyone has one, I am considering replacing the fuze pocket with a spare one I have and I would also like to do something about the tatty collar but at the moment I do not really understand how the tail fin would screw into this thin gauge material.
It did have a rather nice near mint tail fin on it which I have fitted to another bomb case that is in better condition to suit the condition of the tail fin, it looked a bit odd having a mint tail fin on such a badly pitted bomb case.
I look forward to hopefully finding out a little more about this one as it has me stumped!
This rather pitted 50kg German bomb case came in with some other items, at first I thought it was a bog standard SC50 but there is something odd going on around the base collar that I have not personally seen before.
There is what appears to be a seperate sheet steel collar that extends beyond the bomb casing for the tail fin to fix to. Normally the tail fin locating screws, screw directly into the bomb casing.
It is simular to a Brandbombe C-50 but I have not seen a C-50 that has the standard filler plug that would be found on a normal SC50. Also the metal does not seem to be thick enough to take a thread for the screw? The nuts welded on the inside of the steel collar I guess have been added recently? they certainly do not look very old or very German to me!
Can anyone please confirm which type of 50kg this is a drawing would be great if anyone has one, I am considering replacing the fuze pocket with a spare one I have and I would also like to do something about the tatty collar but at the moment I do not really understand how the tail fin would screw into this thin gauge material.
It did have a rather nice near mint tail fin on it which I have fitted to another bomb case that is in better condition to suit the condition of the tail fin, it looked a bit odd having a mint tail fin on such a badly pitted bomb case.
I look forward to hopefully finding out a little more about this one as it has me stumped!
