-
-
05-17-2012 09:50 PM
# ADS
Circuit advertisement
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
Ive got an idea its a spy hole cover
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
I have no idea, but just looking at it, it looks like it might be helpful in getting a lid off something? Enigmatic little thing.
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
If it was bigger I's say it looks like a spanner clamp you could use to unscrew a muzzle brake from a gun but being so small that's unlikely. I still say it's a clamp with the hole for a bar for leverage.
Dan
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
Ive just had a possible brainwave, is it by chance a clamp for removing the heads off stick grenades, try checking the size of one in the clamp
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
I think it might be a tool for unscrewing the flat caps on mortar shells?
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
Corresponding to the Claus Espeholt's WaA list, the WaA stamp - "bwo" - that you have on your item, should belong to Rheinmetall-Borsig AG that produced weapons and ammunitions during the ww2. Interesting is also this link of Lexikon der Wehrmacht: "...end of 1935 were made on the part of Rheinmetall-Borsig first considerations for the construction of a superheavy mine thrower to tackle severe bunkers."
So, you could be right that your piece has a connection to German bunkers.
Gary
Last edited by Gast; 05-18-2012 at 02:31 AM.
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
Hi Gast,
Thanks for that.... I am sure were heading in the right direction.
d.
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
-
Re: Clamp...but whats if for?
It's an odd thing, for sure. I doubt if it removes anything, as there are no "teeth" inside to grip with, like inside a pair of pliers and no way to hold onto it to twist the top off of whatever you are removing it from,if it did. Also, the hole through the end looks like it is to accept a bolt to secure it onto whatever it is on top of. It is not a very precision size fit, either and the swing up portion fits very loosely in place. This one is an odd duck, for sure.
William
"Much that once was, is lost. For none now live who remember it."
Bookmarks