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Our Bofors in sanding process to late painting.
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Nice job!
I think my father trained on the quad Bofors mount when he was in the Navy, though he ended up working in a different field.
Bob
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Nice...I'll bet it's making Peter and Tankie's eyes water about now.
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A friend of mine is restoring an old well worn ex gate guardian 25pounder field gun. It's been totally stripped - and I mean TOTALLY - by an ex REME gun fitter, sand blasted as parts and carefully masked where there are machined surfaces and is now in the throes of being painted as individual parts and then assembled. No doubt it'll be a magnificent sight to see.
I know it's all bullshix but they do look when they are gleaming shiny deep bronze green with white drag-ropes across the shield together with the correct GAP's all strapped in place.
Talking of gun shields. When we had Bofors, up into the late 60's they all had blast shields fitted to them. Ours were 40/70/s and were radar directed/controlled but still manually crewed and loaded!
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Talking of 25Pdr. bullshit, people may remember the ponced up HAC examples c/w chrome plated shovels! One of them is now in the Royal Armouries collection at Fort Nelson and another at the Tower.
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Hi fellows!
Hi Peter . One of our members are in total disagreement with this superficial perform work done in our guns . The reality is that we do not have members willing to do work that will require many hours / man and money. I also tell you that we are very few active members , about 25 and the youngest is 47 years old . Everyone has their time and projects to finish , so this was a good solution , perhaps not the best ! And we must put all our efforts into restoring the truck FORD F60L LAAT to tow one of the two Bofors guns we have.
Regards!
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It’s wonderful that you are preserving it. Maybe there will more interest in the future and it can be restored. You are doing the best you can for now.
Thank you for the great pictures.
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My comment wasn't criticism Luis. But it's being preserved as best you can with the resources and it's the paint that will stop the water and rust taking hold. Later, you can start strip assemblies such as axles off and refurbish them as units knowing that anything under sound paint is still sound too. The good part is that they are very meccano and of a mechanically simple
MY friend won't be chroming anything on his 25 pounder but it will be gloss paint
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Peter thanks for the comment!
Do not take your comment as a criticism. :thup:
Sometimes it becomes difficult, making good restoration work, when the economic and political situations are different. I admire the work they do in the US and UK and are wonderful!
But here in Argentina, the same job of restoration that make you is very difficult! And more talking about guns like these!
In the restoration of vehicles, we are much better as parts are available in our country.
Some of our vehicles in exhibitions and awards presented.
Best regards!
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Vincent
It’s wonderful that you are preserving it. Maybe there will more interest in the future and it can be restored. You are doing the best you can for now.
Thank you for the great pictures.
Hi Vincent! Thanks!
These bofors are very well preserved and whitout corrosion!
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...51051JPG-1.jpg
Look the Predictor Sight with original grease!
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo..._5101JPG-1.jpg
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...51022JPG-1.jpg
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Are the Argentine Models 37mm, or 40mm? I know Canadian Bofors were in 40mm, but some European models were in 37mm. Nice job on the restoration.
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Love the sandblaster no air fed helmet, kevlar apron and leggings, over shoes, gloves, hearing protection I have seen some very nasty pictures of what a sandblaster does to human flesh and it sure as hell ain't pretty, the Bofor looks very nice indeed and will look a treat when you get the final items. As a dumb *ss were the rounds mechanically pulled in and stripped from the charger as in the 90 degree AA mode it would be hard for the rounds to feed just excuse my blithe ingnorance. Thanks for the great pics Luis on your teams resto's, Alpaca Andy would sure like to see how you went about with your half track, I am not sure if he requires anything more as he has gone off the radar. M2A1 Halftrack restoration-- dialup beware
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c1a1
Are the Argentine Models 37mm, or 40mm? I know Canadian Bofors were in 40mm, but some European models were in 37mm. Nice job on the restoration.
Thank you! They are 40 mm!
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Love the sandblaste Thanks for the great pics Luis on your teams resto's, Alpaca Andy would sure like to see how you went about with your half track, I am not sure if he requires anything more as he has gone off the radar.
M2A1 Halftrack restoration-- dialup beware
Thank You CINDERS!
Amazing Haltrack restoration, Thanks for sharing!
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Nothing wrong with the old Bofors, apart from "fashion consciousness" in certain military circles.
In the 1990s, Artemis? in Greece were offering "automation" packages that bolted on and around your basic 40-60 or 40-70 gun and linked it into a radar-control system, mainly for use as an anti-helicopter weapon.
I'll have a ferret around in the old "Military Technology" mags for a copy of their advertising.
The mighty Bofors was used by every man and his dog, on every side in WW2, and for many years afterwards.
Then there's the other widely-used Scandinavian masterpiece, the Oerlikon; even the Japanese used a version of that as wing-mounted aircraft armament.
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And in recent Bofors news.
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If your interested
If you have a spare 22K lying around then this is for you quite the garden gnome to have in your front yard........:lol:
https://www.usedguns.com.au/Guns/used_military_rifles 6th from bottom of page
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Bofors we used
Ours were Bristol Bofors, Battery operated and crewed by 5 crewmembers. The layer/Trainer had a shield in front of him the No 4 (Loader) stood up on the gun platform like a target. We had them into the middle '60's.
