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It would be nice to know where all these wealthy people are on the internet, with bulging wallets, that can't wait to pay these sort of prices for things.

Thanks for your response. The large buttons measure up at 28.75mm diameter and so are quite big while the small ones are 15mm diameter. The buckle is 38mm x 62mm outside. I don't think that the...

No, just proves that you are observant.

Denmark also used them and sometimes the Danish version is sold as or confused with the British Pat.44 canteen.

DANISH/ BRITISH ARMY p44 1944 PATTERN CANTEEN dated 1954 | eBay

As I understand...

It is surprising how many people can't use a file properly nowadays or have virtually zero control over the file in their hand as they attempt to use it.

Over the years I have been asked, on a...

There are only a very limited number of possibilities of what is likely to have happened to the helicopter, flown into the ground, flown into another aircraft or a catastrophic mechanical failure. It...

I noticed this post WW2 Belgium Brodie helmet that was being sold as an "Original WW2 ARP Warden Civil Defence Helmet Home Front tin hat" and it looks as if there is a customer as it has now sold....

I would say just do the guard and pommel to avoid messing with something that you don't have to and potentially messing up the blade. To put it another way "If it ain't broke don't try and fix it.".

A screw you can measure the diameter of the thread and try to identify what thread it is as a possible clue to what it's from. If you can figure out the thread size but not what they are from,...

Many years ago an old boy who had spent his whole working life working in the motor trade, after spending WW2 working in a factory, once said that the secret to finding/sourcing parts for old...

A year or two ago I unearthed this leather coat at the bottom of an old trunk where it had been for at least 50 years and I wasn't aware that it still existed until I found it. I know that it dates...

For something like that I would probably use a fuel line hose clip rather than a standard jubilee clip that currently appears to be on there.

A "poor man's bidet".

Like I said in post 73 it is in the current style of stores packaging.



A search of the NSN confirms that the labelling is correct, please see link below.

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I have to confess that I am no expert in the layout of the "Turkish toilet" but did it involve a hosepipe as an alternative to there being any paper?

Many years ago I had a similar style of hand vehicle tyre pump that wasn't working and I didn't have a replacement cupped leather washer of the correct size which these style of pumps normally...

After a little searching I found it and apparently they are known as an "Infantry Whistle" in the British army nowadays, according to the label.

As it's in a resealable bag I took it out for the...

I do have, somewhere, one of these whistles, new unissued, still sealed in the current style of stores packaging indicating that they are still an item that could be issued or were until recently....

I don't recall seeing that pic in the UK, Ovidio, post 4. The first pics that I saw were from a drone and showed the wreckage on the summit not on the side of the hill/mountain.

It's worth keeping an eye out for the various different markings that can be found on this style of whistle, for example, "ARP" for air raid warden/civil defence, "The Metropolitan" for police and...

$9 million....."Crowdfunding" possibly?

I think that it is the angle at which it is photographed at and the angle the wreckage is in relation to the ground, a bit deceptive.

Like I have alluded to, if Russia and President Putin were ever to prevail in Ukraine it is likely that Russia wouldn't stop there and other countries in Eastern Europe would likely be at risk, if...

But it is also the type/style of whistle use by the RAF for aircrew, that was the point that I was making.

The other style of whistle that you mention, the long thin round type, was used by just...

As I understand it not all military aircraft had any form of seat cushion for the pilot or copilot and all there was a metal seat frame with the pilot/copilot sitting on their parachutes which formed...