Peter--a question on my L42 transit chests

[m4carbine]

Pete said: There's a small business opportunity for someone to make a few dozen,

Any prints available???

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[Peter Laidler]

No drawings but spould be a doddle to back engineer Marty

[skiprat]

No drawings but spould be a doddle to back engineer Marty

its been raining a bit in North Yorkshire I could only get as far as the shed ("shop" to the ones on the leftside of the big pond)...
with no plans available for the chests, but loads of photos, the basic size, and the assumption that most timber would be from readily available stock size.
I started on a reproduction..... so far so good.... no original parts have been used but the catches are from the original supplier

[Longshaor]

To answer all the questions, a set of drawings for the L42 chests are under development. That's all I'll say at the moment...

[Peter Laidler]

Start making those corner pieces Marty because once the drawings are out, they'll all be knocking at your door for them! I'll pick the royalties upo next year!

[skiprat]

could anyone please tell me what the hinge looks like, (on the back of the box)
I have looked all over this site and the whole WWW. but still can not see what the back of the transit case looks like! and what the hinge looks like.
Is it a full strap hinge like the ones fitted to the No15 chest? (these would be long and would need to be folded round the box.)

or do they finish with a square flap. just sized to fit the rear pannle of the chest?

I originally thought that they were the same as the GPMG (L7) hinge .. but the gpmg hinge is bent to fit inside the chest.

the good news is that the latches are still available from PROTEX...

thanks ....

[paulseamus]

Skiprat

Thanks for the direction to Protex. Had a look on their website. Protex Fasteners

Lots of options to choose from. Have you worked out the correct part numbers?

From what I can see they appear to be 30-502 medium duty latches with 06-502 catch plates.

Cheers

Paul

[skiprat]

those are the numbers I orderd,
I just need to get them fitted to a finished box to confirm the correct "look" but I do need to know what the hinge looks like, I can get the lid part of the hinge but what is the other 1/2 like?

[Peter Laidler]

The hinge at the rear of the box is a tapered 4" length secured by three screws, countersunk into the hinge. The longitudinal axis of the hinge is horizontal with the edge of course and the actual hinge part is on the outside (as opposed to inside the fold so to speak) The hinge part is 2" wide-tapering to a radius at the end of the 4".

The actual exposed hinge part would be vulnerable to cack handed Ordnance Corps blanket stackers, dozy storemen, dock-workers/stevadores and especially RAF air freight handling gorillas and thieving arabs but the clever REME designers at Chertsey where they designed the thing thought of this and to protect the hinges, they are placed just inboard of the sacrificial wood protective struts at the left and right hand ends of the front and rear of the box.

That answered your question Skippy?

[skiprat]

thanks ........MISTER.....Laidler.
I take it the back "leg" of the hinge is the same profile as that seen on the lid, cut down to fit on the back side panel.