The Plot Deepens...???
Submitted: Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 02:04
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Member - Doug T (NT)
Here we go again...Mystery items, every where I visit up here to Historical sites I see these frames laying about 100s of them, Pic 2 has a very light "what ever" in it , but I'm not sure if someone has placed it there , more than likely, so I included end shots of one.
I still haven't got an answer on the Drums, waiting on a response from AWM
Canberra and other organisations .
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Reply By: On Patrol & TONI - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:44
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 07:44
Just a thought Doug but they might be Acetylene canisters for lighting.?????
Cheers, Colin.
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Reply By: Member - John (Vic) - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:58
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 16:58
Doug they are widgets.
They fit into the thingamajigs you found the other day and were dropped from Japanese aircraft during the war as they ran out of real bombs. :-)
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Reply By: Member - Paul W (VIC) - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:05
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:05
What is the substance in the open one? concrete?
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:27
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:27
Paul
No not concrete, As i said it is light, you could that in one hand with outstretched arm .
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Reply By: Member - Scrubcat (VIC) - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:51
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 20:51
G`day Doug,
Purely a guess, it looks like an acetylene canister, ( as Patrol & Toni have suggested). Would the
grey substance be"de-activated Carbide" similar to what was left in the old carbide lamps that miners and others used, after the carbide was "spent".
They may have been used for emergency runway lighting or ????.
Geeeez I dunno. LOL
Scrubby
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Reply By: Member - Mike DID - Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 23:45
Monday, Oct 27, 2008 at 23:45
Acetylene cylinders are filled with agamassan soaked with acetone that absorbs acetylene safely.
The gas would explode if compressed into an open cylinder above 39psi.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 at 00:11
Tuesday, Oct 28, 2008 at 00:11
Mike
These are not cylinders as like a gas bottle , you could dent it by stomping on it. Pics emailed to AWM in
Canberra for I.D
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Reply By: Stu & "Bob" - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:24
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:24
G'day Doug,
The crates look like transport frames for naval shells. (WW2)
Dunno about the other things, but jogs a memory of a WW2 Charcoal Gas Producer that I saw in a station dump years ago.
Stu
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:35
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:35
Stu
Thanks for your reply , the thing is the same type of crates were laying about at the B-24
crash site , I have sent photo's to the War Museum in
Canberra for an answer so when i get a reply I will post the results .
There is one partly hidden by grass in the forground in the top right pic under the map,
B-24 Crash
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:40
Thursday, Oct 30, 2008 at 13:40
Stu
As I stated I'm sure now after giving a lot of thought that the round object laying in a frame does not fit the frame, the diameter / length is wrong for the round cradle part/section , someone has placed it there,
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Follow Up By: Member - Dennis P (Scotland) - Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:28
Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:28
Doug,
I seem to remember someone telling me that those crate thingies were used to store/transport bombs prior to loading on planes.
Use to see them scattered about amonst all the other rubbish around those old strips along the Highway out of
Darwin.
Maybe the
East Point Military Museum up there might have some info on them.
All the best,
Dennis
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Reply By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Saturday, Nov 01, 2008 at 17:50
Saturday, Nov 01, 2008 at 17:50
To all interested
The tubes are half filled one end with something that has set hard on the exposed outer from being burnt , the closed of half is hollow....?????
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Reply By: Member - bushfix - Saturday, Nov 01, 2008 at 23:54
Saturday, Nov 01, 2008 at 23:54
it's a curly one for sure Doug, and I am keen to see what the AWM respond with. Good stuff.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:08
Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:08
bushfix
Soon as I find out I will make a new post on the matter.
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Follow Up By: Member - Doug T (NT) - Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:09
Sunday, Nov 02, 2008 at 00:09
bushfix
Might go and get one , bring it home and cut it in half so I can get a better idea of the innards.
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Reply By: Member - bushfix - Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:21
Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:21
how are you going with this one Doug?
any word from the AWM?
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Follow Up By: equinox - Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 16:43
Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 16:43
check out post
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Follow Up By: Member - bushfix - Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 16:58
Sunday, Nov 16, 2008 at 16:58
cheers Alan,
thought i may have missed a follow up post, don't come here as often as i used to...
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