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Longfellow

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My neighbor bought this yesterday. I think it has something to do with sighting weapons.
 

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From the olive drab paint on the wooden case my guess is Army issue. Something of Korea or WWII issue "whatever it is", but nothing I ever saw for sighting in a weapon and I was Infantry. A lot of the cases were changing over to plastic and/or fiberglass during Vietnam time frame.
 
Come on guys you dont know what that is?

Its so easy, it is the ThingAMaBob that we all need to connect the Whatcamacallit to the DooHicky. Without that the Doohicky is just a wortheless Thingamabob and the whole project is Fubar'd

:)
 
Longfellow said:
My neighbor bought this yesterday. I think it has something to do with sighting weapons.
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I'm not totally sure but believe it to be a flanginator triscopic self aldjunating front section from a late 1950's era tabletrunnion based gyro embedded wiscoping boomswigger (the trusted #35 series). Of course if you looked just inside the third outboard skyopter mounting flange, you might see a serial number just above the rotator sliding emblanking die shearing post. If so, and the number starts with 005-4XX it was an early model not in use anymore being replaced in the mid 60's by the self flappinating resurgent model which was a little lighter to carry around and didn't need constant leveling.

Hope this helps and like I said...... I'm not totally sure!
 
I was going to say wood in the back of a pickup.. then noticed the leveling device for the propractolactor. Which was replaced by the PC in the late 80s
 
Looks like a Jig for depot level work on either aircraft or ground support equiptment. The level would ensure level and the holes may be for locating holes and/or having to be bolted on supports already on the equiptment. If you can find any numbers on it or the box PM me and Ill see if I can get a read on them for you.
 
DennisM said:
Come on guys you dont know what that is?

Its so easy, it is the ThingAMaBob that we all need to connect the Whatcamacallit to the DooHicky. Without that the Doohicky is just a wortheless Thingamabob and the whole project is Fubar'd

:)
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That's what I thought..........:eek::biggrin:
 
snyiper said:
Looks like a Jig for depot level work on either aircraft or ground support equiptment. The level would ensure level and the holes may be for locating holes and/or having to be bolted on supports already on the equiptment. If you can find any numbers on it or the box PM me and Ill see if I can get a read on them for you.
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Here are numbers-T.16266 and PT.30504
 

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Texatdurango said:
I'm not totally sure but believe it to be a flanginator triscopic self aldjunating front section from a late 1950's era tabletrunnion based gyro embedded wiscoping boomswigger (the trusted #35 series). Of course if you looked just inside the third outboard skyopter mounting flange, you might see a serial number just above the rotator sliding emblanking die shearing post. If so, and the number starts with 005-4XX it was an early model not in use anymore being replaced in the mid 60's by the self flappinating resurgent model which was a little lighter to carry around and didn't need constant leveling.

Hope this helps and like I said...... I'm not totally sure!
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Please, please, please don't ASSUME it is the 35 series! If it is a 38 series (much more likely, based on production run tallies) and you attempt to use it in place of the 35 series, well, let's just say you'll never need a wiscoping boomswigger again!
 
This is what one of the numbers shows as. A stern drive rebuild rib.


ITEM NAME: HOUSING,STERN DRIVE

[SIZE=+1] CHARACTERISTICS[SIZE=-1] MRC REQUIREMENTS
STATEMENT CLEAR_TEXT_REPLY USMetric FractionsDecimal AGAVEND ITEM IDENTIFICATION540 STERN DRIVE, ECUME RIB, 1.69:1FEATSPECIAL FEATURESLEFT-HAND; REBUILD KIT[/SIZE][/SIZE]
 
snyiper said:
This is what one of the numbers shows as. A stern drive rebuild rib.


ITEM NAME: HOUSING,STERN DRIVE

[SIZE=+1]CHARACTERISTICS[SIZE=-1] MRC REQUIREMENTS[/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=+1]
STATEMENT CLEAR_TEXT_REPLY USMetric FractionsDecimal AGAVEND ITEM IDENTIFICATION540 STERN DRIVE, ECUME RIB, 1.69:1FEATSPECIAL FEATURESLEFT-HAND; REBUILD KIT[/SIZE]
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Well Yeah.......... ANYONE knows that the "street name" for a tabletrunnion based gyro embedded wiscoping boomswigger is a left handed ecume rib stern drive refablication kit tool (part 1 of 3).

I thought you wanted the specific name!
 
I'm still a little dubious about that being an alignment jig or installation guide for some sort of marine motor. It's possible, but i'm not convinced. I would suspect some sort of artillery piece setup or adjustment tool. I could easily see something along those lines being used to adjust a large howitzer or possibly a deck gun during setup. Just my opinion, worth every cent paid :)
 
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