There have been people getting in touch who knew Grandpa and also have been to the shed many times in the past. Clearly, this sort of thing is now becoming a dying breed - especially with some of these parts. I am always hearing stories about people passing away with large collections, and the people left to sort the estate out just throw it away. Tonnes of things - gone forever. While we have sent a few tonnes to be recycled ourselves, we have been picking thru it as carefully as possible to ensure that just the old, rusted, broken stuff goes off....
Anyway, your support, advice and all the help has been greatly appreciated to date !
Now, I'm sure you're wanting to see the next batch ? Ok then, lets roll ....
Picking up where we left off last post, this is another one of the telephone backboards - incredibly intact. Some of the ones I collected had broken bits off the side, and one strangely had no polish at all, but this one and the one following were beauties !
The major suprise for both these units was turning them over and finding the schematic diagram intact on the back - given the age of them and the conditions they had been stored in, this was truly remarkable
Here's the other one - this finish is a lighter walnut colour than the one above
Next !
A slightly more unusual Switch from an Aircraft - almost intact (small chunk off the left hand top in last pic) And the A.M part # is 10F/275. A pity the pic doesnt really show the communication links - Pilot, VC etc etc. Click on the pic and it should come up as a big image
Another component from the legendary Woomera Aircraft. There is a long cable attached to this as well. Any ideas??
This is what looks to be some sort of cable with two terminal blocks - one at each end. its RAAF and the A.M. Part number is 5X/2040
Well, I guess its from an aircraft right? Thats all I know and no idea what each of those holes might have been !!! But certainly a cockpit panel of some sort I would have thought .....
Well this is an odd one - to me it looks like some part of a communication device and is from an aircraft - has the E-xxxxx marking so maybe a Beaufort? But thats all I could think of - the silver block at the bottom is almost certainly a condenser of some sort....
I found quite a few of these all tangled up together and its been quite a job getting them sorted out - this is possibly a military jeep fuel sender joystick. I have a number of single joystick units as well but as they come complete with full metal cable its a helluva long way before I finish untangling them !
This is probably aircraft as well. It does have a very faint E-xxxxx part number sprayed on the side, but my curiosity was taken by the fact the maker seems to have been in Sydney, as shown above. Anyone know of this company?
Here's another part from the Woomera Aircraft. this one seems to have seals on some parts so I guess it was already mothballed by the time Grandpa picked it up....
Lastly for the evening, this is a very small unit and I almost missed it - but its RAAF, and may be a sort of relay? The A.M part number is 5D/529 - its very hard to read
OK then I've done my dash. I'm meeting up with a number of people at the shed tomorrow so its going to be a fun and busy day. Must bring home the Hecla PieWarmer too (Yes indeed, found one in amazing condition - at least I think its a Pie Warmer......) Photo to come
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