What you drinking now?

[philw696]

 

[Harry]

A very wee dram this evening and the other object is part of a doodlebug that my father recovered from one that crashed on a hill in Kent back in WW2. Thought I would exhibit it on here before I have to return it to my father tomorrow.

 

[PaulCambio]

Chilled night in the pub on the Dortmunder!

 

[GeoffCapes]

Tonight’s vin rouge.

 

[Bebs]

My usual end of line Chateau Lamothe-Cissac 2010. Fair few bottles still left in the wine room so must get on with it..

 

[Harry]

Chilled night in the pub on the Dortmunder!

Did the dog get the clippers today?!

 

[PaulCambio]

Did the dog get the clippers today?!

He gets sheared 5 times a year. Not today though!!

 

[Wanderer]

Got a bottle of Rioja from Sainsburys, expensive bottle too, £6.25

So that's what wine tastes like? I wouldn't give it house room.

 

[CatmanV2]

A very wee dram this evening and the other object is part of a doodlebug that my father recovered from one that crashed on a hill in Kent back in WW2. Thought I would exhibit it on here before I have to return it to my father tomorrow.
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Remarkable! Thanks for sharing

C

 

[D Walker]

A very wee dram this evening and the other object is part of a doodlebug that my father recovered from one that crashed on a hill in Kent back in WW2. Thought I would exhibit it on here before I have to return it to my father tomorrow.
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Excellent. I take it the blades wind down the shaft as a timer for the ignition.
Winters gold for me....no ice tho....

 

[GeoffCapes]

This had 15 quid off in Tesco so I thought I’d give it a go.

 

[Wanderer]

Excellent. I take it the blades wind down the shaft as a timer for the ignition.
Winters gold for me....no ice tho....

They were pulse jets weren't they?

 

[CatmanV2]

This had 15 quid off in Tesco so I thought I’d give it a go.
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It's OK. A bit blunt. At £15 off it's about the right price, IMHO

C

 

[GeoffCapes]

It's OK. A bit blunt. At £15 off it's about the right price, IMHO

C

Its not the best. I’ll keep it for when we have visitors!

 

[Harry]

Excellent. I take it the blades wind down the shaft as a timer for the ignition.
Winters gold for me....no ice tho....

There’s a clockwork mechanism in it that I think was pre-set. It counted down the number of rotations of the blades and when it got to 0 it would cut the engine, causing it to fall and explode. So the distance it would travel before detonating was determined by the number of rotations. If you turn the blades clockwise, the short shaft goes anticlockwise. Bizarrely, I’ve just googled and found the patent for a mechanism which sounds similar but probably isn’t at all! I know nuffink.

US1640165A - Clockwork-operated mechanical fuse for shells and the like projectiles - Google Patents

patents.google.com

I’ve got a little video of it turning, not sure if I can post it. It

 

[GeoffCapes]

It's OK. A bit blunt. At £15 off it's about the right price, IMHO

C

Moved to Highland Park. A much better drop!

 

[D Walker]

There’s a clockwork mechanism in it that I think was pre-set. It counted down the number of rotations of the blades and when it got to 0 it would cut the engine, causing it to fall and explode. So the distance it would travel before detonating was determined by the number of rotations. If you turn the blades clockwise, the short shaft goes anticlockwise. Bizarrely, I’ve just googled and found the patent for a mechanism which sounds similar but probably isn’t at all! I know nuffink.

US1640165A - Clockwork-operated mechanical fuse for shells and the like projectiles - Google Patents

patents.google.com

I’ve got a little video of it turning, not sure if I can post it. It

Yeah, that sounds right. I’ve had a bizarre fixation with uxb since Bosnia 94. We had an Russian missile that air burst (failed) if it had done its job myself and approx 200 probably would be brown bread.

 

[Harry]

Yeah, that sounds right. I’ve had a bizarre fixation with uxb since Bosnia 94. We had an Russian missile that air burst (failed) if it had done its job myself and approx 200 probably would be brown bread.

Yikes, that was lucky. Or poor engineering by the Russians. I’ve found a bit more info about the propeller....

 

[D Walker]

Yikes, that was lucky. Or poor engineering by the Russians. I’ve found a bit more info about the propeller....
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Serbs. It’s moved on since 2ww. In modern artillery systems you can set the fuse times. Lucky for us the Serbs got it wrong. What’s worse is they weren’t aiming at us.
great on the research. It’s quite amazing how these destructive objects are so simple in there engineering. Great your dad retrieved it. Just a shame he had too.

 

[Andyk]

Another one of these this afternoon. Rather partial to this with the sun ☀️ out.