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? 1917 Eddystone(value/advice/expertise)
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cyclopsshooter
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Why ?????????
Is it ok for me to like reading about 03s and 17s?
No, that`s cool just wondering, it was just the way you said it................Is it ok for me to like reading about 03s and 17s?
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1966---Two 1917 Enfield sighting
In 1966, I was a young infantryman with the 8th Cav in VN. One day while mindlessly walking up hills and down hills, We stopped for a break. One of the flank security men posted when one stops, found the entrance to a cave. We found a small mountain of military gear. There were French rifles, left behind by them, numerous M-1 Carbines, a couple of chinese mauser rifles and a 1917 Enfield. One supplied to the Nationalist Chinese and dropped by them when retreating from the Chinese mainland to Formosa. The chicoms picked these battle field captures up and kept them in good condition until their southern cousins needed them in VN.
A couple of months later, I was in Taiwan (formerly Formosa) visiting some family members. The airport that services Taipei is a shared civil/Military installation with the usual paranoid security measures in force then in Taiwan. I was flying to Taichung, so I went to the airport and bought a ticket on CAT(civil air transport) the Nationalist Chinese carrier which was subsidized by the CIA. At the terminal we boarded a bus with the windows painted black. After a few minutes we pulled up to the plane that we were to board for the flight. When we got off the bus, we were greeted by the sight of a chinese soldier standing at parade rest with a 1917 Enfield tipped with a bayonet that looked two feet long, one which was not dropped by retreating Nationalist Chinese. He was standing in front of a Curtiss C-46 Commando painted up in CAT livery.
He did not leave his post until a crew member showed him some identification. then he retreated a few feet and kept a sharp eye on us. The flight crew were wearing Chinese air force uniforms. All had a brown leather bomber jackets and a peaked caps with a "40 mission crush".
After lengthy preflighing and more seccurity mickey mouse, we boarded and the plane departed.
About half way to TaiChung, I suddenly remembered why the USAF abandoned the C-46, the last of which was made in 44 or 45. It seems that this particular model had a nasty habit of exloding in mid air. No one ever figured out the cause to effect a cure.
I took the train back to TaiPei.
In 1966, I was a young infantryman with the 8th Cav in VN. One day while mindlessly walking up hills and down hills, We stopped for a break. One of the flank security men posted when one stops, found the entrance to a cave. We found a small mountain of military gear. There were French rifles, left behind by them, numerous M-1 Carbines, a couple of chinese mauser rifles and a 1917 Enfield. One supplied to the Nationalist Chinese and dropped by them when retreating from the Chinese mainland to Formosa. The chicoms picked these battle field captures up and kept them in good condition until their southern cousins needed them in VN.
A couple of months later, I was in Taiwan (formerly Formosa) visiting some family members. The airport that services Taipei is a shared civil/Military installation with the usual paranoid security measures in force then in Taiwan. I was flying to Taichung, so I went to the airport and bought a ticket on CAT(civil air transport) the Nationalist Chinese carrier which was subsidized by the CIA. At the terminal we boarded a bus with the windows painted black. After a few minutes we pulled up to the plane that we were to board for the flight. When we got off the bus, we were greeted by the sight of a chinese soldier standing at parade rest with a 1917 Enfield tipped with a bayonet that looked two feet long, one which was not dropped by retreating Nationalist Chinese. He was standing in front of a Curtiss C-46 Commando painted up in CAT livery.
He did not leave his post until a crew member showed him some identification. then he retreated a few feet and kept a sharp eye on us. The flight crew were wearing Chinese air force uniforms. All had a brown leather bomber jackets and a peaked caps with a "40 mission crush".
After lengthy preflighing and more seccurity mickey mouse, we boarded and the plane departed.
About half way to TaiChung, I suddenly remembered why the USAF abandoned the C-46, the last of which was made in 44 or 45. It seems that this particular model had a nasty habit of exloding in mid air. No one ever figured out the cause to effect a cure.
I took the train back to TaiPei.
backbencher
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jaysouth, wandering way off topic here, but they finally figured out what was happening to the C-46's, & fixed it - some are still flying commercially:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-46
Isn't the damage our OP speaks of on the Eddystones from improperly removing the original bbl? Not that it shouldn't be removed, it just has to be removed carefully, or the receiver may crack?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-46
Isn't the damage our OP speaks of on the Eddystones from improperly removing the original bbl? Not that it shouldn't be removed, it just has to be removed carefully, or the receiver may crack?
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