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Don, thanks a lot for this set picture. Very interesting. This re-emerging of the thread brought so many new information also by the linkage to the G503 board . Superb. Now I have a quite better understanding of how this ratchet sorts itself into the historical context. Best, Stefan

look at the pic and help yourself :D

@hemifalcon: thank you! for cleaning up such items I use different quite common techniques like electrolysis, oxalic acid, heat, mechanical methods like wire brush, sandblasting etc. It mostly depends on purpose and finish I want to get. In this case I used heat from a welding torch, rinsing...

@drivesitfar: thank you. I think I will notice if it moves. @D42Jeep: I joined the G503 forum and posted a similar request like here. Let's see what comes out. Thanks for the hint @SMKS: yes of course. Its same her with vintage german ratchets. But US not to find over here and also not really...

oh yes, that sounds like a good idea. No clue how to the mods doing this so your help is highly appreciated

tks, Zrexxer! Sometimes a graphic or drawing can show more than a photo cause you can focus on important aspects

Don't know normally the upload works with more than one pic. Interesting set. Is this a military one? I own one of the middle sized hammers. My grandfather brought it back from the war and I'm still using it. So if a military set your be grat to know which type, number whatever. Maybe I can...

thanky, very interesting. Oh, only one pic per post? Dunno, maybe a restriction for new members? But can't remember that I had such issues last year thanks stefan

Hi Don, thanks for that. Would be awesome to have some pics of a tool set with exactly this ratchet in. Also the numbers (contract number, whatever) from the tool set would be interesting cause this would make me able to find an Us-amy technical manual which mentions these tools that could kinda...

just to make it more complete, I did a 3D graphic reconstruction of how the ratchet might have been looking right after production. Cheers nudelmannrichter

yep Bruce, that's a good idea. I was around on ebay a little bit the last couple of days to see whats up but I only found similar ones. Think here it might be important to find a identical one from approx same time. Shall not be too expensive cause I have also to pay the shipping to germany...

just to illustrate how wet ground is able to cause different corrosion on same piece of metal. You see parts eaten half by corrosion and a millimeter beneath you can still recognize traces from the machining tools the ratchet was manufactured with. Maybe of interest somehow.

it was one of our main mistakes in this project that we did not visit the Smithsonian Natter before doing all the drawing work. So now we got very close to the original but not 100%. George Lucas was so kind to supply a set of pictures, so I have a good walkaround series, but this is not the...

u r absolutely right, the Me 163 used the same rocket engine as the Natter, a bi propellant liquid fuel Walter HWK 109-509 A-1 motor. Main difference between both is that the Natter was designed only to be launched vertically with help of 4 solid fuel boosters and had no chance to land. The...

just to dig this out: if you like, look at this thrad with same ratchet. its moving again, believe it or not :thumbup: http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3237858#post3237858 cheers stefan

yea, of course. Pretty sure that the US guys went around in the area also weeks and month after war. Maybe a vehicle was stuck there or whatever. I am sure that a "normal private" had no clue when he saw such a concrete base. The intelligence guys were experienced in looking after strange wonder...

hey, thanks a lot. The ratchet is clearly to see. Does anybody have a picture where one of these ratchet with a typical marking for military contract? Like x-Circle or other? cheers stefan

Hey ganymede, thank you for this. What you are writing sounds very promising. Would be great if you could find such an advert. thank you and best regards stefan

Hello everybody, just new here from Old Germany. I stumbled across this forum by searching info about a specific ratchet that has been found recently over here in Germany. I try to explain in short why this find is interesting for me. Sorry for writing a bit much but I think I have to, to make...