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28-02-17, 00:52
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This thread is proving how the skills sets are fading so very fast and how important it is to discuss these things and archive them
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28-02-17, 02:14
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Robin: The lifespan of an answer like this is only as long as the website stays alive. There are very few perpetual sites.
Just to double the odds of it surviving though, I posted the same photos and answer over on the modeller's site where the 6 pounder photo and explanation came from. One of the first google searches I did on the subject led me to there. After all, our interests are similar, I just prefer 1:1 scale modelling. I would still like to find the answers in a manual, although, after attaching the ropes today to the guns, I am pretty certain I have it right. The 25 pdr manual does mention that the little tabs on the rims are for the drag ropes, it just doesn't say how. Last edited by rob love; 28-02-17 at 02:59.
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28-02-17, 09:57
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I have seen a more detailed explanation in a manual, somewhere..... I'll try to find it.
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28-02-17, 11:07
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Hopefully more detailed than these entries.
2017-02-28 19.02.01-resized-1024.jpg 2017-02-28 19.00.58-resized-1024.jpg Complete bollock, so far as useful information goes. And it took two different manuals to tell so little.
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28-02-17, 12:35
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This photo taken from the Internet. British ww2 or Korea, 5.5" gun I believe.
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28-02-17, 13:05
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Excellent photo Andrew, thanks, and certainly supports my theory on how the ropes were attached.
If there ws ever a need for mechanical advantage, pulling a 5.5" over rough ground would be it.
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02-03-17, 10:27
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Short 25
The photos that Lionel posted on #16 are a good illustration of the reason for the development of the short 25 pdr. The ability to quickly get a gun to where it is needed in difficult terrain would be greatly enhanced by such a variant.
Plenty of rope used on that job. David
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