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Old 04-08-18, 18:44
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While we have the collected brains of Centurion knowledge focused, are these boxes for a Centurion? Malcolm does your have these? They are for the inside of the turret I am told
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The Illustration comes from Barry Beldams book, The Serious Modellers Guide to : Canadian Centurions and other information from the Canadian Centurion DVD Reference set.

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Any idea where one can pick those references up?
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Hi John

ABE Books has one:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/Boo...srp1-_-title13



I guess "Quartermaster Depot" used to have them but I think they've gone under.



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While we have the collected brains of Centurion knowledge focused, are these boxes for a Centurion? Malcolm does your have these? They are for the inside of the turret I am told
Robin, yes, we have one of these at the back of the turret. You can also see to the left two "hooks" for hanging another one.
Strangely heavy construction, not sheet metal like other bins. For something very fragile?

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Great news Malcolm, I will donate one for yours and if John doesn't have one or needs one he can have the other one and make a repro off it if he needs more.
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Outstanding Robin!

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John,
First part of basket. You can start fabbing!

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I don't even know what to say, the people on this forum are just a fantastic group of folks, even you Jim! Malcolm thank you so much, that is just an incredibly nice thing you have done on this holiday Monday! Thank you so much

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Great news Malcolm, I will donate one for yours and if John doesn't have one or needs one he can have the other one and make a repro off it if he needs more.
Thanks, Robin. I checked the Users' Manual. Those heavy duty containers are for Grenades, Hand, three, for the storage off. Makes sense now.
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John,
Next installment. Outer wall of bustle is vertical despite apparent angle in first photo.
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Fantastic Malcolm!

Thanks Again

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The grenade boxes are usually lined with thick felt, and on the exterior have a stencil stating to fill the bottom with cotton waste to pack the grenades to a reachable height inside the box, depending on which grenade type is being stowed.

Interesting the IR basket is mounted with bolts to lugs on Canadian Cents. The original Brit design was on pins so the (empty) basket could be lifted off. I also notice the internal bracing, which was a modification to overcome the basket sagging from over-loading.

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John,
The first pic is an overview so you can make sense of what I'm posting (I hope).
The next three are the left hand side of the basket with dimensions.

Do you have the same lugs welded to the turret?

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Malcolm

looks like a variety of different brackets, but re-creating those will be simple, great blueprints! Much appreciated!

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