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25 pounder wood seat
If anyone has an original 25 pounder seat, could they tell me how thick the wood is? I am going to guess that it is 11" round, the same as the metal base underneath, but perhaps that should be confirmed as well.
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Hi Rob, mine is an original , I will measure for you.
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Thanks Phillip, looking forward to it.
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I have the same problem with mine. The seat looks like a giant cake!
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Kind of what I don't want. They have some nice laminated pine at home depot for a decent price, but it is 3/4 thick. I think that will be too thin and sandwiching it will end up 1-1/2 thick which might be too much.
I thought of buying a couple wood barstools and using the tops off them. They are in stock at Dirk Leegwaters site, but between the Euro exchange and the postage, they are a little too rich for my poor blood. |
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Q.F. 25-Pdr Howitzer Seat
Does this image from the Identification List for Ordnance, Q.F. 25-Pr., C Mk. II on Carriage, 25-Pr., C Mk. I also Carrier Dial Sight, C No. 18, Mk. I - 1943 help?
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Well it does show that the seat overlaps the metal base, so it is likely pretty close to 12" diameter. It does not solve the unknown of the thickness.
I note the dozens of screws holding the wood to the base in your photos Ed. My manual does not specify the length nor even list them. Does yours? Last edited by rob love; 25-01-21 at 23:40. |
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seat
I have seen two styles of seat bases here in Australia, we copied the British gun and made it better.
One base is the full width of the wood seat and the other is smaller and is recessed flush into the wood seat. Photo is of a reproduction seat, incorrect but I will fix that in the future when the custodians throw money at me. |
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I wonder if the metal plate is smaller than the 11" on mine.
We also copied the British gun and made lots of Canadian substitutions and manufacturing changes. |
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Q.F. 25-Pdr Howitzer Seat
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Phillip emailed me the measurements of his seat: 11-3/4 round and 7/8 thick for those that want to know.
Ed: Your scan shows around 23 screws. My base only has the inner circle of screws that I am able to identify, so there may be some variance on the designs. |
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Seats me!
And here it is, screws are a slotted round head wood screw. Unsure of the timber, I would be guessing if I said it was some sort of coachwood.
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Phillip Thompson "He who has the tiger by the tale, is often afraid to let go" - Confucius Ford FGT No.9 (long suffering restoration project) 25 Pdr (Under Restoration) No.27 Artillery Trailer (Under Restoration) Bit and pieces of a 2 pdr AT (Looking for bits) LP2a Carrier - 3" Mortar Trials (Restored) |
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Q.F. 25-Pdr Howitzer Seat
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The next time I run across a 25-Pdr I am planning on counting the seat screws. |
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Ed: I have no doubt you will.
The British did not seem to mind wasting metal or machining time. I had to make up the handle for the seat (well made two of them actually). The major diameter of the long side is around .6 inch tapering to around .5". The threaded side is around .630. But the washer in the center is 1", and is not a separate item but rather they started with a piece of 1" roundstock and started turning it from there. The little stubs for the firing platform legs are the same.....I have to start with 1.5" round and most of it is going to be .750 diameter. You would have thought they were winning the war when they made these items. Well made? Yes. But economical? Last edited by rob love; 27-06-21 at 16:12. |
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I was going to go with pine. I have 20 or 30 years left on this planet if I am lucky, and I have no plans of storing this gun outside. But if it is a hardwood, then I guess there is no choice. I think I have some ash planks out in the yard.
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Timber for old MV's
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See the link to HMVF below to make an informed decision: Quote:
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I suspect different places, different timber. Pine was not common in Australia before WW2, whereas the local native species were available and abundant. The stocks on .303 rifles made in Australia used, from memory, any of three different native species rather than Walnut.
Aust production was most probably a native hardwood, while in Canada, other species like pine or spruce or maple were probably the most available? Mike |
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I wood think that any timber used in Australian-made 25Pdrs or vehicle bodies would also be exclusively native species.
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Thanks Tony, nine it is.
My reference to Walnut was, of course, to the northern hemisphere species ( Juglans sp.), not Qld walnut (Endiandra palmerstonii). Like the Canadians, the Australian-manufactured 25-pdr adapted local resources and manufacturing techniques to suit. While most parts were interchangeable, differences did lead to logistics difficulties in the supply of spare parts in some cases. For example, the packings within the Australian buffer & recuperator were different to British production, and not interchangeable. There are a small number of timber items on or included with a 25-pdr (seat, line mounting block, rammer, oil-can mounting block, parts and tools boxes) but I've not seen specifications which included the type of timber to be used in manufacture. Mike Last edited by Mike Cecil; 26-01-21 at 18:19. |
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different places, different timber
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