Fire extinguisher fuse panel

I have a photo of the fire extinguisher indicator panel in Shackleton WR963 just here. This is the one in the starboard wheel well.

Thanks for that Rich – you can’t get much better proof that this is indeed from a Shackleton than that!

The squibs contain a small charge that blows the dye into the bulb, it was a failsafe system that was designed to get round faulty bulbs. One of the Eng’s on a Ten had one go bang and burst covering his RAF blue shirt in red dye, he looked like he had been shot and got a few SLF worried as he was trying to wash it out his shirt in the galley.

I have a photo of the fire extinguisher indicator panel in Shackleton WR963 just here. This is the one in the starboard wheel well.

Regards,

Rich

Peter,

You’re a star, thanks! I suspect this is probably from an ex-Lossiemouth MR2 so your deduction is spot on. Anyway, thanks for the confirmation which is tremendously helpful.

It looks very similar to the one fitted to MK3 PH3 shacks, the only difference is that the MK3 has additional indication for the Viper. I’d say that it’s definitely Shackleton possibly Mk1 or more likely MK2. Here is the manual diagram for the Mk3…..

Thanks for that, Tony, but does anyone know definitely what this is from?

Looks a bit vc10 ish as well, have a spare squib in my tool box