Parts ID- Sea Recoved Relics

When it’s not worth £100 a kilogram!

When it is not recognised, or recognisable!

When nobody cares about what it once was!

When does an item turn from “relic” to junk or scrap?

Butcher’s delivery boy on Saturday mornings c.1968 enabled instant identification! Should be square-section metal if it is what I think?

It is indeed – having spent many many hours under the surface of the English Channel it amazing what c@&p turns up where, once deep in the bows of a WW1 armed trawler I thought I had found a nice china cup, once pulled out it was a plastic cup certainly not of early C20 vintage!

I would be interested if you had any thoughts on the U shaped bit, if none of you guys know I have no chance!!!

Butcher’s delivery boy on Saturday mornings c.1968 enabled instant identification! Should be square-section metal if it is what I think?

Meat skewer bit is definitely twisty so in the bin it goes!

Crews packed lunch?

And the ‘U’ shaped bit may be canopy related. But I can’t immediately place it.

No. The metal pin with loop at top. Looks like an old fashioned meat skewer – the type that has a couple of twists half way down the shaft. Maybe not?

Possibly from the Junkers 88 in Portsmouth Harbour (13 Aug 1940) in terms of the Jumo and Junkers anodised parts. But only a wild guess. And I don’t include the metal meat skewer in that, either.

Haa haa – meat skewer? the ‘U’ shaped bit?

My wife is taking the pee remorselessly regarding the purchase so I don’t want to caught off passing random scrap as aircraft parts!!!!

Another wild guess would be one of the 3 Stukas lost of Selsey/Portsmouth in August 1940.

Possibly from the Junkers 88 in Portsmouth Harbour (13 Aug 1940) in terms of the Jumo and Junkers anodised parts. But only a wild guess. And I don’t include the metal meat skewer in that, either.

Thank you to those of you that have taken the time to reply.

The listing was for Stuka relics which ties in with the liners and yellow parts.

The prop part wasn’t in the listing so I think it has been added in the box as an extra!

The prop part is the blade counterweight arm from inside a de-H bracket-type prop hub (early Spit/Hampden/Early Wellington/Defiant). I doubt it would have dismantled itself so comprehensively on impact with, or as a result of corrosion in, the sea.

The counterweight is broken off the arm but this bracket is mounted on the end of the blade deep inside the hub and sandwiched between the blade end and the spider so it looks more like it was dismantled, not crashed. It’s British or American so nothing to do with the Jumo liners – unless they had a mid-air collision!

Anon.

Junkers Jumo 210 / 211 / 213 sleeves.

Gold anodised parts = Junkers Ju88 or Ju87 depending upon where they were found.

Engine sleeves the cylinders and a prop part in the middle with cog inside balance weight would of gone on the end.