Spitfire – Help to ID parts thanks.

Makes me think of the difference between a welder (the machine) & a weldor (the bloke)…. On that basis we’d have detectors (the bloke) & detecters (the machine).. But we don’t have detecters.. but on the other hand, we don’t have Quality Control Inspectorists or Bus Conductorists either.

Hmm yep get your point but calling yourself a metal detector would sound even more silly 🙂 Thanks Rockhopper, anyway its great fun and good exercise.

Apparently so..

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/detectorist?q=detectorist

*Detectorist*?? Is that even a word?.. As in “I’m Deputy Inspectorist Flatfoot of The Yard”?

Thanks for replies dawnpatrol & Zwitter. Plus thanks for the merge Peter.

Thanks Zwitter for your possible ID’s, so far we have 4 items that have possible ID’s which is awesome. Do you have any idea on the label? Also is white perspex possible as one piece is clear as expected and one white?

All I have dawnpatrol is numbers on bolts and clip/spring:

Row 3 No 1 on top surface (hard to read but think)
76
2G/.3

Row 3 No 2 on top surface
764 40
6.1
In circle = BA and AT

Row 5 No 1
Small silver folded clip with red surfaces and word QUADTAG (may not be Spitfire related)

** I merged both threads so as to have the replies all in one place. Minor removal of some posts that were duplicate or no longer important.
Peter

pic 1 item 3 – could be the end of a spitfire undercarriage pintle attachment bolt

pic2 2nd row item 1 looks a bit like a piece of spitfire header tank retaining strap

I can’t see anything on there that stands out as Spitfire…………… any part numbers ?

Thanks ericmunk and Rocketeer. Please do be a killjoy, I certainly didn’t know and never want to do anything illegal. I got permission from the farmer to detect on his land and later found out that a Spitfire crashed there in 1941. I am doing a timeline framed picture for the farmer to keep in his shop, i.e. keep finds with the land, I have Roman to modern with many periods in between. Obviously therefore information about a Spitfire is important but I certainly was not deliberately hunting a Spitfire, however thanks for the info and I will stop looking there. Also I have been in contact with the Grandson of the pilot who died in the crash and he is interested in the finds too. Thank you so much for the 2 ID’s, as to the bolts the wording is already on my post under Row 3 nos. 1 & 2, if that helps and if you know where on the aircraft they come from then fantastic. Most interested in the label which is nearly unreadable but provides the word ‘SCREW’ I believe. Hope you can help or please pass on to any other specialists you know. Thanks 🙂

Top left is likely the magnet from the voltmeter (moving coil galvanometer – now there’s a word woefully underused nowadays!)
Bottom row, 2nd from right is the packer/spreader for the wing fairings anchor – typical for a spit
Clean the bolt heads up as they are likely aluminum from the carrythrus and would have numbers on.

Don’t want to be a kill-joy, but I trust you have a licence to dig the aircraft (if it is in the UK!)?

Thanks for the welcome 🙂
Yep it is a tall order, it needs really in depth knowledge. I know many of them are Spitfire parts, its a crash site from 1941 that is well known to locals. I suppose the one I am really interested in is the partial label but anyway I live in hope. Thanks.

It looks like a tall order even for some of the specialists on here, doesn’t it? Good luck and welcome, too.