I’ve had the following item for years, retrieved from a Do17Z crashsite in the early 90s. It’s obviously a tool – one end is a socket, the metric equivalent of 5/8ths, and the other a screwdriver, but the middle section is a very particular shape and was obviously made for a particular job. Trouble is, I can’t imagine what.
Does anyone else have a clue?
Adrian
(forgot a scale – it’s about 4″ long)
By: adrian_gray - 7th December 2009 at 17:10
It’s a real proto-Leatherman, isn’t it? I suspect that the strange offset bar holding the socket also had a significance, but what? Maybe it allowed for only turning a nut in one direction? Or for turning a nut set in a curved cut-out?
I like Anon’s suggestions, though I suspect that ground- rather than aircrew would have carried a tappet adjusting tool. Perhaps it really is a ******itsjammednowhowwillIgetthatSchpitfeuroffmeinarschschlussel?
Adrian
By: mike currill - 7th December 2009 at 07:23
That smacks of typical Teutonic thoroughness. The Luftwaffe issued a simple tool like that which opened just about everything, the RAF erks got issued a whole bag of tools approximately half of which were most likely totally unrelated to their job or if they were they didn’t fit.
By: Arabella-Cox - 6th December 2009 at 21:01
Tool i/d
Radial engine tappet adjusting tool?
or,
tool for clearing stoppages from a machine gun?
Anon.
By: adrian_gray - 6th December 2009 at 17:50
Could well be – the top section tapers down to a thick blade. Trouble is there aren’t many Dornier bombers about to try it against!
Of course the next question is, if you’re right, what the other bits fitted, and why they were that shape.
Adrian
By: Fouga23 - 6th December 2009 at 16:55
Crewchief key that opens up just about everything on that aircraft?
here’s mine for the Fouga:
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December 6, 2009 at 4:29 pm