fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Slightly different format this time. Although I know the designation from the plate on the item, I do not know its purpose! There is a prize! Whoever knows what it is & what it does, probably could make best use of it & therefore deserves to win the thing. This is a collect only prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marmite!! Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Power assist for a turret traverse:confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Power assist for a turret traverse:confused: I don't know Lee! It doesn't look substantial enough at the other end though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Is it aircraft related. Powered drive to an aircraft gun turret? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 Something to do with wiper motor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 looks like 1/4" Lucar connector on the back. Does it switch power to some sort of beacon or signal in a regular fashion? A bit like the turn light flasher units/ warning beaconflasher units that are driven by a modified wiper motor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Is it aircraft related. Powered drive to an aircraft gun turret? It looks plausable but must be AFV related. In that it has a FV number, lots of aluminium paint & has the typical 1950s/60s designation No.1 Mk 1/1. I suspected it might be CVR(T) related, although I got it from a couple people who had a Striker & a Sabre. But they didn't know what it was for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Something to do with wiper motor? It certainly has that look down one end. Quite a beefy motor, but maybe it had to drive a series of wipers around vision blocks on a turret, something like that might be needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 looks like 1/4" Lucar connector on the back. Does it switch power to some sort of beacon or signal in a regular fashion? A bit like the turn light flasher units/ warning beaconflasher units that are driven by a modified wiper motor? I dunno! I'm just hoping someone will see it & say "Oh yes been looking for one of those for ages" then they can have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 I see it has an FV number on it, so a vehicle part, also painted silver so an internal fitment on an armoured vehicle...........that is as far as I have got with it. A large motor in comparison to the output drive, so doubtful is is a turret traverse motor. The Lucar is a bit odd as it is not protected, input current is through a screened harness with plug and socket. This may be because the drive end is encased and the wire from the Lucar goes to a warning lamp adjacent, maybe :confused: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 I see it has an FV number on it, so a vehicle part, also painted silver so an internal fitment on an armoured vehicle...........that is as far as I have got with it. A large motor in comparison to the output drive, so doubtful is is a turret traverse motor. The Lucar is a bit odd as it is not protected, input current is through a screened harness with plug and socket. This may be because the drive end is encased and the wire from the Lucar goes to a warning lamp adjacent, maybe :confused: The Lucar seems very down market for a device with a FV number on it. It almost looks as if it is an uncomfortable marriage between several different items. The motor may have been scavanged from something else, to be fitted to a one off machined casting enclosing a gear reduction to then be married up with a civvy wiper gear box? Used for some experimental purpose, that none of us know about & not proceeded with or recognised, not even by CVR(T) owners or the country's leading MV restorer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Farrant Posted November 1, 2009 Share Posted November 1, 2009 It almost looks as if it is an uncomfortable marriage between several different items. The motor may have been scavanged from something else, to be fitted to a one off machined casting enclosing a gear reduction to then be married up with a civvy wiper gear box? Clive, I think you have hit the nail on the head, the drive part look very "wiper motor", the three fixing points and paxolin backing plate. A cobble up for a trials vehicle perhaps? No one has recognised the motor yet, that may give a clue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 Clive, I think you have hit the nail on the head, the drive part look very "wiper motor", the three fixing points and paxolin backing plate. A cobble up for a trials vehicle perhaps? No one has recognised the motor yet, that may give a clue. What you mean I have recognised my own object(s)? But I don't want to win it, I want to just get rid of the damn thing. I was given it as it was going to be chucked away, it just seemed imoral as it must be of use to someone. The dilemma is, that if this an uncomfortable marriage of three items (yes marriages of three are always uncomfortable, I have heard say) Then what if three different people recognise the three individual components. If I split it up, it renders it of no use to anyone! So perhaps it should go to the person with the most worthy (& sensible) application in mind? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Came across this by chance while looking for lathe stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 7, 2009 Author Share Posted November 7, 2009 Does that mean you have a use for this damn thing GE? I want to get rid of it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gritineye Posted November 7, 2009 Share Posted November 7, 2009 Sorry Clive, it's not my sort of thing really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 I still think it is a wiper motor application and that the lucar connector becomes live or dead when the blades are at their park position.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 8, 2009 Author Share Posted November 8, 2009 I still think it is a wiper motor application and that the lucar connector becomes live or dead when the blades are at their park position.... Would you like to have it then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antarmike Posted November 8, 2009 Share Posted November 8, 2009 Thanks but no thanks, It must have an application somewhere, and if it is made of three parts cobbled together, then the motor would have a genuine original application, and it seems a shame not to let someone have it who knows the original purpose, before conversion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fv1609 Posted November 8, 2009 Author Share Posted November 8, 2009 Oh looks like I'm stuck with it! Like you I thought that it should be saved from the bin, as someone, somewhere must need it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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