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iron bender
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Great collection! Look at all the cool stuff one factory could manufacture. And to think they didn't have the EPA, OSHA, ISO, rain-water runoff, fire department licenses, and the slew of government agencies there to guide them along.
Nigromontanus
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This is a great collection, since arr is a very rare maker! I have arr 41 and 42, but miss the arr 43 specimen. Instead I have a later one, just with arr stamp and no year. It had an extra small box with arr 4 stamp and were found together. So I think maybe made for special purpose. Interestingly is not originally yellow, but it had been grey with yellow overpaint. I guess this might be the same case with arr 43.
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There are pics of a couple of examples of the 2cm Flak cleaning behalter or box in this thread. Jump to pages three and four. Just fyi and not easy to find .....
http://www.k98kforum.com/showthread.php?3762-arr-4-cleaning-kit-comparision
Nigromontanus
Senior Member
Thank you for this thread. I found there my cleaning kit collection status 2012. I did not know that I was into into that really that long.
I put the RG34 into 8x33 ammo boxes and have now 5 of them, an almost complete collection, missing only the yellow rbl. But as it is when you are full, I have lost rather interest.
As for the small box being for 2 cm cleaning kit, I have heard that, but I have never seen an full kit. Instead I have one of these boxes from a Waffenmeister with tools and spare parts for ZF4, being marked accordingly. Since this box fits perfectly into a patronenkasten I think that these boxes were also used for waffenmeister or other purposes.
I put the RG34 into 8x33 ammo boxes and have now 5 of them, an almost complete collection, missing only the yellow rbl. But as it is when you are full, I have lost rather interest.
As for the small box being for 2 cm cleaning kit, I have heard that, but I have never seen an full kit. Instead I have one of these boxes from a Waffenmeister with tools and spare parts for ZF4, being marked accordingly. Since this box fits perfectly into a patronenkasten I think that these boxes were also used for waffenmeister or other purposes.
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Interesting thoughts Paul. The small boxes having multiple purposes makes sense to me. Have not seen a period reference for the box so unsure as to the veracity of the 2 cm flak theory. They do fit quite nicely into the patronenkasten which is interesting. Nice to see additional examples posted here .....
Frysk
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Do these cans or other arr cans have red primer/paint on the inside of the can?
pzjgr
EOD - bombs and bullets
Cool stuff, I love oddball cans and containers...interesting the construction is nearly identical on those possible 2cm cleaning kits as the MG-34 small spares cans...this is one I posted earlier today, I have another upstairs that is maker marked, I'll have to see what it is marked. But the folds and construction are strikingly similar to these bigger boxes...
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