sixstrings5859
Charter Member
Glad you are on the mend. I weeble wobble also. Doing you thing at home is what i do. LOL
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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Keeping busy
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crossram
Charter Member
Well that's one hell of a "little side track Ted"Glad you are on on the mend though!
Yeah, buddy. Thanks!
Stuck using a walker, for now, and no idea when I can toss it. Was told maybe up to six months. Ain't going for it, and I'll work it out. I'm not 'that' easy...just have to work at it.
Still kinda lucky, going by what I was told some 30 years ago...that I'd be lucky if I still had both legs, by the time I was 65.
I'm 72 now.
Well maybe, I think we have been in contact with each other a few times over the years,lol Looking forward to it!
crossram
Charter Member
Well, killed two days, trying to figure out what this gauge/devise is, shown in the poor photo. Maybe someone has an idea, since I have no idea, what it is. Through all the research (that I spend too much time!), it is only fitted to early C models?
For the C2, any photos seem to be pretty rare, so the photo is not clear enough, to read the wording. I've looked at everything I could find...and nothing.
For the C2, any photos seem to be pretty rare, so the photo is not clear enough, to read the wording. I've looked at everything I could find...and nothing.
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Try this or contact him https://www.deutscheluftwaffe.de/
Looks like a rotary switch for a compass as it appears to be a pointer with the white indicator on it. There are similar ones on this sight.
Looks like a rotary switch for a compass as it appears to be a pointer with the white indicator on it. There are similar ones on this sight.
Thought
have you tried here
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/
there is a wealth of knowledge there and some very obscure and or rare pieces of data
have you tried here
https://ww2aircraft.net/forum/
there is a wealth of knowledge there and some very obscure and or rare pieces of data
MajorMagee
SOH-CM-2022
Perhaps it's something like a tail wheel lock?
Bravo/4
Charter Member
I think the tailwheel lock was a lever in front of the pilot seat Andy
Ted mentioned that this switch was fitted to the C version, I tried to narrow it down to something only fitted to the c version, but those two pics I posted clearly have glazed noses, so I don't think that is the case?
Ted mentioned that this switch was fitted to the C version, I tried to narrow it down to something only fitted to the c version, but those two pics I posted clearly have glazed noses, so I don't think that is the case?
michaelvader
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Ju 88 specific gauge
Hallo friends,
at first I have looked at all my Ju 88 original german manuals,
no one shows this gaugge like on your photo which I have also
So I believe that the photo was taken from a prototype.
This gauge looks for me as one of the Kursteuerung Schalter,
fitted with a special security latch.
All my manuals show at this place a Verbrauchsmesser (consumption
gauge)
The other solution might be a switch for the "Rauchanlage" in fact a switch for the
RATO Walther HWK 109-500 Starthilfe. In this case not to fire the system but to release the two "Rauchgerate" after use.
This might explain the existance of a security latch over the switch.
That is what I find as solution.
On my FS9 Ju 88 A-4 panel there will be a consumption gauge ot the drop swith for the ratos
Yours
Papi
Hallo friends,
at first I have looked at all my Ju 88 original german manuals,
no one shows this gaugge like on your photo which I have also
So I believe that the photo was taken from a prototype.
This gauge looks for me as one of the Kursteuerung Schalter,
fitted with a special security latch.
All my manuals show at this place a Verbrauchsmesser (consumption
gauge)
The other solution might be a switch for the "Rauchanlage" in fact a switch for the
RATO Walther HWK 109-500 Starthilfe. In this case not to fire the system but to release the two "Rauchgerate" after use.
This might explain the existance of a security latch over the switch.
That is what I find as solution.
On my FS9 Ju 88 A-4 panel there will be a consumption gauge ot the drop swith for the ratos
Yours
Papi
crossram
Charter Member
Really appreciate all the research! I also wondered if it was used on other NF w/solid nose types, but didn't find anything. But, now, going by the photos showing it, fitted to Ju 88s with a glazed nose, stops one idea. Had in mind maybe a oxygen pressure regulator for the air-operated firing system, for the MG FF. The photo I'm going by, as I'm sure many of you know, is written as an early C series. What I've read on that is, the C-1 was the first prototype, the C-2 first to be 'produced', C-3 the next prototype, and so on. And, I'll add the C-2 was built, using high-time A-1 airframes, with the shorter wings. Anyway, thanks! Gives me more to search for.
michaelvader
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Ju 88 cockpit
Here my Ju 88 D-1 for FS9
There is still a lot of work to do
I thinkit would not be a lot of work to change it to a solid nose C version
Yours
Papi
Here my Ju 88 D-1 for FS9
There is still a lot of work to do
I thinkit would not be a lot of work to change it to a solid nose C version
Yours
Papi
I asked about this switch in another forum and this is the reply I got-
It's the yaw axis control switch ("Schalter für Kurssteuerung").
On early C models it was added in this "makeshift" way, later builds had the panel extended and the switch would move to the lower left of the ZVK-FF (MG-FF breech control unit - "Zähler-Verschlusskontrollkasten ZVK-FF für MG FF"):
It's the yaw axis control switch ("Schalter für Kurssteuerung").
On early C models it was added in this "makeshift" way, later builds had the panel extended and the switch would move to the lower left of the ZVK-FF (MG-FF breech control unit - "Zähler-Verschlusskontrollkasten ZVK-FF für MG FF"):
michaelvader
Members +
Keeping busy Kursteuerungs switch detail
Here a photo to comort Eddies mail
the switch was located as shown on the photo, and if not used scured by the latch, here in down open position the gauge has not been reinstalled yet
Yours
Papi
Here a photo to comort Eddies mail
the switch was located as shown on the photo, and if not used scured by the latch, here in down open position the gauge has not been reinstalled yet
Yours
Papi