Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 19:13:47 -0700
Reply-To: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
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From: Alistair Bell <albell@SHAW.CA>
Subject: Re: Opinions requested, van related, German tent pegs
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That's a nice hypothesis but I doubt that the added weight incurred by using pressed steel pegs would have brought the company to a halt :-)
( didn't use sheet aluminum in my copies, I actually cut some 6061 "angle iron" at a diagonal to form)
Alistair
> On Jun 21, 2017, at 7:09 PM, Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I suspect those periscopes were heavy steel and glass affairs and were carried by one soldier in the field, so weight was a factor. Probably had several of these stakes, hence the aluminum. Those are cast (probably from scrap aluminum), so they are brittle, but yours are fabricated from sheet aluminum, much stronger!
>
> Stuart
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Alistair Bell
> Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 6:37 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: Opinions requested, van related, German tent pegs
>
> That's interesting, certainly puts a different light on the eBay listings.
>
> I made my own version, actually two versions , and added a pic at the end of the original post
>
> https://shufti.blog/2017/06/20/tent-pegs-german-wwii-era-really/
>
> Alistair
>
>> On Jun 21, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Chris S <szpejankowski@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>>
>> eBay.de has them as DDR pieces. This would explain lack of quality.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Dnia 21.06.2017 o godz. 15:57 Chris S <szpejankowski@gmail.com> napisał(a):
>>
>>> Search "apag zeltpflog" to get better search results.
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> Dnia 20.06.2017 o godz. 21:37 Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM> napisał(a):
>>>
>>>> Check this out:
>>>> http://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-ORIGINAL-GERMAN-BUNKER-PERISCOPE-POLES-
>>>> APAG-/29
>>>> 0966794725
>>>>
>>>> Stuart
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>>>> Behalf Of Alistair Bell
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2017 6:09 PM
>>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>>> Subject: Opinions requested, van related, German tent pegs
>>>>
>>>> Cleaning out the stuff sack that contains these kind of things in
>>>> the van, brought out the German tent pegs. The easily broken German
>>>> tent pegs that is. Did a google search and found hits saying WWII
>>>> era pegs. I find that hard to believe but I'm asking the hive to
>>>> give opinion based on a couple of pics here:
>>>>
>>>> https://shufti.blog/2017/06/20/tent-pegs-german-wwii-era-really/
>>>>
>>>> Alistair=
>
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