MG08 Water Can.
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MG08 Water Can.
Finally got hold of a genuine water can , it had some rust externally , but the interior is excellent.
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Re: MG08 Water Can.
Looks pretty nice.
I think with a brass watercap its an interwar version.
I think with a brass watercap its an interwar version.
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Re: MG08 Water Can.
So what year do you think it would be approx.?IMBLITZVT wrote:Looks pretty nice.
I think with a brass watercap its an interwar version.
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I don't have one but David, who does said his are interwar. So my guess would be mid 30s but thats a total guess. It should be dated, I think, In the middle of the handle dent on the top. However with exterior rust, it will be hard to say. I have some double drums from 1937, 1938.
I don't have one but David, who does said his are interwar. So my guess would be mid 30s but thats a total guess. It should be dated, I think, In the middle of the handle dent on the top. However with exterior rust, it will be hard to say. I have some double drums from 1937, 1938.
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On my watercans, I had to look at the ends; the center held no markings after I'd cleaned off the paint, the markings were all on the ends of the cans, as I recall. I've got both a wartime and a interwar model. My interwar can has a brass cap like that, with the chain; my wartime can does not, it just has a cap, no chain. Having used both in the field, I would think the cap could easily get lost, with possible bad results for the gun, so that would explain the chain improvement. Now that I've worked with them a little, I am mildly surprised the germans didn't engineer something to hold the cap on the can, like a gas cap on a car, other than the chain; it makes noise clanging around on the can if you move it, not typically seen as a good thing either!
The interwar can I've got has a sizeable "L" stamped on it, which made me think it might have been Luftwaffe. I have no way of proving that, but it was the best explanation I could think of, as the Rifles used by the Luftwaffe were so marked, at least early on, on the stock.
In combat, from what I've seen from pictures of dug up fighting positions in Europe, it seems like it was common to carry more than one watercan per gun, even if that was was official issue!
The interwar can I've got has a sizeable "L" stamped on it, which made me think it might have been Luftwaffe. I have no way of proving that, but it was the best explanation I could think of, as the Rifles used by the Luftwaffe were so marked, at least early on, on the stock.
In combat, from what I've seen from pictures of dug up fighting positions in Europe, it seems like it was common to carry more than one watercan per gun, even if that was was official issue!