Ande, that really makes sense! I guess we were using German engine parts in WWII?

Don't think so MGiff, but they could have come from engines shipped to the USA prior to WW2 for whatever reason.

Now the secret of how the USA supplied the germans with there weapons is out. You really screwed up history on this one Mgiff.

For starters....Dornier flying boats were used by the allies in WW2...

Flying boats??????????? When I did my term paper on WWII I must not have been too interested in that aspect!

Haha, NightTrain, let's see what happens next!

Just a thought. In many places of industry, tools are supplied to employees through a central tool room or warehouse. I have worked in places that are like that. They assign a number to a tool and when you check it out for use, you get a tag with the tool to identify that you are the one that checked the tool out and to prove that a tool is yours if you find someone else with it. When you return the tool, you give the tool and tag back. So perhaps it was the id tag for a rivet gun of some sort.

Hmm. But German???

Got me there... Maybe a German rivet gun?????????? From Germany????????? or from a German from Germany??????????

Why not German?  They were a highly industrialized country pre WW2 with a lot of heavy industry...eg Krupps Engineering, etc.

OK, so these days the typical tool comes from Asia...but not back then...

#7 by yrag - 6/12/2004 5:45:39 PM It's a Manufacturer's tag for a gear

...OK...let's try this one more time.............

OK Yrag I have to ask. Why are you so sure?

Because, even today German parts come with a tag and a wire seal attached to parts. Hirth, while making two stroke engines, was known early on for their wheel gear assemblies...

Mgiff, A very logical explanation I agree with. Now ask Yrag where your grandmother could have obtained it and why would she would keep it.

It would have come off any part that was being used to rebuild a wheel assembly ....you just cut it off.....as to way she kept it would be a question for the ages......far above my mere mortal ablities...





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