Looking for info on this shell

sean141544

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Hey for you military experts out there i have a question. What tank (i'm guessing) would this shell have been used in and any idea of the year?

The measurements are as follows. It is 2 feet long, and 4.5 inches wide where the "bullet" would have been.

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5.75 inches. And i just found the year date stamp of 1985. I was just talking to my mother and she says that my dad got it in Gagetown off of the range.
 
Sean, I dunno what it's from, but my dad had a couple.... if it's tall enough, polish it up and use it as an umbrella stand...they work great and definately a conversation piece when guests show up :)
 
SH/P-T stands for Squash Head/Practice-Tracer. Its an projectile filled with an inert substance designed to replicate the ballistics of the High Explosive Squash Head round but is cheaper to manufacture than the explosive SH round. It is in 105mm and used in the Canadian Leorard tank.
 
stevebc said:
Sean, I dunno what it's from, but my dad had a couple.... if it's tall enough, polish it up and use it as an umbrella stand...they work great and definitely a conversation piece when guests show up :)
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That's actually what it has been used for in the past. But it couldn't be used as much of a conversation piece because i didn't know anything about it.;) I think i will make it all nice and shiny and then I'll find a place for it in my reloading room perhaps.
 
I've got to confess. I love the simple beauty of the squash head round in action. All the dynamic rounds like the HEAT are swell, don't get me wrong. There is just something so beautiful in the way this cheap and simple round blows the #### out of whatever it hits.
 
Here's two I cleaned, with brasso and a buffer. Had wooden heads turned for them and mounted them in the Warrant Officers' and Sgts' Mess. If you get a chance, slide by the new armouries on Sandwich St and ask someone to let you into the Mess to have a look.

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from a collectors stand point, id say, dont polish them..but
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thats might be a good point .............

what would be the best way to go about polishing it?
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ok here is what you need

jewelers rouge ( princess auto)

a bench grinder with a cloth buffing wheel guards removed,

jewelers rouge+ buffing wheel + shell

if you do attempt this be very carful and let the wheel do the work if you press too hard you'll beat your shell up

if you want to use it to store umbrellas and canes in heres an idea take a little bit of rubber hose...split it and (hot glue it to the rim of the shell to act as a bumper ;) i'd show you the one i made but i gave it away
cheers
 
shortandlong said:
thats might be a good point .............



ok here is what you need

jewelers rouge ( princess auto)

a bench grinder with a cloth buffing wheel guards removed,

jewelers rouge+ buffing wheel + shell

if you do attempt this be very carful and let the wheel do the work if you press too hard you'll beat your shell up

if you want to use it to store umbrellas and canes in heres an idea take a little bit of rubber hose...split it and (hot glue it to the rim of the shell to act as a bumper ;) i'd show you the one i made but i gave it away
cheers
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Thanks for the info but as one of the other members said it would be better to leave it as is for collecting it. So i think that's what i will do
 
sean141544 said:
That's actually what it has been used for in the past. But it couldn't be used as much of a conversation piece because i didn't know anything about it.;) I think i will make it all nice and shiny and then I'll find a place for it in my reloading room perhaps.
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I have 4 of them ....Not all the same...I use them to sort my brass when I come home from the range
 
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