I was just at a gun show and I got given one for free but there was no date so I used some steel wool were yours are dated and I found a very faint 2-43 stamp
Great video...i am looking for a 1939 mess tin in aluminium...i understand a few were sold to Finland early in the war, will they hase the finnish SA mark on them or not do ypu know? I dont collect finnish stuff, really want one used by British forces...i have seen a 1939 mess tin from Finland but the one i saw did not have the SA stamp
Here in Oz we were taught during basic to always use them folded together top to bottom, so stuff put inside them wouldn't fall out, to pad them with our issued wash cloth and to always use the light weight cloth ditty bag to keep them clean. Never used as you show them folded both bottoms down. I miss my original issued ones as in the CMF we got the large transition sets used in Korea and not the much smaller Vietnam issue ones, I reckon the Diggers in the regular army got shortchanged but they got M-56 canteens and cups and we got the old[ very old] WW2 enamel mugs and those were hard to brew up in. So show them the proper way please and include the information about the ditty bags as they were very important in keeping stuff both clean and quiet
nice quick little review, ive got a 41 patt. kit my self, (only for the collection) but I've also got one from the 70's that I some times use in hiking , the only thing I've got against the set is that they didn't make a lid for it.
I agree with the point about the lid, the logic being to use the large tin as a lid for the small one but that's not always practical. I have a nice 80's/90's private purchase item which is a non-stick frying pan shaped to act as a lid for the large mess tin. Works very well in both roles.
Hi, you could have bought one from Survival aids of Penrith in the 1980s/ early 1990's. Two types were available, plain aluminium and non stick. They are identified by the stampings MTL/3036 and PAT-PEND with a retractable handle for shallow frying. They also marketed a non stick aluminium mug with plastic lip protector to fit the 1958 pattern water bottle. All these items are rare and may turn up on eBay or car boot sales. Fortunately someone is making them on eBay which requires you to state whether you want one for the small or large mess tin with or without ventilation holes as well as a lid for the BCB Crusader mugs. I see from the latest BCB catalogue that they're now doing a metal Crusader cup lid, doubtless there are reports of the plastic ones melting? especially when cooking over a fire?.
Покупал такие титановые ,сковородки,...сделанные в Германии по заказу Голландии.Толщина всего 0,5 мм...от ударов мнутся!!Гораздо лучше для туризма оказались алюминиевые аналоги.
I was just at a gun show and I got given one for free but there was no date so I used some steel wool were yours are dated and I found a very faint 2-43 stamp
Great video...i am looking for a 1939 mess tin in aluminium...i understand a few were sold to Finland early in the war, will they hase the finnish SA mark on them or not do ypu know? I dont collect finnish stuff, really want one used by British forces...i have seen a 1939 mess tin from Finland but the one i saw did not have the SA stamp
Here in Oz we were taught during basic to always use them folded together top to bottom, so stuff put inside them wouldn't fall out, to pad them with our issued wash cloth and to always use the light weight cloth ditty bag to keep them clean. Never used as you show them folded both bottoms down.
I miss my original issued ones as in the CMF we got the large transition sets used in Korea and not the much smaller Vietnam issue ones, I reckon the Diggers in the regular army got shortchanged but they got M-56 canteens and cups and we got the old[ very old] WW2 enamel mugs and those were hard to brew up in. So show them the proper way please and include the information about the ditty bags as they were very important in keeping stuff both clean and quiet
That is exactly the same as the one I used in the Canadian army in the 1990's. They are likely still using them.
Interesting, made of tinned steel?
nice quick little review, ive got a 41 patt. kit my self, (only for the collection) but I've also got one from the 70's that I some times use in hiking , the only thing I've got against the set is that they didn't make a lid for it.
I agree with the point about the lid, the logic being to use the large tin as a lid for the small one but that's not always practical. I have a nice 80's/90's private purchase item which is a non-stick frying pan shaped to act as a lid for the large mess tin. Works very well in both roles.
Hi, you could have bought one from Survival aids of Penrith in the 1980s/ early 1990's. Two types were available, plain aluminium and non stick. They are identified by the stampings MTL/3036 and PAT-PEND with a retractable handle for shallow frying. They also marketed a non stick aluminium mug with plastic lip protector to fit the 1958 pattern water bottle. All these items are rare and may turn up on eBay or car boot sales.
Fortunately someone is making them on eBay which requires you to state whether you want one for the small or large mess tin with or without ventilation holes as well as a lid for the BCB Crusader mugs.
I see from the latest BCB catalogue that they're now doing a metal Crusader cup lid, doubtless there are reports of the plastic ones melting? especially when cooking over a fire?.
The smaller tin nests in the larger... and the hexamine stove with fuel tablets nests inside the smaller one.
Покупал такие титановые ,сковородки,...сделанные в Германии по заказу Голландии.Толщина всего 0,5 мм...от ударов мнутся!!Гораздо лучше для туризма оказались алюминиевые аналоги.
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