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By: 22nd March 2020 at 20:53 Permalink
-Hi boguing
Just to say that your photo isn't showing at all. Tried on laptop and pc.
By: 25th March 2020 at 18:59 Permalink - Edited 25th March 2020 at 19:32
-You may not want to know this but EN12568 is a European Standard and SN588 the American equivalent for metal insoles in Safety Boots.
Not too sure that it could ever have flown - unless it was in a Wellington !!!!!!!!!!!!
By: 26th March 2020 at 09:25 Permalink
-Well done that man.
I think that's the best post since the forum relaunched.
There's probably a Facebook group for metal insoles, perhaps you should join it!
By: 26th March 2020 at 17:52 Permalink
-Love it!
Drat, not a Spitfire data plate then... A few years ago I let someone on here down gently when I saw that his find was a crushed lamp shade, now I know how he felt.
By: 26th March 2020 at 18:20 Permalink
-What non-ferrous metal is prescribed by the European/American standard for use in the fabrication of insoles for safety boots? Do you think that the insole erosion took place before or after it parted company with its host boot?
By: 26th March 2020 at 20:20 Permalink
-Where the insole was found were there any signs of a wreckage trail? Evidence of a post impact fire? Combat damage? Witness marks from a pre-impact failure? .......?
By: 27th March 2020 at 08:51 Permalink
-Avion ancien, very pertinent questions. I'll put them to the experts on the Historic section of the Pan Global Safety Boot forums.
2hotwot, unfortunately we're just beginners at this and didn't think to look. We're levelling an area of what may have been a wartime storage area. and found this wedged in some buried wooden packaging that needed to be covered over for an access road. We thought we were onto something!
By: 27th March 2020 at 09:28 Permalink
-Another thought. You having mentioned, boguing, Spitfire data plates and buried wooden packaging, wasn't there, some time back, another, somewhat controversial, thread broadly on this topic? Could it be that the insole might have come from the boot of one of the workmen charged with digging the hole into which the wooden packaging was placed? I think that you should keep digging!
By: 27th March 2020 at 17:40 Permalink
-On a serious note it is intriguing as to why the metal has corroded / degraded so quickly. Assuming that it is a stainless steel or an aluminium alloy the environment must have been aggressively corrosive or it has been in a fire? It sound as though you are investigating an interesting site. Perhaps those crated Spitfires were never shipped to the Far East??? After all there are still urban tales of the crated Harley Davidson motorcycles buried in Cornwall by the Americans when they moved out for D Day. What else might they have discarded?
May I wish you good luck in your ventures.
By: 29th March 2020 at 12:36 Permalink
-I'm afraid the site and the crates were nobbut a flight of fancy, inspired by 2hotwot's reply..... I guess it could be a flavour of stainless, certainly stiff enough, sounds about right when pinged and would certainly make some sense in a shoe sole.
I do have another bit which I'm certain is aircraft related, and did unsuccessfully show it on here years ago. I'll dig that out again and we can see what common household object it came from.
By: 13th June 2020 at 21:50 Permalink
-My apologies if I've posted this in the wrong place.
This photograph was taken in May 1941. Can anyone identify the man's armband?
Thank you.
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By: boguing - 22nd March 2020 at 09:03
Found in Surrey.
It's 0.02" thick, non-magnetic, hasn't rusted but has been eroded in some way (electrolysis?). It's stiff, fairly sure it's not an not an alu alloy.