oli 80 wrote:hello, once during excavations in the forest, someone of my family found all kinds of objects dating from the 2nd war, old bullets, in a bunker they found an old manual fire pump, it looks like little close to the models of the videos just above, except this one was made in a dark gray metal, it worked perfectly well, to use in a bucket or with a suction pipe, but the problem I no longer have because it is fell on the ground and it broke in 3, the metal was fragile like glass, there was even a small hole I wanted to plug it with tin but by heating with the lamp soldered the hole has grown , even with a simple lighter you would melt this metal
here is another type of manual pump that we still find here and the
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW2yFO2I ... re=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE0nomUnaSk
here is a photo of one of these flywheel pumps http://www.saint-pons-la-calm.fr/patrim ... d_font.htm
Hello, about this manual pump from World War II in gray metal, I now know the name of this metal in which we also made reichmark coins
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamak