First , what is the proper ,technical name for these hooks , please :




I figured I would just find some in inventory @ a rigging co. website , but they're evidently not too popular
I can't find them .


Second - I assume the artifact in the center is a retention device of some-sort to prevent the eye from falling free . ? yeah ?
so what does that thing look like up close ?

Keith,
I'm not sure these are "cable retention hooks". I could be wrong, maybe someone else has some input, but are they possibly track connectors, either Russian or German? The US uses a curved connector with an adjustable jackscrew in the middle to join the ends of track when removing or replacing the end connectors on live action track. It's used to keep the track together temporarily while changing a damaged track or replacing the entire track. The two pictured might be for track pins on "dead track" as found on Russian or German armored vehicles. They might be connected together on either side of the track, held there with a bar through the eye in the middle while a track pin was driven in or out through the hooks. I'm not an expert, so I could be wrong here, but I think that's what these are for. Perhaps someone more familiar with the German/Russian process will chime in. VR, Russ

Oh

That would explain why they aren't available from rigging hardware vendors

puts me in a better research direction , thanks


Hmmm -- if that's the case , I also need to find out what they did use to join the 50 mm tow cable eyes to the relative hooks etc .

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi9jcvCj4fMAhVGcT4KHfniCPcQjRwIBw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcs.finescale.com%2Ffsm%2Fmodeling_subjects%2Ff%2F3%2Ft%2F154153.aspx&psig=AFQjCNFHVmI_IJuPou_wUT6f365iiKMyfw&ust=1460482320005888

looks like that central "lobe" pivots on a pin to allow a tow cable eye to be placed over the hooked tip and then rotated back to lock it in place.

Sean

Thanks , Sean .

My next research was going to be the method for track repair .
Specifically the use of the track-rope and ....

What exactly this thing is :

-- I'm thinking pry-bar / wrench thing for track work ?




... how it is represented in the Voyager PE instructions :
' D 21 '

Actually, I'm quite certain those are exactly what you say, Keith; towing clevises. Take a look at the photo in this thread on FSM and you can clearly see how the lug in the center pivots to allow it to attach and lock onto a cable and/or tow shackle. As the discussion in the FSM forum describes, these clevises allowed a tow cable to be attached to the tow shackle quickly without having to remove the shackle first.

Those are towing clevises, aka "C" hooks. They were used to secure the towing cable eye to the shackles. The center piece was rotated 90 deg. to allow inserting one end onto a shackle and the other for the eye of the towing cable; then the center part was turned back, securing both and preventing the clevis from slipping off.

As far as your second research item, that looks to my eye too long and skinny to be a track tool or pry bar. Plus pry bars (I've seen them called pinch bars also, I think) generally seem to have one squared up end with the very end being at an angle, whereas your part has one tapered end.

Just what it looks like to me, but there's bound to be someone out there to correct me.

I'm wondering if it has something to do with the gun then , since it's stowed just outside the fighting compartment .
Though that may be just where it 'fit'

The kit part does have a 'pointed' end .. ?

That second item is an antenna storage tube.

Ah --

Indeed . That would explain the ubiquitous absence of antennas in all the Jagdtiger pics I see

I guess it's normally stowed ?
Seems that you would want the radio available 100% of the time

OOPs -- I confused the parts

That's definitely a pinch-bar , D7



Certainly has angled head :



But now I know what the other is

Sorry for the confusion -- I'll take that off your bill ...


... wondering why the part and drawing are so disparate .
Dummy

They look fine to me. The clamps in the illustration may be slightly smaller than on the part, but not by much.

KL

So I guess we're going with " CLEVIS " ?

That was the word in my head when I first started this quest but the dictionary said that these ' C-hooks ' don't meet the definition for ' clevis ' .

... Oh well , at least I don't need to add any detail to them , they pretty much look like the real-deal

Thanks for all the input