WTK: M28C, what's it worth?

[wgtactical]

These were removed from vehicles that we upgraded. Anyone know what they would be worth? One is a M28C and the other is a M28C-5X . I also have the guard that welds to the hull over the sight.

 

[M813rc]

Crane was recently selling them for $125 like new, but I see they have bumped their prices up to $225-275 for good condition ones.
You have some extra fixture goodies to go with them. That ought to at least give you a ballpark figure to start with.

Cheers

 

[wgtactical]

If anyone wants them here in the CONUS, I'll take $100 shipped for the pair.

 

[M813rc]

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[BFR]

ok, what are they?

 

[M813rc]

They are sighting periscopes for the M114, V100, and a myriad of other vehicles.
Basically they hard mount in the turret near the guns, fixed ahead in line with the direction the guns point. A mechanical arm from the gun cradle, via the linkage on the side of the scope, controls the head inside the periscope for elevation/depression so that wherever the viewfinder in the periscope looks, the guns are aimed (or vice versa).
It's a tad Rube Goldberg, but it works. Traverse, of course, is controlled by the turret itself moving. Hope that description makes sense.
Anyway, it is cheap, simple, and easy to maintain.

Attached is a picture of the V100 mount, hope that clarifies what I tried to explain above.
Not my V, by the way, but one I got to play in a while back.

Cheers

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[wreckerman893]

DAM.........now I have to have one for the wrecker.........since there will be a ringmount on the right side a periscope on the drivers side is a natural....well at least that's how I will justify it to the Boss Lady.

 

[M813rc]

Just a little ingenuity involved in figuring out your traverse tracking mechanism relay and you'd have remote weapon sighting wrecker-style

Cheers