P-47D-25-RE cockpit box?

[Bozothenutter]

Anybody what the box circled in red is?

Wires going into the lower left corner, and possibly a hydraulic fitting on the rear (optical illusion).
Have looked in all the manual I could find....
Redoing the Tamiya 'Bubbletop' cockpit to more closely represent the manual.

 

[waroff]

Anybody what the box circled in red is?
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Wires going into the lower left corner, and possibly a hydraulic fitting on the rear (optical illusion).
Have looked in all the manual I could find....
Redoing the Tamiya 'Bubbletop' cockpit to more closely represent the manual.

this box could be receive the Curtiss electric propeller switches(D-30&40 & N) but is unused on D-25 which had Hydromatic Hamilton propeller.

 

[Bozothenutter]

Thank you very much!

 

[Joe Broady]

In this modern photo of a P-47D at the USAF Museum there's a box at the same location but it looks different. I have no idea of its function. This "box" actually looks like a sheet of aluminum bent into a U shape. A couple wires go from the throttle quadrant up into the box, and at the forward end is a short cable which connects to a propeller control panel (I think).
P-47D cockpit 360

 

[fubar57]

 

[T Bolt]

As Waroff said above ,that box is the control switch for the Curtiss electric propeller and would not have been used on a D25 with the hydraulic prop. The box contained a very unique switch and a push to reset circuit breaker. I had obtained an original NOS switch and was in the process of fabricating the box for it for my 1:1 P-47 cockpit when the whole project kinda ran out of steam

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[mjfur]

In this modern photo of a P-47D at the USAF Museum there's a box at the same location but it looks different. I have no idea of its function. This "box" actually looks like a sheet of aluminum bent into a U shape. A couple wires go from the throttle quadrant up into the box, and at the forward end is a short cable which connects to a propeller control panel (I think).
P-47D cockpit 360

Joe is referencing the "filler" piece to the left of the Prop Control Box in the USAFM P-47. Someone just made that, wasn't installed from the factory. You can tell by the cockpit photos, a full scale restoration was not accomplished.

 

[T Bolt]

If you zoom in on it, it looks like a short piece of structural aluminum "C" channel. Not original and why it was bolted on there I have no idea. I looked at a picture of that particular P-47 I took a few years ago and there is no indication of anything on the outer skin that those bolts go into.