Anti-Tank / Artillery help!

For anti-tank guns such as the PaK 36, 38 or 40, the firing mechanism consisted of a push-button on the elevation wheel that was operated by the gunner on the left side of the gun. The push-button was connected by a bowden cable to the ignition box mounted on the left side of the gun cradle below the recoil sled rail which in turn was connected to the firing pin/ignition mechanism inside the breech. The reason you don't see pull lanyards used for these types of weapons is the need for the gun to be very accurate and once laid on the target, the gunner needed to be able to quickly and precisely fire the weapon and be able to see how the round went down range so he could adjust accordingly as the gun crew reloaded. It wasn't uncommon for 4-5 rounds to be used before scoring a hit based on reading field reports and training manuals, especially if they were shooting at a moving target such as an advancing tank.  HTH!

Pics below are out of Nuts & Bolts #18 and are posted for discussion purposes only.

Sorry for not following up on this......    I was called by work to sort out  a few important things and just came back home last night.

I will take a closer look at my pictures over the weekend and post few .

There was a thread a while back that went into great detail regarding the firing mechanism of the German Pac 40 75mm anti tank gun. I cannot remember the threads name, I believe it was regarding a Marder II and got side tracked on this topic. 

If someone can post the link its all the information you need on the firing mechanism.

Yes please that would be fantastic, i'm just trying to work out the finer details of how they are fired 

I do have pictures of a few guns that I took in CFB Borden in the past years.  I have a few of a 37mm PaK 36, 50mm PaK 38, 75mm PaK 40, 75mm PaK 97/38, 105mm leFH18, 150mm sFH18, 76.2mm PaK 36(r).

I'm sure that I also have a few of a Puppchen and a 28mm Anti-Tank kicking round somewhere...

You just want the firing mechanism details?