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I was reading through the excellent BOCN threads and realised that their was no mention of the variations of German long delay fuze type (17)
The very early (17) had external clocks and had two charging pins , as the clocks were prone to the ingress of moisture and to try to quiten the clocks a Rubber band was fitted to these early fuzes see picture 1
Next came Emergency pattern , which consisted of a Steel upper sleeve , due to the shortage of Aliminunium at the time , These fuzes had just 1 charging pin see picture 2
next was the 1940 pattern in which the clock was sleeved in an Ali tube that was threaded for the gaine see picture 3
after that came the 1941 patt in which the clock was housed in a plastic sleeve see pictures 4 and 5
There were unmarked Fuzes , which were found to be the ordinary type (17) fuze and were treated as such .
One further type (17)B was a much shorter time delay of 132 minutes as against the more normal 72 hour clocks
The very early (17) had external clocks and had two charging pins , as the clocks were prone to the ingress of moisture and to try to quiten the clocks a Rubber band was fitted to these early fuzes see picture 1
Next came Emergency pattern , which consisted of a Steel upper sleeve , due to the shortage of Aliminunium at the time , These fuzes had just 1 charging pin see picture 2
next was the 1940 pattern in which the clock was sleeved in an Ali tube that was threaded for the gaine see picture 3
after that came the 1941 patt in which the clock was housed in a plastic sleeve see pictures 4 and 5
There were unmarked Fuzes , which were found to be the ordinary type (17) fuze and were treated as such .
One further type (17)B was a much shorter time delay of 132 minutes as against the more normal 72 hour clocks
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