Dopp.Z.92 Question

[jvollenberg]

I have a DOPP.Z.92 fuze images from Aberdeen. I am trying to figure of is this mark (either an O or C) is part of the fuze or put there by someone else.

Any ideas?

Joe

 

[Burney Davis]

It is an integral part of the fuze Joe, not a stamping mark.

 

[jvollenberg]

Do you know what it mean? I have seen pictures of the fuze without it so I thought it might be a museum marking.

Joe

 

[Alpini]

it's a brass screw cut into half from turning the fuze shape. This screw is closing a hole which is filled with a spring and a plunger. This plunger sets back when firing and is blocking the time ring (it can't rotate). This feature was added to the fuze because they had problems that the time ring moved slightly from the projectile rotation.

 

[Burney Davis]

Thanks Alpini. Do you know if there was a fuze designation change when this modification was incorporated?

 

[Alpini]

No there was definitively no change of the designation. The change was made in 1899. The Dopp. Z. 98 got the same change but I don't know in which year.

 

[Alpini]

a picture says more than 1000 words: