dano1917
RIP
Another of my FAVORITE German WW1 fuzes. I was finally able to find one reasonably priced. This one is stamped
Gr.Z92
RM 17 (I assume this means it was made in 1917)
28
This fuze is completely made from brass. It is a percussion only fuze, equipped with a safety pin that was removed before the shot. That allowed the movement of a first percussion system, whose sliding starter-bearer went in contact with the fixed percussion pin, igniting a big gun powder grain. The burning of this gun powder grain allowed the movement of a 2nd inertia system, positioned in the fuze tail, so that at the shock time the starter-bearer was violently projected against a fixed percussion pin provoking the relay-charge explosion. This fuze was dedicated to the explosive ("GR" Granate - Obus explosif). It was mainly used with ammunition of the
150mm heavy field howitzers (sFH02, sFH13)
Long 210mm mortars
210mm mortars models 1902 and 1910
Gr.Z92
RM 17 (I assume this means it was made in 1917)
28
This fuze is completely made from brass. It is a percussion only fuze, equipped with a safety pin that was removed before the shot. That allowed the movement of a first percussion system, whose sliding starter-bearer went in contact with the fixed percussion pin, igniting a big gun powder grain. The burning of this gun powder grain allowed the movement of a 2nd inertia system, positioned in the fuze tail, so that at the shock time the starter-bearer was violently projected against a fixed percussion pin provoking the relay-charge explosion. This fuze was dedicated to the explosive ("GR" Granate - Obus explosif). It was mainly used with ammunition of the
150mm heavy field howitzers (sFH02, sFH13)
Long 210mm mortars
210mm mortars models 1902 and 1910
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