Thanks, any difference between the small and large openings on the face?
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Two more fuzes - the first I recognize as from the Swedish 37mm APHE but I don't have a model number of the fuze. The second is confusing without a manual. Searching online I can find a photo of the fuze from one of the US published guidebooks, but while the fuze appears to me to be an Italian BPD, they have the same fuze and nomenclature shown but identify it as a PDB 122. Searching for BPD 122 Cat-UXO shows a fuze that has similar construction, but is actually marked as PDB.
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MZ62 in the middle is probably Swiss.
M45 (cyrillic) on the right is former Yugoslavia
I meant 318, not 316, 317 for those I have no idea.
Eggburt1969
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Isn't BPD the maker of the fuze, and as such is short for Bombrini Parodi-Delfin?
It is not russian, it is Bulgarian.
stecol
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Item IMG_149 maybe a PDM-2I fuze, or a similar device.
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Looks like it, thanks. I see plenty of the Mle 1916 A Robin, but they don't have the three screws. Good eye.
That is what I believe, but it does not explain the confusion in the online sources, nor give me a model.
Here is another. I can make out 1-2 random stamped numbers, but nothing that looks like a nomenclature. The lower portions look very US to me. There are a few hand drawn characters, a with a little imagination perhaps an anchor in a circle. Oddly, the window with the wires looks like part of the construction, not like a cut away.
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Eggburt1969
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I've not personally looked at that fuze, and have no local (in the office) example to check it's markings. Unfortunately I have found many online sources just repeat, parrot fashion, what is present in certain sources. Examples sources being the Afghanistan and Iraq 2004 EOD guides, the 1997 DIA 'Worldwide Fuze Identification Guide', and the former 'Jane's' publications. Unfortunate these guides and books, like all intelligence and reference materials, have errors in them. The skill is having a large enough personal knowledge base to spot such errors, and correct them. Many of these online sources seeming don't have this personal knowledge base.
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Cechoslovakia , Year of manufacture 1990, company - military code: gts (Synthesia n.p., Pardubice - Semtín)
Component working with the braking device (parachute) of a braked aerial bomb(For example, braking device: BZ-1, BZ 2, BZ-3, etc.).
The marking stamped on the body is, for example, PO, or POP according to the designation ....for a specific bomb system.
Akon
Cechoslovakia , Year of manufacture 1990, company - military code: gts (Synthesia n.p., Pardubice - Semtín)
Component working with the braking device (parachute) of a braked aerial bomb(For example, braking device: BZ-1, BZ 2, BZ-3, etc.).
The marking stamped on the body is, for example, PO, or POP according to the designation ....for a specific bomb system.
Akon
British bomb fuse No.845 , Mk.I - Mk.IV.
Akon
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Yes.
Okay, thanks for the correction.
Hello guys,
I come back after a break of 9 months.
So, picture 316 and 317 :
-Bottom brass device : ww2 german traction/friction fuze for french ordnances used as charges. Called Reibzünder (sometimes Reisszünder). Traction wire is missing on the picture.
-Top brass device : ww2 german adapter for french ordnances used as charges or mines (thread compatible for german safety fuze adapter and german AP mine fuzes or zdz29). I don't know the official german designation of the adapter.
Thats why these devices have the design of cuf off french fuzes.
I come back after a break of 9 months.
So, picture 316 and 317 :
-Bottom brass device : ww2 german traction/friction fuze for french ordnances used as charges. Called Reibzünder (sometimes Reisszünder). Traction wire is missing on the picture.
-Top brass device : ww2 german adapter for french ordnances used as charges or mines (thread compatible for german safety fuze adapter and german AP mine fuzes or zdz29). I don't know the official german designation of the adapter.
Thats why these devices have the design of cuf off french fuzes.
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Here are more questions as I work my way through a giant pile of recently acquired items.
I may have asked about the first (Czech) item previously, but the search feature on the forum has never been known for its ease of use and I am not able to find it. I'm guessing mine related...
The flat steel item I'd love to know whose and what it is associated with. The red plastic item I am guessing Dutch. The plastic is very similar to that found on the smoke/cs/training items found with V-40 fuzes.
I may have asked about the first (Czech) item previously, but the search feature on the forum has never been known for its ease of use and I am not able to find it. I'm guessing mine related...
The flat steel item I'd love to know whose and what it is associated with. The red plastic item I am guessing Dutch. The plastic is very similar to that found on the smoke/cs/training items found with V-40 fuzes.
