Identifying 88 projectile / fuse

[Panzerfan]

Who can tell me a little bit more about this 88 projectile / fuse?

The paint is not original. The fuse most likely a wrong type.

Next to another 88.

 

[Panzerfan]

 

[Nabob]

Please look here:
http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/99866-88mm-Flak-18-projectile-and-case-questions-for-beginners
For ground use You could also get AZ 23/28 fuze.

Dont get entangled in the tracer conversation too much

Bob

 

[gerbenvh]

That type of fuze was mainly used on 7,5 cm rounds, like the one in the attached picture

 

[Panzerfan]

Thanks!

Anything else anybody can tell me?

 

[greif]

Thanks! Anything else anybody can tell me?

The shell you are showing is the 8,8 cm Sprgr L/4,5 (Kz). It is the type with the screwed-in base plate.
The stamps are somewhat difficult to read.
41 kam 50 a?. These are the production stamps of the shell body. Year of manufacturing 1941; kam (= Hasag Eisen-und Metallwerke GmbH, Werk Skarzysko-Kamienna); Lot 50, series a?.

FES = Sintered Iron driving bands.

13 Sk 5.44. These are filling stamps. 13 = code for the explosive filler = amatol 60/40; Sk is the code for the filling station; 5.44 = month and year of filling.

The early shells with the screwed-in base plate have a HE charge in a cardboard container which was inserted thru the base of the shell body. Later on the explosive was poured in, these shells were marked with a + in black paint on the ogive indicating that the screwed-in base plate was sealed with magnesia-paste.

I think your shell is of the poured-in type, because the cardbord containers were always filled with pressed TNT which had the explosive filler code 1.

Below drawings of the two different shell types with the screwed-in base plate.

 

[Panzerfan]

Geweldig Greif, dankjewel!

Do you think this zunder/fuse is correct?

 

[greif]

The l Igr Z 23 nA is not correct. Should be a ZtZ S/30; ZtZ S/30 Fg; AZ 23/28 or AZ 23/28 (Pr).