What is this from?

[mietek]

Hi.

Photo of the cross section I took in military museum in Prague.

On Polish forum we discuss about shrapnels and its parts several times.
Threads are in Polish, but of course you can enjoy pictures

http://www.odkrywca-online.com/pokaz....php?id=116898
http://www.odkrywca-online.com/pokaz...=122625#122628
http://www.odkrywca-online.com/pokaz...id=35081#35205
http://www.odkrywca-online.com/pokaz...id=77645#77744


Check also:
http://www.munavia-21.org/DessinsArtiWH.htm
http://spaghetti-wars.de/gal.d.kopf1.htm
http://home.hetnet.nl/~supersmit/ww1/stamps3.html#z96


Below shrapnel parts in South Poland

[Zünder]

Mietek said just everything.

It's one of the types of Dopp.Z. 92, in this case the Dopp.Z. 92 K.15

The only thing left to add, is that it was used by a whole range of guns somewhere between 10 cm's and 21 cm's .
And not only on schrapnell, but Incendiary-, HE- and Gasshells as well.


Jean Loup's fuze/shellpart is the upper part of a shot "15 cm Schrapnell Granate 15" or "15 cm Schrappnell Granate mit vordere Führungsband".

This particular fuze is harmless, it has been fired, it did it's job, and is now empty.
But there are fuzes around that do have a HE charge attached to them and especially the WW1 explosives are becoming chemically unstabile.
So, be carefull...

[Jason G]

Jason, this forum reminded me of a war story. In the mid 80's, when I was a Marine, I was 'trans-pacing' thru the Pacific as a classified materials courier for VMFA-312. We stopped on Wake Island to refuel and for crew rest. Naturally, I went out scouring the fields. The island was darn near as it had been in 45 when we recaptured it; spent shells lying everywhere. Anyway, I found what I guessed was a Japanese fuse of a similiar type; but then, I started to worry that if I brought it back aboard the airplane (a C-141 Starlifter), when we pressurized, the damn thing might explode in my pocket over the Pacific ocean. So....I left it there, at the Wake Island museum. Ah, well. I did bring back some empty shell casings and whatnot, so it wasn't a total loss.
Jason (The other one)