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emike123

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What kind of fuse is this?
« on: March 30, 2012, 09:54:01 AM »
Visible in some of the pictures.  Looks to have the Boxer style time holes on the side but the Boxer fuses I know of are wooden.

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John D. Bartleson Jr.

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Re: What kind of fuse is this?
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 03:42:07 PM »
Mike,
 It is a Boxer Metal Time Fuse for British spherical shells.
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John
« Last Edit: March 30, 2012, 07:19:58 PM by John D. Bartleson Jr. »

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Re: What kind of fuse is this?
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 04:33:11 PM »
Saw two (2) like this in inert spherical shells,10" if I remember correctly in Singapore in 1959 on my way to "British Jungle Warfare School".Think the tag said Naval. As a note this was the first school I ever went to,that the targets shot back.Before some one ask,For a run down of what was going on in Malaya,at the time, see the movie "7th Dawn" with William Holden & Sussie Wong.
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