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Zinc fuse?


IanA

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I have a fair number of British and German nose caps mostly brass, some with steel tips, but one is puzzling me. It also has a steel tip but appears to be made of Zinc (trying to clean it using acid caused a right old fizzing! I am not a 'collector' of these things (just picking them up if I happen to stumble across one on one of my walks) so I would be interested to know whether zinc was commonly used for this purpose? Did both sides use it? Was it used for a specific purpose?

Cheers,

Ian

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Hello Ian,

Due to the shortage of messing, the Germans used zinc in the making of different types of fuzes.

Regards,

Cnock

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