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Post by iocbloke on Mar 23, 2006 22:44:48 GMT 1
I know that this is really obscure and a little off the path of this forum , but does anybody know anything about the RAF/Fleet Air Arm 'Fusing Unit 5d/927'? Maybe WW2 vintage? It looks a bit like an electrical equivalent in shape of the 30cal bmg bowden cable firing cable unit , marked with an AM crown, and it looks as if all it does is to push out a small rod (which presumably disengages some kind of safety plunger on an aircraft bomb). Will try to get an image loaded; dont know whether its junk , a bit of museum kit for a restored Lancaster , or just to put a hammer through and deep 6 it ? Not a firearm, more the equivalent of an electrically operated door lock!
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Post by mattgibbs on Mar 24, 2006 0:20:45 GMT 1
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Post by britplumber on Mar 24, 2006 13:10:58 GMT 1
I have mk5 and mk7 fuzing units at work. I'll soon tell from a photo.
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Post by Kev on Mar 24, 2006 23:16:05 GMT 1
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Post by britplumber on Mar 28, 2006 15:27:50 GMT 1
we dont have fuzing units like that any more, but the ones we do have (and are used with the same 1000lb bombs as used in ww2) work on the same method. There should be a electro mechanical solonoid inside which when energised, holds onto a fuzing wire (fitted to the bomb), which in turn has a shear wire built into it and this removes the safty pin from the arming vane of the bomb, allowing the vane to rotate and arm the fuze/pistol when clear of the aircraft.
If the fuzuing unit isnt energised, the wire pulls out of the unit and the fuze/pistol will not arm the bomb. This would be the case if the pilot decided to jettison the bombs safe.
Some of the units required 2 inputs, one from the pilot and another from a second pilot or navigator. These would have been used for sunshine bombs.
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Post by iocbloke on Mar 28, 2006 19:38:56 GMT 1
Thanks - that confirms in much more detail what i had guesstimated: now, does anyone want it? not my thing at all......have an RAF realted magazine also - 'Magazine Type G45' by Williamson, AM marked, but it's for an old aircraft? camera! That's sunshine as in 'bucket of sunshine' i guess??
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Post by iocbloke on Mar 28, 2006 21:13:11 GMT 1
which leads on - maybe its a 'lewis' training gun camera magazine - anyone know what they look like? This item (will try to load an image later) is a tombstone shaped bit of ali kit, about 4.5 inches high x 3.5 wide and just over an inch thick. It just struck me (duh) that this might fit the old Lewis camera gun as it looks about the right size and shape? or it just might be the CO's sauce snaps gear? Also - murds wuddled time - i meant 'RAF related' in earlier posting.....
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Post by Kev on Mar 29, 2006 0:26:40 GMT 1
At the risk of sounding like a complete t\/\/at , WTF is a sunshine bomb .......I know I'm going to regret asking this, but curiousity has got the better of me ;D
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Post by woodsy on Mar 29, 2006 4:00:57 GMT 1
I though that a 'sunshine bomb' was when the UK got their annual quota of sunshine, sometime in July! ;D I hope its the day we are there!
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Post by britplumber on Mar 29, 2006 6:53:34 GMT 1
Its also called a 'Bucket of sunshine' and it was the nickname given to Nuke weapons.
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Post by Kev on Mar 29, 2006 11:46:04 GMT 1
......cheers
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