ARTILLERY GUNNER’S FUZE AUGER

ARTILLERY GUNNER’S FUZE AUGER

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Item Code: 2026-9178

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An essential artillery tool when you need one! In his 1860 Artillerist’s Manual, Gibbon describes them as follows:

FUZE-AUGER, Fig. 226, Pl. 14. After fuzes are set in position, it sometimes becomes necessary to reduce the length of the composition column, to do which the fuze-auger is employed. It consists of a steel bit, fastened in a wooden handle, at the lower end of which is a brass socket, with a bar, under which the graduated limb of the slider moves. The bit fits into the slider, and is, by a steel thumb-screw, fastened to it in any required position. The position of the slider, which determines the depth to which the auger bores, is regulated by a scale attached to it by a screw.

From his description this is the handle and steel bit without the “slider,” although these are invariably found in this form, as illustrated in the artillery section of the Time-Life Arms and Equipment of the Union, a portion of which we show in the listing. Needless to say, if you have to shorten the “composition column” of the fuze and thus reduce the burning time, your target is closer than you expected.    [sr][ph:L]

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