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Re: Torpedo Pi3 Pistol
Posted by:
ROBERT M.
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Date: January 23, 2004 12:27AM
Wiljan:
According to the Time-Life Books, 'The Seafarers" series,
'THE U-BOATS", page 23: "The trigger mechanism included an ingenious safeguard against the terrifying possibility of an inadvertent
detonation: It was capped by a safety lock in the form of a tiny propellor that spun itself off a threaded shaft and fell away after the torpedo had run about 30 yards on its course."
This book was published in 1979. A submate of mine just loaned it to me today, after I asked him the same question. He said that when the little brass arming propellor fell away, the contact and magnetic-influence features of this pistol became fully armed.
Best regards,
ROBERT M.
According to the Time-Life Books, 'The Seafarers" series,
'THE U-BOATS", page 23: "The trigger mechanism included an ingenious safeguard against the terrifying possibility of an inadvertent
detonation: It was capped by a safety lock in the form of a tiny propellor that spun itself off a threaded shaft and fell away after the torpedo had run about 30 yards on its course."
This book was published in 1979. A submate of mine just loaned it to me today, after I asked him the same question. He said that when the little brass arming propellor fell away, the contact and magnetic-influence features of this pistol became fully armed.
Best regards,
ROBERT M.
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