Chapter Summary Of Dead Man's Shoes

Danger UXB episode 1, Dead Man's shoes begins with a royal army officer attempting to remove the fuze from an unexploded Bomb. After striking the locking ring with a hammer and chisel the bomb begins to tick and explodes. Later Lt. Brian Ash arrives at the 97 engineering company where he is informed that they are now a bomb disposal company. After meeting a few of his fellow officers and moving into his new quarters Lt. Adam Pringle gives him a class on the General High Explosive bombs, which are mainly filled with TNT or Amatol. Lt. Ash learns that the five sizes are 50 KG, 250 KG, 500 KG, 1000 KG, and 1800 KG and that the 250 KG is the most common size. He is then shown an inert 250 KG that has the fuze pocket located in the middle near the base of the bomb. …show more content…
He is then shown a type 15 fuze, an electric bomb fuze, which is the most common. He is then told it is similar to a battery and that the two plungers or pop out pins are depressed when plugged into the power source and charged up in the aircraft, however once deployed the plungers fly back up and open up the circuit in the fuze and once the circuit is open any vibration will cause the tremble switch to move and complete the circuit which will cause a flash that will detonate the primer or gain. He is then shown Crabtree Dis-charger which depresses the plungers on the fuze causing a short and a discharge of power. This allows one to unscrew the locking ring and remotely remove the fuze. After the class Lt. Ash is informed that he will be in charge of 347