Comments by "Dennis Young" (@dennisyoung4631) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1.  @Hyssar If I recall correctly, the batteries in those fuzes were dry charged and needed a sudden shock to break the (glass) ampule and then rapid spinning to flood the dry-charged batteries with their liquid electrolyte. This typically took a fraction of a second, hence the shell didn’t become “live” until it had gone a fair distance from the piece.
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  2.  @calvingreene90  providing, of course, you understand what is really important in the firm you are working. All too often, that is “kissing up and kicking down.” (Climbing the corporate ladder from sweeper on up.) Union shops tend to protect (to a degree) people who are better at doing their nominal job than kissing the rumps of management, I.e. “office politics.” This doubly true when one is blind to such gamesmanship due to being handicapped.
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  3. Yes, powder headaches. Wrote about this in a fictional context, e.g. “head-masher headaches.”
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  4. “Load H.E...”
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  5. In original fiction, the word “Cordite” is a particularly virulent Curse. You do not want to think it, much less yet say it.
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