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The mine consist of a loaded mine, body, fuze, and pressure plate plug.

Body: The steel body is cylindrical with a carrying handle attached to the bottom. Assembled to the mine body is a round pressure plate, 7-1/2 inches in diameter con-taining the reversible pressure plate plug which covers the fuze well. The pressure plate is supported internally by circular Belleville springs and sealed against moisture by a rubber diaphragm. In addition to the primary fuze well, supplementary fuze wells are lo-cated on the side and on the bottom of the mine for use in anti-lifting or booby trap purposes.

Fuze: The fuze, chemical, M600 (T8E1), is a separate unit and consists of the fuze body, piston, safety key, compression sleeve, resistance spring, vial of chemical, deto-nator, and fuze booster charge. The spring is cut away at either side and the perfora-tions in the sleeve are large so that the fuze itself may be activated by a force of 190 pounds. When inserted in an M6 mine, a pressure of 300 to 400 pounds is required to overcome the resistance of the Belleville spring.

The pressure is applied on the pressure plate, it is transmitted to the piston head. As the resistance of the spring is overcome, the compression sleeve is crushed, and the piston moves down to crush the vial of chemical. The chemical reacts with the sur-rounding mixture to set off the detonator - fuze booster - booster in mine case - main charge.

THIS FUZE MUST NOT BE USED WITH THE M7 ANTI-TANK MINE.

ARMING:

Unscrew pressure plug from pressure plate, remove safety key from fuze and insert in mine. Reverse the plug so that the hollow section is up and screw into mine to that the solid center position of the plug rests directly over the piston head. The fuze is now armed.

REMARKS:

(1) For purpose of booby traps or anti-removal devices, after main fuze is installed, any standard firing device may be attached to the supplementary fuze wells by using the activator M1. This activator is a plastic adapter approximately 2 inches long, which contains a tetryl booster charge.