Pineapple grenade

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Originally Posted by Sentryduty

This older M26 "Lemon" grenade might be the source of the wire wrapped myth. They were adopted in the 1950's but I have never used one, they have been replaced in CDN service by the C13 (M67) entirely.

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That's probably it. Things tend to not go away once they start. We didn't have those...we did have M61s though. I used those.

I also have a couple of M36s.

That's a nice showing, I only have the training cutaway which I showcased in another thread earlier this year.

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=55053

https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...48dadd06-1.jpg

The empty one came from an antique shop in Ontario when I was very young. The others, one I've had for years and one came from a shoebox full of stuff that was handed to me...

Didn't the No36 grenades intended for tropical use had a shellac coating applied in the hope of preventing corrosion?

Some light reading on the link below,

Mills grenades

So, I have two Canadian and one English grenades. Now I know.

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Originally Posted by Peter Laidler

They didn't generally follow the fracture lines/pattern but in a LOT of cases, the cast iron bottom ring part remained as a big fearsome sharp ring.

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The base chunk of shrapnel Peter is referring to I got it off that site as a job lot with a solid pin and spoon needed the latter pair for a practice Mills I have.

I have a pineapple grenade that is all cast iron, handle, fuse and all. Just meant for training. I just got it at an antique shop a few weeks ago, WWII era, US. I have the regular later training pineapple grenade along with a round one also.

The collection to date - L-R Italian Red Devil, USA Pinapple, Mills prac?, 1941 Mills 36 with 1941 Base plate for the grenade launching cup, used flash bang. (All are inert)

Yes, apparently at one time white was acceptable for practice ordnance...