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Finally found a Mills bomb. J P & S marked on grenade, spoon and base. Missing internals but in good shape otherwise.
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If you can live with repros, you can get a striker, spring and centre tube here:
Inert Accessories | Dugup
I’ve bought various things from them in the past for Mills bomb restoration projects and the quality is good.
Thanks, I understood internals were available but had no luck finding them on my own.
Very nice...I have three. Two complete and one empty and not correct color.
Best part of that little lot is the smock zip puller :lol:
Key ring for your work keys...Quote:
Originally Posted by Gil Boyd
Jim, Better on the smock, if I out them on the keys and place them in my pocket they rip the **** out of your leg when you sit down :lol::lol:
Like carrying a V40 grenade around for size.
Placed my order today. I thought I placed it several days ago and hadn't heard from them. Found the message in my draft folder. No idea how it got there. Anyway, once they actually got the email, the responded very quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by peregrinvs
Let us know how it all works out, I could easily be convinced to resurrect mine...the black one...
Many years ago, I was visiting a chap. On the mantelpiece in his den were some militaria. One item was a 36M. Had a quick look at it, and asked him if he knew it was live. He did, but it was OK because it did not have the igniter set installed...
I hit the auctions and pawn shops with a buddy of mine. He does diamonds and gold and knows nothing about guns/militaria (we make quite the pair walking into pawn shops: "Show us your gold and guns.")Quote:
Originally Posted by tiriaq
Anyway, we went to an auction a few weeks ago and I came away with two dummy 50lb bombs. We got about 30 minutes into our drive back home and he sheepishly asks, "so, uh, those aren't real, right?" Haha, I had to commend him for holding in his worries for that long!
I tell you what, 9 days from placing the order and it's at my house, from England. These guys are great to deal with. I had about 10 minutes of not being able to figure out how the striker and spring went together and actually put it together wrong the first time but after I figured it out, it all makes sense and looks great. What threw me off was the strength of the spring. Basically takes three hands to put it together easily, It's a challenge with two. You basically need something strong that you can use as a shaft to push in and hold in place until you can get the spoon set in the striker.
Because you have a No36 grenade, the striker that you have should have a slot running through the lower end. If you find yourself a strong, flat-bladed screw driver that fits into this slot, you can use the screwdriver as a plunger tool to compress the spring. I don't know if this was the reason for putting the slot in the plunger of No36 grenades, originally, but it does work in practice for assembling inert display grenades. This is because the screwdriver remains in alignment with the striker while the spring is being compressed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
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Originally Posted by Aragorn243
You place the screwdriver against your web belt and then you have both hands to work with. The screwdriver lets you turn the striker to locate as you figured out. Of course you're wearing a web belt because you're in combat clothing and fighting order when using these beauties...Quote:
Originally Posted by Flying10uk
I was under the impression that they were assembled at the factory. They were supplied in boxes with the fuze / detonator assemblies in a separate tin. The guy on the ground only had to unscrew the base plug, insert the detonator and then rescrew the base plug to ready it for use.
They were packed in wax and had to be cleaned first. Then you assembled and tested the striker for free movement, again against your web belt. Then set it all together again and insert the detonator and base plug...set them on the ready to use shelf in the ammo bay and issue to a firer, unless you're having them do it themselves.
Why make everything so difficult? Not positive but I think US grenades came ready to go from the factory.
Yes, so do ours now and they have since the #36 was withdrawn. Mind, we changed to the M61 and M67 then, V40 too for a while. Yes, all self contained.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aragorn243
Jim, roughly what sort of time did Canada stop using the Mills No36 grenade, please? Did Canada use them for longer than the UK?
We threw our last stock of #36 in 1977. A recruit platoon was chosen to expend the last stock of them in Wainwright AB, the rest of the military hadn't used them in some years. We continued to teach them as a practice until 1982 or '83. I was there when we stopped that as well. Just as well, I was down to using my own as a training aid, very illegal that...