L85 rifle new manufacture receivers?

[Peter Laidler]

All to do with bloody minded intransigence, and letting an amateur loose in the procurement world and........ Not for public consumption I'm afraid

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[Bruce_in_Oz]

And, lets face it Heckle and Jeckle know a thing or two about sheet-metal pressing and barrel making.

[Vincent]

Boiling your billy with C4!

[tankhunter]

C4 = Brings a new meaning to the term: 'Brewing up'!........

[Bruce_in_Oz]

Hexamine is, basically, seriously "de-rated" explosive, apparently related to RDX, which may explain its heat-generating capacity.

The early Oz stuff was made at the old Explosives Factory, Maribyrnong. Later production seems to have come from ADI St. Marys.

Amusingly enough, one of my later-serving contacts tells me there was some supplied by the wonderfully-named, "Far Side Marketing" (Gary Larson joke?), in Turvey, Bedford, England, with the actual manufacturer not stated,.

Full name: Hexamethylene Tetramine. U.N. No. 1328.

It is interesting stuff as, when it burns there is NO liquid phase; straight from solid to gas. This makes it "relatively safe" in field use.

[Sentryduty]

Hexamine is, basically, seriously "de-rated" explosive, apparently related to RDX, which may explain its heat-generating capacity.

I still have a package of Hexi tabs left over from the transition period from Hexi, to flameless heaters. While you can't really make a hot drink with a flameless heater, they do cook a ration meal very fast, and they can build an amusing "bomb" when stuffed into a discarded water bottle and allowed to build bursting pressure. Always a fun time to irritate the Sergeant-Major in the Bivi site with random explosions at all hours.

[Brit plumber]

Last time I used a hexi cooker was on excercise on mount pleasant airfield. The wind was that strong it blew them out so I put it in a sheltered area around the side of 1435 flights building. What I didn't know was that the block work foundation was sealed with tar. The H83 and corned beef hash got hot very quickly. I was never asked to cook again.

[tankhunter]

The one downside to Hexi Blocks when burning them. Is they make an awful Mess on the base of the cooking vessel! It's a bugger to get off!