Restoring Grenades!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 มี.ค. 2020
- What else is there to do during a lock down besides restore grenades? I had two training Mk2 "Pineapple" grenades laying around, as you do, so I decided to make them into some awesome WWII grenades. Join me on my adventure of mistakes and awesomeness!
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Good job on the painting scheme. Sandblast the the pineapple next time and primer and then o.b olive green and will look really sharp.
P.s green lever is a combat lever and blue is for training. I know I used enough of those to load a pickup truck down . haha
Green lever has fuse M213 on the top and your missing a safety clip on the level and a ring clip. And a black oring between the grenade buld and head to keep water out. Just saying. And you pull pin can be put in the other cross hole to keep striker hammer from striking the detinater cap . In case you make a bobo.
Just an interesting side note, early in WW2, grenades were produced painted all yellow. They were supposed to be painted green by ordinance personnel. It didn't always get done. Yellow grenades were still seen in use as late as Normandy.
I did read about that!
The yellow color was to make the grenade look more like a young pineapple 🍍 well that is what my uncle said he was fighting against the Japanese on the illusion islands and a lot of other islands in WW2 he was in the Marines
Is no one gonna point out that these are from the 80s? WW2 MK II have a completely different spoon and a sharper casting.
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Your definitely right the WW2 pineapple grenades has a raise rib down the back of the lever and no safety clip notch for a wire spring clip and doesn't have the piece of metal to clip the pull ring into to keep it from accidently being pulled out on brush. They started putting those on in Vietnam.
It’s a Chinese copy sold for novelty some of them have real used tops but you’d know cuz it’ll be burned and obviously used. The Chinese tops are solid and doesn’t have a hole in the top all. The body is a Chinese copy. A military body would have some remnant paint
Can you give me a source please? All of my research (granted only a few Google searches) shows they are training grenades. They could be unused or rarely used surplus. Unissued rifles appear on the collectors market. I assume something like this could be unused as well.
@@ThatDeltaBravo many places sell them their commonly known to be Chinese the giveaway is their commonly not painted and the heads are solid aluminum not drilled out many dealers sell them old sarge is a dealer these have been sold for over 40 yrs they use to be shipped in a cardboard box that had a flip up advertisement for display. Trust me theirs more Chinese grenadines than real ones held by civilians also Mexico has a lot of these.
@@jefferyboring4410 Perhaps, but the two I have are stamped RFX for Richmond Foundry (now Casting) Co., which is certainly not in China. Did China copy that too?
The blue part is called the spoon and yes blue is correct for training grenades
Thanks!
Choosing a variant of yellow would have taken me 3 hours and a half.
Haha. I picked the best one that looked like it would go bang. :P
handle is the spoon. Paint the whole thing yellow, tape the top for however width of the line you want, then paint the whole thing the last color, pull off tape and you'll have a straight yellow line that looks sharp. Also, better to use enamel paint rather than latex.
I'll be forked! ;) That's right... Spoon! I just picked up cheap paint. Lol.
@@ThatDeltaBravo Still turned out pretty cool. I bought one for a gear shift knob for my tundra. Haven't been home yet to see it, but if it doesn't sit up real high, it'll be pretty unique.
@@briarfox637 That's awesome!
I painted one of mine like a candy cane with red and white swirl 🍥 around it just for fun and another with some mean yellow eyes and OD green paint on the body and the spoon is a black Mohawk
I believe the sheet metal cover that is blue, is called the spoon. It is its unofficial name, I am unsure of its proper name.
Ahhh... Yes. I have heard that before, but forgot about that.
@@ThatDeltaBravo dont worry about destroying value there replica grenade made from the 80s to now there made for paper weights I have a grenade myself
@@thIDthIRreenactor Yup! I just figured someone might try to yell at me about it. They are pretty much (at this point) worthless. However, everything will eventually go up in value. Remember when a Mosin Nagant was $90? Lol.
@@ThatDeltaBravo no lol I'm 14
@@thIDthIRreenactor Well... Then never mind! Lol!
take some scotch tape or masking tape and tape the bottom of the yellow band and paint it again and your line will be straight.
They go boom! Haha.
Hell I need to do this when I eventually get my Mk IIs. And my M26s. That bare metal is just ewww.
Do it! It was easy and fun, and killed some quarantine time. Lol.
Not sure why you are “restoring” grenades when you don’t much about them.
Does one need to be an explosives expert to have some fun when they lost their career due to Covid? I don't think so.