These seem to all be standard plumbing parts, im not sure about the english names but the bottom is the end cap to pipe, upper is bigger to smaller pipe and the aluminium collar is a basic part too, might even have the exact thread size for the detonator, so the appearance might be coincidence or somebody had some plumbing parts and a grenade and then had an idea

@historicmilitaria

11 ай бұрын

They definitely do look like standard plumbing parts, I agree! That's also why I'm pretty sure this wasn't a standard item made by a large military.

Why does the frag pattern not actually matter?

@historicmilitaria

11 ай бұрын

Internal serrations matter, but outer serration patterns don't seem to. Tests done by the British on Mills bombs with outer serrations showed that it didn't matter, so it seems that the serrations were originally mostly for getting a steady grip with wet or muddy hands!

Any idea what they packed them with?

@historicmilitaria

11 ай бұрын

My guess on something like this would be TNT.

@hughgrection3052

11 ай бұрын

@historicmilitaria Yeah almost has to be. Gunpowder might not be strong enough in such a small rascal as that. Not much room to make it too strong. I wonder how many would just fall and break open since they welded two cast iron parts together. It's a tricky task to get it to not Crack and fall apart. So that in of itself is impressive, even tho the welds look awful they held lol

@historicmilitaria

11 ай бұрын

It's a really interesting grenade, and unlike anything I've seen. It came in a large collection of Balkan grenades, so that's why I made a possible Balkan connection, as well as its overall similarity to the Yugo M62 grenade.

@hughgrection3052

11 ай бұрын

@historicmilitaria Exactly. I'm impressed for sure. To see something so crude yet well made, with a proper modern Fuze hanging out is a great little representation of times it was used in. If only it could talk lol