Smoke Grenade Fuzes Wanted

[Fragman]

Hi Norman, Like so much of my stuff at the moment, the L73 is in storage. So unfortunately I can't take a better photo of the fuze head. My recall of how it attaches to the body is via a hole with two flat sides and then held in place by a thin nut (much like other smokies of that era). I've traded one of these with a UK collector, so maybe he can have a closer look and let us know. Cheers

[paul the grenade]

Hi Colin.
Here it is with some close ups of the fuze. Cheers, paul.

[Bonnex]

Hi Norman, Like so much of my stuff at the moment, the L73 is in storage. So unfortunately I can't take a better photo of the fuze head. My recall of how it attaches to the body is via a hole with two flat sides and then held in place by a thin nut (much like other smokies of that era). I've traded one of these with a UK collector, so maybe he can have a closer look and let us know. Cheers

Mike,

Spurred on by Fragman I thought I would canter through a few files etc., to find other sources of the 'central single tang' striker mechanism. Herewith a photo of the L73 with the long tang and two Royal Ordnance models with a short (but central) tang. The two grenades are an L2 (with a private venture fuze, presumably to economy engineer the L2) and a G60 stun. Both use the PMD manufactured lever and as you can see the mechs date from 1988-92. Dont know who PMD are yet.

[Grenades are resting on David Gordon's excellent book on "The Weapons of the WWII Tommy" which I hope he got the message of profound thanks for.]


PMD Striker Mechs.jpg

[siegfreid]

Norman . Thanks for that . It would appear that my quest for the elusive fuze bodies continues , however , as Millsbomber always says "every thing comes to he who waits " ! Mike.

[Fragman]

Great photo Norman - Thanks. The plastic smokie fuzes tend to be badly burnt, if you do manage to find one. The flash bangs ones don't suffer the same fate. The Koreans also make a similar styled fuze (lever on the right). Cheers