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That lever doesn't appear to have much purchase on the striker? There are many like this, I wouldn't want to be running with this type of live grenade on me.
That was of course the design weakness with the No 5. Inconsistent lever manufacture caused many premature detonations when the grip was slightly relaxed the srtiker would drop. It was only solved with Frederick Gibbons' redesign that emerged with the No 23 Mk III. It's interesting that Gibbon's drawings for the patent show a centrecast No 5.
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