Early kugal grenade

[paul the grenade]

Hi all. Hope your not all snowed in.
Heres a nice early kugal grenade i received today. Its only got one machined horizontal groove rather than 2. Anyone else got any examples to show?
Cheers, paul.

 

[MissingSomething]

Kugels

A couple of mine

 

[Millsman]

Nice one Paul. I've not seen that variant before. I thought I'd got all the Kugals. Now I've got to find another one!

You say machined. I thought these were all cast as is. Were they like the centrecast Mills then?

I'm on holiday in Cornwall. Snow free where I am.

John

 

[paul the grenade]

yes, the manufacture is the same as the "centre cast mills" the gren would come out of the mould looking like the first pic posted by missingsomething and then the horizontal grooves cut on a laithe.
cheers, paul.

 

[Snufkin]

yes, the manufacture is the same as the "centre cast mills" the gren would come out of the mould looking like the first pic posted by missingsomething and then the horizontal grooves cut on a laithe.
cheers, paul.

Paul is spot on about the machining of the Kugals. Though the first photo from MissingSomething is referred to by some people as a "transitional" Kugal between the early and late models, it is nothing more than an unfinished/un-machined early variant.

Casting terminology was briefly discussed way back here:

http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/70549-Casting-terminology?highlight=casting+terminology

Machining of the early model of Kugal was touched on in post #15.




Tom.

 

[Millsman]

yes, the manufacture is the same as the "centre cast mills" the gren would come out of the mould looking like the first pic posted by missingsomething and then the horizontal grooves cut on a laithe.
cheers, paul.

So yours could actually be a one off oddity and not a standard shape?

John

 

[paul the grenade]

its not a one off john. ive seen pics of these before, definitely a rarer version though.
cheers, Paul.

 

[paul the grenade]

Just back from work and find all hell, has broke loose on the forum. I think this has gone far enough now, this in not the place for this sort of talk. im closing this thread and would like everyone involved in this conversation to remember the forum rules.
cheers, Paul.