gothica7
Well-Known Member
I have had this No 5 or 23/1 Mills body for very many years. Looks like its been galvanised and therefore may have been used for training purposes and in fact looks very similar to the coating given to Gibbons Spring training grenades. Most certainly not shellac and I cant think why it would have been so coated as a standard non-returnable body would not have had the money or time spent on it.If I was so inclined it would be very easy to convert into a full Gibbons Spring Training grenade, the springs are readily available on ebay now.It has been a very useful body in that when I was selling Mills grenade parts 10/15 years ago it was my testing body. Every part I sold was first tried out and fitted to this body to see if they worked or the threads were ok and there were vast numbers as they went all over the world, even to Iceland, Israel and Japan. Its been very well handled and done a great job over the years and I never had a single complaint.
Andy.
Andy.
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