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Here's an interesting one for you guys....!
- Thread starter steve rb
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Here, in my collection - and that's all the info for now :tinysmile_twink_t2:
not sure about the fuze, but the projo is fake. That label is a hazardous materials label, and is not what the US used for marking their old bio weapons. Plus projectiles were never, as far as impact, were never used in the inventory. there were some ideas of using 40mm, but nothing this large. Plus if it were a bio projo, then it would have a burster well just like chemical. Unless it is an ejection round. Round looks like it might be a 76mm ?? any marking on the body?
Can you post a picture of the base please?
Cheers
Pete
Cheers
Pete
I'll put one up in the morning of the base when there's some light.
i can tell you it is an impact fuse, base ejection and 105mm, the shell I'd put it next to is a standard 155mm HE M107.
here's a shot of the other side, in cartridge...
http://www.bocn.co.uk/gallery/showimage.php?i=9889&catid=member&imageuser=8579
i can tell you it is an impact fuse, base ejection and 105mm, the shell I'd put it next to is a standard 155mm HE M107.
here's a shot of the other side, in cartridge...
http://www.bocn.co.uk/gallery/showimage.php?i=9889&catid=member&imageuser=8579
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Pretty well stuck in from memory and I don't have the tools to remove it.
Time to fess up I guess :wink:
This is around 27 years old and comes before the days of political correctness gone mad (well, actually not too mad when I think about it....). This was my GSCE metalwork project, to design and make a full steel shell with working fuse. Obviously would have been MUCH easier if the internet was around as I was going off images id seen in Hogg's books and a few quick visits to the Imperial War Museum. Fuse is a centrifugally locked impact device (which of course would never bloody work, but for a 15yr old it was damn hard to make, stainless steel collars, sliders and housing in phosphor bronze, cast alli cone, boy I remember it well!). Dug it out the other day and was rather pleased with it, so have re-installed it in my collection as a bit of an oddity! The calibre of 105mm was only chosen on the basis of what thick walled tube I could find (we had no foundry capability so everything apart from the aluminium bits had to be machined!). And yes, the biohazard sticker was something my son had kicking around so I temporarily stuck that on the other day as a bit of a curve ball :tinysmile_twink_t2:
Hope it was a bit of fun! Some metalwork project!
This is around 27 years old and comes before the days of political correctness gone mad (well, actually not too mad when I think about it....). This was my GSCE metalwork project, to design and make a full steel shell with working fuse. Obviously would have been MUCH easier if the internet was around as I was going off images id seen in Hogg's books and a few quick visits to the Imperial War Museum. Fuse is a centrifugally locked impact device (which of course would never bloody work, but for a 15yr old it was damn hard to make, stainless steel collars, sliders and housing in phosphor bronze, cast alli cone, boy I remember it well!). Dug it out the other day and was rather pleased with it, so have re-installed it in my collection as a bit of an oddity! The calibre of 105mm was only chosen on the basis of what thick walled tube I could find (we had no foundry capability so everything apart from the aluminium bits had to be machined!). And yes, the biohazard sticker was something my son had kicking around so I temporarily stuck that on the other day as a bit of a curve ball :tinysmile_twink_t2:
Hope it was a bit of fun! Some metalwork project!
