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By The Armorer on August 14, 2006 | | Comments (15) | TrackBacks (1)

Heh

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By Boquisucio on August 14, 2006 8:48 AM
That looks like some type of explosive actuator
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2006 8:51 AM
In a very technical sense, you are correct, as far as it goes.
 
By MajMike on August 14, 2006 8:56 AM
are some of the hockey pucks missing?
   
By Rod Thorsen on August 14, 2006 9:28 AM
Main gun firing pin.
 
By hdw on August 14, 2006 9:41 AM
Is this in functioning condition, or is it a cutaway?
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2006 10:03 AM
Good question, HDW! Cut-away.
 
By Trias on August 14, 2006 10:29 AM
Hmm it's very neatly cut. It locks into something else perhaps a barrel and i can see 4 phases. black painted steel doohah, grey painted steel doodah, crumbly brown doodah and a thin rusty doodah. it looks like the grey thing is supposed to go back to the bump but not further. Maybe the brown stuff is explosive or pretend explosive and the grey bit is the exlosion starter (by compresion??? nah) and the grey and black bits are the dampen the explosion to push something out maybe a small missile. I think I'm way off because two things spring to mind. The grey thing is wedged in hard. Not sure if the explosion would just burst out the back. And why two dampeners? and why different colours? Oh hell i dunno cindy's rumoured new partner?
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2006 10:37 AM
Trias - *very* good. You're on to something. Well done.
 
By CV9030N F1 on August 14, 2006 1:19 PM
Cutthrought of a HEAT granade from a tank ?
 
By MajMike on August 14, 2006 1:21 PM
for a screw closing breech vice a drop block or slider???
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 14, 2006 1:33 PM
Ah! Someone picked up on the threads. Yes it screws in place - though it's not truly a breech in the conventional sense, in this application it serves the same effective purpose. That is *not* an interrupted screw - except as an artifact of being a cut-away.
 
By CB on August 15, 2006 12:20 AM
First guess is the inner guts of a spigot mortar shell. The explosive filler looks to be a propellant and the silver metal block driving a pad (rubber?) onto the shaft of the launcher?
 
By CB on August 15, 2006 12:28 AM
A cutaway of the PIAT's bomb that slides onto the spigot?
 
By John of Argghhh! on August 15, 2006 5:49 AM
CB - your first analysis is closer to the function, if not the form. And no, that's not a PIAT. Here's a bit from the archives to put that idea to rest (not a bad idea, just not correct).
 
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