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TC wrote:
> You pull the pin and release the trigger for a second. Will pressing the
> trigger again stop the detonation or, once released, will it explode?
I looked this up once, which means don't bet your life on it. But I
understand that releasing the trigger starts a fuse burning inside the
shell. Pushing the trigger back down doesn't help.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
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>> I've pulled the pins on a few training grenades (one every year, to be
>> exact...)
>> and yes they do require some effort, but not excessive. According to the
>
> As a non-military man I always wondered what would happen in the following
> situation:
>
> You pull the pin and release the trigger for a second. Will pressing the
> trigger again stop the detonation or, once released, will it explode?
>
> Just an idle thought I had when watching a certain brand of movies...
> certainly not something anybody should try out. ;-)
>
>
>
As I understand it, the moment you release the trigger enough for the
fuse to start, there is no turning back.
It can be a fuse that burn away, a chemical that run down a porous
material or something else. The importent thing is that once the process
start, in can't be stopped without entirely removing the detonator
assembly before the fuse finishes it's work: a few seconds.
Alain
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TC wrote:
>> I've pulled the pins on a few training grenades (one every year, to be
>> exact...)
>> and yes they do require some effort, but not excessive. According to the
>
> As a non-military man I always wondered what would happen in the following
> situation:
>
> You pull the pin and release the trigger for a second. Will pressing the
> trigger again stop the detonation or, once released, will it explode?
>
> Just an idle thought I had when watching a certain brand of movies...
> certainly not something anybody should try out. ;-)
>
>
>
The spoon is spring loaded, when you let go of it, it should go flying.
The spring lifting it also lifts a striker that ignites a slow burn
fuze, extending to the bottom of the grenade. It reaches the explosive
inside, and then it goes boom. The fuze is also never exactly three
seconds, like in the movies.
Not military myself, but I found a deactivated training grenade at a
surplus store and keep it on my desk. Startles people when they notice it.
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Wow. I had to dig out a Mk2 w/ M228 training just to compare. The fuze
assembly looks perfect. All the curves are spot on.
The ridge around the neck doesn't look quite up to spec, it might cause
the frag to go off in one direction more than another, what with the
extra reenforcement. But if you add the right color markings, I don't
think anyone will notice.
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On 17/05/2010 8:41 AM, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Not military myself, but I found a deactivated training grenade at a
> surplus store and keep it on my desk. Startles people when they notice it.
Excellent jape! Just the thing to shorten meetings. I can see you, in my
--
Best Regards,
Stephen
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Sabrina Kilian <ski### [at] vt edu> wrote:
> Wow. I had to dig out a Mk2 w/ M228 training just to compare. The fuze
> assembly looks perfect. All the curves are spot on.
>
> The ridge around the neck doesn't look quite up to spec, it might cause
> the frag to go off in one direction more than another, what with the
> extra reenforcement. But if you add the right color markings, I don't
> think anyone will notice.
That's very kind of you to notice those details. I worked really hard on the
fuze and it's great to hear a compliment.
I did cheat on the body of the grenade. I wasn't able to maintain the vertical
indented portions around the neck because the bumpy part is a height_field and
therefore hollow and can't have anything differenced from it. My original plan
was to continue the height_field all the way up to where the cone-shaped top
starts in order to maintain the indents, but that didn't work out. But like
you're suggesting, it does look good with realistic texturing.
Regards,
Dave Blandston
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Dave Blandston wrote:
> the bumpy part is a height_field and therefore hollow and can't
> have anything differenced from it.
I'm not quite sure how you modelled it, but I was under the
impression that both height_field objects (and also meshes,
which might be created for spherical versions, when closed
and using inside_vector) are solids and can be used in CSG?
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Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
> I'm not quite sure how you modelled it, but I was under the
> impression that both height_field objects (and also meshes,
> which might be created for spherical versions, when closed
> and using inside_vector) are solids and can be used in CSG?
Cool - it worked! Maybe now I can get that part correct. Thanks for pointing
that out.
Regards,
Dave Blandston
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"Dave Blandston" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message
news:web.4bf1ef5237879747cba3fb0f0@news.povray.org...
> Christian Froeschlin <chr### [at] chrfrde> wrote:
>> I'm not quite sure how you modelled it, but I was under the
>> impression that both height_field objects (and also meshes,
>> which might be created for spherical versions, when closed
>> and using inside_vector) are solids and can be used in CSG?
>
> Cool - it worked! Maybe now I can get that part correct. Thanks for
> pointing
> that out.
>
> Regards,
> Dave Blandston
>
See this is why I love these type of newsgroups. I've been wondering about
that for a while now but have never spent any time on it. Now I know its
possible it opens up a heap of new possibilities!
Passing comments like these can sometimes be priceless!
Cheers Dre
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"Stephen" <mca### [at] aolDOTcom> schreef in bericht
news:4bf1276d$1@news.povray.org...
> On 17/05/2010 8:41 AM, Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> Not military myself, but I found a deactivated training grenade at a
>> surplus store and keep it on my desk. Startles people when they notice
>> it.
>
>
> Excellent jape! Just the thing to shorten meetings. I can see you, in my
>
"Any comments, gentlemen? No? Then my proposal is accepted." ;-)
Thomas
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