The spoon is released, and a striker impacts a primer that ignites a time-delay element/fuze, which then ignites a small powder charge. Alphabet bois dislike the small powder charge.
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Sounds like a percussion detonated firecracker to me. As long as the powder charge is under a certain weight it should be kosher. This sounds a lot like the Raufoss where there's nothing even remotely illegal about it but the industry self polices and for whatever reason nobody will fill the void.
There is a primer that ignites the chemical and produces the smoke. Unlike an actual grenade, there is no delay. When the pin is pulled and the spoon released, the spring loaded striker hits the primer and it ignites. With a little imagination the primer can be replaced and used for other things.
Is it any different than a normal primer? I'm just wondering if you could use a shotgun shell. Like take the wadding and shot out and leave in the powder to ignite the smoky stuff.
The primer is similar to a 209 but they aren't compatible and it takes effort to swap them...not much but there's no accidental swapping of primers. The ignition charge for the smoke itself is not the same as the one for AP (antipersonnel) grenades. The mechanism works near the same from the time the spoon is released, but the initiator for the Comp B (AP) is an actual blasting cap form factor but small like a squib. The initiator in the smoke grenade fuse is more like a matchhead.
The smokey stuff is a composition of flammable metal powder with whatever to color them....usually magnesium and aluminum and they burn hot...you're not picking one up. That's why you see the BLM and ANTIFA DBs kicking them back....they like the skin on their hands apparently and have learned that when you pick one up to throw back at the cops, the inside of their hands sometimes goes with it.
The smokey stuff is a composition of flammable metal powder with whatever to color them....usually magnesium and aluminum and they burn hot...you're not picking one up. That's why you see the BLM and ANTIFA DBs kicking them back....they like the skin on their hands apparently and have learned that when you pick one up to throw back at the cops, the inside of their hands sometimes goes with it.
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I was thinking about using an aluminum can as the body and 3d printing a mechanism that would ignite the smoky stuff using the shotgun shell.
There is a delay in these grenades. Smoke bombs, simulators, and some of the stuff cops use may be different.
Here is one that is ready to be “re-loaded.” You drill out the primer with I believe a 7mm bit, and place a 209 shotshell primer in the center. Then you can attach cannon fuze through the bottom for the (very short if any this way) time delay and to act as the igniter for the agent.
