I'd have never guessed a bomb transit plug. I thought the wooden handle
was a throwing handle for a grenade and that some other part of the
grenade was missing. I think you'll be much happier after you get you
extension pieces made.
AG's suggestion for using vellum for diffusion was very good. Sounds
like it would work well and is inexpensive.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/22/2010 11:13 AM, Olaf Greve wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Firstly: thanks heaps again for the furter advice!
> Chuck summarised it all very well.
>
> By now, I have "made an appointment" with a friend of mine to go over
> there on Tuesday (possible sooner) to work on making some aluminum
> extension strips, allowing better inclination of the brolly boxes when
> tripod mounted.
>
> Then, regarding the subjects:
>
> >Olafo has hundreds or thousands (?) or pieces, well, a big bunch at
> >least, of WWII Japanese ordnance to be photographed.
>
> Ooooohh, I wish! :P
> Japanese ordnance in these calibres is very rare, and I'd be a rich
> man if I were to have those volumes. Nevertheless, a good 100-200
> specimens need to be photographed, and the amount of pictures will
> indeed run into the hundreds or thousands. :)
>
> >I suspect the one shown is a hand grenade.
>
> Nope, but I can't blame you guys for not having a clue as to what it
> is: it's actually a large "Type 99" transit plug for a naval bomb,
> being screwed into the rear end before the actual fuze was loaded in.
>
> Cheers!
> Olafo
>
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