I love blowing stuff up, grenades are great. Everyone thinks theyre so smug hiding in a choke point.
Got a Quake 8 Impact grenade, and it makes me sad that it fails to detonate probably about 50% of the time, which is obviously sub optimal. And embarassing when you get all smug about grenading someone and its a dud.
A quick google shows theyre pretty notoriously crap for this, failing to detonate most of the time on soft/woodland terrain and not much better on solid concrete surfaces. However nobody seems to have a suggestion to fix it, beyond "buy a better grenade".
Has anybody else got one of these and suffered similar issues, and found a way to improve it? Im using the .209 shotgun primers in the multishot base.
Looking at it, it seems like a very simple mechanism. The weight on the end of the grenade head wobbles about and that movement forces the pin down, but clearly with not enough force to set off the primers every time, can see a light dent on the primer but not enough to fire. So this got me thinking, there must be a way to add more force or a better firing pin?
JB Weld some more material on the head to make it heavier, so it applies more force?
Insert a spacer between the head unit and firing pin so it pushes it furher?
A longer/pointier firing pin so it hits the primer better?
All of the above?
Any other suggestions? Or is it just a crap product thats half the price of a Dynatech for a reason?