Simple grenade design

[Igenx]

Hey all. Just an idea for a really simple (not using any chemical explosive) impact grenade. Don't know how well it'd work, but here's the idea. Take a glass bottle with a screw on lid, such as a tea bottle. Drill a hole in the cap, glue in a tire valve so that the air wouldn't leak, and pressurize with a compressor or bike pump (I would use a bike pump with a pressure gauge built in so it'd increase relatively slowly and I could monitor the pressure without changing it).
Throw it.
Anyone dreamt of such a device, specifically about max pressures or range of shrapnel?

[mongo blongo]

I don't think this would work very well since there would not be enough pressure in the bottle to do what you want it to do. I guess that if the pressure is not enough to breach the glass then we are talking about a lower pressure than you want.
It could work with a very very thick glass walls.
This would also be quite dangerous because you don't know the max pressure the bottle can withstand when pressurizing!(could go off in your face). Also the max pressure would be different for each bottle e.g hairline fractures,defects when manufactured and uneven thickness of the glass.
I think this would be a bad idea.

[Fingerless]

That just sounds, well, kinda lame, and dangerous-more than likely it would go off in your hand, and it wouldnt throw shrapnel much farther than a empty bottle thrown.

[DarkAngel]

Yeah same for me it's dangerous and it's useless if you whan't to make a granade stick to explosives and no kewl idea's

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[Igenx]

Agreed. I was just trying to think of something really simple to mess with the assholes that were supposed to be protesting up here... Doesn't really matter now cause they didn't even show up http://theforum.virtualave.net/ubb/smilies/frown.gif
Was originally thinking of using this as a delivery system for a chemical agent of some sort (filling the bottle half full of chlorine or something similar) but even that wouldn't work particularly well.

[ALENGOSVIG1]

This doesnt really cross the line into being a real kewl post, but im feeling ruthless.