What Are These? or Please Identify the Widgets

[Acme.Armament]

Hi all, I was cleaning out a box of stuff inherited from another shop that went out of business years ago and ran across a few things that I cannot identify. Does anyone recognize them?

If you are the first to correctly identify one of the four items, Nicole has offered you a prize of a homemade cupcake the next time you come by Acme Armament with advance warning (she will not guarantee cupcake availability for walk-ins...slacker).

Item #1

Item #2 - Some sort of magazine - can anyone narrow it down?

Item #3

Item #4

 

[Andy in NH]

# 3 is an expended fuse from a practice grenade.

# 4 is a speed loader (sometimes called a "spoon") for AR magazines.

 

[LoginName]

#1 looks like it could be a silencer adapter, but, after looking at the thread size and pitch on the grenade fuse, it could be for wiring a blasting cap to a grenade body.

#2 is an SKS mag.

 

[Mr White]

The threaded adapter is for a mac 10 silencer to a pistol or rifle, depending on threads in and out. They sold various styles of them in the 70's to screw onto threaded pistol barrels/ barrel bushings.

 

[Acme.Armament]

2 cupcakes for Andy in NH, 2 for LoginName, and 1 for Mr. White next time you're down by Acme Armament. You may specify Guinness or Rum.

 

[Pilgrim]

depending on it's size, #4 could also be a stripper clip loader for an M1 carbine.

 

[Keystone]

depending on it's size, #4 could also be a stripper clip loader for an M1 carbine.

Pilgrim just wanted a cupcake

 

[Acme.Armament]

depending on it's size, #4 could also be a stripper clip loader for an M1 carbine.

Tried that and it's not the right size. They do fit perfectly on an AR mag.

Pilgrim just wanted a cupcake

Most likely, but Nicole's and Acme's policy is that mods may have a cupcake whenever they stop by. They just have to take what cupcake is surplus that day

 

[Pilgrim]

So have you been hiding the cupcakes whenever I go there?

 

[Acme.Armament]

So have you been hiding the cupcakes whenever I go there?

This is what happens when you don't visit frequently . Nicole usually has some around but it wasn't until recently that she made the Guinness one. Then I said, "How about lemon rum ones?"

Stop by this week. I have a whole tray of them.