Airsoft Grenade 01(Citrus Grenade) - ArniesAirsoft

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Jammy_Stuff

Bleach Overload!!!

Registered: April 2005
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 1,242

Review Date: 5/9/05

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: �3.00 | Rating: 8

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	No pyros = No burns, Cheap, Can be customised to some extent
Cons:	Can be hard to prepare, Impossible to say how long before it blows up

As soon as I had seen the news article on this website about these I had been trying to get my hands on them. After a bit of begging I managed to buy one from my local shops tesing box of them.

What comes with them?

You get:
The grenade body
The detonater cap
A sachet of powder

How do they work?

Basically there are two powders that mix and give off CO2. Eventually the pressure becomes so great that the body explodes.

How do you prepare them?

Inside the body of the grenade there is already some citric acid powder. You then need to half fill the grenade with water. Then you have a choice, you can either leave the grenade just making a bang or you can have it spewing BBs everywhere. If you want it to spew BBs then put some in!!! (I recommend about 25 0.12g BBs).

Then you need to pour the provided sachet of baking soda into the detonator cap.When you get to your site put the cap on the grenade.

How do you set them off?

Firstly you need to pull out the pin. This allows you to push down the button on the detonater cap which opens the bottom of the cap allowing the baking soda to fall into the water powder mix. Then just shake, throw and stand well back.

How the test went

I used mine at my local site, Alpha 55. It was the last game of the day and the red team were protecting the tower (with new tunnel system). I was on blue team and I had a cunning plan, I grabbed a marshalling jacket and a camera and walked to the tower and snapped away.

After a while I reached into my pocket and pulled out the grenade, pulled the pin, pushed down the button, shook it and threw it just next to the tower. After twenty seconds had passed the grenade still hadn't gone off. Something was wrong. The guy standing next to the tower was becoming worried, "What was that?" he asked.

I walked to the grenade and found that the button had been forced up by the pressure a good sign. I gave it another shake, chucked it into the tower (where there was a guy that was on his stag party and one of his mates) and crossed my fingers, then BOOM!!! I ran off into the woods followed by 1000s of BBs.

Later inspection of the tower found the detonater cap and it's bottom in the corner of the tower where it had landed and bits of the body and yellow BBs in the tower and surrounding area. You should have seen the grin on my face.

Okay, so how loud was it?

When it went off I was shocked at how loud it was! In my opinion it sounded nearly as loud as a thunderflash Mk5. After talking to the guys in the tower about 10 mins later I found their ears were still ringing! Probably not the best grenade that gets complaints if someone sets off a thunderflash.

Final verdict

I found this to be a really good grenade. Although it may not sound itit is easy to prepare and the ring to pull gives a great effect. There have been talks of packs that contain everything but the detonater cap but when the grenade only costs �3 I don't see much point in having to fish out the cap and its bottom. Only one thing to note, don't be afraid to shake it too much coz chances are you won't be in a position to shake it again as I was!

If you want one you may have a job as they are currently trying to make them fast enough. Within 3 months 10000 boxes of six has become 10. Surely this can only prove their absolutly amazing performance?

Update: After some experimentation after the grenades not going off I found that they go off quicker if you use warm water. Do not use hot water. However you still cannot tell how long it will take.

Another use I thought of for them is if you fill it with not water put it upside down with a weight on the top, pull the pin half way out and attach a string to it, you have a cheap land mine.

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{MIA}Gmac

Registered: September 2004
Location: MIA Cornwall UK
Posts: 181

Review Date: 2/6/07

Would you recommend the product? Yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7

Positive aspects of the product (pros):	Ideal for an enviroment where fire is a real danger.
Cons:	Unpredictable time delay, plastic caseing, eye irritation

We have tested and thought of stocking the first El Ambro ? AG-01 its a very well presented product with an excellent idea.

The main reason we still have our samples sitting in the store room is because we felt that in the UK climate they just were to fiddly to use, and too unreliable in release to detonation time.

The best way we found of getting a quicker response in our average temperatures was using warm water when filling them.

What stopped us selling them was the pollution factor. When they do go bang they spread fine shards and pieces of plastic around, which could cause minor injury on bare skin, and more to the point are not in anyway biodegradable, so need picking up. Also the released fluid could cause eye irritation if sprayed in through a mesh face mask.

Do in Hot dry conditions where fire is a risk ( Spain Smile

on an enclosed site where BBs etc. are swept up fine, in UK woodland not suitable in my opinion.

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