Page 1 of 3

Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 1:27 am
by VonSchnitzel
Very Hard to find and I have only found a few places where you can buy Replicas or you can make them yourself.
If you find another place to purchase please post up



Here

http://www.relics.org.uk/shop.php?viewcategory=102

http://www.ima-usa.com/german-wwii-tell ... inert.html

http://www.inertproducts.com/inert_landmines___mines

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Sun Sep 23, 2012 3:45 pm
by Franz repper
we found two live ones in the Forest three weeks ago

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:02 am
by Halle
Herr Repper ,
Were they above ground then ? What are the regulations for finding this sort of thing in Finland ? Report it and then controlled explosion by the army ? How much of this stuff is there still around in in Finland ? Forgive me for asking , the Winter war '39 -40 and the subsequent Finnish/German conflict against the Soviets has always been a big interest for me - sorry if this is off topic :o

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 4:51 pm
by Franz repper
Halle wrote:Herr Repper ,
Were they above ground then ? What are the regulations for finding this sort of thing in Finland ? Report it and then controlled explosion by the army ? How much of this stuff is there still around in in Finland ? Forgive me for asking , the Winter war '39 -40 and the subsequent Finnish/German conflict against the Soviets has always been a big interest for me - sorry if this is off topic :o
I was in a scrap yard up north looking for whats left of a RSO the mines were lying on the floor and some were in a barn

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 9:07 pm
by askhati
EDIT: never mind, you already have the relics site listed *facepalm*

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2012 3:31 am
by VonSchnitzel
Has anyone purchase a Teller mine from one of the site above?

I like the following one but abit expensive. Add another $90 for postage ewwwwww

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 7:39 pm
by askhati

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:31 pm
by sparky
Nice replica stuff on here for pioneers I bought a couple of the 1 kilo charge cases a few years ago and they Are bloody good!

http://www.edelweissmilitaria.com/

Matt

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 9:03 am
by VonSchnitzel
Good site and a Teller mine as well

I forgot about this site :D
I will get a charge case for sure

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:02 pm
by Ropes
Theres a Guy in the UK that makes them. I have one round here somwhere.

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Sat Jan 05, 2013 4:34 pm
by askhati
For 1kg charges, the dimensions are as follows (memory serving):
50mm x 75mm x 200mm

I found some rectangular metal tubing at our local steel supplier that is 2" x 3" - which translates into 50mm x 76mm. Cut them down to lengths of 200mm, cap them with tin or cardboard, and you have a simple yet effective pouch-filler for the assault pouches. It will obviously not stand up to close-range inspection... but if your section does controlled pyro displays for the public/airsoft/whatever, these metal sections are a cheap way of getting lookalike charges.

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:46 pm
by VonSchnitzel
any pics?

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:29 am
by askhati
Still need to cap mine, but will upload pics tonight.

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 4:57 pm
by askhati
Completely raw section, 2" x 3" x 200mm, sized next to a MP40 for perspective:
Image

With caps on and a coat of light gray (to simulate the zinc shell of the charge - or did they come in different colours too?), it could do the job passably well. I'm still trying to source some smoke powder for mine, heard that the rocketry guys can be a good source of 'legal' compounds. Not sure whether that holds outside ZA though...

Re: Teller Mines Hard to Find

Posted: Sat Jan 26, 2013 11:19 pm
by askhati
Finally got around to welding up the 2"x3" sections as 1kg charges:

Image

Image

Each charge holds a smoke grenade (for our purposes), which has a circumference roughly the same size as the inner cardboard roll from a roll of toilet paper. They still need to be capped with cardboard to hide the inner workings - visible here - and then a coat of paint, but I thought I would share in the meantime.

Also, something interesting: the pouch displayed is the left-hand one, and each of the cells can comfortably take two charges, giving you a total of four charges in that one pouch. Was this the norm? I seem to recall reading that each cell was meant to carry only a single 1kg charge - yet this two-by-two way of carry seems far more secure (less movement).