I have been doing some research and found this information on Wikipedia, which I translated into English with Google: Below are my 1986, (light colors, painted), and 1988, (dark colors, blued). These rubber parts are easily replaced and switched around. Most obvious are the different shades of the rubber collars and tips from white to black. There are also different colors/shades in the grips from orange to dark brown just like the actual bayonets. There are also differences in the head sizes of the small screws at the front of the grips to the cross guards. Another difference is the metal finish, blued or black painted. It is unknown if there is an actual cut off number or if this was a running change as old parts were used up. In SIG_551_SWAT's 2nd picture above it seems this happened between Nr 3391 and Nr 4371. There seems to be only one major change in the metal parts and that is the extra rivet hole in the cross guard, which was not used, disappeared sometime in 1987. My goal was to keep and display only two representative samples to display most of the main variations, as other than marking and colors, they are pretty much the same and some what expensive. I currently only have two of these Polish trainers. They then produced new production and ML 2006 and ML 2007 have been confirmed as well. In the beginning they assembled/completed ML 1988 and ML 1989 versions. They received the technology and left over, unassembled parts from the former Radom arsenal, (Works 11). The "ML" series represents a private firm, Zakladow Metalowych, " Lucznik" that took over production of the WZ85 in 2006. Recently a few were even listed on eBay with spare rubber parts. Occasionally the bayonets are even found with mixed color tips and collars. These parts are easily damaged and just as easily replaced or switched around. Second as you can see in the second picture the color of the rubber parts is random based on availability and does not indicate any certain year of production. Nice group of bayonets! The second picture is an excellent collection of these training bayonets with corresponding marking information. From white through shades of gray to black. First of all, thanks for the very artistic picture of the various color/shades of the Polish WZ 85 rubber parts.
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