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  1. The Appalachian

    Bore/barrel size

    You probably want to move some decimal points there......
  2. The Appalachian

    Convert percussion to flintlock.

    I've built a switch ignition. Built the percussion first. Drum type in a Colerain barrel. Used the same thread flashole liner for the flint. Percussion was a Large Siler lock, the flint was an L&R replacement lock for a Large Siler. Pan location was a perfect fit for the drum/liner hole as were...
  3. The Appalachian

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    Make a post asking about where to correctly locate a flashole on a build and 99.9% of the respondents will say center of pan at a sunset position. Make a post like this one and 99% will respond that doesn't matter. The irony of the internet.......
  4. The Appalachian

    Paper patches?

    Well if you were watching him do it, what happened? Did it work? How was his grouping? Was he just trying it, or was he committed to using paper patches?
  5. The Appalachian

    Bore/barrel size

    Modern barrel steel is light years ahead of period correct wrought iron that's hammered into shape around a mandrel and forge welded together at the seam. That said Bobby Hoyt has a minimum wall thickness he goes by on re-bores, and that's for good reason. 150 thousands is way too thin in my...
  6. The Appalachian

    Surefire way to drill a horn spout?

    I can see that working VERY well if the steel rod is stiff enough to not bend under the pressure of the drill press. Thinking I need to try this method myself.
  7. The Appalachian

    Paper patches?

    Are you sure he wasn't wadding the load? A wad of paper over the charge, and a wad over the shot or ball? I can't see how even heavy paper would survive the trip down the barrel let alone surviving being fired used as a "patch".
  8. The Appalachian

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    No offense intended to the OP but I don't think we are dealing with a very experienced flintlock shooter here. Sure, shoot the rifles, or better yet find an experienced shooter to shoot them with him for a proper evaluation. If something is wrong though I think his best recourse is warranty or...
  9. The Appalachian

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    Are you in charge of thier warranty policy? No. You're not. In that regard, opinions here don't mean jack either.
  10. The Appalachian

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    You'll probably run into "all sales are final". That's usually how it works with guns. They'll take it back for warranty repair/replacement if a warranty still exists, but I'm betting heavy odds they won't refund anything. Best advice I can suggest is call them, ask for their protocol to return...
  11. The Appalachian

    JB Weld on oversized wood holes....??

    Not hard to call em like I see em.
  12. The Appalachian

    JB Weld on oversized wood holes....??

    Ok, so, what? So is acraglass and others. Let it set up a little bit and it's less "runny as BeeJeebers". Use clay dams to keep runny bedding in place. Gotta be smarter than you appear to be. Um, no, it won't but adding an aggregate is cheap insurance. Devcon Steel and Devcon Titanium are...
  13. The Appalachian

    Flintlock Rifle Flash Hole Placement

    You say the pans are somewhat shallow....so, grind the dang things deeper with a dremel and be done with it. Otherwise I concur with what's been said above.
  14. The Appalachian

    JB Weld on oversized wood holes....??

    Define "gun work". In a pinch I have mixed fine steel and or aluminum millings with JB and bedded a couple three actions on unmentionables with it. It is a very economical option if it's days out before Brownells or Midway can deliver anything.
  15. The Appalachian

    For those of us without oxy-acy torch or forge

    I choose my words very carefully when I post. When I used the words "nothing I can find" in my comment, that leaves the door WIDE open for what I could not find, and for someone to step up and correct me. It's not an absolute statement that means there IS nothing, just nothing I could find...
  16. The Appalachian

    For those of us without oxy-acy torch or forge

    Pony up your technical data then, otherwise, yes, Bull. Stainless steel foil is used in heat treatment of many kinds of metal to prevent scaling. That's a fact. Show me where a world full of knife makers are wrong and ruining their knives with it. Stainless foil is literally in contact with...
  17. The Appalachian

    For those of us without oxy-acy torch or forge

    That's a pretty cool little setup right there.
  18. The Appalachian

    For those of us without oxy-acy torch or forge

    There is literally nothing I can find that will back up that statement. Nothing. Infact, a very common practice when heat treating is to place the part inside a stainless steel foil packet (to protect the surface of the part from producing scale), heat the packet/part to correct time/temp...
  19. The Appalachian

    For those of us without oxy-acy torch or forge

    I've made an emergency forge with stacked fire bricks and inserting a propane weed burner through a hole in the side. Got steel hot enough to bend and hammer.
  20. The Appalachian

    Lost and Found

    Sorting through some totes of stuff from back when I moved years ago. Tossing stuff I haven't missed, putting up stuff that I did. Found a whole pound of 4F and a half pound of 2F that I'd forgotten I even had. The 4F is priced $6 older than the 2F at $17 so it's been a minute since these were...
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