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Full scale cannon re-build
Preparations for firing on the Fourth..... PVC former for aluminum powder bags..... Formed powder bag..... Weighed 5 1/2 oz blank charge..... Charge secured in a cardboard powder case until use...... Charges, priming horn, linstock, and vent pricker ready for use...... I do... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Here are the latest photos. I still have a few incidental things to finish up but the rebuild is basically done. It only took me 54 years.... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Iron work and blacksmithing are done. Paint is dry. Wood finish is dry. Wheels are refurbished and painted. All new square headed bolts are here from Blacksmith Bolt & Rivet.....no reason to hold back any longer on the re-assembly...... Iron work on underside of the trail.... Except for... -
Full scale cannon re-build
I decided to fill a few cracks on the wooden hubs prior to repainting. There were so few and they were so narrow that I decided they didn't need much more than a quick application of super glue. (These wheels were made in the 1850s....hard to believe they are in such amazing condition... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Brass work nearly all done...... Axel strap and under strap welding done (except for two built in washers on the axel strap. Grinding on both axel straps done.....need to grind the welds on the axel strap...... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Further progress.....refurbished the axel wheel skeins. Removed the old grease and repainted the exposed surfaces... The 175 year old oak wheels are tight and sound but need to be repainted. Trying to decide how far I need to go with a refurb on them...... -
Full scale cannon re-build
I have spoken a lot about the "irons" on this cannon....and, indeed, there are many iron parts. But when I built this gun originally I made a lot of the most visible parts out of thick brass. Now, after 50+ years of neglect, I have decided to polish all 75 pounds of brass parts. (It's a good... -
Full scale cannon re-build
After sanding the axel and trail down to bare wood, I realized that I had not drilled the large bore for the rearmost rondelle in the trail sides. I had done the larger bores in the cheeks (shown in a previous post on this thread) and so used the same centering technique to get the matching... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Still working on the irons but needed to get started on some of the wood work modifications on the gun carriage so that I can get cracking on the wood finishing. Since the cheeks had been modified and completed previously, I started in with staining and applying the fist coat of a tung oil... -
Full scale cannon re-build
Got the grinding done on one of the under straps......Now it looks like it's supposed to look. Not "whimpy" and more. May finishing the welding on the other parts today. -
Full scale cannon re-build
It has been a year since I had any time to work on finishing the re-build of this cannon and two years since I started the project. I am determined to have the gun back together and operational by the 4th of July this year. When I had to stop work last year I was in the midst of upgrading all... -
Brass triggerguard time
I have always used small sanding belt sticks. I also use them with spit or a light honing oil (spit is easier but the oil works better....just don't do what I did not long ago and start off using oil and then forget and stick the end of the sanding stick back in your mouth.... :p :mad: I use...- davec2
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- Forum: The Gun Builder's Bench
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Swivel guns
I just saw that the pictures from my 2009 post are not visable...part of the old dust up with the PhotoBucket clowns. Anyway, here is a repeat.... I realized, about two weeks ago, that my two nephews up in Washington State don't own a cannon! (By the time I was their ages, I had several.) So I... -
Help ID a Naval Cannon
Selair, You might want to read through this older post.......especially pages 2 & 3 https://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/threads/well-i-pulled-the-trigger.136380/page-2 -
Reaming and rifling a wrought iron barrel.
IanH I have seen a guy overseas rifling a barrel in a rig like this with a twisted piece of flat stock running back and forth through a slot. He could change the twist easily by making a new strip of stock and twisting to a different pitch. I thought it was pretty clever....- davec2
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- Forum: The Gun Builder's Bench
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Artillery "priming" tubes youtube.
I can make one additional recommendation if you use a linstock to fire the cannon.....Mix a little modern smokeless powder with the black powder glued to the circular flange at the top of the priming tube. It will ignite MUCH more easily from the smoldering end of the linstock cord. -
Full scale cannon re-build
As I mentioned early in this thread, Jim Olsen at South Bend Replicas (SBR) was re-boring and installing a steel liner in the barrel I bought from "Barney's Cannons" (the precursor of SBR) in 1969. Although done some months ago, Jim just got around to sending me some pictures of the barrel in...