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  1. Ontario47

    CVA 1847 Walker

    Screws that feel good for the first turn or so and then tighten up a lot are usually the wrong pitch (or a English/Metric close match). Take the cylinder and old and new nipples to the hardware store and figure out what the sizes are. Do NOT force, unless you intend to never take that apart again.
  2. Ontario47

    Has anyone tried Nylon or Rubber round ball?

    Paint ball guns are "Nominally" 69 caliber. You can buy rubber bullets pretty cheep; and they are reusable. A worn or drilled out musket cap nipple will provide enough power to shoot them (patched with usual cloth) from my .69 caplock pistol. Not very accurate but good enough to shoot at an...
  3. Ontario47

    Most Underrated Muzzleloading Accessories.

    One piece, stainless steel range rod with trapped muzzle protector and ball bearing rotating handle.
  4. Ontario47

    Help to find nipple thread specs

    I have two .50 caliber INVESTARM percussion barrels, one is also marked "Cabela's ". Both use a metric m6x.75 nipple. (verified with screw plate and thread gages) If you can not verify your used nipple threads, buy a known metric m6x.75 screw (bolt) (or bottoming tap) and see that it fits...
  5. Ontario47

    Antonio Zoli Zouave questions.

    The thread on my Zouave ramrod is metric m5x.8 mm
  6. Ontario47

    Stuck wedge

  7. Ontario47

    Filing With Files

    Auto body technicians have been using "cut" files (with single cut very large teeth) on lead and filler to produce very smooth surfaces. A sharp cut file (do not draw sideways) (cut in direction of rising grain) will work as well as a good cabinet scraper, and not leave scratches like a rasp .
  8. Ontario47

    Muzzleloader Safety

    At a club shoot some years ago I was having ignition problems with my Renegade and had pulled the nipple several times. The next shot blew the hammer to half ****, the nipple was behind me on the ground with stripped threads. Not sure what was the cause, my buddy and I were using the same...
  9. Ontario47

    Curious about nipples

    I can get a m8.5x1 tap on eBay (Chinese) which would take very little off the bolster female threads, but can not find a nipple or die that size. The standard fix is m9x1 rethread and matching nipple which would be fine for the later style bolster (made as a caplock) but the flint to percussion...
  10. Ontario47

    Curious about nipples

    Has anyone tried to produce or source a M8.5 x 1 or 21/64 x 24 threaded nipple? I have a French (Second Empire) M1822T bis percussion conversion pistol with a mashed nipple. The slightly loose fitting threads measure 8.26 x 1. mm or .325 x 24 tpi. The 24tpi gage is a slightly better fit than...
  11. Ontario47

    Need advice with lock removal

    Remove the trigger guard and trigger plate. That is probably a single trigger, set trigger assembly . It may be interfering with the sear. Warming the steel parts with a hair dryer (not a paint remover gun) helps soften the gunk holding things in place. If the hammer will not stay at...
  12. Ontario47

    Need advice with lock removal

    Very unusual pistol! I doubt there are any screws under the silver decoration on the left side. I would guess the only screw holding the lock is the one you have already removed (into the tang on right side). It is possible that the main spring (if fully un-cocked) is tight against the...
  13. Ontario47

    What is happening to the sear?

    If the sear and trigger pivots are not exactly inline (as if drilled at the same time) the trigger bar will "saw" on the sear tail. Polish and grease.
  14. Ontario47

    What is happening to the sear?

    If you dry-fire a set trigger a lot, do so with the hammer down, not at half-****, That will allow the sear to move when hit with the second (rear/set) trigger bar, rather than locked in place with the half-**** notch
  15. Ontario47

    Stuck ball, now with drill bit

    My two cents would be to get a 3 foot long 3/16 pipe stiff enough to act as a ramrod; get 10-20 grains of black powder in the breach with nipple removed (or through the touch hole); get the pipe over the drill end and ram the bullet back down on the powder. Leave the pipe in place. Fire in...
  16. Ontario47

    Stuck ball, now with drill bit

    If the muzzle end of the drill has snagged the rifling at a shallow angle it should just follow the rifling as the grease pushes the bullet out (the bullet will also turn with the rifling). If the drill is short enough to turn 45 deg or so it needs to be stabilized with a piece of thin walled...
  17. Ontario47

    Pyrodex pellets in a revolver...any one use these?

    Keep them dry.!!! The box they come in is not air tight.
  18. Ontario47

    Priming From The Barrel

    The rather long winded dialogue described the ram rod as double headed, no pictures shown, I suspect at best a thin sleeve to cover usual threads. The dialogue also described the barrel as thicker and 50% increase in charge to compensate windage and velocity loss and theory was volley density...
  19. Ontario47

    Priming From The Barrel

    Watch from the beginning , the ram rod is double headed. Ball fit is "loose"
  20. Ontario47

    Priming From The Barrel

    Turn on CC and advance to 9 minutes
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