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  1. Ontario47

    Hopkins & Allen question

    Apparent weak hammer spring/trigger guard problem can be caused by wear of the rear mounting surface and/or screw or loose screw. Be sure the spring is held as far forward as possible and is not rocking on worn surfaces. A shouldered screw or shim in the front of the spring hole could help. A...
  2. Ontario47

    Same Caliber For Rifle and Fusil?

    A.H. Did load development result with the same ball/patch combination or ball for both rifle and smoothbore? It was and still is a "thing" to have a rifle and pistol combination that used the same cartridge (eg. 44/40 WCF) . And a number of military smoothbore muskets and pistols were intended...
  3. Ontario47

    Hopkins & Allen question

    Watch the trigger movement as you **** the hammer on a lock with no sear . The trigger will (should) be farther forward just before the trigger nose falls into the half **** and farther rearward just before it falls into the full **** notch. Unless you are superhuman at releasing the trigger...
  4. Ontario47

    That funny forearm thingy?

    Repair of "duffle cut" War souvenir stock (cut in two) to fit in a duffle bag.
  5. Ontario47

    Just a reminder about using BP only in a BP gun...

  6. Ontario47

    How Much Powder Is Too Much

    If you had some magic gun powder that would accelerate a bullet fast enough to make it out of the barrel at the same time NOT producing enough combustion gas (at standard temp and pressure -14.7psi) to fill the volume of the barrel there would be some vacuum created as the bullet slowed down...
  7. Ontario47

    How Much Powder Is Too Much

    Barrel full of BP:
  8. Ontario47

    How Much Powder Is Too Much

    Not interested??? 14.7 pounds per square inch pressure is created by the weight of a column of air 1" square base X the height of the earth's atmosphere (about 62 miles). Once the pressure at the powder chamber of a gun has fallen to 14.7 lbs there is no reason for the leftover gasses to move...
  9. Ontario47

    Should I Buy a Colt’s Pocket 1849 .31?

    Watch 'capandball' "Most popular percussion revolvers" on youtube.
  10. Ontario47

    Stripped screw help

    I have been a motorcycle mechanic and IBM repair technician for decades, I have several 3/8" impact drivers and will have to find a 1/4" impact driver shown above. They are wonderful. My suggestions in order: High quality proper fitting tool/bit/socket. Penetrating oil/solvent with time and...
  11. Ontario47

    Help

    I have purchased several BP and cartridge guns from Gun Broker, and have had only one bad experience. Read all the feedback reviews carefully and stay away from fuzzy sparse pictures or ANY hint of bad reviews. The one Pedersoli inline arrived well packed with the front sight and stripped...
  12. Ontario47

    What size balls? And does silk work?

    Patch thickness? See above, the timing and order of replies appears out of sequence. My micrometer method compresses the material a lot. The correct thickness is determined by the ease/difficulty of loading, the expected accuracy, and the condition of the fired patch.
  13. Ontario47

    What size balls? And does silk work?

    Asian medieval warriors would (supposedly) wear silk undergarments with the claim that an arrow head would not cut through the silk, and if wounded you could use the silk dragged into the wound to cleanly pull the arrow out. Think I would rather have a flak jacket
  14. Ontario47

    What size balls? And does silk work?

    I judge the thickness of patch material (pre-lubed) with a micrometer that has a torque limiting thumb screw/clutch so that the crushing force is uniform. A $10.00 digital caliper from Harbor Freight is good enough with a little practice. Buy some patches that say what they think the thickness...
  15. Ontario47

    What size balls? And does silk work?

    Silk patching may be passable in a rifle with with shallow rifling (silk material is usually thin) but this is mostly Hollywood. The difference in force required to load a silk patch compared to the same thickness cotton is barely noticeable. The force that pushes the ball out when fired is...
  16. Ontario47

    BP supplies at Wal Mart

    Walmart is the number one retailer of long guns in the U.S. Everyone has the freedom to vote with their dollars. Most have the right and freedom to vote with their ballot. As the saying goes, "Those who do not vote get what they deserve".
  17. Ontario47

    Yes it is Gunpowder

    Two True Stories, Several decades ago the Log Cabin Store in Lodi Ohio displayed a cap and ball cylinder that was blown apart. The attached story: Two friends borrowed this revolver and loaded it with ball,,, and powder collected from firecrackers. The first time they fired it the cylinder...
  18. Ontario47

    Disassembly of a T/C Renegade lock

    Left hand drill bits (cut in a counter-clockwise rotation) are wonderful for fasteners that have been over tightened in a blind hole and the head broken off. If the screw/bolt has the head broken off when one was trying to unscrew it (rusted/binding) they help but success is less likely. If...
  19. Ontario47

    George Newton nipples

    Metrication (metrification) was started and formalized in France with the French Revolution 1789-1799; and is still slowly spreading worldwide. Old habits die hard, and in 1812 Napoleon decreeed the change over official. In the US the Metric Conversion Act of 1975 was passed in 1975 (@#$%##)...
  20. Ontario47

    Pandemic lube

    There is a big difference in using a liquid (or solid or gas) as a solvent (cleaner) and using it in a chemical reaction. Methanol, ethanol, denatured alcohol, isopropanol, will all work about the same as solvents. They are also about the same external disinfectants (like soap and water)...
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