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Another vote for Brownell - I keep the smaller set in my range bag & the master set at home. Half as many individual wood handle screwdrivers would take up too much space.

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A boat supply such as West Marine will sell you a "bung" kit - a small bag of various sizes of tapered wood plugs intended to be driven into a hose or thru-hull fitting that has failed & is flooding the boat. Bigger boats use bigger sizes sold individually. PS - without a lathe to turn the base...

welcome from a fellow Virginian

Do a search for William Toons camp furnishings - very authentic & pricey but you should be able to design/copy a bed after seeing his website

A seller (not me) on Ebay has several new Lee 90478 (improved .58 minie 478 gr) molds for sale @ $29.99 + 7.95 s&h.

I use 3f so as to have one less thing to mess with - no priming horn. Any difference in ignition time is offset by 4f being more prone to "soup" up in eastern VA humidity. I still have 3/4 of a can of 4f should I want to retry it.

A "DuckDuckGo" search found an on line copy (original held at Harvard U.) of "Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy" 2nd ed 1860. On page 52 is a detailed drawing (plan & elevation) of a Marsilly carriage for a 9" Dahlgren. Thanks to Mrs Coot's computer skills, I now have a scale...

Thanks for the reply. Unless I find more info, I will use your plan image to fill in missing size/shapes after scaling up the image of one of these guns sitting on a ship's deck (its a quarter view so not so easy to scale from).

I am using a machete to cut patches on my .75 blunderbuss but am still not getting moa accuracy. Maybe I should sharpen the blade??

I have had WD 40 dry out leaving a sticky residue that gummed up delicate parts (HO couplers, modern gun internals, etc). WD 40 may be great for its designed water displacement uses and ok as a (coarse mechanism) lube when fresh, but there are much better lubricant and rust preventative products...

I recently bought a little (1/2" bore) barrel that matches the US 1841 8"siege howitzer and want to make a carriage for it. I found an image of such a gun mounted on what looks like a Marsilly (sp?) carriage. Solid little wheels are much easier to make than big spoked wheels so that is the type...

I would ask Royal Silver Plating in tidewater Virginia - they do all kinds of plating.

The local Cabelas used to have a decent selection of modern guns in their "Gun Library". The same space now has nothing but camo gear & backpacks - not a single gun of any type. Now I am reduced to looking for deals at the grocery store across the street from Cabelas.

What ratio of PSF / acetone do you use? I need to get some old brass valves apart.

Harvested about a five gallon pail of hops today. Should have some more in a few weeks. Any home brewers in VA?

Most likely a significant reason that the US attempt to take over Canada in the War of1812 was not "simply a matter of marching"

The majority were not treated well. Maya Jasanoff's "Liberty's Exiles" gives a good account of the dispersion of Loyalists throughout the British Empire.

Morphy Auctions just sold four bronze signal cannons. Three were breech loading using 10 or 12 gauge black powder blanks. One was a muzzle loader. I believe they went from $1200 to $3000.

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