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I bought a couple of those. One of them started breaking and falling apart as I used it. Didn’t try the other one or two yet. The part that holds the caps kind of crumbled.

I know that Walmart. It’s a shame caps are so difficult to find, but that’s why I started making them. I bought a role of .005 aluminum on Amazon, and it works really well. I like it better than the cans.

I built a left hand percussion. Lots of wood removal. It was my first kit and managed to get it done. My wedges were loose also so I did twist the wedges a bit and finally they fit.

I live in Estero and check a few Walmarts in the area once in awhile and they never have any. The guy in the sporting goods dept has never seen any either. I have had the cap making kit for a couple years and had good results with it. In fact last night I made about 50 of them. I’m going to keep...

I could probably find flints but I don’t know how to fit them on the nipples of my 1858 Remington. Any ideas?

Definitely not a Remington clone. You can get a cap on the nipple of the cylinder without much trouble.

Yup, definitely the smaller diameter. I didn’t measure but judging by my well calibrated eyeball it looks to be 1/4” diameter!

I’ll have a look later. I’m pretty sure it was the smaller diameter. I think it was 1/4”. I cleaned it up with a small file afterwards.

The Remington is great, but I recently acquired something I like even better! It’s a Roger’s & Spencer! Took it out to shoot yesterday and it was amazing! Easy to put caps on and very accurate. No cylinder binding at all. Unfortunately they are hard to find so I agree the Remington is the way to...

Gotcha! When I started down the black powder road three years ago caps were nowhere to be found. I bought a Remington and the cap making kit with prime all and made my own. At least caps are available now, so I have some of both.

My caps get destroyed when I shoot my revolver. If your referring to primers I did reload a few large pistol primers for someone to try one time and he said they worked fine.

Hope this helps

I’ve made caps several different ways. I like using duco cement mixed with acetone. I never measured how much cement to acetone, but anywhere from 6 to 1 to 10 to 1 ratio acetone/ cement should be fine. Another thing I do is after adding the acetone/ cement mixture is I add a Legends of the west...

It is a sanding drum. I did it and it worked just fine.

I haven’t compared them. I just nitrate because it’s easy to do. I just nitrate the day before I make any cartridges. I just dip them in the pan and hang them or lay them flat and let them dry.

I use the perm curling paper and I nitrate those. Just dip in the solution and lay on a sheet of foil or hang on something. No need for gloves unless you have cuts, even tiny unnoticeable ones! It will light you up like a firecracker!

It’s called HP48. It is corrosive if left without cleaning. It leaves a reddish colored residue, like the color of Rustoleum spray primer, so it kind of looks like instant rust!

Gotcha! Thanks!

Nice collection. Your username makes me think that perhaps you work in civil engineering?

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