My 1791 Brown Bess GOFF cock has a wobble and free play back and forth. I’ve made a temporary fix to it with a brass shim, but looking for a more permanent solution to the problem play movement issue. Any suggestions on a quick and easy fix?
1791 Brown Bess GOFF Musket
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That E I Coy musket looks remarkably new Too new but its well stocked. whatever its story I make an L shape bit of brass or tin & carefully squeeze it back onto the tumbler . seems to work .Your Avatar of 'Chad ' As in" Wot no eggs !"ect WW2 period must have a tale to your choosing it ? . My guess is its reuse of original lock restocked entire but very well done because if it never left the Companies pattern room it wouldn't be that clean .
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Take a ball peen hammer and peen the inside of the square hole with the ball such that the edges mushroom over a tiny bit. Try to fit the cock and if too loose, peen again and try it. You may go too far and have to file a little off the edges of the square.
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Take a ball peen hammer and peen the inside of the square hole with the ball such that the edges mushroom over a tiny bit. Try to fit the cock and if too loose, peen again and try it. You may go too far and have to file a little off the edges of the square.
dave
It’s one of the IMA kits they would supply you with the original dirty, rusty, greasy parts, and a poorly inleted stock with glue patches all over it. You get to make something out of it. It was a fun project I must say. And it was shootable too. The best part you pore the powder down the barrel, and it would charge your pan at the same time.
My father would tell me some stories about “Kilroy” when he was in WWII when I was a child. Kind of stuck with with memories. That’s why I use “Kilroy” today.
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Puzzle solved you did a great job on the stocking the Windus pattern had a squared tang but no matter , Your work is outstanding . Chad yes I was born in WW2 but didn t really understand the" Wot no whatever" ? but Just know it' s called ' Chad '. The' Kilroy was here 'comes from the water pipe line from the coast of West Australia that served the dry goldfields of Coolgardie / Kalgoorlie & Kilroy was some fellow who marked the sections of that pipe Why ? No idea but it sort of stuck
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Thank you sir!
Yes, Chad or Mr. Chad was the UK version, and undoubtedly Australia version as well. Story has it that there was a ship builder inspector who’s name was Kilroy.
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Thank you your quite welcome The ship one is new to me . Rudyard
I'm not familiar with that kit. Are you saying the lock, barrel, and other metal parts were from an original Brown Bess a couple hundred years old, and the kit contained a reproduction stock? If so you certainly did an excellent job cleaning and assembling it. Was the brass original also or repro?
I’ve restored a bunch of IMA’s Nepal offerings. I have no idea how many I’ve done. I did this one 3-4 years ago, so I had to go searching for the IMA kit offering on this musket. I found it, here’s the link to it.
https://www.ima-usa.com/products/or...palese-gurkha-marked-lock?variant=25652642181
https://www.ima-usa.com/products/or...palese-gurkha-marked-lock?variant=25652642181
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That photo of the Kit tells it all no need for repro parts they clearly have heaps of original parts if the blank is that close should be a doddle to make up . Great idea .might be a guessing game with the barrels but that lock with Napauli markings looks well enough I seem to remember ' Jaddadoonin arsenal' Nr Kathmando but I never went there . I rented a pushbike & went ' Knocking' after old guns found them too but at the time 1969 you couldn't get guns out I was two mounths up there due to Black water fever convalesed by the Monkey Temple at Swayanboonath .Great museum with guns on the way to town. .Fever no fun but great memories of Napal ! Jai Nepal ! =' Praise Nepal .' Kipling wrote "The wildest dreams of Kew, Are the facts of Kathmandu".
I regret & didn't reach Timbuctoo was 130 mile up the Niger river from Gao (Mali) but no traffic & I got very sick .not hard to do in that region of Africa my constant preoccupation with the condition of my bowels my diaries often noted but you don't wish to know that !. chatting tet a tete to a curious Bull Moose & near drowning crossing an appropriately name Hoodoo creek in British Columbia . Malaria ,Tick bite fever (In Zulu land ) burst appendix in Invercargill NZ But I've made 80. not out. So a fair innings to date just the odd' sticky wicket.' its a part of life .examining the muzzles of 1911sin Casablanca & Riot guns in Montana & the odd revolver here & there .
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I regret & didn't reach Timbuctoo was 130 mile up the Niger river from Gao (Mali) but no traffic & I got very sick .not hard to do in that region of Africa my constant preoccupation with the condition of my bowels my diaries often noted but you don't wish to know that !. chatting tet a tete to a curious Bull Moose & near drowning crossing an appropriately name Hoodoo creek in British Columbia . Malaria ,Tick bite fever (In Zulu land ) burst appendix in Invercargill NZ But I've made 80. not out. So a fair innings to date just the odd' sticky wicket.' its a part of life .examining the muzzles of 1911sin Casablanca & Riot guns in Montana & the odd revolver here & there .
Rambling Rudyard both ways
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